The pattern for breakthrough marketing:
Pick a side. Make enemies. Build a tribe.
via Bots Gone Wild
What happens to the trailing 9 pricing psychology trick in a world without pennies? (Rounding up is not a long term answer for customer happiness.)
$999 still works
but does $9.99 become $10 or $9.95?
Does the decision become a signal of profitability and pricing power by retailer?
Choosing manual control over algorithmic features (smart bidding, automated audience targeting, etc) in paid platforms is like choosing manually-controlled traffic lights over automated ones.
(Yes, I did sit at a manually-controlled one, because road work, earlier and it was painful.)
Foursquare’s MarsBot has been reborn as BeeBot (basically).
It sounds like a glimpse at the future of computing (ambient computing!). The interface is your headphones (AirPods get the name drop) and information is fed to you via your location (using AI (obvs)).
Audio augmented reality
