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In this episode of The Identity at the Center Podcast, hosts Jim McDonald and Jeff Steadman catch up with John Tolbert, Director of Cybersecurity Research at KuppingerCole Analysts, to talk about the rapidly evolving world of Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms (FRIP).They explore:The six capabilities of modern fraud reduction systemsHow AI and machine learning are both helping and hurting fraud preventionWhy shared signals and orchestration are critical for financial and e-commerce use casesHow identity verification, device intelligence, and behavioral biometrics work togetherThe role of usability and integration in FRI adoptionPlus, stick around for a fun discussion about concerts, classic rock, and which legendary bands they wish they'd seen live.Listen now to learn how identity, fraud, and AI are colliding — and what's next for fraud intelligence.Connect with John: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-tolbert/Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms - Finance (KuppingerCole Report): https://www.kuppingercole.com/research/lc80841/fraud-reduction-intelligence-platforms-financeFraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms - eCommerce (KuppingerCole Report): https://www.kuppingercole.com/research/bc81030/fraud-reduction-intelligence-platforms-ecommerceConnect with us on LinkedIn:Jim McDonald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmcdonaldpmp/Jeff Steadman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsteadman/Visit the show on the web at http://idacpodcast.comChapter Timestamps:00:00 – Jim's passwordless rant and setup woes05:00 – Introducing guest John Tolbert06:30 – Catching up: four years since John's last appearance07:30 – What is CIAM and how has it evolved?09:30 – Understanding Fraud Reduction Intelligence Platforms (FRIP)10:00 – The six core capabilities of FRI solutions13:00 – Are most vendors point solutions or full platforms?14:00 – How identity verification is improving16:00 – SaaS and API-driven fraud detection models18:00 – What kinds of fraud can (and can't) FRI prevent?21:00 – The growing problem of bots and automation22:00 – Fraud trends in finance: scams, account takeovers, and synthetic identities25:00 – Information sharing and the role of shared signals28:00 – Collaboration vs. competition in fraud prevention31:00 – Fraud in e-commerce: bots, loyalty points, and returns abuse34:00 – Streaming and citizen fraud use cases36:00 – Where do FRI capabilities fit within IAM platforms?43:00 – The importance of orchestration and integration44:30 – The role of AI and ML in fraud prevention47:30 – Smart questions for evaluating FRI vendors50:30 – Concert talk: Pink Floyd, Metallica, and the ones that got away58:00 – Wrap-up and where to find John Tolbert's reportsKeywords:Fraud Reduction Intelligence, FRI Platforms, John Tolbert, KuppingerCole, Identity at the Center, IDAC, IAM, CIAM, Cybersecurity Research, Fraud Prevention, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Behavioral Biometrics, Device Intelligence, Identity Verification, Risk Orchestration, API Security, Financial Fraud, E-Commerce Fraud, Shared Signals, Jim McDonald, Jeff Steadman, IDAC Podcast

 AI is stepping in to make the search for a partner more intentional and efficient. Dating platforms are leveraging AI to move beyond basic filters, analyzing extensive user data – from preferences and behavioral patterns to communication styles – to predict compatibility with remarkable precision.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/lets-talk-sex--5052038/support.

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/mpu/825 http://relay.fm/mpu/825 2025 State of the Platforms (Part 1) 825 David Sparks and Stephen Hackett This week, Stephen and David start their annual tour of Apple's products, beginning with the Mac, then they consider the Apple Watch, the Vision Pro, and the company's lineup of audio products. This week, Stephen and David start their annual tour of Apple's products, beginning with the Mac, then they consider the Apple Watch, the Vision Pro, and the company's lineup of audio products. clean 7717 Subtitle: Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, and Audio ProductsThis week, Stephen and David start their annual tour of Apple's products, beginning with the Mac, then they consider the Apple Watch, the Vision Pro, and the company's lineup of audio products. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: DEVONthink: Get Organized — Unleash Your Creativity. Get 25% off this Black Friday. KRCS: Apple Premium Reseller. Get free next-working-day delivery. 1Password: Never forget a password again. Links and Show Notes: Sign up for the MPU email newsletter and join the MPU forums. More Power Users: Ad-free episodes with regular bonus segments Submit Feedback Mac Power Users - YouTube Give the Gift of RelayAll annual plans are 20% off until December 31! Mac Power Users #824: Life After iPadOS 26 - Relay Boring Is What We Wanted - 512 Pixels Daring Fireball: 'Boring Is What We Wanted' About that A18 Pro MacBook rumor… – Six Colors 12-inch MacBook - Wikipedia The Great iMac Realignment - 512 Pixels Apple Says There Won't Be a 27-Inch iMac With Apple Silicon - MacRumors Docks and Hubs – CalDigit US Shop Apple Productivity Suite Field Guide (Expert) | MacSparky Field Guides Game Porting Toolkit - Games - Apple Developer macOS Tahoe is the end of the line for Intel Macs - Engadget Apple Users Are Keeping Their Devices for Longer as Upgrades Slow - MacRumors Apple introduces Apple Watch SE 3 - Apple Change your Apple Watch band - Apple Support Apple Watch faces and their features - Apple Support Apple Confirms Vision Pro is Not Eligible for Trade-In - MacRumors Marco Arment: "It's time to uncheck this box..." - Mastodon Logitech International - I

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/mpu/825 http://relay.fm/mpu/825 David Sparks and Stephen Hackett This week, Stephen and David start their annual tour of Apple's products, beginning with the Mac, then they consider the Apple Watch, the Vision Pro, and the company's lineup of audio products. This week, Stephen and David start their annual tour of Apple's products, beginning with the Mac, then they consider the Apple Watch, the Vision Pro, and the company's lineup of audio products. clean 7717 Subtitle: Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, and Audio ProductsThis week, Stephen and David start their annual tour of Apple's products, beginning with the Mac, then they consider the Apple Watch, the Vision Pro, and the company's lineup of audio products. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: DEVONthink: Get Organized — Unleash Your Creativity. Get 25% off this Black Friday. KRCS: Apple Premium Reseller. Get free next-working-day delivery. 1Password: Never forget a password again. Links and Show Notes: Sign up for the MPU email newsletter and join the MPU forums. More Power Users: Ad-free episodes with regular bonus segments Submit Feedback Mac Power Users - YouTube Give the Gift of RelayAll annual plans are 20% off until December 31! Mac Power Users #824: Life After iPadOS 26 - Relay Boring Is What We Wanted - 512 Pixels Daring Fireball: 'Boring Is What We Wanted' About that A18 Pro MacBook rumor… – Six Colors 12-inch MacBook - Wikipedia The Great iMac Realignment - 512 Pixels Apple Says There Won't Be a 27-Inch iMac With Apple Silicon - MacRumors Docks and Hubs – CalDigit US Shop Apple Productivity Suite Field Guide (Expert) | MacSparky Field Guides Game Porting Toolkit - Games - Apple Developer macOS Tahoe is the end of the line for Intel Macs - Engadget Apple Users Are Keeping Their Devices for Longer as Upgrades Slow - MacRumors Apple introduces Apple Watch SE 3 - Apple Change your Apple Watch band - Apple Support Apple Watch faces and their features - Apple Support Apple Confirms Vision Pro is Not Eligible for Trade-In - MacRumors Marco Arment: "It's time to uncheck this box..." - Mastodon Logitech I

Jesse and Gabi Merl are a married power couple who rebuilt from bankruptcy and six-figure student loan debt to consistent multi–six-figure months through content, social selling, and smart investing. Jesse is a multi-exit tech entrepreneur turned YouTube creator behind “Jesse ON FIRE,” while Gabi is a hormone and cortisol-focused coach and social seller who built a thriving business from scratch using short-form content.​​ On this episode we talk about: How Jesse went from teen restaurant jobs to real estate, loans, a sports gaming startup, and ultimately a brutal acquisition that wiped out his stock and forced bankruptcy What it was like for Gabi to be pregnant with their third child, unable to practice acupuncture in a new state, and staring down six-figure student loans while deciding to jump into social selling How they rebuilt from absolute zero to over $140K/month in combined income by focusing on liquid wealth, real estate, and avoiding flashy lifestyle creep The content strategies behind “Jesse ON FIRE” and Gabi's Instagram/TikTok growth: niche selection, volume, repelling to attract, and showing up as an amplified version of yourself on camera Why most creators fail because they underestimate the time horizon (at least a year) and posting volume required before platforms reward them with real reach Top 3 Takeaways Rebuilding from zero is possible if you're willing to kill your ego, take the “soul-sucking” job when necessary, and then methodically build leverage through content and business again. Platforms reward consistency and volume; think in terms of posting multiple times per day for months, not a few posts per month, and commit to at least a year before expecting meaningful traction. The fastest way to stand out is to be specific: know your avatar, be willing to repel the wrong audience to attract the right one, and tell your story like you're talking to close friends—just slightly amplified for the camera. Notable Quotes "You have to repel to attract; if no one is a little mad, no one is truly magnetized to you." "The platforms are testing if you're going to be a consistent creator before they give you reach." "Content is just building relationships at scale—one story, one reaction, one video at a time." Connect with Jesse & Gabi Merl: YouTube (Jesse): https://www.youtube.com/@RealJesseONFIRE​ Twitter/X (Jesse): https://twitter.com/realjesseonfire​ Instagram (Jesse): https://www.instagram.com/realjesseonfire​ Instagram (Gabi): https://www.instagram.com/gabriellecarolyn​ TikTok (Gabi): https://www.tiktok.com/@gabriellecarolyn​ ✖️✖️✖️✖️

"Buy now, pay later" has become a retail fixture seemingly overnight, and Cyber Monday is set to be its biggest sales day yet. But as “pay in 4” platforms offer customers freedom and flexibility, are they also opening the door to a wave of unregulated debt? In this episode: Emily Stewart, Senior Correspondent, Business Insider Episode credits: This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Farhan Rafid, Fatima Shafiq and our host, Malika Bilal. It was edited by Kylene Kiang. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio. Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on X, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube

In this Q&A, we discuss the future of media and why newsletters, YouTube, and podcasts will dominate. Matt shares his MAGIC Framework for converting social followers into email subscribers. We discuss Beehiiv's newest features, including dynamic content, native analytics, and its ad network. The Q&A also covers paywalls, reader behavior shifts, and the biggest newsletter design mistakes. Finally, Matt explains how to know when you've hit content–market fit and when to use paid acquisition.FREE Guide: How to get your first 1000 newsletter subscribers in 30 days >>Timestamps & Questions:00:00 Introduction00:48 What do you think the future of media will look like?04:39 How do you drive traffic from a discovery platform to your newsletter?11:01 How do you recommend utilizing paywalls and gated content?13:29 What's the best new Beehiiv feature for smaller creators?16:05 How do you know a discovery platform is working?16:53 How should you utilize dynamic content?19:08 Should Beehiiv integrate better with Shopify?20:00 Does this put pressure on Kit and Substack to evolve?22:03 What's the most underrated moat a newsletter can have?23:12 How will reader behavior change overtime?25:01 How will B2B newsletter evolve?26:38 Advice for someone sitting on an idea for 6 months?28:32 How do you know when you have audience market fit?30:04 When should you run paid ads?31:53 What are the biggest design mistakes you see?

