Non Breaking Space Show

Simon St. Laurent — Twitter Bots, Amazon VR Stores, and More

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Twitter filled with Star Wars Bots; Amazon wants storefronts in virtual reality, the pain of numbering software releases, shady UX practices, and the most popular tech skills for the year, and the current asking price for 30 seconds of the Super Bowl™.


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    • Jump to a conversation on…
    • 6:50 Introduction of guest
    • 7:32 #8 OMG, Twitter is full of Bots
    • 10:57 There’s a market for slightly used Twitter accounts
    • 13:02 #7 Data shield down: Online privacy and data ownership
    • 20:19 #6 Don’t be an idiot on the web; Dirty UX tricks and tactics
    • 28:28 #5 Major software version number upgrades
    • 34:03 Guest tweet about modules/components vs. pages
    • 36:04 JavaScript is history
    • 40:08 #4 Amazon looking to bring shopping into VR
    • 47:46 #3 Superbowl ad prices and viewer ratings
    • 55:17 #2 New iOS update helps find your missing Apple Airpods
    • 1:00:01 #1 Fastest growing skills in the last quarter
    • 1:03:50 Amazon web services
    • 1:05:50 How Austin, Texas has changed
      • LINKS:
      • President Donald Trump on Twitter
      • Dave Pell at Next Draft
      • LinkedIn
      • Massive Twitter Bot Army Exposed by Its Obsession With Star Wars
      • Robot J. McCarthy
      • Tweetbot
      • CSS Dev Conf
      • Dark UX: Dirty Tricks and Tactics to Avoid in 2017
      • Publishers Clearing House
      • Newsweek
      • React
      • Amazon job posting suggests plan to bring shopping experiences into VR
      • Spectacles by Snapchat
      • Doctor Who
      • Left Shark
      • Air Pods
      • Apple Pencil
      • Lightning To Audio Jack Adapter Cable
      • Fastest-growing skills for Q4
      • Simon St.Laurent
      • Simon’s website
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