Weekly Briefing December 22, 2017
:poop emoji: 2017 has been… a weird one. If you want a refresher, take a listen to this heart-attack-inducing audio recap of 2017 that the New York Times’ podcast released …
Weekly Briefing October 13, 2017
Szechuan sauce stupidity Rick and Morty is a fantastically smart animated TV show centered around a nihilist genius inventor and his grandson as they journey through the multiverse. One particular episode …
Weekly Briefing September 22, 2017
amazon glasses for your shopping asses The Financial Times reported that Amazon is working on a pair of “Alexa Glasses.” They will feature Alexa AI assistant and will possibly integrate with …
Weekly Briefing September 15, 2017
NORDSTROM’S PLAN TO GET YOU DRUNK AT STORES WITH NO CLOTHES IS WONDERFUL As retailers continue to ponder how much harder the internet will punish their business (and by “internet” …
By Chris Gray September 8, 2017
thanks equifax, I didn’t need my identity anyways! Equifax, the Credit Reporting firm that decided no, you weren’t good enough to take out a mortgage on your dream house last …
Weekly Briefing September 1, 2017
How the NSA Unmasked the Founder of Bitcoin Billionaire founder of bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto worked hard to keep his identity a secret. But this Medium article explains how the NSA used the …
By Cris Hazzard July 28, 2017
have your bot talk to my bot Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg traded jabs on the future of artificial intelligence this week. Mark took an optimistic approach, pointing out the …
Weekly Briefing July 14, 2017
Get your Ghost on Snapchat has announced an interesting play on their own version of reality TV with a show about the millennial-specific-totally-never-happened-before-in-human-history phenomenon of ghosting. Hosted by comedian Matteo Lane, …
Weekly Briefing June 23, 2017
The earth is doomed, yadda yadda yadda Stephen Hawking, Earth’s resident Debbie Downer, recently said that humans only have about 100 years left before the Earth becomes an uninhabitable pile of …
Weekly Briefing May 26, 2017
YOUR ROBOT OVERLORDS ARE BETTER THAN YOU AT EVERYTHING Apparently some smarty pants at Google’s DeepMind Labs made an AI that can beat even the smartiest of pantses at the incredibly complex game …
Weekly Briefing May 19, 2017
Net Neutrality can go FCC itself The FCC officially proposed ending net neutrality yesterday. If you’re not entirely sure what that means, because you didn’t watch Last Week Tonight back in 2014 …
Weekly Briefing April 28, 2017
Cleaning up the internet of things Bought any wi-fi connected diapers recently? A lawn mower that knows your most played Spotify songs? A toaster that toasts to preferences determined by …
Weekly Briefing March 24, 2017
APPLE WANTS TO MAKE YOUR VIDEOS SUCK LESS Apple has been silently judging your video editing efforts and is, frankly, disgusted. As are we. Shame on you. In an attempt …
Weekly Briefing March 17, 2017
FASHIONABLY LATE 12-year-old music recommendation app Pandora, which you may remember as your go-to for superhot Creed– and Nickelback-inspired playlists (don’t lie), launched a streaming app this week that hopes …
Weekly Briefing March 3, 2017
Amazon Poo’d the Bed Unless the only thing you do on your computer is play minesweeper, you may have noticed that Amazon poo’d the bed this week. An unwitting employee …
Weekly Briefing February 3, 2017
Big Bucks For Snap Stocks Is Snapchat only all over the news when it’s my week to write this briefing, or do all y’all write about Snapchat all the time …
Weekly Briefing January 20, 2017
THIS WEEK: ONLY THE GOOD STUFF We imagine that today you’ll be a little preoccupied with Obama’s going away party, so in this newsletter we’re bringing you only the good …
Weekly Briefing January 13, 2017
TWITTER NIGHTMARE 2017 Things continue to spiral out of control on Twitter (and planet earth) as *unconfirmed* reports circulate about Russian-gathered intel on Trump in the form of SPY DOSSIERS gathered …
Weekly Briefing January 7, 2017