On Today's Menu on Marsha's Plate We discuss the Olympics banning trans and cis women with high testosterone, DL Whisper threats, and the buying protest for the holidays Listen on all streaming Platforms https://pod.link/1293033444 Here we talk about cultural events, entertainment news, and gender politics from a Black Trans feminist lens. This is Diamond Stylz archival work that preserves the histories, experiences, and contributions of a marginalized community that has been historically erased, overlooked, or misrepresented. We focus on people who identitfy as Black, trans, gay, or woman...or any combination of all of them. We have merch as well if you wanna support Marsha's Plate https://teespring.com/stores/marshasplate Reading Recommendations https://bookshop.org/shop/DiamondStylz #marshasplate #girlslikeus #boyslikeus #transgender #podcast #podsincolor #podernfamily #transisbeautiful #houston #lgbt #transmen #transwomen #blackfeminism #trans101 #trans #blacktranswomen #blacktransmen #houstonpride #indiepodcast #blacktranslivesmatter #lgbtqia #lgbtq #genderidentity #pride #blackgirlmagic #blackboyjoy #podcast

A senior detective from the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau has warned that children are being groomed and exploited on online gaming platforms at an "alarming scale". Kate McDonald, reporter with Prime Time.

Where Can Coaches Find High-Quality Drills and Strategies Without Breaking the Budget? In the digital age, the barrier to entry for high-level basketball knowledge has virtually vanished. Today, a coach with an internet connection has access to more "free" information than the greatest coaches of the 1980s accumulated in a lifetime. Platforms like YouTube are treasure troves where you can find visual demonstrations of almost any drill imaginable, from Steph Curry's pre-game routine to complex Euro-league pick-and-roll coverages. Social media channels, particularly "Coaching Twitter" (X) and dedicated Facebook groups, have become real-time exchange hubs where coaches share play diagrams, practice plans, and clinic notes daily. For the budget-conscious coach, these platforms offer an endless stream of X's and O's that can immediately upgrade a team's tactical playbook. Beyond video and social media, the rise of coaching podcasts and newsletters has democratized access to mentorship and philosophy. High-quality podcasts allow you to "sit in" on conversations with Hall of Fame coaches, absorbing their wisdom on culture, leadership, and program building during your morning commute. Many top coaching websites also utilize a "freemium" model, offering robust newsletters, downloadable PDF playbooks, and sample practice plans in exchange for an email address. These resources are often professionally curated and provide a deeper dive into specific topics—like zone offense or youth skill development—than a 30-second social media clip ever could. However, the challenge with free resources is not availability; it is curation and organization. "Free" often comes without a filter, meaning you can easily drown in a sea of conflicting advice and disjointed drills that don't fit your system. To truly benefit from free coaching resources, you must be disciplined. Instead of grabbing every shiny new drill you see on Instagram, use these free tools to solve specific problems your team is facing. Create a digital filing system (like Google Drive or Notion) to categorize the plays and drills you find. Remember that while the resource is free, your practice time is expensive; only implement what genuinely fits your philosophy and your players' skill levels. Free Basketball Drills, Basketball Coaching Resources, Free Basketball Plays, Basketball Coaching Podcasts, Youth Basketball Drills Free, Basketball Practice Plans PDF, Coaching Basketball for Free, Best Basketball YouTube Channels, Basketball Coaching Newsletters, Online Basketball Clinics, Free Basketball Coaching Aids, High School Basketball Drills, Basketball Strategy Guide, Basketball Coaching Community, Free Sports Coaching Tools, Basketball X's and O's, Coaching Twitter, Basketball Playbook Download, Free Basketball Workouts, Basketball Coaching Blogs, Affordable Coaching Tools, Basketball Skill Development, Coaching Mentorship, Basketball Drill Library, Learn Basketball Coaching Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mastering Business Growth: Insights from Mark Abbott, Founder & CEO of Ninety, on Operating Systems, Culture, and Organizational MaturityIn this episode, host Josh Elledge sits down with Mark Abbott, Founder and CEO of Ninety, for a deep dive into business operating systems, organizational culture, and the journey of scaling small and mid-sized companies. Mark—drawing on decades of experience in entrepreneurship, software development, coaching, and workplace culture—explains how leaders can build high-performing, resilient organizations by implementing the right frameworks at the right time. This blog breaks down the episode's key insights and practical guidance to help business owners navigate their company's growth stages with clarity and confidence.Building Mature, Aligned, and High-Trust OrganizationsMark begins by explaining what a Business Operating System (BOS) truly is: a combination of tools, disciplines, and concepts that help organizations stay aligned, accountable, and scalable. He emphasizes that every company already has an operating system—whether intentional or accidental—and the goal is to consciously design one that matches the business's stage of development. Popular frameworks like EOS, Scaling Up, and The Great Game of Business offer structured paths, but each company must adopt the tools most appropriate for their maturity level.He breaks down the five stages of business development—Formation, Early Growth, Expansion, Maturity, and Legacy—and stresses that leaders must avoid skipping steps. For example, documenting every process too early is counterproductive; focusing instead on clarity, roles, and early team alignment yields better results. As businesses grow, they often mistake size for maturity, creating organizations that look impressive on the outside but lack foundational discipline internally.Mark also highlights the importance of culture, trust, and forgiveness. High-performance organizations assume goodwill, set clear expectations, and use trust as a guiding principle—while also acknowledging that not all behaviors should be tolerated. He references research from Dr. Paul Zak to explain how trust chemically fuels team performance and why leaders must foster environments where transparency and accountability thrive. Platforms like Ninety help reinforce these practices by providing tools for meetings, scorecards, vision alignment, and process documentation, ensuring companies build habits that support long-term excellence.About Mark AbbottMark Abbott is the Founder and CEO of Ninety, a platform designed to help small and mid-sized businesses implement and sustain business operating systems. With decades of experience across entrepreneurship, leadership development, and organizational design, Mark has coached countless teams on building trust-based cultures and operational excellence. Connect with Mark on LinkedIn.About NinetyNinety is a comprehensive software platform built to help organizations adopt, implement, and sustain a Business Operating System such as EOS. With tools for meetings, scorecards, rocks, issues, processes, and organizational clarity, Ninety equips leadership teams with everything they need to run a healthy, aligned, and scalable business. The platform supports both coach-led and self-directed implementations and includes extensive resources for long-term growth and accountability.Links Mentioned in This EpisodeMark Abbott LinkedIn

In this episode of The Simple and Smart SEO Show, I'm stitting down with Ashley Liddell, co-founder of Deviation, to explore the concept of “Search Everywhere® .” From Sephora's “Black Beauty Is Beauty” campaign to understanding the evolution of search across platforms like TikTok, Pinterest, and Reddit, Ashley shares his journey to building a unique SEO agency. We discuss the fragmentation of the customer journey, optimizing across platforms, and why traditional SEO alone is no longer enough.Key Takeaways:Search Everywhere®  Philosophy: SEO now means being discoverable on every platform where your audience is already spending time—not just Google.Brand Discovery vs. Intent Search: Ashley explains the difference between interruptive discovery (social platforms) vs. intentional problem-solving (search engines).Customer Journey Mapping: Understanding platform intent and audience behavior is essential to building omnichannel search strategies.Sephora's Case Study: A missed opportunity to capitalize on a 7,000% search lift after a viral campaign highlights the need for integrated internal comms between marketing and SEO teams.Platform-Specific Optimization: Brands must tailor content (video, visual, text) based on platform expectations and user intent.Memorable Quotes:“Search Everywhere®  is about engineering brand discovery where your audience actually hangs out.” – Ashley Liddell“We've always conformed to Google's expectations—but what if your audience doesn't?” – Ashley Liddell“That 7,000% spike in brand search was completely missed because of internal silos.” – Ashley LiddellListener Action Items:Reevaluate Your Search Strategy: Consider where your audience spends time—beyond Google—and start optimizing there.Audit Internal Communication: Ensure your marketing, social, and SEO teams are aligned and sharing data.Review Campaign Metrics Holistically: Don't just track social performance—look at how it influences branded search and on-site behavior.Connect with AshText me your questions or comments!Does SEO feel confusing, overwhelming, or just plain impossible to figure out? You're not alone. That's why I created the AI SEO Foundations course, powered by Crystal GPT: your personal AI SEO coach designed for busy, creative business owners like you.Ditch the overwhelm and discover what SEO can do for your business! Head to SEOin7days.com (with the number 7!) and get started today—let's make your brand easy to find and impossible to ignore.Support the showBook a Shopify Store Strategy Call With Crystal! Want to follow up on what you've heard? Search the podcast! AFFILIATE LINKS:Start your Shopify Store!Get SurferSEO! Metricool (to be everywhere online, you NEED a social media scheduler!) Grid and Pixel Note: If you make a purchase using some of my links, I make a little money. But I only ever share products, people, & offers I trust & use myself!

