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What Will Come of Pokémon Go?
Instead of taking big screens across the country by storm, this summer’s blockbuster has people glued to much smaller ones.
Launched at the beginning of July by San Francisco-based software development company Niantic, Inc., Pokémon Go has quickly become one of the most popular smartphone apps of all time. Data analytics firm Similar Web reported that in its first week alone, the app had been installed on nearly 11 percent of all android phones in the United States, and surpassed Twitter’s daily usage shortly thereafter.
Beyond being a viral sensation, the app’s success has striking implications for a number of industries. Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School and spent 28 years in industry at IBM, Digital Equipment, Silicon Graphics, Eastman Kodak, and Thomson SA prior to coming to HBS in 2007. A member of the School’s Technology and Operations Management unit, Professor Shih closely studies disruptive technology and technological strategy, and took time to analyze the Pokémon Go phenomenon below.
What does Pokémon Go’s success mean for augmented reality going forward? Is AR the next big thing?
Willy Shih: Microsoft Windows users in the late 80s and early 90s might remember that Microsoft came up with a Solitaire game as a way of introducing people to how to use a mouse. I think Pokémon Go is going to have the same effect, albeit unintended, of educating people about augmented reality. It’s a very clever introduction to the technology and beautifully illustrates the merging of the cyber and the physical. We’ve seen other things work similarly before—Google Glass, and heads-up displays in aircraft and high-end cars—but those only caught on in limited ways. Where they superimposed information on top of what you were already seeing, Pokémon Go superimposes geospacial information in an integrated way, allowing the game creators to put these monsters in exact locations and in physical spots of significance. That’s really quite different.
If you were in charge, how would you monetize Pokémon Go?
WS: With so many people looking for spots to collect these things, the platform’s ability to pull traffic to particular locations is innovative and completely unique, and represents a huge financial opportunity. It was just announced, for example, that McDonald’s is going to sponsor the game’s rollout in Japan. I imagine it could fundamentally change the face of things like sponsorship and mobile advertising. We haven’t begun to see the most outrageous applications of this yet.
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“Antikythera Mechanism” (via This Ancient Greek Astronomy Computer May Be 1,000 Years Ahead Of Its Time)
Now you can send pictures in messaging
How?
Open a conversation.
Tickle that new camera button next to gif search.
Choose an image and send.
Whoosh. Off it goes. No post required.
Bonus thing: if you’re on the web, you can just drag the image right onto the conversation. No clicking. How ‘bout that.
Introducing Memories
Memories is a new way to save Snaps and Stories on Snapchat. It’s a personal collection of your favorite moments that lives below the Camera screen. Just swipe up from the Camera to open Memories!
It’s super easy to find the Snap or Story you’re looking for in just a few seconds by typing keywords like “dog” or “Hawaii” — that way you can spend less time searching and more time enjoying your Memories.
You can use Memories to create new Stories from Snaps you’ve taken, or even combine different Stories into a longer narrative! It’s fun to celebrate an anniversary or birthday by finding a few old Snaps and stringing them together into a new Story :)
We’ve also created a new way to send Snaps from Memories to your friends, or even post them to your Story. If you post a Snap you took more than a day ago to your Story, it will appear with a frame around it so that everyone knows it’s from the past.
We realized that Snapchatters want to feel comfortable showing their Memories to friends while they’re hanging out together, so we made it easy to move Snaps and Stories to My Eyes Only — and avoid awkward moments when a friend stumbles upon a Snap meant just for you.
Memories is backed up by Snapchat. We won’t backup any photos or videos from your Camera Roll, unless you use one to make a new Story or add it to My Eyes Only. In that case, we’ll back up only the photo or video that you used.
We’ll be rolling out Memories selectively over the next month or so — it’s a big change for our service so we want to make sure everything is running smoothly! You’ll receive a Chat from Team Snapchat when Memories is ready for you to use.
Happy Snapping!
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Looking Back at Earth with Astronaut Tim Peake
To follow along on Tim’s return to Earth, follow @astro_timpeake on Instagram.
Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) is going to have epic #TBT images after six months aboard the International Space Station (@iss). “I use social media to bring as many people as possible with me onboard mission #Principia,” says Tim. “Here, I can share the beauty of our planet and the science behind space exploration.” And what an adventure it’s been: he was the first British astronaut to visit the ISS, as well as the first British astronaut to complete a spacewalk. Tim also holds the record for the fastest marathon run in space.
On Saturday, June 18, Tim and two crew mates will be returning to Earth. We’re wishing them a safe journey home.
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Chat 2.0
When we first launched Chat, our goal was to emulate the best parts of face-to-face conversation. Chat 1.0 was all about the joys of being here — when most apps told you when your friend was typing, Chat let you know that your friend was listening. Two years later, we’ve learned a ton about how people talk, but our goal remains unchanged. We want Chat to be the best way to communicate — second only to hanging out face-to-face.
Today, we’re excited to introduce Chat 2.0. You can start by sending a few chats, and when your friend shows up, start talking or video chatting instantly with one tap. Your friend can simply listen if you want to sing them a song, or watch if you have a new puppy to show them. If they aren’t there, you can quickly send an audio note to say what you mean. And sometimes, a sticker says it best :)
What we love most about the new Chat is how easily you can transition between all these ways of communicating — just like you do in person. When that’s possible, you aren’t texting, calling, or video chatting… you’re just talking. We’ve been working on this redesign for a while — we can’t wait to hear what you think!
We’re also introducing Auto-Advance Stories, the fastest way to catch up with your friends. When you finish a Story, the next one begins automatically — simply swipe to skip ahead, or pull down to exit!
Lastly, we’re refreshing our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, making some things clearer, and building foundations for awesome new products to come. Check out our new Privacy Center for more on that!
Happy Snapping!
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Hey ya’ll! I’ve been getting lots of emails and messages mentioning that my book has been out of stock. We actually sold out of the first batch (hooray!).
But now I can announce that the book is BACK! All editions you buy now are also fuzzier than the first prints, with the entirety of “Adulthood is a Myth” being fuzzy to the touch. Get it here, or head directly to Amazon here.
GO BUY MY FUZZY BOOK!!
79¢. By some calculations, that’s how much a woman earns for every dollar a man earns. It represents the wage gap.
For some women—women of color, trans women—it’s as low as 43 cents. Maybe worse.
$15.00. That’s the cost of this tote bag that fights the wage gap.
All profits go to UltraViolet, an advocacy group working to expand women’s rights—especially women of color and LGBTQ+ women.
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Prize motivation: "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain" ; Field: physiology, spatial behavior
Discovered the Brain's Positioning System.
Here’s a bit of Yellow from last night’s first #ColdplayMexico show… #AHFODtour
DAY 2937
Jalsa, Mumbai Apr 15/16, 2016 Fri/Sat 12:34 am
Life is that excitement when a drawer, withdrawn and neglected for years, gets your attention and it opens almost impulsively .. impulsively because you had not meant to open it but you did .. curiosity, time lapse, non visited location in the home .. several thoughts and reasons dribble their way through the mind ! But what really remains is the flash of time that goes by, the reasons for the letter or the paper, the comments on it, mostly the comments .. those inspirational words, those inspiring words, of behaviour and deeds and circumstances that run past your limited vision now since, time to be devoted to them has no time at all ..
Its like :
“ Nothing in the world can take the place of PERSISTENCE ; TALENT will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent ; GENIUS will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb ; EDUCATION alone will not ; the world is full of educated derelicts
PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION alone are omnipotent !!”
an important quote from a learned source … and this, from a prominent stage actor in the West :
“I’m not so embarrassed when I’m talking as when I read what I have said. I hope what I do as an actor is interesting but I do find it difficult to talk about it.”
Hmmm … sounds familiar .. hehah .. and this :
“Our business is a very monastic life and you have to find happiness within its framework.”
and this :
“ It takes courage to analyze your body as it goes downhill.”
and finally this :
“Jean Françios Revel , said ‘la CONNAISSANCE INUTILE’
What we need to be aware of is the fear today of ‘perversion of words’ and ‘approximative information’ …”
All noted and read and written by me in my hand in ink and diary in the period of mid 80′s ..
My love as ever ..
Amitabh Bachchan
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