Non Breaking Space Show 104: Simon St. Laurent — Twitter Bots, Amazon VR Stores, and More

Twitter filled with Star Wars Bots; Amazon wants storefronts in virtual reality, the pain of numbering software releases, shady UX practices, and the most popular tech skills for the year, and the current asking price for 30 seconds of the Super Bowl™.

Twitter filled with Star Wars Bots; Amazon wants storefronts in virtual reality, the pain of numbering software releases, shady UX practices, and the most popular tech skills for the year, and the current asking price for 30 seconds of the Super Bowl™.

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Jump to a conversation on…

6:50 Introduction of guest
7:32 #8 OMG, Twitter is full of Bots
10:57 There’s a market for slightly used Twitter accounts
13:02 #7 Data shield down: Online privacy and data ownership
20:19 #6 Don’t be an idiot on the web; Dirty UX tricks and tactics
28:28 #5 Major software version number upgrades
34:03 Guest tweet about modules/components vs. pages
36:04 JavaScript is history
40:08 #4 Amazon looking to bring shopping into VR
47:46 #3 Superbowl ad prices and viewer ratings
55:17 #2 New iOS update helps find your missing Apple Airpods
1:00:01 #1 Fastest growing skills in the last quarter
1:03:50 Amazon web services
1:05:50 How Austin, Texas has changed

LINKS:

President Donald Trump on Twitter
Dave Pell at Next Draft
LinkedIn
Massive Twitter Bot Army Exposed by Its Obsession With Star Wars
Robot J. McCarthy
Tweetbot
CSS Dev Conf
Dark UX: Dirty Tricks and Tactics to Avoid in 2017
Publishers Clearing House
Newsweek
React
Amazon job posting suggests plan to bring shopping experiences into VR
Spectacles by Snapchat
Doctor Who
Left Shark
Air Pods
Apple Pencil
Lightning To Audio Jack Adapter Cable
Fastest-growing skills for Q4
Simon St.Laurent
Simon’s website