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Send us a textIf you've ever wondered why Caribbean-American media still rents space on other people's platforms, this conversation goes straight to the root: ownership, organization, and the business engine behind our stories. In this special episode in partnership with WhereItzAt Magazine, I sit down with two veteran publishers - Clive Williams of Where It's At Magazine and Herman Hall of Everybody's Magazine; to map what it takes to build power: an association with teeth, a revenue model that outlasts trends, and alliances that turn small outlets into a market force.We dig into the tough stuff too: why advertisers often ignore Caribbean audiences, how tourist boards spend outside the community, and what data and collaboration it takes to win budgets back. Real stories from missed chances to buy stations to the WLIB legacy reveal how fragmentation costs us and how shared platforms can change the math.Call it a blueprint for the next wave: set clear priorities, package real audience insights, and pool resources like other communities do. If we want equity and visibility, we need leverage media kits with proof, sales teams that go to market together, and partnerships that protect voice while scaling reach. By the end, you'll see a path from consumer to producer, from renting attention to owning distribution. Subscribe, share this with a creator or marketer who needs to hear it, and leave a review with one action you'll take to support Caribbean-owned media. Subscribe to the Newsletter Support How to Support Carry On Friends Donate: If you believe in our mission and want to help amplify Caribbean voices, consider making a donation. Get Merch: Support Carry On Friends by purchasing merchandise from our store. Connect with @carryonfriends - Instagram | Facebook | YouTube A Breadfruit Media Production

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Everyone was new, everyone was building, and that shared experience created a unique digital culture. As I celebrated that anniversary live on the app, I reflected on the journey.That long-term commitment revealed five essential, and sometimes surprising, principles for connection and growth in any digital space. These aren't just tips for social media; they are foundational lessons for navigating our increasingly online lives with purpose and impact.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. Intentionality: The Opposite of DoomscrollingIn a sea of infinite feeds and endless distractions, the first lesson is to choose to be present with a purpose. Intentionality means reframing your use of an app from a passive consumption habit to an active, goal-oriented practice. It requires asking why you are opening the app at that moment. Is it to learn something new? To support a peer? To connect with one specific person or engage with a larger community?This is a crucial shift because it puts you in control. Instead of letting an algorithm dictate your experience, you actively decide how to spend your time and energy. Whether you're speaking to a room of one or one thousand, being intentional ensures that every session has a purpose, which in turn fosters more meaningful interactions."having intentionality has increased my chances of connecting people at a deeper level."2. Priority: You Actualize What You PrioritizeBeyond simply managing your time, the second lesson is to consciously prioritize your attention. On an audio platform, this means prioritizing the rooms you join, the topics you engage with, and even what you choose to listen to—in essence, "prioritizing your ear." You can't be everywhere at once, so you must decide what conversations and connections are most aligned with your goals.For me, prioritizing Clubhouse as a platform for my podcast, "We Don't Play," was a game-changer. By consistently making it a key part of my content strategy, I generated new ideas and engaged with my audience in real-time. This focus was instrumental in a monumental achievement: releasing 131 podcast episodes just this year alone, out of a six-year journey. When you make something a priority, you dedicate the focus and resources necessary to bring it to life."When you prioritize, you actualize because what you're prioritizing, you're looking at. You're paying attention to it."3. Patience: The Lost Art of Digital ConnectionThe third lesson is perhaps the most counter-cultural in our fast-paced digital world: patience. Building genuine relationships takes time. On Clubhouse, I've seen simple connections evolve into friendships, business partnerships, and client referrals, but none of it happened overnight. Patience is the virtue required to navigate diverse conversations, but it's not always a passive act. Sometimes, people will test your patience, wanting to tell you off or challenge your perspective. It's in those moments that true patience is forged.A key practice of patience in an audio-only format is the discipline of letting people finish their thoughts completely. Resisting the urge to interrupt creates a space where people feel heard and respected, a stark contrast to the rapid-fire exchanges on other platforms. This practice of active, silent listening is fundamental to understanding, which is the bedrock of any real connection."listen and silent are the same. It's just scrabble differently. So I believe when you're silent and you're listening and you're patient with the person, you're taking time to respond as opposed to reacting based on what you're feeling."4. Consistency: Showing Up When No One is WatchingThe fourth lesson is about the quiet power of consistency. Building a presence, a community, or a reputation in any space depends on showing up regularly—especially when it feels like no one is paying attention. "Whether there's one person in this room or 5,000 or zero," the act of being there is what matters.This principle was baked into the very DNA of early Clubhouse. To earn the ability to start your own "club," you first had to prove your consistency by hosting open rooms for about a week. You had to put in the work before the platform's gamified system unlocked the keys. The reward followed the commitment. Years of this consistent presence produced connections that have become part of my daily lifestyle, but one story stands out. A woman once booked a call with me just to apologize. "For what?" I asked. She confessed that because I delivered valuable information so quickly, she couldn't take notes fast enough and had started secretly recording my audio. That was a profound, tangible testament to the impact of just showing up.5. Tenacity: The Engine for Everything ElseThe final and most powerful lesson is tenacity—the resilience that underpins the other four. Platforms evolve. Features change, communities shift, and the initial hype fades. Tenacity is the commitment to adapt and "move with the times" rather than abandoning the space when it's no longer what it once was. It's the decision to stay, even if the "app turns into Titanic."This isn't about stubbornness. It's about conviction. It's a deep belief in the value of the community you've helped build and a willingness to evolve with it. As the platform changes, tenacity reminds you that it's not about what you're sticking to, but what you believe in. It's about staying true to yourself and the people you serve, allowing you to see beyond temporary turmoil and continue building something of lasting value.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Conclusion: What Is Your Digital Platform Teaching You?After five years on a single app, the lessons are clear. The people I've met are life-changing, and true growth isn't found in chasing the next shiny object. It is forged through Intentionality, Priority, Patience, Consistency, and Tenacity. These five principles are more than just a strategy for Clubhouse; they are a blueprint for navigating any professional or personal endeavor in our digital world. They remind us that platforms are just tools; it is how we choose to use them that defines our impact, leaving us with one essential question to consider:When was the last time you did something for the first time?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Esra Ozturk talks about the future of fan loyalty platforms, and what it takes to create digital experiences that empower creators, fans, and brands to connect. Esra built products and sparked innovations at Meta, Uber, Zillow, and Instacart, now at Luffa she's leading the transformation into a next-generation fan loyalty platform. Host, Kevin Craine Do you want to be a guest? https://DigitalTransformationPodast.net/guest Do you want to be a sponsor? https://DigitalTransformationPodcast.net/sponsor

Thinking about investing in real estate crowdfunding? In this video, I break down my real-life returns from platforms like Fundrise, Arrived Homes, Streetwise, Groundfloor, and Concrete — including which ones disappointed me, which ones actually performed well, and why I eventually stopped investing in most crowdfunding platforms altogether. Crowdfunding sounds like easy passive income… until you look at the actual numbers. I share my annualized returns, the problems these platforms don't talk about, why certain deals turn into multi-year nightmares, and which platforms still deliver consistent results. If you're deciding where to invest in real estate — or whether crowdfunding is even worth it — this breakdown will help you avoid major mistakes. ⏱ Timestamps 00:00 – How I started investing in real estate crowdfunding 00:19 – Regulation CF & why crowdfunding became popular 00:49 – Accredited investor rules (quick overview) 01:31 – My early experiences with Fundrise, Arrived, Streetwise, Groundfloor 02:14 – Why Fundrise underperformed (3.4% annual return) 02:49 – Arrived Homes review & 17-property performance 03:37 – Why brand-new homes aren't profitable for rentals 04:15 – Why these platforms struggle (marketing vs real returns) 04:53 – Tax benefits vs no tax perks in crowdfunding 05:14 – Streetwise review – my worst performer (-31%) 05:36 – The platforms I still like 05:56 – Groundfloor review: 8–10% returns 06:32 – Problems with Groundfloor (long delays, default loans) 07:35 – How Co-Investing Club approaches long-term investments 08:27 – Concrete review: 6.65% returns + weekly dividends 09:43 – Summary of different types of passive real estate investments 10:13 – Diversification benefits in small-amount investing 10:28 – Free course link + closing thoughts

Maor Shlomo is the Founder and CEO of Base44, the AI building platform that Maor built from idea to $80M acquisition by Wix, in just 8 months. Today the company serves millions of users and will hit $50M ARR by the end of the year. Before Base44, Maor was the Co-Founder and CTO of Explorium. AGENDA: 00:05 – 00:10: How Vibe Coding is Going to Kill Salesforce and SaaS 00:13 – 00:15: Do Vibe Coding platforms have any defensibility? 00:22 – 00:24: I am not worried about Replit and Lovable, I am worried about Google… 00:28 – 00:29: Margins do not matter, the price of the models will go to zero 00:31 – 00:32: Speed to copy has never been lower; has the technical moat been eroded? 00:47 – 00:48: How does Base44 beat Cursor? 00:56 – 00:57: Do not pay attention to competition: focus on your business 00:57 – 00:58: How Base44 is helped, not hurt by not being in Silicon Valley? 00:58 – 00:59: What percent of code will be written by AI in 12 months? 01:01 – 01:02: OpenAI or Anthropic: Why Maor is Long Anthropic? 01:03 – 01:04: If I could have any board member in the world it would be Jack Dorsey      

