Microsoft updates PowerApps and Flow with a focus on deeper integrations and advanced workflows

 Microsoft today is launching a couple of major updates to PowerApps, its low-code service for quickly building line-of-business applications, and Flow, its business-centric IFTTT competitor. While these are obviously two very different applications, the general idea to allow businesses to leverage the data that they already generate is similar across both projects. Ryan Cunningham… Read More

from Microsoft – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/27/microsoft-updates-powerapps-and-flow-to-help-business-build-custom-apps-and-integrations/?ncid=rss

He deserves it, but do you?

He's a jerk, a two-timer, a double-crosser. He deserves everything you throw at him, your cutting remarks, your sarcasm, your enmity.

You're totally justified in spending a lot of time and energy in evening the score. You are the avenger.

The thing is, it's not clear that we benefit from carrying around all that vitriol. All the time we spend hating is time that we've given away to someone who hasn't earned our time. It's time we're being controlled by someone we don't like or respect very much.

Teaching someone a lesson is often overrated. Doing the lesson teaching in your head helps no one.

What happens if we walk away and make something magical instead?

You deserve it.

       

from Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/412548224/0/sethsblog~He-deserves-it-but-do-you.html

Amazon Prime Now launches in Singapore, its first market in Southeast Asia

 It’s official — Amazon has launched its Prime delivery services in Singapore, its first market in Southeast Asia. The Amazon apps went live in Singapore early last night local time, and Prime Now — an aggressive two-hour delivery service — is available to Singapore’s population of over five million people from today. TechCrunch reported that a launch would happen… Read More

from Amazon – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/26/amazon-prime-now-launches-in-singapore-its-first-market-in-southeast-asia/?ncid=rss

Microsoft launches Windows Bounty program, offering awards up to $250,000

 Microsoft has been running a bounty program for a few years now, launching it just ahead of the release of Windows 8.1 back in mid-2013. At the time, the company was awarding up to $50,000 for exploits, in an attempt to help address any potential security issues before they could become a larger public concern. It’s a tact taken by a number of tech’s biggest names, like Google… Read More

from Microsoft – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/26/microsoft-launches-windows-bounty-program-offering-awards-up-to-250000/?ncid=rss

Microsoft’s new Azure Container Instances make using containers fast and easy

 Barely a day passes without some news about containers and that speaks to how quickly this technology is being adopted by developers and the platforms and startups that serve them. Today it’s Microsoft’s turn to launch a new container service for its Azure cloud computing platform: Azure Container Instances (ACI). The company also announced that it is joining the Cloud Native… Read More

from Microsoft – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/26/microsofts-new-azure-container-instances-make-using-containers-fast-and-easy/?ncid=rss

New LinkedIn tool tells businesses about who’s visiting their websites

 LinkedIn is giving businesses a new way to see what kinds of audiences they’re attracting with their marketing efforts. The Website Demographics tool allows businesses to break down their website visitors across eight categories including job title, industry, company and location. After all, that’s the kind of data that we’re all providing as LinkedIn users. To connect that… Read More

from Microsoft – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/26/linkedin-website-demographics/?ncid=rss

Sham surgery

The data shows that more than 600,000 people got arthroscopic knee surgery in the US in 2010. It's expensive and painful.

It turns out that sham surgery works just as well. That just about as many people would have found pain relief from this procedure if they had experienced fake surgery instead.

In an extensive study of elective surgeries (asthma, obesity, Parkinson’s disease, acid reflux and back pain) it was found that more than half the time, people would have had at least a good an outcome if they had only experienced fake surgery instead of the real kind.

That's worth a pause.

Same operating room, same gowns, same perception of pain--but no actual surgery. Half the people would have gotten better, which is awfully close to the number that got better from the real thing. 

(Even if this number is twice as high as you are comfortable with, it tells us something dramatic about the power of suggestion).

If you don't think marketing works, and you're wondering about the power of the placebo, that's all the evidence you should need. That sham surgery on knee pain is virtually as effective as the real kind. Which means it's not a sham at all, is it?

Of course, placebos work on far more than knees. They work on the taste of wine, the effectiveness of coaching and how well we perform at work.

When they say "it's all in your head," they're actually being optimistic and encouraging. If it's in your head, you can do something about it. 

       

from Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/411223454/0/sethsblog~Sham-surgery.html