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Todd Turbo Watson

@turbotodd

Changing business 1 pixel at a time...20+ years experience in digital/social marketing, developer outreach, & B2B marketing. IBMer. Golfer. #AI #socialmedia

 Austin, Texas
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Turbo Post: Happy New Year…Decade? #byebyeteens #aheadto2020 turbotodd.wordpress.com/2020…
Happy New Year…Decade?

Happy New Year…Decade?

Happy New Year…Decade? Well, I guess that’s a wrap for the 2010s. Happy New Year/Decade, a day or two late! Here’s hoping you stick to all your New Year’s resolutions for mo…

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Turbo Post: Faster, Cheaper, Better AI #AI #google #translation turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
Faster, Cheaper, Better AI

Faster, Cheaper, Better AI

Happy Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has passed the 28,000 mark, apparently prompted by news that China and the U.S. are zeroing in on a trade deal. And to help with translation of any …

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Turbo Post: JEDI Clouds #aws #apple turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…

JEDI Clouds

Happy Monday. China’s Great Firewall may soon evolve into the Great Cyberborder. The FT has reported that Beijing has ordered all government institutions and public bodies to get rid of their…

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Turbo Post: New (Google Ad) Rules #political #advertising #AI turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
New (Google Ad) Rules

New (Google Ad) Rules

Google is jumping on the political advertising guard rail bandwagon, announcing new limits on its microtargeting to age, gender, and general location (zip code). Google will also continue to allow …

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Turbo Post: Growing Languages #developers #apple turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
Growing Languages

Growing Languages

iFixit and others have torn down the new 16″ MacBook Pro, which has revealed, yes, a keyboard similar to the standalone Magic Keyboard (and which allegedly will not have the same keyboard woe…

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Turbo Post: Bad Weather #weatherforecast #ibmgraf turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
Bad Weather

Bad Weather

Happy Friday, and TGIF. Yesterday, some news about the weather from IBM with the introduction of its GRAF weather forecasting model. GRAF stands for “Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Foreca…

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Turbo Post: Need a New Razr? #razr #foldingphones #vc turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
Need a New Razr?

Need a New Razr?

The original Motorola Razr flip phone came out in July 2004. It was thin and streamlined compared to most mobile feature phones of its time. And now it’s back, this time with a 6.2″ tou…

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Turbo Post: Cached Check #digitalpayments #transportation turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
Cached Check

Cached Check

Good morning. Google’s apparently following Apple and others’ leads and becoming the next big tech firm to move into finance. Specifically, to offer checking accounts to consumers throu…

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Turbo Post: Data Ignorance is Strength! #apple #google #privacy turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
Data Ignorance is Strength!

Data Ignorance is Strength!

It is Tuesday. The rest of the country (world?) is talking about the pending public hearings on the impeachment inquiry. But I’m going to talk about data and algos. First, Google. It was repo…

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Turbo Post: Thank You for Your Service #apple #AR turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
Thank You for Your Service

Thank You for Your Service

I was locked up in a courtroom in downtown Austin all last week, doing my civic duty (serving on a nasty child custody battle trial). Man oh man am I glad to be back at work. What’d I miss? T…

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Turbo Post: A New Mobile Office #autonomous #venturecapital #msoffice turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
A New Mobile Office

A New Mobile Office

Happy Monday. Apple has started the week communicating a $2.5B plan to help California’s housing crisis. This on on the heels of similar $1B infusions from Facebook and Google in recent month…

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Turbo Post: Apple Watch #appletvplus #Fitbit turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
Apple Watch

Apple Watch

Friday’s as good a day to start getting fit as any. And that includes Google, which has acquired FitBit for $2.1B, ramping up its speed in the wearables/fitness category. The move could certa…

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Turbo Post: The Politics of Advertising #worldseries #venturecapital turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
The Politics of Advertising

The Politics of Advertising

Good morning. And congrats to the Washington Nationals on the District’s first World Series victory in 95 years. What a series. And on the subject of D.C., Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced y…

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Turbo Post: Streaming to the Max! #streaming #venturecapital turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
Streaming to the Max

Streaming to the Max

Details are emerging on HBO Max, HBO’s new live streaming service. It’s $15/month (U.S.), which is what existing HBO costs…but AT&T is planning to bundle free subscriptions fo…

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Turbo Post: Tiger Roars #cloudcomputing #tigerwoods turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
Tiger’s Roar

Tiger’s Roar

I’m back! I had to take a little time off to chase a little white ball and disconnect from these amped up Interwebs for a bit.  So what caught my eye on the return trip to the office? First, …

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Turbo Post: A Wee Pin Drop #venturecapital #earnings turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
A Wee Pin Drop

A Wee Pin Drop

Fascinating follow up by the WSJ on Daryl Morey’s Oct. 4 pro-HK Tweet: It indicates that around 50% of the Tweets at him came from accounts with 0-13 followers, and 4,855 of those users had n…

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Turbo Post: Go Pixelbook #chromebook #chromeos turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
Go Pixelbook

Go Pixelbook

I was too busy being busy to watch yesterday’s Google announcement, but here’s my short list of what I saw announced: Pixelbook Go Chromebook, Pixel 4/4XL smartphones (with gesture cont…

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Turbo Post: Bot Smoke #AI #pixel turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
Bot Smoke

Bot Smoke

Happy Monday. Tech conferences and announcements worthy of note this week. India Mobile Congress got started earlier today in New Delhi. The always-interesting Gartner IT Symposium|Expo starts this…

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Turbo Post: A Changing SAP #sap #AI turbotodd.wordpress.com/2019…
A Changing SAP

A Changing SAP

Big news on the enterprise software front overnight. SAP announced that CEO Bill McDermott would be leaving the company after nearly a decade at the helm. McDermott has overseen SAP’s shift to the …

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