China aims to enhance the protection of personal information, ensuring the legal rights of individuals and promoting the healthy development of the platform economy, according to new draft regulations released on Saturday.中国旨在加强个人信息保护，保障个人合法权利，并促进平台经济的健康发展。根据周六发布的新草案法规显示，这一目标将得到法律支持。The draft "regulations on personal information protection for large online platforms" were released by the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Public Security to solicit public comments.这一名为《大型网络平台个人信息保护规定（草案）》的法规由中国国家网信办和公安部联合发布，以征求公众意见。According to the draft regulations, personal information collected and generated in China should be stored domestically. If there is a need to transfer the information abroad, platforms should comply with national data export security regulations.草案规定，在中国收集或生成的个人信息应当在境内存储。如需向境外传输数据，平台必须遵守国家有关数据出境安全的规定。Platforms are required to strengthen technical and managerial measures to prevent and address risks associated with illegal overseas data transfers.平台需加强技术和管理措施，以防范和应对非法境外数据传输相关的风险。The draft also stipulates that personal information must be stored in data centers that are located in China and meet national security standards.草案还规定，个人信息必须存储在境内符合国家安全标准的数据中心。Moreover, online platform service providers must offer convenient methods and channels for individuals to access, correct, supplement, and delete their personal information, as well as to delete their accounts.此外，网络平台服务提供者必须为个人提供便捷的方式和渠道，以查阅、更正、补充和删除个人信息，同时支持账户注销。When an individual requests the transfer of their personal information to a designated personal information processor, the service provider should complete the transfer within 30 working days of receiving the request, the draft said.草案指出，当个人要求将其个人信息转移至指定的个人信息处理者时，服务提供者应在收到请求后的30个工作日内完成信息转移。In cases where platforms show serious deficiencies in personal information protection, such as repeated violations or significant data breaches affecting large numbers of users, authorities may mandate compliance audits and risk assessments by third-party professional organizations.如果平台在个人信息保护方面存在严重不足，例如屡次违规或发生影响大量用户的重大数据泄露事件，监管部门可要求第三方专业机构进行合规审计和风险评估。Infractions include a personal information security incident resulting in the leakage, alteration, loss, or destruction of the personal information of over 1 million individuals or sensitive personal information of over 100,000 individuals, the draft said.草案指出，违规行为包括导致超过100万人个人信息泄露、篡改、丢失或毁损，或涉及超过10万人的敏感个人信息泄露的安全事件。Platforms that are found incapable of ensuring data security may be required to store data in third-party data centers that comply with regulations, it added.草案补充称，对于无法保障数据安全的平台，可能要求其在符合规定的第三方数据中心存储数据。The draft encourages the use of national network identity authentication services, data labeling technologies, and personal information protection certifications to enhance data protection levels.草案鼓励使用国家网络身份认证服务、数据标识技术及个人信息保护认证，以提升数据保护水平。The public is invited to submit feedback through various channels, and complaints about violations can be reported to authorities, who are required to respond within 15 working days.公众可通过多种渠道提交意见反馈，对于违规投诉可向监管部门举报，相关部门需在15个工作日内作出回应。The CAC and Ministry of Public Security emphasize the importance of confidentiality for all parties involved, including government departments and third-party organizations, regarding personal privacy, business secrets, and other sensitive information encountered during their duties.网信办和公安部强调，所有相关方（包括政府部门和第三方机构）在履职过程中涉及的个人隐私、商业机密及其他敏感信息必须保密。Public consultation on the draft regulations is open until Dec 22, according to the statement CAC released on its official WeChat account.根据网信办官方微信公众号发布的公告，公众对草案法规的意见征求活动将持续至12月22日。platform economy平台经济draft regulations法规草案data export security regulations数据出境安全规定personal information protection certifications个人信息保护认证

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What happens when autobattlers fail to monetize? We pull Arto Huhta into the cast and chat about Telegram's pseudo-WeChat ambitions. Eric releases a distrack on Game Designer's obsessed social spaces, and Phil wants more blood from psychologists' nonsensical F2P "choice overload." Chris enleashes a model-meets-UGC experiment: a three-algorithm simulation that shows how recommendation systems distort consumer welfare and creator inequality. We discuss: How Arto sees the split between economy design, product management, and classical economics (hint: it's not what you think) Pets as permanent progression, and the design logic behind Nonstop Knight's monetization turnaround Why creator inequality explodes under bad reinforcement A brewing debate on regulation that is just getting started... Chapters 00:00 Journey to London: A Game Developer's Path 00:49 The Role of Economy Design in Gaming 01:20 From Academia to Game Development: Bridging the Gap 03:16 Experimentation in Game Design: Lessons Learned 05:22 The Intersection of Game Design and Economics 10:07 Understanding Game Development Roles 11:00 Monetization Strategies in Game Design 11:55 The Evolution of Publishing Models 12:42 Transitioning to Web 3: New Challenges 13:54 The Economics of Game Spending 18:27 Introduction to Game Economist Cast 19:06 Current Gaming Trends and Preferences 20:51 Game Modes and Player Engagement 22:03 The Future of Game Monetization 27:33 The Social Hub Experiment in Fighting Games 28:26 Street Fighter VI and Social Interaction 30:28 The Rise of HTML5 Games on Platforms 32:37 The Trend of Casual Games in Tech Companies 34:42 Telegram Games: A New Frontier 37:21 Challenges in Game Discovery on Telegram 38:52 User Engagement and Retention in Web3 Gaming 39:43 Consumer Welfare and Content Creation Dynamics 43:04 The Impact of Algorithms on User Experience 49:31 Heterogeneous Goods and Their Effects on Engagement 57:35 The Impact of Algorithms on Content Quality 59:04 Understanding Algorithmic Risks and User Retention 01:00:16 Exploring Algorithm Design in Gaming Platforms 01:01:54 The Role of User Choice in Content Discovery 01:04:29 The Future of Pricing Strategies in Free-to-Play Games 01:08:10 The Debate on Standardization and Market Forces Chapters (00:00:00) - The Cost of Free Speech(00:00:49) - Game of Connors Cast(00:01:16) - Meet Free-To-Play Designer Phil Rubin(00:02:43) - The Art of Being a Game Economist(00:03:59) - How to Get Out of Your Job(00:05:22) - Are You More of an Economist or a Designer?(00:07:51) - Candy Crush: Experimentation and Optimization(00:10:07) - Ex-Monetization Manager at King Publishing(00:12:30) - Have We Overreacted to Free-To-Play?(00:15:17) - Half-Off and the Price(00:18:27) - How To Make a Slop slideshow(00:18:56) - What Have You Been Playing?(00:20:35) - Clash Royale: The Future of Content(00:23:55) - How To Play Hearthstone With Re-rolling(00:25:59) - 2K XO: A Hardcore Fighting Game(00:29:37) - Fortnite vs. Monster Hunter: The Social Hub(00:30:29) - Are We Ready for Content in the Future?(00:34:24) - Facebook vs Instagram: What's The Difference?(00:34:57) - Telegram's plans for games(00:36:22) - How Telegram Could Make Games More Profitable(00:43:15) - The Probability of Encountering a Good(00:44:28) - Anatomy of Facebook's algorithm(00:49:53) - The Gini coefficient of content creators profit(00:54:30) - Measuring the social network's heterogeneous goods(00:58:58) - The Mix of Algorithms and Churn(01:01:07) - Do Algorithm Designers Care About Producer GENIE?(01:01:55) - What Should Roblox Do About Popularity?(01:03:51) - Too Much Choice in Online Content(01:05:56) - Is There Choice Overload in Mobile Games?(01:06:49) - What about discounts on hard currency purchases?(01:07:46) - Free-To-Play: Quantity Based Discounts(01:11:11) - USB 2.0: Standardization(01:12:11) - Roblox: Arto on UGC(01:13:27) - GIM economist cast episode 44

