Neville Hobson joined FIR host Shel Holtz for the July edition of “The Hobson & Holtz Report” and conversation about these topics:
- Starbucks and plastic straws (listener comment from Kris Gallagher)
- British Airways asks customers to post personal data on Twitter ‘to comply with GDPR’
- Will Facebook Stories (and Instagram Stories, Messenger Stories, WhatsApp Stories, and Snapchat Stories) change how marketers use social media?
- Whatever the EU does about copyright laws, expect it to change social media globally
- Chatrooms come out of closed beta at Reddit
- Facebook has suspended Crimson Hexagon from accessing data while it investigates how that data is being used
- New buyers of smart speakers want to reduce the amount of time they spend looking at screens
Also, Gini Dietrich shares her thoughts on companies shrugging off the “E” in the PESO model she helped develop, Dan York has his Tech Report, and more.
Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music.
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Links from this episode
- British Airways asks customers to post personal data on Twitter ‘to comply with GDPR’
- British Airways asked customers to post personal information on Twitter ‘to comply with GDPR’
- ‘No Comment’: The Death of Business Reporting
- The Future of Connection on Facebook: How Stories May Change the Marketing Game
- Brands that are crushing it with Instagram Stories
- Three important ways new EU copyright laws could affect social media globally
- Reddit expands chat rooms to more subreddits
- Facebook suspends data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon
- Audio Killed the Digital Screen: People Get Smart Speakers to Reduce Screen Time
Links from Dan York’s Report
- July update of Google Chrome 68 to mark non-HTTPS websites “not secure”
- HTTPS Is Easy website
- Let’s Encrypt website
- A Progressive Web Apps World?
- What I learned from chatting with 7,000 strangers on the Internet
- LinkedIn Updates Messaging Experience With Easier Attachment Support, Mentions, and Stretchable Compose Box
- First Look at “Try Gutenberg” Prompt in WordPress 4.9.8 Beta 2
