"Push Notifications for Chewbacca Bobble Heads"

Episode 68

Main Takeaways:

Baked by Melissa gives away 100,000 cupcakes to prove love and sugary treats really do win.
Oculus Go is better than a party trick.
Instagram decides that they want more than just dopamine-fueled likes from their users.
Amazon vs. Alibaba, who will win the battle of the commerce giants?
Did the world peak in the mid 90's?
Now we can all recognize all the Royal Wedding guests.

Phillip was the MC for Magento Imagine, which is supremely cool.
Phillip was so excited to be able to be able to share the stage with the esteemable Sucharita Kodali.
On a slight side note: Phillip also got to interview Melissa Ben-Ishay on her business and how Baked By Melissa gave away 100,000 cupcakes in their #sidewithlove campaign, and to spread love and kindness.
Also: Phillip opened a merch store on his other podcast to raise awareness about mental health, with all the proceeds going to Open Sourcing Mental Illness.

Brian is super excited about this, and apparently so is the President of Sony, and everyone else.
Could most of the hype surrounding Oculus be because of its price point?
Brian and Phillip agree that Oculus is well.. good for what it is, entry level VR.
One of the ways that this kind of tech would be incredibly valuable
Verge Cast has a great review of Oculus Go.
One of the ways that Oculus or similar technology can be really valuable is in the commerce space, in which basic level VR could be utilized to bring the storefront to the convenience of a customer's home or increase the value of an in-store experience.
Brian is ready to go out and purchase an Oculus Go, Philip was three seconds away from buying one.
Brian really doesn't want to hand his data over to Facebook.

Phillip decides that calling it "The Gram" might actually be worse than people who say "Insta".
Instagram has been steadily adding commerce features for a while, including Instagram business features, and shoppable, but now purchasing through Instagram is much simpler.
Now, nstagram will allow users to purchase directly through the Instagram app, and allow for payment information to be entered in the app.
Basically, feel free to shop in the privacy of Facebook's data centers.
Brian wonders if David Marcus had anything to do with this.
Phillip says that this will just cut out the middleman, because before people would just purchase products they saw on Instagram off of the Amazon website.
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