Hello Interactors,I'm back! After a bit of a hiatus traveling Southern Europe, where my wife had meetings in Northern Italy and I gave a talk in Lisbon. We visited a couple spots in Spain in between. Now it's time to dive back into our exploration of economic geography. My time navigating those historic cities — while grappling with the apps on my phone — turned out to be the perfect, if slightly frustrating, introduction to the subject of the conference, Digital Geography.The presentation I prepared for the Lisbon conference, and which I hint at here, traces how the technical optimism of early desktop software evolved into the all-encompassing power of Platform Capital. We explore how digital systems like Airbnb and Google Maps have become more than just convenient tools. They are the primary architects of urban value. They don't just reflect economic patterns. They mandate them. They reorganize rent extraction by dictating interactions with commerce and concentrating control. This is the new financialized city, and the uncomfortable question we must face is this: Are we leveraging these tools toward a new beneficial height, or are the tools exploiting us in ways that transcends oversight?CARTOGRAPHY'S COMPUTATIONAL CONVERGENCEI was sweating five minutes in when I realized we were headed to the wrong place. We picked up the pace, up steep grades, glissading down narrow sidewalks avoiding trolley cars and private cars inching pinched hairpins with seven point turns. I was looking at my phone with one eye and the cobbled streets with the other.Apple Maps had led us astray. But there we were, my wife and I, having emerged from the metro stop at Lisbon's shoreline with a massive cruise ship looming over us like a misplaced high-rise. We needed to be somewhere up those notorious steep streets behind us in 10 minutes. So up we went, winding through narrow streets and passages. Lisbon is hilly. We past the clusters of tourists rolling luggage, around locals lugging groceries.I had come to present at the 4th Digital Geographies Conference, and the organizers had scheduled a walking tour of Lisbon. Yet here I was, performing the very platform-mediated tourism that the attendees came to interrogate. My own phone was likely using the same mapping API I used to book my AirBnB. These platforms were actively reshaping the Lisbon around us. The irony wasn't lost on me. We had gathered to critically examine digital geography while simultaneously embodying its contradictions.That became even more apparent as we gathered for our walking tour. We met in a square these platform algorithms don't push. It's not “liked”, “starred”, nor “Instagrammed.” But it was populated nonetheless…with locals not tourists. Mostly immigrants. The virtual was met with reality.What exactly were we examining as we stood there, phones in hand, embodying the very contradictions we'd gathered to critique?Three decades ago, as an undergraduate at UC Santa Barbara, I would have understood this moment differently. The UCSB geography department was riding the crest of the GIS revolution then. Apple and Google Maps didn't exist, and we spent our days digitizing boundaries from paper maps, overlaying data layers, building spatial databases that would make geographic information searchable, analyzable, computable. We were told we were democratizing cartography, making it a technical craft anyone could master with the right tools.But the questions that haunt me now — who decides what gets mapped? whose reality does the map represent? what work does the map do in the world? — remained largely unasked in those heady days of digital optimism.Digital geography, or ‘computer cartography' as we understood it then, was about bringing computational precision to spatial problems. We were building tools that would move maps from the drafting tables of trained cartographers to the screens of any researcher with data to visualize. Marveling at what technology might do for us has a way of stunting the urge to question what it might be doing to us.The field of digital geography has since undergone a transformation. It's one that mirrors my own trajectory from building tools and platforms at Microsoft to interrogating their societal effects. Today's digital geography emerges from the collision of two geography traditions: the quantitative, GIS-focused approach I learned at UCSB, and critical human geography's interrogation of power, representation, and spatial justice. This convergence became necessary as digital technologies escaped the desktop and embedded themselves in everyday urban life. We no longer simply make digital maps of cities and countrysides. Digital platforms are actively remaking cities themselves…and those who live in them.Contemporary digital geography, as examined at this conference, looks at how computational systems reorganize spatial relations, urban governance, and the production of place itself. When Airbnb's algorithm determines neighborhood property values, when Google Maps' routing creates and destroys retail corridors, when Uber's surge pricing redraws the geography of urban mobility — these platforms don't describe cities so much as actively reconstruct them. The representation has become more influential or ‘real' than the reality itself. This is much like the hyperreality famously described by the French cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard — a condition where the simulation or sign (like app interfaces) replaces and precedes reality. In this way, the digital map (visually and virtually) has overtaken the actual territory in importance and impact, actively shaping how we perceive and interact with the real world.As digital platforms become embedded in everyday life, we are increasingly living in a simulation. The more digital services infiltrate and reconstitute urban systems the more they evade traditional governance. Algorithmic mediation through code written to influence the rhythm of daily life and human behavior increasingly determines who we interact with and which spaces we see, access, and value. Some describe this as a form of data colonialism — extending the logic of resource extraction into everyday movements and behaviors. This turns citizens into data subjects. Our patterns feed predictive models that further shape people, place…and profits. These aren't simple pipes piped in, or one-way street lights, but dynamic architectures that reorganize society's rights.LISBON LURED, LOST, AND LIVEDThe scholars gathered in Lisbon trace precisely how digital platforms restructure housing markets, remake retail ecologies, and reformulate the rights of humans and non-humans. Their work, from analyzing platform control over cattle herds in Brazil to tracking urban displacement, exemplifies the conference's focus: making visible the often-obscured mechanisms through which platforms reshape space.Two attendees I met included Jelke Bosma (University of Amsterdam), who researches Airbnb's transformation of housing into asset classes, and Pedro Guimarães (University of Lisbon), who documents how platform-mediated tourism hollows out local retail. At the end of the tour, when a group of us were looking to chat over drinks, Pedro remarked, “If you want a recommendation for an authentic Lisbon bar experience, it no longer exists!”Yet, even as I navigated Lisbon using the very interfaces these scholars' critique, I was reminded of this central truth: we study these systems from within them. There is no outside position from which to observe platform urbanism. We are all, to varying degrees, complicit subjects. This reflection has become central to digital geography's method. It's impossible to claim critical distance from systems that mediate our own spatial practices. So, instead, a kind of intrinsic critique is developed by understanding platform effects through our own entanglements.Lisbon has become an inadvertent laboratory for this critique. Jelke Bosma's analysis of AirBnB reveals how the platform has facilitated a shift from informal “home sharing” to professionalized asset management, where multi-property hosts control an increasing share of urban housing stock. His research shows “professionally managed apartments do not only generate the largest individual revenues, they also account for a disproportionate segment of the total revenues accumulated on the platform”. This professionalization is driven by AirBnB's business model and its investment in platform supporting “asset-based professionalization,” which primarily benefits multi-listing commercial hosts. He further explains that AirBnB's algorithm “rewards properties with high availability rates,” creating what he calls “evolutionary pressures” on hosts to maximize their listings' availability. This incentivizes them to become full-time tourist accommodations, reducing the competitiveness of long-term residential renting.The complexity of this ecosystem was also apparent during our Barcelona stop. What I booked as an “Airbnb” was a Sweett property — a competitor platform that operates through AirBnb's APIs. This apartment featured Bluetooth-enabled locks and smart home controls inserted into an 1800s building. Sweett's model demonstrates how platform infrastructure not only becomes an industry standard but is leveraged and replicated by competitors in a kind of coopetition based on the pricing algorithms AirBnB normalized.In Lisbon, my rental sat in a building where every door was marked with AL (Alojamento Local), the legal framework for short-term rentals. No permanent residents remained; the architecture itself had been reshaped to platform specifications: fire escape signage next to framed photos, fire extinguishers mounted to the wall, and minimized common spaces upon entry. It's more like a hotel disaggregated into independent units.Pedro Guimarães's work provides the commercial counterpart to Jelke's residential analysis, focusing on how platforms reshape urban consumption. His longitudinal study demonstrates that the “advent of mass tourism” has triggered a fundamental “adjustment in the commercial fabric” of Lisbon's city center.This platform-mediated transformation involves a significant shift from services catering to locals to spaces optimized for leisure and consumption. Pedro's data confirms a clear decline and “absence of Food retail” and convenience shops. These essential services are replaced by a “new commercial landscape” dominated by HORECA (hotels, restaurants, and cafes), which consolidates the area's function as a tourist destination.(3)Crucially, the new businesses achieve algorithmic visibility by manufacturing “authenticity”. They leverage local culture and history, sometimes even appropriating the decor of previous, traditional establishments, as part of “routine business practices as a way of maximizing profit”. The result is the “broader construction of a new commercial ambiance” where local food and goods are standardized and adapted to meet international tourist expectations.(3)My own searches validated these findings. Searching for restaurants on Google Maps throughout Southern Europe produced a bubble of highly-rated establishments near tourist sites, many featuring nearly identical, tourist-friendly menus. The platforms had learned and enforced preferences, creating a Lisbon curated only for visitors. Furthermore, data exhaust from tourist movements becomes a resource for further optimization. Google's Popular Times feature creates feedback loops where visibility generates visits, which reinforce visibility. The city becomes legible to itself through platform data, then reshapes itself to optimize what platforms measure.The Lisbon government, while complicit, also shows resistance. Both scholars highlighted municipal attempts to regulate platform effects, including issuing licensing requirements for AirBnB, zoning restrictions, and promoting local commerce apps that compete with global platforms (e.g., Cabify vs. Uber). These interventions reveal platform urbanism can be contested. However, as Jelke noted, platforms evolve faster than regulation, finding workarounds that maintain extraction while performing compliance.All through the trip, I felt my own quiet sense of complicity. Every ride we called, every Google search we ran, every Trainline ticket I purchased, fueled the very datasets everyone was dissecting. It's an uneasy position for a critical digital geographer — studying problematic systems we help sustain. We are forced to understand these infrastructures by seeing. Can that inside view start seeking a new urban being?CODE CRACKED CITIES. GOVERNANCE GONEMy conference presentation leveraged my insider vantage from three decades at Microsoft. I traced how these digital infrastructures have sunk into everyday life by reshaping labor, space, and governance. From early desktop software I helped to build to today's platform urbanism, I showed how productivity tools became cloud platforms that now coordinate work, logistics, and mobility across cities.My framing used a notion of embeddedness through the lens of three key figures in the literature: Karl Polanyi, a political economist who argued that markets are always “embedded” in social and political institutions rather than operating on their own; Mark Granovetter, a sociologist who showed that economic action is structured by concrete social networks and relationships; and Joseph Schumpeter, an economist who described capitalism as driven by “creative destruction,” the continual remaking of industries through innovation and destruction. Platforms help mediate mobility, labor, commerce, and governance, even as they position themselves at arm's length from the regulatory and civic structures that historically governed urban infrastructures.This evolution is paradoxical. As platforms weave themselves into the operational fabric of urban life, they also recast the division of responsibilities between state, market, and infrastructure provider. Their ability to sit slightly outside traditional regimes of oversight allows them to appear as ready-made “fixes” for governments and consumers at multiple scales. Yet each fix comes with systemic costs, deepening dependencies on opaque, tightly coupled infrastructures and amplifying the vulnerabilities of urban systems when those infrastructures fail.This progression reveals distinct phases of infrastructural transformation. It began in the Desktop Era (1980s-1990s) when I started at Microsoft and software was fixed to devices, localizing information work on individual desktops. Updates arrived episodically on physical media like floppy disks — users controlled when to install them. The shift to local area networks gave IT departments a hand in that control. Soon the Internet was commercialized which fundamentally altered not just how software circulated but how it was installed and updated. How it was governed. What once required user consent — inserting a disk, clicking “install” — became silent, automatic, and infrastructural. Today's cloud services and IoT extend this transformation, embedding computational governance into vehicles, supply chains, and bodies themselves.This progression reveals distinct phases of infrastructural transformation. The Desktop Era (1980s-1990s) embedded information work in individual devices — the fix was productivity, the limit was scalability. The Network Era (1990s-2000s) transformed software into continuous services — the fix promised seamless coordination, the exposure was infrastructural dependency. The Platform Era (2000s-2010s) decoupled software from devices entirely through APIs and cloud computing — the fix was coordination at scale, the cost was asymmetric control. The current IoT and Surveillance Era embeds platform logic in everyday urban environments — the fix is pervasive coordination. This creates a total dependency on opaque infrastructures provided primarily by three companies: Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. This chokepoint is what contributes to global vulnerability and cascading failures.Recent large-scale cloud incidents, such as the latest AWS outage in Virginia in October — a week before the conference — make this evident. When a single region fails, payment systems, logistics platforms, and mobility services stall simultaneously. This pattern echoes an earlier cloud-network outage in 2021, in the same Virginia region, that effectively took much of Lisbon offline for hours, disrupting everything from transit information to local commerce. In both cases, what looks like flexible, placeless digital infrastructure turns out to be highly geographically concentrated and deeply embedded in local urban systems.And yet, in nearly every case, these platforms really do operate as fixes at many different geographical scales. For capital, they open new rent-extraction terrains. For workers, they provide precarious income patches through part-time gig work. For users, they deliver connectivity and convenience. But a paradox emerges. Those same apps include affective hooks: user interfaces offering intermittent rewards — dopamine hits stemming from posts, likes, and ratings — embedded within endless, ad-riddled feeds. For cities, they promise smooth, efficient solutions to chronic problems. Yet as my presentation argued, these fixes are mutually reinforcing, binding participants into infrastructures of dependency that appear empowering while deepening exposure to systemic risk.The paradox is clearest in places like the Sweett apartment in Barcelona. For users, it's frictionless: Bluetooth locks, smart controls, and seamless check-in. For Sweett it's all running on AirBnB's own APIs even as they compete with AirBnB. For locals, the same infrastructure can help homeowners supplement income by renting a room, but it mostly converts affordable real estate into a short-term rental market. This drives up values, rents, and displacement. Platform standards like this spread until they feel inevitable. The logic embeds so deeply in the housing system that not optimizing for transient guests starts to seem irrational. Eventually, alternative futures for the neighborhood become hard to imagine and politically unviable.What distinguishes digital platforms from earlier infrastructural transformations is their selective embeddedness. At the micro scale, interfaces shape conduct through programmable boundaries. At the meso scale, standards lock institutions into ecosystems. At the macro scale, chokepoints concentrate control in firms whose decisions cascade globally. Across all scales, platforms govern without being governed. They embed coordination while evading accountability.The conference made clear that digital geography has fully evolved from my days studying ‘computer cartography' in the 80s. It's scaled to meet a world organized by the infrastructures I went on to help build. We are no longer observing digital representations of space. We're mapping out the origins of a new way of thinking about space using algorithms. My tenure at Microsoft, spent building tools that would transform into embedded, governing platforms, was a preview of the world we now inhabit. This is a world where continuous deployment has become continuous urban reorganization. The silence of the automatic software update metastasized into the silent, pervasive governance of the city itself.Lisbon, then, is not merely a case study but a dramatic staging of hyperreality. The Alojamento Local (AL) sign outside our Lisbon apartment door is not a description of a short-term rental; it is a code enforced reality optimized for a tourist's online profile. The digital map, our simplified version of reality, has not just overtaken the actual territory; it now precedes it, dictating its function and challenging its original meaning.This convergence leaves the critical digital geographer in an inherently unstable ethical position. Studying problematic systems while structurally forced to sustain them requires critiquing the data exhaust our own movements and decisions generate.This deep understanding of digital platforms effects, gained from the trenches, is an asset. How else would this complex entanglement get revealed? It begs to move beyond just observing platform effects to articulating a collective response to this fundamental question: How do we encode accountability back into these infrastructures and rebuild a foundation for civic life that is not merely an optimization of its own surveillance? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io

