Built, bought & sold brands. Freelance Digital & Growth Marketing. Love Jesus, my wife, my cat (Tigey), bbq/braai, trail running, music, travel & the outdoors.
Southampton, England
Joined March 2011
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Christopher Laas retweeted
What can an 8-year-old build in 45 minutes with the assistance of AI?
My daughter has been learning to code with @cursor_ai and it's mind-blowing🤯
Here are highlights from her second coding session. In 45 minutes she built a chatbot powered by @CloudflareDev Workers AI 👀
Christopher Laas retweeted
Google Maps just got upgraded!
Now you can directly chat with it like ChatGPT.
Here are 5 new awesome features available on Maps:
Christopher Laas retweeted
Since March I've been monitoring 2,500 coupon-focused terms to see what Google changes with their Site Reputation Abuse update.
Today the manual actions started, and here are some early insights.
I've been tracking a lot of non-coupon third-party content that I was going to display that hasn't been "hit" but that feels like outing them e.g. APNews with their third-party content from Taboola.
There's still a lot of examples out there that don't appear to have been impacted yet, if they will be at all.
Credit to @MalteLandwehr for Telegraph, @vladrpt for noticing OutlookIndia and @carlhendy for NINE (he also has a great thread on more sites).
This is just a sample of what's out there and what I've noticed. It's not an exhaustive list.
There may be some mistakes in the graphic but I think everything is accurate.
Will probably do a follow-up on this in a few days if there's anything else interesting.
P.S. Pretty funny to see on WIRED .com/coupons they have text referring to themselves as The Washington Post (they both have the same coupons provider).
Christopher Laas retweeted
I bet you haven't heard of Luis von Ahn. But I can almost guarantee you've used one of his inventions.
2000: Luis co-creates CAPTCHA to help companies thwart cockroaches of the internet (read: bots).
Today, 200,000,000 CAPTCHAs are typed daily...
2007: Luis fears his original creation is wasting millions of hours of human brain power, so he invents reCAPTCHA.
The idea is simple, but kinda brilliant: users must type out a word, which proves they're not a bot. But in doing so, they are helping to digitize a century-worth of old newspapers & books.
In 2009, Google acquires reCAPTCHA for $10-100 million.
But wait, there's more.
2011: Luis co-founds Duolingo(!) as part of his mission to enable people of all social classes to access opportunities through learning.
Duolingo IPOs in 2021. Today, it's a ~$10 billion company with 88.4 million monthly active users.
LvA is an absolute G.
Honestly after being a fight fan for the last 20 years I, didnt think I could be more of a fan. Max Holloway @BlessedMMA and Justin Gaethje @Justin_Gaethje just made that real. Not fight of the year, but fight of the decade! #UFC300
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Congrats @dricusduplessis, what an achievement! Ive been a UFC fan since the days of Randy Couture, so its amazing to now see a new SA UFC champion, almost unbelievable! For non SA folk, its hard to explain what a big achievement this is #ufc #ufc297
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Christopher Laas retweeted
Your NEW middleweight champ 🇿🇦 🏆
#UFC297 | @DricusDuPlessis
Christopher Laas retweeted
You can't change people.
People can only change themselves.
A rare occurrence, which only seems to happen after a significant failure.
Christopher Laas retweeted
Next time someone tells you that humans haven’t built anything noteworthy in centuries, show them this video from inside the Sphere from last night’s concert.
The amazing team I work with over at @RockReality created the below. Super proud of them, amazing work!
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Christopher Laas retweeted
The September 2023 helpful content update is rolling out with an improved classifier. It will take about two weeks to complete. We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete: status.search.google.com/pro…
"If you see a snake, just kill it — don't appoint a committee on snakes."
This quote from Ross Perot has to be one of my favourite discoveries of late. Really spoke to me and made me re-think some situations.
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Christopher Laas retweeted
This is still the best business advice I've ever received:
Think like a farmer
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To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.
And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.
Here's how that happened. 1/🧵
Christopher Laas retweeted
Look at this 1950s beach pic, everyone fit as a fiddle! No keto, vegan, or paleo diets. No gym memberships, no fancy fitness tech or wellness influencers. They also weren't drinking protein shakes or counting calories.
So what went wrong? A THREAD 🧵⬇️
Christopher Laas retweeted
Most 9 figure+ individuals have no online following. I bet you can’t name the founder of any product you routinely use.
Stop confusing popularity with success. Stop working on your “personal brand” and just get to work.
You can tweet and make “high value content” when you rich
Christopher Laas retweeted
Ralph Lauren couldn’t find clothes he loved.
So he decided to make and sell them himself. Assuming that if he wanted them other people would too.
Very important business lesson.
Love this!
My friend @noahkagan is making amazing videos lately.
My fav is when he asks older people their regrets.
But this one with @nevmed @thejustinwelsh and I ain’t bad either.
youtu.be/FbDkTKfPC5U
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