Canada's Competition Bureau is suing Google for alleged anti-competitive practices in online advertising, seeking the sale of two ad tech tools and a penalty for compliance. The Bureau found Google to be the largest provider in Canada's ad tech market and accused it of abusing its dominant position to maintain market power. Google denies the allegations, citing robust competition and the role of its tools in supporting businesses and content creators. The case parallels similar antitrust actions in the U.S. and EU.
Over 54% of longer English posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated. There has been an 189% spike in usage in early 2023 following ChatGPT's launch. LinkedIn doesn't track AI-written content but works to detect low-quality or duplicate posts. Adam Walkiewicz, head of "feed relevance," views AI as a tool for drafting but stresses the importance of original ideas.
Email Love grew through curated email inspiration, user-focused features, and community engagement. The gallery, updated daily with actionable insights, has expanded from 800 to over 2,500 emails. The platform can be personalized through features like saved collections and "like" buttons. Email Love fostered industry connections through community initiatives, including interviews and guest curators. Sponsorships with aligned brands provided sustainability. The company's future plans, which include Email Love 2.0, will be aimed at offering data insights, career opportunities, and specialized tools.
Start by talking to your customers to understand how they engage with solutions. Research competitors to identify strategies. Play to your strengths and consider ways to leverage weaknesses in the market. Narrow your focus to 2-3 GTM motions, understanding their pros and cons. Finally, commit to your selected motions for 1-3 months to ensure traction.
This cheatsheet offers 12 hooks, actionable tips, literary devices, post types, and frameworks for copywriting. These resources can help entrepreneurs improve writing for LinkedIn posts, sales conversions, landing pages, and more.
A 1-pager outlining best practices for email file sizes, image, and animation specs.
This tool helps non-designers create carousels for LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok. Users can specify topics, choose formats, and customize the tone and structure of the carousels, with the AI handling design and layout. The tool offers options for further editing to personalize the content before sharing.
Ozempic and similar drugs are reshaping weight loss and beauty trends as their costs drop, potentially altering cultural beauty standards. Historically, status symbols lose their appeal when they become widely accessible. This happened with spiced foods and physical plumpness in past centuries. It's estimated that 10% of Americans will use GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic by 2030.
Effective content marketing builds trust, attracts inbound leads, and positions businesses as trusted authorities, which leads to positive financial results in the long run. Businesses typically progress through five stages, starting from experimenting with content to achieving a substantial share of revenue through it. Content marketing creates a broad halo effect, creating brand recognition and credibility beyond the immediate scope of the content.
Social media has transformed beauty into platform-specific languages. Pinterest leans into soft aesthetics, while TikTok drives bold trends like “glass skin” and #GRWM. Platforms like KIKI World enable user co-creation, disrupting top-down approaches. Beauty terms now shape identity and consumer behavior. To succeed, brands must adapt to platform styles and align with generational values, as younger audiences see beauty vernacular as social currency.
Products that show content from shoppers on their web pages have an 11% higher average order value compared to product pages without shopper content.
A/B test ideas for headlines, forms, layouts, and visual elements.
Dr. Martens' shift to product-focused marketing, including improved product detail pages and increased paid social, has driven strong sales performance, boosted site conversions, and clarified its brand messaging.
Product managers are navigators, not rulers, balancing diverse demands to build the right product for the right reasons. Their role requires influence without authority, empathy without bias, and vision under pressure. Mislabeling PMs as “mini-CEOs” or obstacles to engineers undervalues their critical role in driving innovation and delivering customer value.
Leadership can be isolating, with few clear indicators of success. The emotional weight of decision-making is intensified in hybrid work environments where over half of managers report burnout. Managing emotions through strategies like self-awareness, breathing exercises, peer connections, gratitude, and physical activity enhances emotional regulation, which is crucial not only for personal well-being but also for fostering trust, motivation, and high-performing teams.
Being data-driven can lead to biased decision-making if the data is interpreted or collected without critical examination, as biases often creep in. Adopting a data-informed approach - using diverse data points, falsification over confirmation, and reflection - ensures that data augments decisions rather than driving them blindly, fostering better judgment and strategic insights.
