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Facebook Will Rule Your World

Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am a guest contributor on CHOM 97.7 FM radio broadcasting out of Montreal (home base). It’s not a long segment – about 5 to 10 minutes every week – about everything that is happening in the world of technology and digital media. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly to SoundCloud, if you’re interested in hearing more of me blathering away. I’m really excited about this opportunity, because this is the radio station that I grew up on listening to, and it really is a fun treat to be invited to the Mornings Rock with Terry and Heather B. morning show. The segment is called, CTRL ALT Delete with Mitch Joel.

This week we discussed:

So, are the new Apple iPhones worth it? Let’s just say that Apple is leaving their competitors in the dust, at this point.
Big (and surprising) news this past week: Instagram in bigger than Twitter. Is shooting a photo easier than writing 140 characters, or is there something more going on here? My guess: if Facebook acquires Twitter (they already own Instagram), the Internet could be – primarily – Facebook’s platform.
If you don’t think the Instagram news is big, Facebook also launched 360 degree videos for Facebook. The first foray was a new Star Wars trailer. It must be frustrating to YouTube, as they have had this functionality for a while, but what makes it most interesting? Facebook also owns Oculus Rift, the virtual reality platform. Maybe these 360 degree videos are just the next step, as Zuckerberg and his team prepare the world for virtual reality?
That’s not so far-fetched. Don’t believe me? Did you read the feature on Mark Zuckerberg in Vanity Fair?
And, in case you haven’t heard enough about Facebook, here’s something ever scarier about them. What do you think Facebook is doing with all of our data? Better targeting, right? More ads that are relevant to us, enabling brands to better target us, helping us connect and tag people in a more relevant way? All true… unless… maybe Facebook is using all of this data to build the ultimate artificial intelligence? So says a new article in Popular Science. The thinking is that Facebook is using all of our data to build the world’s best artificial intelligence lab, because they can now blend advanced technology with all of the semantic information we’re sharing. Scary.
App of the week: Password Chef.

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Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.