Amazon Home Robots & Facebook Dating App

By David Erickson | May 5, 2018

Beyond Social Media Show, Episode 227

BL and David discuss: Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson’s classy settlement with the City of Philadelphia over the Starbucks racial arrests; features of the new Gmail, including the ability to take back an email; the return of unlimited MoviePass and an even cheaper competitor with more features; spoiling Cease & Desist letters; a Handheld Hologram camera; Amazon Homebots are coming; Facebook’s Sorry, Not Sorry ad campaign; what you need to know to prevent Google Analytics from wiping your hisorical data; Facebook’s Dating app Gibson Guitars bankruptcy reorg; Comcast’s Slow Lane for cord cutters (sad!!!; the Twitter “Bug” that made 330 million people change their passwords; Amazon’s delivery to your car…and much, much more.

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Best Digital Cases

A Classy Way to Settle the Starbucks Race Arrests

The two men recently arrested at Starbucks, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, chose not to pursue a lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia. Instead, they agreed to a symbolic payment of $1 each and asked the city to fund $200,000 for a grant program for high school students aspiring to become entrepreneurs.

Two black men arrested at Starbucks settle with Philadelphia for $1 each

Gmail Refresh

Google has given Gmail a new user interface and has added many security- and productivity-related features to the new version.

Gmail’s biggest redesign is now live

Unlimited MoviePass is Baaack

After a two-week hiatus, the MoviePass unlimited subscription—the one that lets you see a movie a day, every day, in theaters, for $10 a month—is back. But they have a cheaper competitor.

Surly Brewing Spoiling For A Cease & Desist

Minnesota’s Surly Brewing just named a limited-run beer after a concept from Netflix’s hit Stranger Things in what appears to be an earned media tactic.

BC Small Batch: Let’s Get Experimental

ANNOUNCEMENT: The BC Small Batch series is here. Get experimental with us. Pictured: Inside the Upside Down, a collaboration with @jwakefieldbeer. Details at the link in the bio. #surlybrewing

A post shared by Surly Brewing (@surlybrewing) on Apr 30, 2018 at 11:02am PDT

https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/stranger-things-cease-desist/2872

https://beyondsocialmediashow.com/dilly-dilly-cease-and-desist/3144

Dad’s Support For His Daughter Goes Viral

Five year-old Milea Hayes has alopecia After boys in the playground made fun of his daughter’s bald head, from alopecia. Her dad asked Milea to shave his head because “hair is stupid” and the video on their family vlog went viral.

Handheld Holograms

A Chinese startup has developed a projector that can create holographic images.

Holographic projector created by Chinese start-up

Amazon Homebots

The retail and cloud computing giant has embarked on an ambitious, top-secret plan to build a domestic robot.

Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots

Worst Digital Cases

Facebook Sorry, Not Sorry Ad Campaign

Facebook ads wax nostalgic about the good old days on the platform and says “But then, something happened.” It sure did! But the ads paint Facebook as victims.

A Close Read of Facebook’s Disingenuous Apology

Google Analytics Historical Data Wipe

You need to change this setting before May 25, 2018 if you want to keep your historical Google Analytics data.

Facebook Dating

The new Facebook dating app that matches you with non-friends. A lot of people are finding it creepy. And I’m wondering why Facebook would think this was a good time to ask for even more information about people.

Gibson Files For Chapter 11

Rapidly maturing debt owed to private equity firms put the company in a bind.

Gibson files for bankruptcy to ditch electronics, focus on guitars

Comcast Say You Can’t Have High Speed Internet Without Cable

Comcast has come up with a new way to stop cord cutting. And it sucks. If you don’t want cable TV, you’ll have slow internet speed.

Twitter Passwords Stolen

Since all 330 million Twitter users were told they had to change their passwords because of a data breach, many people found the company’s response arrogant. They said “we didn’t have to tell you…” Seriously?! So, when you change your password, be sure to enable 2-step verification.

Keeping Your Account Secure

We recently found a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. We fixed the bug and have no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone. As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services where you’ve used this password. https://t.co/RyEDvQOTaZ

— Support (@Support) May 3, 2018

Amazon Will Now Deliver Packages to the Trunk of Your Car

First they established deliveries inside your front door. Now they’ll deliver to the trunk of your car. So now, instead of worrying that your house will be robbed, your can worry about your car being stolen.

Amazon Will Now Deliver Packages to the Trunk of Your Car

Shiny New Stuff

Online SEO Tester

The tester, which is free, will analyze any website’s SEO health by getting instant scores and analysis of all key elements that allow a site to be visible and well indexed inside Google search results.

Online SEO Tester

Eye Dropper

Eye Dropper is a free Chrome extension that helps you duplicate a color on any web page.

Eye Dropper

AutoDesk’s SketchBook

AutoDesk has announced that the full version of its SketchBook app for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows will now be totally free.