Exploring the Power of Google Gemini 3.0 and Nano Banana Pro In this episode, the hosts discuss the impressive capabilities of Google's latest AI advancements: Gemini 3.0 and Nano Banana Pro. They delve into how these tools provide a comprehensive, multimodal solution that integrates across text, images, and video, showcasing their potential for creative projects, coding assistance, and business applications. The episode highlights the seamless integration of these AIs into everyday tasks, such as generating menus, creating applications, and even analyzing videos. The hosts also share their experiences with these AIs, noting their significance in pushing the boundaries of technology and creativity. Special thanks to Meter for supporting the podcast. Cybersecurity Today would like to thank Meter for their support in bringing you this podcast. Meter delivers a complete networking stack, wired, wireless and cellular in one integrated solution that's built for performance and scale. You can find them at Meter.com/cst   00:00 Introduction and Sponsor Message 00:23 Synth Pop Band Fun 01:13 Google's Big Release: Gemini 3.0 04:16 Exploring Google Tools and Platforms 08:19 Hands-On with Gemini and AI Studio 16:15 Anti-Gravity: Google's New Vibe Coding Platform 23:23 Gemini 3.0 vs. ChatGPT 5.1 31:03 Learning with Gemini: A Historical Dive 36:38 Turning YouTube Videos into Recipes with Gemini 38:22 Analyzing Videos Frame by Frame with Google 39:18 Creating a Graphical Menu with AI 42:18 Gemini 3.0 vs. ChatGPT: A Comparison 46:44 The Power of AI in Creative Projects 51:54 The Future of AI in Business and Creativity 01:08:18 Holiday Fun with AI 01:10:25 Conclusion and Sponsor Message

On Today's Menu on Marsha's Plate We talk about Trump on his knees, Yolanda Adams and her genderless God....Pope Leo invitations for trans women to his table or not.. Listen on all streaming Platforms https://pod.link/1293033444 Here we talk about cultural events, entertainment news, and gender politics from a Black Trans feminist lens. This is Diamond Stylz archival work that preserves the histories, experiences, and contributions of a marginalized community that has been historically erased, overlooked, or misrepresented. We focus on people who identitfy as Black, trans, gay, or woman...or any combination of all of them. We have merch as well if you wanna support Marsha's Plate https://teespring.com/stores/marshasplate Reading Recommendations https://bookshop.org/shop/DiamondStylz #marshasplate #girlslikeus #boyslikeus #transgender #podcast #podsincolor #podernfamily #transisbeautiful #houston #lgbt #transmen #transwomen #blackfeminism #trans101 #trans #blacktranswomen #blacktransmen #houstonpride #indiepodcast #blacktranslivesmatter #lgbtqia #lgbtq #genderidentity #pride #blackgirlmagic #blackboyjoy #podcast

In this episode of The Ross Simmonds Show, Ross dives deep into why building a personal brand is no longer optional—especially in today's creator-driven, AI-powered world. Ross shares a tactical blueprint for building a brand that doesn't just look good but actually drives opportunity, revenue, and trust. He breaks down a step-by-step approach on how to show up online with integrity, authenticity, and strategic precision. Whether you're a founder, creator, marketer, or professional looking to gain an edge in your industry, this episode maps out how to start planting your flag and letting your content work for you. Key Takeaways and Insights: Why Personal Branding is Essential Today - Personal branding gives you leverage in a crowded digital world. - People buy from people—visibility leads to opportunity. - Even reality TV is being replaced by the transparency of creators. Platforms like Patreon, Passes.com, and others show this shift. Step 1: Pick Your Lane - Choose one expertise you want to be known for and commit to it for 12 months. - Don't spread yourself thin across multiple niches. - Think in terms of outcomes for your dream client or audience. Step 2: Pick One Platform to Master - Focus on one channel before expanding. - LinkedIn: B2B professionals - X/Twitter: Tech and startup pros - YouTube: Universal, gold for all creators - Instagram & TikTok: Consumers, food, fashion, lifestyle - Reddit & Substack: Targeted niches and long-form content Step 3: Show, Don't Just Tell - Credibility is proven through your work and success, not just your job title. - Document your wins, share client transformations, and post case studies. Step 4: Teach—Even If No One's Watching - Share your lessons learned, POVs, book summaries, insights—even as a beginner. - “You only need to be one step ahead of someone to teach them.” - Consistency matters more than virality. Step 5: Distribute Everything Thoughtfully - Just creating isn't enough—you need to circulate content.  - Convert content between platforms: — Repurpose tweets as LinkedIn posts –- Turn blog posts into carousels — Podcast clips into Reels/Shorts Step 6: Build Systems That Scale You - Personal brand works while you sleep when you have systems and assets: - Evergreen blog content - Auto-scheduled posts - Courses, guides, eBooks - Repurposing and re-sharing your best content Resources & Tools:

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Today Rob and Val review the spicy new Arcane Journal: The Razing of Westerland! While the Westerland might not be Val's favorite province to see razed, we are here for the rules juice. Has Santa has come early and brought treats for everyone?  *CHAPTERS* 0:00 - Intro 2:41 - New Rules: Chaotic Cults (Replacing Marks for Marauders) 5:49 - Cult of the Bloodied Hound 6:51 - Cult of the Slithering Serpent  7:33 - Cult of the Carrion Crow 8:27 - Cult of the Fell Raptor 9:49 - Chaos Marauders  14:50 - Marauder Horsemen  18:21 - New Rules: Chaotic Traits (Upgrades for Characters & Units) 20:49 - Unnatural Fortitude  21:49 - Dark Hearts  24:14 - Longstriders & Enhanced Reflexes  26:57 - Battle Hunger  29:12 - Prophetic Foresight 35:50 - New Magic: Lore of the Shadowlands 44:36 - CHRISTMAS TIME: *Universal Magic Items for Everyone!* 45:45 - Magic Weapons: Cackling Blade & Meteor Hammer 49:41 - The Sword of Sorrow  51:30 - Magic Armor: Levitating Shield & Trailblazers 53:38 - Talismans: Icon of Fortitude & Ironhide Talisman 56:43 - Magic Standards: Banner of the Steadfast 58:15 - Totem of Wrath  1:01:00 - Monster Hunter's Tapestry  1:02:32 - Enchanted Items 1:05:49 - Arcane Items 1:11:25 - Final Thoughts: Is this Arcane Journal "Not Boring"? MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO: ► *Rob's Old World EVENTS in Nottingham!* https://tsnarena.com/events/category/the-old-world/ ►  Support us on PATREON and join us on Discord: https://www.patreon.com/Squarebased *OLD WORLD RESOURCES* ► *Square Based Comp AND Tournament Packs*    https://thehonestwargamer.com/warhammer-the-old-world/square-based-comp/ ► *The Square Based FAQ:* https://www.squarebased.com/faqs ► *The Renegade Legacy Pack:*  https://www.squarebased.com/ ► *Our 500pt Foray Pack:* https://thehonestwargamer.com/warhammer-the-old-world-500-point-foray/ ► *Old World Army Builder:* https://old-world-builder.com/ ► *Old World Rules Wiki:* https://tow.whfb.app/ *MERCH*   https://thehonestwargamer.com/product-category/square-based/ Youtube Music Playlist for Audio Only:  https://tinyurl.com/SB-YouTube-Music-Playlist Podcast on all other Platforms:  https://squarebasedpodcast.podbean.com/ #squarebased #warhammertheoldworld #warhammerfantasy

