friday weekly from internets
Friday weekly internets are meant for people interested in trends, arising in online community. Most of content you will find related to marketing, but there’s so much more from design, modern culture and everyday life.
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
IMPORTANT NEWS
Apple Looks to Replace ‘Antiquated’ Credit Card Payments With Apple Pay
After years of reportedly tiptoeing around it, Apple finally unveiled its plan to introduce a mobile payments platform with the goal of modernizing the way customers shop with credit cards.
The new service, called Apple Pay, was announced during Apple’s big media event on Tuesday. It uses Near Field Communication (NFC) to enable users to make payments in stores simply by swiping their phones.
Apple Pay works by letting users scan their credit cards, from MasterCard, Visa or American Express, and then upload that information into the Passbook app. Rather than rely on the traditional 16-digit credit card number, shoppers receive a digital token that is unique to each device and can only be used with that device.
Apple Pay will work at more than 200,000 merchants, including at stores from big names like Disney. The system will integrate into apps from Target, Groupon and OpenTable.
Read more @ http://mashable.com/2014/09/09/apple-pay/
DIGITAL MARKETING
Amazon Customer Support Shows Us How It Should Be Done
NEW TECH ON THE WAY!
5 Reasons Why Apple Pay Is the Sleeper Hit of the Apple Event
It was, without question, one of Apple’s biggest days on Tuesday: The company unveiled two new larger iPhones, and, with Apple Watch, a bold entry into a new category: wearables.
But it was the third introduction that could ultimately change the most lives: Apple Pay.
NFC has had a rather long and tortured existence
Its key benefit over competing wireless communication technologies is that the receiver and transmitter need to be within four centimeters of each other to communicate. In other words, it’s virtually impossible to accidentally enact an NFC transaction when your phone is in your pocket and the reader is on the counter.
As late as April of this year, industry observers were writing about why NFC failed as a mobile payment option.
So why might Apple Pay turn things around?
Read all the article at Mashabe: http://mashable.com/2014/09/10/5-reasons-why-apple-pay-is-the-sleeper-hit-of-the-apple-event/
While You Weren’t Looking, Dell Made Android Tablets Interesting Again
Read more http://gizmodo.com/while-you-werent-looking-dell-announced-the-worlds-mos-1632621335
WORTH YOUR ATTENTION
Three Essential Steps to Make Yourself More Hack-Proof
Look, there’s no hiding from being hacked. Everything is vulnerable, and if you haven’t been personally affected by a data breach yet, you will. But while you can’t ever protect yourself 100 percent from malicious data theft, you can at least put a better lock on your door than the one your neighbor has. So, the tips:
1. Don’t Reuse Passwords
2. Set Up Two-Factor Authentication
3. Use a Password Manager
11 Reasons Dehydration Is Making You Sick And Fat
Adverse effects from not drinking enough water include digestive, skin, bladder and kidney problems, fatigue, and even headaches. We need water as much as the air we breathe in! Keeping your body hydrated is not a joke.
Drinking water regularly speeds up your metabolism and makes you feel more ‘full’. You will eat less once you start drinking more! It’s the safest and healthiest way to lose weight. Drink up!
The Perfect Sleeping Positions to Fix Common Body Problems
Full article http://themindunleashed.org/2014/09/perfect-sleeping-positions-fix-common-body-problems.html
HOT OR NOT
Thrilling Macro Portraits Of Ants, Spiders, Flies, And Other Insects
Various insects and creepy crawlies gave their best looks to photographer Yudy Sauw, resulting in a thrilling and vibrant collection of photos that reveal their intricate colors and details.
Browse for more: http://designtaxi.com/news/369007/Thrilling-Macro-Portraits-Of-Ants-Spiders-Flies-And-Other-Insects/
New Samsung Ads Poke Fun At Apple’s iPhone 6, Watch, And More
Samsung has released a series of new ads that pokes fun at Apple’s Keynote event on Tuesday and the various products that were announced.
Titled ‘It Doesn’t Take A Genius’, the ads take jabs at the iPhone 6, Apple Watch and live stream issues during the Keynote event — while playing up the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and its features.
How and why beans become farts explained in one cute video
Beans. They are delicious. And great for you too. One of the staples of the mediterranean diet. Sure, they have some resounding side effects, but nobody is perfect. This cute video explains the science behind farts. Watch it and learn — because farts are always great table conversation.
Infographic: Crazy Facts Around The World
Bizarre New Tumblr Trend Has Superheros Hello Kitty-ified
http://sobadsogood.com/2014/09/10/bizarre-new-tumblr-trend-has-super-heroes-hello-kitty-ified/
FEW MINUTES OF MUSIC
Herbert — I Hadn’t Known (I Only Heard)
A New N.E.R.D. Album Could Be On The Way
DIAMOND OF THE WEEK
Old black and white photos come alive in disturbing ghostly GIFs
Droga5 art director Kevin Weir has lots of cool work in his portfolio, like his Flux Machine, a Tumblr in which he turns old photographs into nightmares thanks to some carefully crafted animation — sometimes crazy, sometimes subtle, always disturbing.
Browse for more on http://sploid.gizmodo.com/disturbing-ghosts-extracted-from-old-photos-1633387189
and remember, no byznes on weekend
just have fun
missed last week’s weeklies? No worries, you can find them here:
09. 05 https://medium.com/@padegimas/friday-weekly-from-internets-b470c3b2a3
08.25 https://medium.com/@padegimas/friday-weekly-from-internets-65201afae7a7
