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    I just concluded a prez to the Blue Ion crew by saying that smart/AR glasses are the next consumer computing wave.

    This piece from The Verge makes me feel better about that prediction.

    and the third is the idea that no one device is the future of XR. Headsets, for example, may just be “episodic” devices you use for entertainment. Glasses could supplement phones and smartwatches for discreet notifications and looking up information.

    “The way I see it, these devices don’t replace one another. You’ll use these devices throughout your day,

    Ambient computing!

    There are plenty of hurdles left, but if Google has figured out on-lens optics, the big ones left are for the accountants.


    The headline: Google To Have More Core Updates, More Often

    Details are thin, but this slide from the Search Central Live event where this was announced is interesting:


    Everyone’s coming for Meta 😎

    Solos challenges Meta’s Ray-Bans with $299 ChatGPT smart glasses

    That allows the AirGo Vision to do things like translate text into different languages, provide directions to nearby locations or landmarks, and give the wearer more information about what they’re looking at.

    A swappable frame system means that you can wear the glasses with or without the camera

    To paraphrase Ian Fleming: Once is chance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is a trend.


    Your creative is more important than your targeting. 

    Don’t leave the ad content as an afterthought. 

    Your ad creative is more important than your ad targeting. 

    You’ve got to grab attention. Spend at least as much time on your creative strategy as your targeting strategy. 

    Creative is the new targeting.


    A good economic rebuttal to some of the requested punishments in the Google anti-trust case.

    Defaults matter, but switching also isn’t hard.

    Also, it’s a bit late, isn’t it?

    the antitrust case is happening when Google is losing advertising share and is under pressure from a new search technology, Artificial Intelligence. AI search from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Llama, and xAI is very well funded and making rapid progress.


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