This is a very good long read on #UX and #design. One of many gems: “We can’t think of people like we think of products; we cannot fix human behavior in a two-week sprint.”
RT @thedavedev Suppose that you say to #Alexa, “Alexa, play Mary Poppins.” Alexa must decide whether you mean the book, the video, or the soundtrack. How should she do it?
Product samples are sent to customers based on data Amazon has about their buying habits — and are part of Amazon’s plan to challenge Facebook and Google ad dominance.
Microsoft is supplying Walgreens with cloud services from its Microsoft Azure products. It’s part of a big push to ensure that all 380,000 Walgreens employees have access to Windows 10 and Office, alongside a bigger push to fend off competition from Amazon.
The iTunes Movies and TV Shows app, which will be available in 100 countries on both Samsung’s 2019 TVs as well as its 2018 models (after a firmware update), marks the first time Apple has allowed third-party devices to access its video library outside of Windows PCs. It could also be a prelude to a video streaming service that Apple is currently rumored to be working on — which is tellingly also reported to be coming to 100 countries. via @Verge
ICYMI The art stolen by the Nazis has gotten more attention, but millions of books were also looted from Jews, and others, and have yet to be returned.
ICYMI Steve Lacy, the architect of Meredith’s $2.8 billion acquisition of Time Inc. a year ago, is going to step down from his position as executive chairman.
A+E Networks has signed a 2-year overall deal with the crowdsourced young-adult imprint Swoon Reads to develop and produce YA novels for film and TV via @deadline
“There seems to be this fear that our students will somehow be radicalized by books that share amazing accomplishments of immigrants. Radicalized to what? To view immigrants as people? As individuals with something to offer?” @pragmaticmom
RT @WomenInVoice Webinars begin Jan 26 Register for free tickets – Voice Experts talk AI, linguistics, social justice, UX, ethics, NLP, multimodal, and more.
During Midwinter Recess, MoMI will offer a Game Design Lab for high school students, Feb 20–22. The program is free, but space is limited. This year the lab will explore video games & video art, led by artist Ahmed El Shaer. Apply by Feb 2.
Phillip B. Williams on Twitter: Fellowship in Creative Writing at the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics at Pitt. Two-year fellowship in a “creative think tank” for African American and African diasporic poetry and poetics, beginning fall 2019. $48,000 salary per year and health benefits provided.
“We confirmed yesterday that we will cover the cost of any applications for settlement post-Brexit for our staff who are EU nationals. It’s an important time to voice our support for all EU nationals and to say that we see you as key to our success and to our future.”
Backed by social media support from author + Maine resident @StephenKing, a petition + lobbying effort by Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance successfully persuaded the Portland Press Herald to reinstate its local book review coverage via @publisherswkly
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