The PM career path is flexible and unique, with no single route to success. It's less a ladder and more a branching tree, rooted in diverse skills and opportunities. Whether just starting out or considering your next move, there's no “right” path - just the one that aligns with your goals. Embrace the unexpected, leverage your skills, and view every twist as a chance to grow.
Defining "active users" accurately is critical, as arbitrary definitions can mislead product and financial strategies. Strava determines active users by focusing on meaningful user engagement, segmenting active users into cohorts like NURR, CURR, and RRR, and tracking behaviors tied to retention. This allows for the creation of tailored strategies that enhance activation, engagement, and long-term growth.
Building innovative enterprise Gen AI experiences requires balancing user needs, business goals, and Gen AI's benefits and risks. Unlike traditional logic-based products, Gen AI introduces trust, control, and agency concerns. To create valuable products, teams must reassess and adjust their product development process and use frameworks that ensure Gen AI adds value appropriately.
2024.11.29·links.tldrnewsletter.com·11 min read·TLDR Product This author's relationship with Twitter evolved from a space of connection to one fostering comparison and envy, triggering self-doubt and disconnection. He found freedom and joy in embracing his own uniqueness and celebrating others' successes by recognizing envy as a signal of unmet desires and shifting focus toward self-awareness, appreciation, and collaboration.
Digital nomading fosters resilience, adaptability, and self-discovery. Despite the stress of constant relocation and work-life balance, it encourages spiritual growth through cultural exposure and nurtures gratitude for the community and culture that shaped one's identity.
Applying product thinking to nonprofits can help optimize their limited resources.
AI is set to transform work by automating tedious tasks, reducing full-time jobs, and enabling passion pursuits.
2024.11.29·oneknightinproduct.substack.com·4 min read·TLDR Product A benchmark comparing Dart and JavaScript code initially showed JavaScript as faster, but this discrepancy was resolved by making sure equivalent data structures (Int64List in Dart) were used. Further investigation revealed that Dart's interrupt checks impacted performance negatively, while JavaScriptCore's optimizations, including modulo strength reduction, contributed to its speed advantage, which was negated by one-line code change in Dart that took advantage of Dart's compiler.
LinkedIn scaled its restriction enforcement system to handle 5 million queries per second using a multi-faceted approach. It used BitSets for efficient boolean storage and Bloom Filters for probabilistic set membership checks. Its final architecture incorporated a Venice database as the central source of truth, Kafka for near real-time updates, and a client layer utilizing a REST API.
Reddit was experiencing slow Rollup-based frontend build times, averaging nearly two minutes for initial builds and 40 seconds for incremental ones. To address this, it adopted Vite, a build tool using ESBuild's JIT compilation. The migration resulted in build times under one second for both initial and incremental builds.
Burnout isn't always caused by working long hours. Often, it's caused by deeper issues during engineering. This author tells two stories about burning out in the same way at both a startup and a big tech company. The burnout was caused by micromanagement, a lack of trust in engineers, the introduction of unnecessary processes, not shipping code to customers, and overpromising.
This engineering manager usually gets questions about project timelines, team performance (including metrics like MTTR and KTLO costs), and the impact of projects on key performance indicators. In this post, he provides practical advice on using project management tools, operational metrics dashboards, and BI tools to gather information quickly and efficiently.
Screen Sharing is a real-time screen-sharing application built with Next.js, WebRTC, and PeerJS. It has room-based sharing, cross-browser support, and a simple interface.
Vince is a self-hosted, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that offers features like automatic TLS, outbound link tracking, and unlimited sites and events.
LitDB is a TypeScript/JavaScript library that provides type-safe, parameterized SQL builders for SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. It lets developers write familiar SQL with better safety and portability.
Many SaaS vendors are charging extra for Single Sign-On (SSO), which is increasingly mandated by regulations like NIS2 and DORA. This practice forces companies, particularly regulated ones, into higher, more expensive pricing tiers to meet security and compliance requirements, despite SSO's relatively low implementation cost.
CrRRUX is a relative-ranking score designed to simplify competitor analysis by aggregating Core Web Vitals data (LCP, INP, and CLS) into a single comparative score. The score accounts for “passingness”, continuity, and real user experiences. It can be automated through Google Sheets and the CrUX API.
