A snapshot of links shared on my Twitter account @WinObs for today
- Nielsen 2016's top mobile apps by monthly uniques are Facebook up 14% YoY to 146M, Messenger up 28% to 129M, YouTube up 20% to 113M; Amazon rose 43% to 65M (Sarah PerezTechCrunch)
- 10 Successful Entrepreneurs on Keeping Their New Year Resolutions
- AT&T's DirecTV and U-Verse drop Cox Media Group TV stations in 10 markets (Diana MarszalekBroadcasting & Cable)
- Intel’s i7-7700k overclocked to a ridiculous 7GHz thanks to liquid nitrogen
- A look at unnoticed tech trends in 2016 rising internet speed, growth of digital currencies, the success of tech M&A, more (Eric NewcomerBloomberg Technology)
- 11 Apps That Allow You Watch Your Favorite Movies
- Chicago's top daily newspapers, including the Tribune and the Sun-Times, credit the Cubs Effect for giving a bigger boost to revenue than the Trump Effect (Jackie SpinnerColumbia Journalism Review)
- Happy New Year from GeekWire — Fireworks from the Space Needle
- Infrared Trifid
- China’s ivory ban marks a jumbo step forward for Paul Allen’s elephant campaign
- After years of rejecting the media company label, Twitter is hiring Periscope editors, broadcasting news alerts, and airing premium live video (Alex KantrowitzBuzzFeed)
- French law requiring companies to give workers a right to disconnect from work-related messages after work hours goes into effect on January 1 (Agence France-Presse)
- Amazon Alexa search warrant in hot-tub murder case shows why smart homes require smart laws
- #1 in 2016 On Cloud 9
- Some perspective on our place in the Universe from the high Chilean desert
- 11 Things You Can Do with the MacBook’s Force Touch Trackpad
- Lunar Farside
- @WinObs Tweeted Links for December 30, 2016
- NASA captures stunning photo of a galaxy that is spilling microwaves
