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🌈Oh, My! Invented by Brad Lawrence, body marbling is a water painting technique that uses hydrodynamics to transform your body into a psychedelic canvas. 🚀@PerspectiveIX 💌prs.pctvix.co/2wj5dt3

​​📱iOS 12 Adoption Rate According to Mixpanel, an analytics company currently monitoring the install base of #iOS 12, #Apple's lates mobile operating system is quite popular. iOS 12 is already installed on roughly 56.3% of all iOS devices; 37.1% of devices still run iOS 11, and 6.6% of iOS users run an older version. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Mixpanel.

🤖Robot Does Parkour Boston Dynamics have done it again! Look what their #Robot, Atlas, can do now: Parkour! 🚀@PerspectiveIX ❓This is...

​​💰 The Future of Google's Revenue #Google introduced several new products at its big hardware event on Tuesday. Among the devices were the new Pixel 3 phones, a new tablet called Pixel Slate and a smart home device called Google Home Hub. While Google’s hardware ambitions are still limited and widely considered a means to an end (which is to collect more data and sell more advertising), the range of the company’s products and services has widened significantly over the years (with companies such as Access, Calico, CapitalG, GV, Nest, Verily, #Waymo and X). #Google’s many side-activities have steadily grown over the years and in 2017, the company’s non-advertising revenue reached $15.5 billion, up from just $667 million in 2008. More importantly though, the percentage of Google’s revenue that didn’t come from advertising sales grew from 3.1% in 2008 to 14% last year, indicating that the search giant can no longer be considered a one trick pony. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Statista. ❓Do you own any Google-made hardware/device?

​​👥Emoji Equality on Twitter New changes on #Twitter mean that for the first time each #Emoji counts as the same number of characters in a tweet. Previously 💁, 💁🏽, and 💁🏽‍♂️ would have used 2, 4, and 9 characters respectively. Under Twitter's new system, all #Emojis are equal and use two characters. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Emojipedia.

​​📈Facebook's ad revenue will soon mainly rely on Instagram There's no doubt that, so far, #Facebook’s acquisition of #Instagram has been a total success - acquired for $1 billion in 2012, now it has more than a billion users and an estimate of $8-9 billion in revenue this year. Last quarter, Instagram generated an estimated $2 billion, or about 15 percent, of Facebook’s $13 billion in ad revenue, according to by Andy Hargreaves of KeyBanc Capital Markets. Hargreaves expects Instagram to grow to about 30% of Facebook’s ad revenue in two years, as well as nearly 70% of the company’s new revenue by 2020 — driving the majority of Facebook’s growth. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Recode.

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​​😍Netflix is Responsible for 15% of Global Internet Traffic According to a new report by Sandvine, the web application responsible for the world's most downstream traffic is #Netflix with 15%. #Youtube isn't too far behind with 11.4% and further back but still with a significant share, #Amazon Prime Video is responsible for 3.7%. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Statista. ❓Do you a Netflix account?

​​📺Social Media & TV Ecosystem In a connected world, #TV industry could've been left behind. But it has found social media as a unique opportunity to organically reach its own audience through various platforms. To gain a better understanding about how #SocialMedia posts generated by TV-affiliated accounts are being created and consumed, Nielsen has looked at over 142,000 pieces of content during a three week period just ahead of the fall TV season. These pieces of TV-related content generated more than 154 million engagements, likes, comments, re-posts, etc., across #Twitter, #Facebook and #Instagram. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Nielsen. ❓Which platform do you prefer?

​​👀Facebook Portal #Facebook just unveiled Portal, a home video chat camera with auto-zoom & built-in #Amazon Alexa - for the people who still trust Facebook! With #FacebookPortal, you can’t watch #YouTube; there’s no web browser; #WhatsApp and #Instagram are nowhere to be found; and you can’t send or receive normal Facebook messages, even if they’re video recordings. If you buy the Portal, you have to really want to video chat with other people on Facebook, and do so from one room in your home, on something other than the phone or laptop or tablet that you likely already have. (TheVerge) With all the privacy issues surrounding Facebook, Portal seems like a stupidly brave bet from them. 🚀@PerspectiveIX ❓Will you purchase a Facebook Portal to place inside your home?

​​🌐The Internet's History The #Internet's history goes back some decades by now – #Email has been around since the 1960s, file sharing since at least the 1970s, and TCP/IP was standardized in 1982. But it was the creation of the world wide web (www) in 1989 that revolutionised our history of communication. The inventor of the world wide web was the English scientist Tim Berners-Lee who created a system to share information through a network of computers. At the time he was working for the European physics laboratory CERN in the Swiss Alps. The chart below shows the share and number of people that are using the Internet, which in these statistics refers to all those who have used the Internet in the last 3 months. Read more on OurWorldInData and see the full-size chart here. 🚀@PerspectiveIX

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