Structured editing is a method where code editors understand a program's syntax, offering benefits like instant feedback and accurate selections. Structured editors often restrict non-structural editing, which frustrates many programmers who frequently edit code in ways that violate its syntax. A solution to this is incremental parsing, which allows for both structured understanding and free-form editing by maintaining a parse tree in the background, even if the code becomes temporarily invalid.
A 2024 benchmark comparing memory usage across various programming languages while running one million concurrent tasks showed C# (with NativeAOT) to be the most memory-efficient, followed closely by Rust, while Go performed significantly worse than expected.
Hetzner is reducing included data traffic and raising prices for its US-based virtual private servers (VPS), effective December 1, due to a need to balance costs based on regional conditions.
Spotify is making changes to its Web API that will affect functionalities like related artists, recommendations, and audio analysis.
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2024.11.28·app.dollarflightclub.com·TLDR Elon Musk started xAI last summer. He poached talent from across the industry in an effort to play catchup with OpenAI. The startup raised at least $11 billion at a valuation of $50 billion in a funding round this month. It is the second most valuable private AI developer behind OpenAI. xAI plans to launch a stand-alone consumer app like ChatGPT as soon as next month.
2024.11.28·links.tldrnewsletter.com·7 min read·TLDR The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened an investigation into whether Microsoft has violated antitrust law. The agency recently sent a formal request for information to Microsoft asking about its cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity products. The FTC is particularly interested in how the company bundles its cloud computing offerings with office and security products and the company's growing power in the artificial intelligence space. Regulators in the European Union said earlier this year that Microsoft had violated antitrust rules when it packaged Teams with Office tools like Excel and Word.
2024.11.28·links.tldrnewsletter.com·5 min read·TLDR Figure AI has achieved a 400% increase in speed and a sevenfold improvement in success rate in its Figure 02 robot. The company recently released a video showing Figure 02 performing up to 1,000 placements per day at BMW's Spartanburg plant. The video is available in the article. Figure AI plans to deploy more humanoid robots in real-world environments in 2025.
2024.11.28·interestingengineering.com·2 min read·TLDR Chinese researchers have achieved a record-breaking diamond storage density of 1.85 terabytes per cubic centimeter. The diamonds are able to retain data for millions of years at room temperature without requiring any maintenance. The system currently requires complex lasers, imaging cameras, and other equipment, but the researchers believe they will be able to eventually fit everything inside a microwave oven-sized device. The technology will be particularly useful for governments, research facilities, and large libraries.
2024.11.28·popsci.com·4 min read·TLDR aisuite provides developers with a simple unified interface for multiple generative AI providers. It makes it easy to use multiple large language models (LLMs) and compare the results. aisuite allows creators to seamlessly swap out and test responses from different LLM providers without changing any code. It currently supports Anthropic, Azure, Google, AWS, Groq, Mistral, Hugging Face, and Ollama.
2024.11.28·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR R2 is a storage service by Cloudflare accessible through the S3 API that doesn't charge any egress fees. Developers only pay for storage and read/write/delete requests. This article looks at how R2 compares to AWS' S3 service. S3 is better for latency, but more than 90% of projects and organizations would be better served with R2.
2024.11.28·links.tldrnewsletter.com·11 min read·TLDR The AI community has operated on the principle that intelligence emerges from scale for the past four years. This has driven billions in investment and reshaped the field of AI. Signs have emerged in recent months that brute-force scaling alone might not be enough to drive continued improvements in AI. The next breakthrough in AI might not come from making current models bigger, but from making them fundamentally different.
2024.11.28·foundationcapital.com·12 min read·TLDR Google's AI products may be restricted as a remedy following the government's win in the search monopoly trial. The Department of Justice has asked for a wide range of remedies to stop Google from potentially using AI to entrench its market dominance in search advertising. They include a ban on exclusive agreements with publishers to train on content and restrictions on investments in or acquisitions of AI products or companies. The DOJ alleges the changes are necessary to clear the way for a thriving search market as AI stands to shake up the competitive landscape.
2024.11.28·arstechnica.com·9 min read·TLDR Employees will have until December 24 to decide if they want to participate in the tender offer.
While Bluesky may not be decentralized or federated in its current form, its team is still focused on its design principles and there are still many tasks and milestones left on the checklist.
2024.11.28·whtwnd.com·18 min read·TLDR The Nintendo Switch 2 will be announced in January next year before being publicly released in March.
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