Did you know Amazon makes $37 billion a year—more than double the revenue of all the newspapers in the world combined—from its sponsored results alone? Yes, the same, spammy, sponsored results at the top of a search that bilk shoppers with fake or low-quality items and can starve legitimate businesses of traffic and revenue.This is one of the many insights shared by our guest this week, Tim Wu, in his new book, “The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity.” He argues that the defining story of the modern internet isn't openness or democratization, but rather wealth extraction: the ability of gatekeeping Big Tech platforms, such as Amazon, Facebook, or X, to take money from everyone else without actually providing net value in return. Platforms weaponize convenience, he writes, so switching to competitors or smaller platforms is designed to be exhausting. Add in AI technologies that foster emotional relationships with users, and our dependence on them may deepen even more.An author and professor at Columbia Law School, Wu served in the Biden administration as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy. He discusses with Bethany and Luigi why we should care about Big Tech value extraction and posits how Big Tech power arose in the first place: from centralized power to shareholder pressure, from poorly aligned corporate structures to nefarious intentions. Together, they also chart how we can make our way out of this era of extraction. They discuss the feasibility of treating Big Tech platforms like utilities, applying frameworks for structural separation between the platforms' various services, decentralizing digital network infrastructures through interoperability to allow users to switch more easily between different platforms, and how economic populism influences the political messaging around these issues. Ultimately, Wu makes the case for embracing a philosophy of decentralized capitalism to achieve a fairer and beneficial balance between public and private power. Read more from Tim Wu in ProMarket:The Consumer Welfare Standard is Too TaintedOver recent years, the antitrust law appears to be returning to its historical standard, the “competition and competitive process” standard, often referred to in the Supreme Court as the goal of “protecting competition.” In this post, Tim defends this trend for rule-of-law reasons and presents a realistic assessment of the legal system's capabilities and its limits.A Conversation with Tim WuA transcript of Tim Wu's keynote in conversation with Binyamin Appelbaum of The New York Times from the Stigler Center's annual Antitrust and Competition Conference archives.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The real estate landscape is changing faster than ever, driven by technology and shifting consumer behaviors. Platforms like Klipster and VryfID are giving buyers, renters, and agent's tools to streamline processes, stay organized, and maintain control—all from their phones. What's clear is that this isn't just about convenience—it's about trust, transparency, and empowerment.   Whether it's a fully virtual apartment tour or a secure, renter-first document platform, technology is reshaping expectations and creating a new standard for the industry. For agents, brokers, and consumers alike, the key takeaway is adaptability. Embracing these tools doesn't replace the human element—it enhances it, making the process smarter, faster, and safer for everyone involved. The future of real estate will be digital-first, but the personal connection will remain central. Those who leverage these innovations while maintaining trust and authenticity are the ones who will thrive in this new era.     Filmed at Brown Harris Stevens' Studio 1873, Part of the Mastery of Real Estate (MORE) Network.   Subscribe: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-new-york-real-estate-with-vince-rocco/id1645541166   Connect with Vince Rocco: https://www.bhsusa.com/real-estate-agent/vince-rocco   Learn More About VryfID: VryfID.com   Learn More About Klipster: Klipsterlive.com   Brown Harris Stevens is one of the largest privately owned real estate brokerages in the country, with more than 40 offices across four states: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Florida.   https://bhsusa.com/   #realestatebuyers #nycrealestate #realestate #vincerocco #TNYRE #theeverset #roadwaymoving #newyorkrealestate #nyc

Brian Freeman, creator of Cadillac Chronicles, breaks down how he accidentally built one of the most impactful music platforms today. We talk self-discovery, consistency, artist development, virality, and why performance/interview platforms matter more than ever. FREE ACCESS to "100 VIRAL CONTENT IDEAS FOR MUSICIANS": https://forms.gle/zGWuUrLA8mBfqz7F8GET 30% OFF DISTROKID: http://distrokid.com/vip/onemoretimeJOIN OUR DISCORD: https://discord.gg/rTAYsPcyEYWANNA WORK WITH US? Make us an OFFER! https://forms.gle/tVdon5vyoGAqPjx6AFOLLOW Cadillac Chronices:https://www.instagram.com/cadillacchroniclestvFOLLOW One More Time:https://www.instagram.com/onemoretimepodhttps://www.tiktok.com/@onemoretimepod

This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/ZSR865. CME/AAPA credit will be available until October 29, 2026.To Glycemia and Beyond: Managing Cardiovascular Risk in People With Type 2 Diabetes Using Incretin-Based Therapies In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an educational grant from Lilly.Disclosure information is available at the beginning of the video presentation.

What Keeps You Up at Night? – Tales from the Digital Frontier  Empowering Providers and Platforms: How Digital Health Must Evolve  Host and Guest: Russ Branzell, CHIME President & CEO  Bob Segert, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Athenahealth Russ Branzell, President and CEO of CHIME, sits down with Bob Segert, Chairman and CEO of athenahealth, for a candid conversation about the complexities, misconceptions, and opportunities shaping today's ambulatory and independent practice landscape — discussing how technology must evolve to truly support front-line clinicians.From ambulatory care as one of the most overlooked opportunities in U.S. healthcare, to why scalable innovation depends as much on trust and design as it does on data and automation, they explore how policymakers, payers, and tech leaders can better align to strengthen independent practices and why trust remains the most valuable currency in healthcare technology. Key TakeawaysWhat it takes to design technology that truly supports front-line clinicians and daily practice operations.The systemic barriers that limit scalable digital adoption and how industry stakeholders can help remove them.Why trust is central to successful innovation and how tech leaders can earn it through design and delivery.How AI can be applied realistically in independent practices to improve documentation, workflow, and revenue cycle management.

This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/ZSR865. CME/AAPA credit will be available until October 29, 2026.To Glycemia and Beyond: Managing Cardiovascular Risk in People With Type 2 Diabetes Using Incretin-Based Therapies In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an educational grant from Lilly.Disclosure information is available at the beginning of the video presentation.

This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/ZSR865. CME/AAPA credit will be available until October 29, 2026.To Glycemia and Beyond: Managing Cardiovascular Risk in People With Type 2 Diabetes Using Incretin-Based Therapies In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an educational grant from Lilly.Disclosure information is available at the beginning of the video presentation.

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In this episode, Stewart Foley welcomes Ryan Brauns of Ares US Direct Lending for a deep dive into the mechanics and momentum behind one of the industry's most influential private credit platforms. Ryan explains how Ares has scaled its direct lending business, the role of underwriting discipline, and why duration alignment remains one of the most important considerations for insurers entering the asset class.   The conversation explores everything from the structure of Ares' capital pools to how leverage, covenants, and loan-to-value ratios fit into today's market realities. Ryan also shares insights on spread dynamics, the rise of retail participation, and how insurers, large and small, are thinking about private credit in their strategic asset allocations.   Whether you're new to private credit or want a deeper look behind the scenes of one of the space's leading managers, this episode offers valuable clarity and perspective for insurance investment professionals.

This episode is a re-air of one of our most popular conversations from this year, featuring insights worth revisiting. Thank you for being part of the Data Stack community. Stay up to date with the latest episodes at datastackshow.com. This week on The Data Stack Show, John chats with Paul Blankley, Founder and CTO of Zenlytic, live from Denver! Paul and John discuss the rapid evolution of AI in business intelligence, highlighting how AI is transforming data analysis and decision-making. Paul also explores the potential of AI as an "employee" that can handle complex analytical tasks, from unstructured data processing to proactive monitoring. Key insights include the increasing capabilities of AI in symbolic tasks like coding, the importance of providing business context to AI models, and the future of BI tools that can flexibly interact with both structured and unstructured data. Paul emphasizes that the next generation of AI tools will move beyond traditional dashboards, offering more intelligent, context-aware insights that can help businesses make more informed decisions. It's an exciting conversation you won't want to miss.Highlights from this week's conversation include:Welcoming Paul Back and Industry Changes (1:03)AI Model Progress and Superhuman Domains (2:01)AI as an Employee: Context and Capabilities (4:04)Model Selection and User Experience (7:37)AI as a McKinsey Consultant: Decision-Making (10:18)Structured vs. Unstructured Data Platforms (12:55)MCP Servers and the Future of BI Interfaces (16:00)Value of UI and Multimodal BI Experiences (18:38)Pitfalls of DIY Data Pipelines and Governance (22:14)Text-to-SQL, Semantic Layers, and Trust (28:10)Democratizing Semantic Models and Personalization (33:22)Inefficiency in Analytics and Analyst Workflows (35:07)Reasoning and Intelligence in Monitoring (37:20)Roadmap: Proactive AI by 2026 (39:53)Limitations of BI Incumbents, Future Outlooks and Parting Thoughts (41:15)The Data Stack Show is a weekly podcast powered by RudderStack, customer data infrastructure that enables you to deliver real-time customer event data everywhere it's needed to power smarter decisions and better customer experiences. Each week, we'll talk to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists about their experience around building and maintaining data infrastructure, delivering data and data products, and driving better outcomes across their businesses with data.RudderStack helps businesses make the most out of their customer data while ensuring data privacy and security. To learn more about RudderStack visit rudderstack.com. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jensen Hwang, Founder of Nvidia, says that we are now in the era of accelerated compute. And Nomad Platforms is a prime example of that leap in computer technology. The potential applications for Nomad v2 are too numerous to list. But to give you one visual that sums up its capability, its a portable data center the size of a carry on case you can stow in the overhead compartment of a plane !

