AWS showed no signs of slowing down in 2017

 AWS had a successful year by any measure. The company continued to behave like a startup with the kind of energy and momentum to invest in new areas not usually seen in an incumbent with a significant marketshare lead. How good a year was it? According to numbers from Synergy Research, the company remains the category leader by far with around 35 percent marketshare. Microsoft sits well behind… Read More

from Amazon – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/28/aws-showed-no-signs-of-slowing-down-in-2017/?ncid=rss

Amazon updates Fire TV’s YouTube app to redirect users to a web browser instead

 The feud between Amazon and Google continues today with the early removal of YouTube from the Fire TV – a move Google had said wouldn’t take place until January 1, 2018. But as a number of Fire TV owners have now noticed, launching the YouTube app today informs you that you can choose to watch “YouTube and millions of other websites” by using a web browser. You then… Read More

from Amazon – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/28/amazon-updates-fire-tvs-youtube-app-to-redirect-users-to-a-web-browser-instead/?ncid=rss

Are you day trading?

The volatility of bitcoin turns the people who own it into addicts. At any given moment, it's up $100 or down a thousand.

When it's up, you think you're brilliant, that you somehow had something to do with it.

And when it's down, the world is about to implode.

Most people don't day trade bitcoin, but all of us day trade something. We're hooked into something volatile, easily measured and emotional. We overdo our response to news, good or bad, and let it distract us from the long-term job of living a useful life.

Your SEO results, your Facebook likes, the look on your boss's face when she gets back from a meeting--all of these things are rife with opportunities for day trading.

It'll be volatile with or without your help. Better to set it aside and get back to the real work of making a difference instead. 

       

from Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/513352628/0/sethsblog~Are-you-day-trading.html

HQ Trivia Is Coming to Android | Crunch Report

HQ Trivia is coming to Android, Amazon Echo is the No. 1 best seller on the site and the founder of LeEco is ordered to return to China. All this on Crunch Report. Read More

from Amazon – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/27/hq-trivia-is-coming-to-android-crunch-report/?ncid=rss

Amazon’s Alexa app hits the top of the App Store for the first time

 Amazon’s claims that the Echo Dot was the retailer’s best-selling product all through this holiday season appear to be backed up by the rise of the Alexa app in the U.S. App Store. The companion app for Alexa-powered devices like the Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show and Echo Spot, grabbed the number one spot for the first time ever on Apple’s App Store on Christmas, and still… Read More

from Amazon – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/27/amazons-alexa-app-hits-the-top-of-the-app-store-for-the-first-time/?ncid=rss

The power of the possible

Next year is almost here.

And doing what you did this year probably isn’t going to be sufficient.

That’s because you have more to contribute than you did this year. You have important work worth sharing.

To reach your goals, you’ll probably need more effective and powerful ways to tell your story, get clients, gain market share and serve your audience.

I'm excited that we'll be offering the The Marketing Seminar again, beginning in just about a week. It teaches you how to push beyond your current constraints and truly see what’s possible. In 2017, more than 4,000 people took the Seminar. 

Many of them came hoping that they'd learn some new techniques from me in the fifty videos that are included.

Most of them were surprised.

They were surprised to discover that while there are tons of useful tactics and approaches in the videos, the real power of the Seminar is helping people see what's possible. The peer-to-peer connection that's built deep into the Seminar means that you'll spend far more time giving and getting feedback than you will watching videos.

It's this powerful interaction that changes the game. This is a future of education—community plus content.

We each carry around a frying pan, looking for just the right size fish to fry. We each have an expectation of what we've got, what we might get and what we deserve. And most of all, we each carry around limits, beliefs about what we're able to contribute.

The Seminar takes your impact at the edges and multiplies it by ten.

We’re announcing the next session next week, and giving people who subscribe to our updates a first look and a special discount in advance.

If you’re ready to do your most important work, we’d very much like to help you get there.

       

from Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/513156828/0/sethsblog~The-power-of-the-possible.html

The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on all of Amazon this holiday season

 The holiday shopping season is finally over and that means Amazon has some shopping data for us. This holiday season, Amazon’s Echo Dot was the top-selling Amazon device, as well as the top-selling product available from any manufacturer across all categories on Amazon.com, with millions sold. Meanwhile, Amazon’s newer Alexa-enabled devices, the Echo Spot, Echo Dot and Echo… Read More

from Amazon – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/26/the-echo-dot-was-the-best-selling-product-on-all-of-amazon-this-holiday-season/?ncid=rss