- Bobbing for apples? You can now use Google to search for ebooks in your local public library's collection.
- Another part of the food chain: "Fried chicken shops are now the most important tool in demographics." How often do you see that? Only on Maps Mania blog, with a serious piece on mapping class divides via the food chain.
- An orchard full: Instagram now has 800 million monthly active users, which is bad news for Snapchat.
- Turn left at the orchard: Self-driving cars, and their ability to let you use screens more while driving, could spell trouble for public radio. Find out how they're planning ahead.
- The apple(s) of your eye: Most advertisers just repurpose teevee ads for YouTube, but the service thinks they can do better, rolling out a new tool to create unlimited targeted ads: "Director Mix is built to let a marketer upload multiple ad building blocks, like different cuts of commercial video footage, voiceovers, and copy variations – and the tool will automatically create thousands of ads."
- Rotten apple: Twitter is rolling out the ability to make tweets 280 characters instead of 140.
- Ripe for the picking: Great resource from Pew here on local TV news, loaded with data.
- Week in review: On this blog, I asked Does your communications office need a hackathon?
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