Send us a textTrue legacy isn't built through visibility — it's built through relationships.In this heartfelt episode, April helps you see how your everyday love, encouragement, and generosity create ripples that last far longer than likes or followers ever could. Legacy multiplies through people, not platforms.✨ You'll learn:• Why relational impact is the foundation of legacy• How love leaves fingerprints that never fade• Practical ways to invest in people around you

Self-published authors Anne Ditmeyer and Martin Lake share what it really takes to go indie, from choosing platforms and budgeting for editing, design, and ISBNs to redefining success, avoiding scams, and playing the long game of finding readers and building a sustainable writing life.  You'll learn:Why Anne and Martin chose self-publishing over traditional routes and how they framed readers as their gatekeepers.How both authors define success beyond bestseller lists, from “book as business card” to improving the craft across 25 books.The real timelines of an indie career, including slow early sales, backlist effects, and why self-publishing is a marathon, not a sprint.What a realistic budget looks like for editing, design, typesetting, audiobooks, and print on demand, plus where they chose to DIY or outsource.How they use platforms such as Kindle Direct Publishing, Lulu, IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, and Shopify, and why most sales still come through Amazon.Practical approaches to marketing that do not require a huge following, including series, mailing lists, events, workshops, and using your existing communities.The role of ISBNs, imprints, metadata, and print on demand for getting into libraries and bookstores, and why in-store placement is harder than it looks.Red flags to watch for with third-party “publishing services” and why due diligence can save you thousands in fees and frustration.   Resources and Links:

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Crystal Hughes.

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Crystal Hughes.

On Today's Menu on Marsha's Plate This week we talk with Milwaukee's own Elle Halo... activist, LGBTQ Health Equity Advocate and Educator Elle Hallow Website https://www.trancebyellehalo.com/ Listen on all streaming Platforms https://pod.link/1293033444 Here we talk about cultural events, entertainment news, and gender politics from a Black Trans feminist lens. This is Diamond Stylz archival work that preserves the histories, experiences, and contributions of a marginalized community that has been historically erased, overlooked, or misrepresented. We focus on people who identitfy as Black, trans, gay, or woman...or any combination of all of them. We have merch as well if you wanna support Marsha's Plate https://teespring.com/stores/marshasplate Reading Recommendations https://bookshop.org/shop/DiamondStylz #marshasplate #girlslikeus #boyslikeus #transgender #podcast #podsincolor #podernfamily #transisbeautiful #houston #lgbt #transmen #transwomen #blackfeminism #trans101 #trans #blacktranswomen #blacktransmen #houstonpride #indiepodcast #blacktranslivesmatter #lgbtqia #lgbtq #genderidentity #pride #blackgirlmagic #blackboyjoy #podcast

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Thinking about buying your first real watch? Here's what the dealers won't tell you about ghost listings, fake prices, and why that "deal" you found online doesn't actually exist. Part II of Andy's conversation with Christian Bruhn from The Art of Time dives into the messy reality of buying luxury watches in 2025 — where online listings lie, auction prices mislead, and first-time buyers get burned by doing their own "research."   What You'll Learn in This Episode: Ghost listings exposed: Why that Rolex Daytona you found online for $8K cheaper probably doesn't exist (and what luxury drop-shipping really means) The trust problem: How to find an honest watch dealer when everyone online claims to be an expert Watches as art, not commodities: Why buying for resale value is the wrong approach for your first luxury timepiece The secondary market advantage: How to get a better watch for 25-40% less than authorized dealer pricing (with full warranty transfer) First-time buyer mistakes: What guys get wrong when shopping for Rolex, Omega, Breitling, and other high-end watches Where to actually start: The 3 questions you need to answer before you spend $5K-$50K on a watch Key Quotes from Christian Bruhn: "You'll have individuals interested in a watch doing their own research, and their research leads them to ghost listings that aren't in stock and bottom auction pricing that isn't realistic. Then they come to me saying they want it for X, Y, and Z." "For first-time buyers, I would say trust the dealer. Trust the person doing this every day, because it's getting harder and harder to tell what's real online." "When you go into a boutique and walk outside, that watch settles into the secondary market and is now competing against every single boutique in the mall versus just the one you walked in." Why This Matters for First-Time Watch Buyers: If you're the guy who's always said "someday I'm gonna get a nice watch," this episode will save you thousands of dollars and massive headaches. Christian breaks down: How online watch pricing is flooded with fake listings for SEO purposes Why authorized dealer pricing doesn't reflect real market value The smart way to buy gold watches as an investment (hint: melt value matters) How to avoid the hype and buy what actually fits your style and lifestyle Christian Bruhn is a former 75th Ranger Regiment member who founded The Art of Time, a luxury watch dealership focused on authenticity, education, and helping collectors buy smart. He sources rare timepieces, navigates the secondary market daily, and calls out the BS that confuses first-time buyers. Resources Mentioned: The Art of Time: Christian's luxury watch dealership (https://www.theartoftime.com/) Contact Christian: christian@thearttoftime.com | Instagram: @theartoftimehq Part I of this conversation: "The Art of Time: How to Buy a Real Watch with Christian Bruhn" (Episode #89, October 30, 2025) Luxury Bazaar: Roman Scharf and Adrian's content on watch market realities Platforms discussed: Chrono24, Grailed auctions, gray market dealers Connect with Buy Like A Guy: Need help finding a trusted jeweler? Email Andy at andy@buylikeaguy.com and I'll do my best to put you in touch with some of the best jewelers on earth.   Read the book: The Inappropriate Guide to Buying an Engagement Ring (available on Amazon)   Subscribe to Buy Like A Guy on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Music credits: Preacher Man by Miles Neilson and The Rusted Hearts, used with permission. A killer band with original songs that get stuck in your head.  They're awesome. Listen To Preacher Man on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7ImcaJKIk0ZVtPzuUVV4vc?si=80581c74a9be4987 

Flip a coin and it lands on heads or tails. Release a Dragon Quest and it lands on every platform. Makes you think.Matt Horton's video essay and interview about coin flipping games on Flow StateQ-Up soundtrack on bandcampDiscussed: New stuff on Patreon, Stephen on Wavelengths, games about flipping coins, Q-Up, e-sports, Unfair Flips, recent history of Warriors spin-off games, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, the Zelda timeline, Zelda games starring Zelda, DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake — on all platforms, the value of remakes, Silksong, the appeal of an active protagonist Find us everywhere: https://intothecast.onlineBuy some merch, if you'd like: https://shop.intothecast.onlineJoin the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intothecast---Follow Stephen Hilger: https://bsky.app/profile/stephenhilger.bsky.social Follow Brendon Bigley: https://bsky.app/profile/bb.wavelengths.onlineProduced by AJ Fillari: https://bsky.app/profile/ajfillari.bsky.social---Season 8 cover art by Scout Wilkinson: https://scoutwilkinson.myportfolio.com/Theme song by Will LaPorte: https://ghostdown.online/---Timecodes:(00:00) - Intro (00:25) - Two things at the top (02:18) - We've been flipping coins (03:05) - Q-Up | We've been flipping coins (23:46) - Unfair Flips | We've been flipping coins (26:40) - ENDING SPOILERS!!! Unfair Flips | We've been flipping coins (27:32) - Unfair Flips | We've been flipping coins (35:50) - Break (35:52) - Tiding from Josh to Andrew! (37:20) - Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment | [Insert clickbait Zelda Timeline title] (01:02:57) - Break (01:02:58) - DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake | Some updates! (01:41:00) - Hollow Knight: Silksong | Some updates! (01:58:16) - Wrapping up (Silksong and GOTY) (02:07:28) - Wrapping up (for real) ---Thanks to all of our amazing patrons, including our Eternal Gratitude members:J-RockSamantha DNorth HeroSam HSnzznBertitoJ-RockGregory Mark SCmndr BiscuiticemanChristian HRydan BCaleb HArden FEye of the DuckKaleNathan EJ. H. AjoelchronoMellowMatthew BRobin LPSeekingSeakingJimmerszoey!Vinny MMattKerry KBrian MNoah DZach DChristopher TDHugo WToddChris BLukerfuffleStephen YDaniel GEric FTaran WBrendan OChris ZClayton MZach RGriffinDylan NFederico VTigerz RevengeLogan HAlan RJohn AMike LmattjanzzDavid MHeavyPixelsKaleb HTyler JCorey ZSusan HBarry TRobert RChris JBrett Allen HDan SJack SGarrett CjimiiboJohn HDirch FJim EJim WTristan LEvan BAwfulHanzomin2Aaron GJean HTodd Nred_wagonNeilPeter BJohn VvErik MRedmage77Joshua JTony LDanny KGibson GKate Duncan BRichard MDaniel NSeth MJamesAndy HDemoEmmaLyn ECorey TCaleb WJake LJesse WMike TCodesMatt BWesleymebezacAlex LSergio LninjadeathdogRory BA42PoundMooseRobert MMichael WAndrewthis_JUSTINRyan O14.3 billion yearsBrendan KMegan BSecretAgentKoalaNoah OArcturusAndrew WhepaheChase ALoveDiesNick QChris MRBKaren HAdam FScott HAlexander SMatt HMurrayDavid PJason KMicah OKamrin HAndrew DKyle SPhilip N ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

5 Marketing Takeaway Secrets for Zip Code Marketing 2.0 with Favour Obasi-Ike | Sign up for exclusive SEO insights.Favour discusses Zip Code Marketing 2.0, emphasizing its importance for local businesses. Favour explains that this marketing strategy involves geo-targeting audiences based on their zip codes and interests to achieve local market success through tailored content and advertising.Key platforms for this type of marketing include Amazon, Google, YouTube, and TikTok, with a forward-looking mention of using Connected TV for targeted ads as part of the "2.0" evolution. Favour also stresses the necessity of thorough research before launching ad campaigns and highlights the value of SEO and content strategy in driving commercial growth and connecting with potential customers.The internet is a constant flood of marketing advice. We're told to blog more, post more, and spend more on ads. It's overwhelming, and most of it feels like noise. 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