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#71 - ✍🏻The art of the summary and the biggest battles in Business

Greg Taieb · · 4 min read

Hello,

I hope you are well this week and that you were able to enjoy this beautiful long weekend.

This week we are going to talk about an unfortunate copy and paste, the biggest brand battles, hidden cameras and an app to sum it all up.

Here we go and don't forget to leave me your opinion at the end of the newsletter.

💆‍♂️Summari: the app that sums up everything (or almost) for you

Tweets, Tiktoks and other social network posts praise short formats.

However, and this is the case with this newsletter, we sometimes like longer formats which allow you to go into detail and explore the subjects.

But if the format is really too long and you want a little summary, I have good news for you: Summari is an application that allows you to summarize an article in just a few seconds.

All this thanks to an AI (yes, another one).

Here is a test to give you an idea with an article on the juicy business of Michael Jordan:

The result is quite convincing and what's cool is that the service is available on all platforms (browser extensions, Android and iOS).

The only flaw is that the application only works in English.

Test Summari

🫢The dumpling of the week

Copy and paste is one of the best inventions in computing but also one of the most dangerous.

And it is not the community manager of the Quebec Ministry of Health who will say the opposite.

In fact the latter mistakenly published a YouPorn link to accompany the daily Covid bulletin of April 14🫢.

Okay then, some basic advice:

  • Avoid going to YouPorn from a professional device or on which you have access to professional activity
  • Always test a link "before" clicking on publish
  • If things go wrong, avoid excuses such as "because of a situation out of control" because no one believes you. When we are a government account with more than 100,000 subscribers you will not make me believe that access to the account is not a minimum supervised.

So what do we do when the bad-is-done?

The solution would have been to bounce back with a touch of humor to recognize the error and transform the ball into good buzz.

We see in particular from the link posted that the CM seems a fan of feet.
As a result I would have made a play on words about his potential layoff.😜

Ok I'm going out...

🥊 La reco Podcast: Guerres de business

It's been a long time since I recommended a podcast to you.
So this week I'm sharing a recent favorite with you with the discovery of "Business Wars" (Wondery) which is a podcast which relates the clashes of big brands in 6 30-minute episodes.

Some examples of duels:

It’s very well done and can be listened to like an audio book. Attention nugget.

👀 How to know if your Airbnb is spying on you?

You may have wondered if it is allowed for an Airbnb host to put cameras in the apartment you rent. Indeed, we can imagine that some owners are a little nervous about the idea of leaving their apartment to complete strangers but that they would still like to make it grow in their absence.
So why not install a small cam just to have proof in the event of damage.😗

First of all, you should know that a host can perfectly install surveillance cameras if he informs you beforehand. reservation.

That's when everything goes well.

Only certain cameras are not always announced and so how can I spot them?

I didn't know that but there are applications that do this and I admit that I was curious to understand how it could work.

How can an application spot surveillance cameras?

There are in fact several ways to detect a hidden camera as the website explains to us the application Hidden Camera Detector.

  • Use the flash of your smartphone to detect a camera sensor
  • Scan the wifi network to identify the cameras connected to it or at least the devices that communicate with the outside

In any case, this is what the Hidden Camera Detector application offers and I must admit to having been pleasantly surprised by its results.

To test for free on iOS and Android.

🎧The podcast of the week

To promote competition and innovation, the Commission European wants to regulate the big platforms (the famous GAFAM which we talk about a lot).

For years, the fines have been coming one after the other for its big groups, without necessarily having much effect on them. The idea of the EU: clearly define the rules of what these platforms can and cannot do.

We are talking this week about the reasons which led to the creation of this new Digital Market Act (DMA as it is known), the different rules it contains and their potential effects.