Bitcoin Drops 20% in Three Hours When Bitcoin’s value dropped 20% yesterday in just three hours, minutes after hitting an all time high, that weird uncle of yours who still …
Weekly Briefing December 9, 2016
rainbow vomit: now in 3D! In its effort to keep Facebook two steps behind, SnapChat may be breaking into a new frontier: 3D snaps. Snap, Inc. recently posted a job …
Weekly Briefing November 25, 2016
GRAND THEFT INTERNETS The internet used to be a warm and fuzzy place. People had gaudy MySpace pages, Craigslist posts were actually real, and we could all float around in Second Life. …
Weekly Briefing November 18, 2016
DRAW A PENIS…HELP ROBOTS DESTROY YOU I’m sorry…that headline was true clickbait and I feel ashamed. But…hold on…I’m not done. You’re going to email me in 30 minutes telling me …
Weekly Briefing October 14, 2016
The Perfectly-Imperfect VR-ish Camera App While we still don’t know how virtual reality will play into the social media landscape, the new VR/Social app Sprayscape has entered the scene …
Weekly Briefing September 30, 2016
THE FUTURE IS FOUR-EYED This week Snap Inc. (née Snapchat) released Spectacles, “a rounded, vaguely hipsterish pair of sunglasses with the ability to record up to thirty seconds of footage …
Weekly Briefing September 23, 2016
WAZE WILL FIND YOU A SWEET PARKING SPOT Google-owned real-time traffic app Waze announced it was teaming up with transportation data company INRIX to help drivers find parking spots. Seeking …
Weekly Briefing September 19, 2016
HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES? The brand-spanking new iOS 10 came out this week, with major tech advances including stickers, doodles, and the ability to delete the compass app. …
Weekly Briefing September 9, 2016
GEE, THAT’S A NEAT FEATURE! If you’re one of those rebellious souls who owns a Samsung Note 7…we have some bad news. But don’t panic. Promise? Okay. Now slowly remove the …
Weekly Briefing August 26, 2016
NOW YOU CAN WATCH MANBANG ON DEMAND Exciting news from North Korea—Manbang! Manbang is North Korea’s answer to Netflix, offering UP TO 5 CHANNELS of content, including state-sponsored news, educational …
By Chris Gray August 18, 2016
Every Olympic event should include one average person competing for reference. — Bill Murray (@BiIIMurray) July 19, 2016 Wise words, person who runs Bill Murray’s fake Twitter account. But really …
By Anna Han August 12, 2016
The Sanborn design team performed a one-hour long mini-hackathon last week. The goal? Create a Sanborn whiskey. Doesn’t necessarily have to be Sanborn Agency-branded but may include as many or as …
Weekly Briefing August 5, 2016
THIS ALGORITHM WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING! Finally some technology that makes our lives better. Facebook is updating their anti-clickbait algorithm to help identify and hide articles based on the clickbait-y-ness …
Weekly Briefing August 1, 2016
#HILLARY President Obama has certainly set the bar for presidential social media outreach, but Hillary Clinton is already giving him a run for his money. As the DNC kicked off …
Weekly Briefing June 24, 2016
FACEBOOK NEWS CORP Facebook’s Voldemortesque desire to take over the publishing world continued this week, with the announcement that they’d inked millions of dollars worth of deals with over 140 …
By Chris Sanborn November 27, 2013
This is a story of a very bad printer. One day, about a year ago, our trusty HP Printer that we had bought 6 years prior finally started to die. …
By Livia Nelson October 18, 2013
Hiya! My name is Livia, and I’m the new kid here at SMF. Today marks the end of my first week, so I thought I’d share some first impressions in …
By Chris Sanborn September 11, 2013
Producers. They are a tricky bunch. The producer’s job (at least here at Sanborn Media Factory) is to do two things: Account Management – Talking to clients, getting requirements, agreeing …
By Chris Sanborn September 6, 2013
And sometimes…our office becomes temporarily suspended in a vacuum of iterative Photoshopping for the sake of iterative Photoshopping (an occupational hazard at an interactive agency…where everyone knows how to use Photoshop …