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Zoom's Next Direction

What is the value of international politics to a husband, father of two young girls, self-employed professional?

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How to Be an Effective Learner

What to integrate and what not to integrate? I view technology from a growth & marketing perspective (as well as nuts and bolts). Here's some learning's.

Development

Amplify or Firebase?

Started researching Amazon Web Services Amplify, I got the feeling Google Firebase was reaching its limits.

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Spotify's Business Model & Two Fresh Ideas ⚡️

This analysis was completed for an assignment as part of a Wharton Executive Education paper I am completing. It shares two ideas for Spotify to convert free users into premium users.

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Future Thought: A.I Marketplace

In the future, we'll pay for what we get when it comes to artificial intelligence. Reading this interesting article from a group of leading artificial intelligence researchers.

Development

Home is now Jekyll + Firebase + Airtable

Have started re-writing the Ignite Studios website front-end into Bootstrap + Jekyll. ⚡️Deploys to Firebase. To learn more about static website click here [https://www.weblinkindia.net/blog/static-vs-dynamic-website-advantages-disadvantages] . Here is a preview of the home page. Thanks to Chris Banes [https://twitter.com/chrisbanes] for this assist [https://chris.banes.

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Crowdsourcing with TripAdvisor

This analysis was completed for an assignment as part of a Wharton Executive Education paper I am completing. It discusses the pros and cons of a crowdsourcing business model.

Māori

Perception of Māori - Past, Present, Future

This article discusses the use of information to manipulate public perception of Maori. It briefly talks about Maori response and finally presents five things that can be done to fight a 150 year old legacy of anti-Maori thinking. In his recent article "Mind Hacking": Information Warfare in the

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Information Disruption: Ahead of the Machine

Curation of articles on information warfare, computational propaganda, psychological operations, disinformation, fake news, hate, right versus left, technology overload, attention, hyper-partisanship, humane technology and dignity. * Aviv Ovadya @metaviv "The Terrifying Future of Fake News" [www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/the-terrifying-future-of-fake-news] * Renee DiResta "Social Media Disinformation" [https://www.

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Outside the Bubble

A brilliant way to conglomerate the threads into particular topic areas. Great idea, see it here! [https://www.buzzfeed.com/outsideyourbubble] > BuzzFeed News is launching an experiment this week called "Outside Your Bubble," an attempt to give our audience a glimpse at what's happening outside

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Facebook News Feed: Redirecting the stream

A simple question: > "If censorship is not practiced at Facebook then how come porn doesn't make it into the newsfeed?" Facebook isn't 4chan, it censors content for the public good (values of a civil society). Certain labels are applied to stories (pieces of

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Local: More Than A Label: Sir Bob Jones versus Renae Maihi ... the media headlines

Dear TVNZ Editors & Headline Writers, Thank you for changing the headline on one of your articles [https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/wont-sue-her-lot-because-would-seem-like-im-bullying-sir-bob-jones-explains-why-hes-suing-woman-wants-him-stripped-knighthood] written by Emily Cooper. It used to be headlined: > "Sir Bob Jones to sue Maori woman who wants him stripped of his knighthood.