Daimler unveiled a self-driving truck with a target production date of 2025 to solve the freight transportation problem. Not only will this alleviate safety concerns of driving trucks by tired and sleep-deprived traffic, this will also increase the efficiency of traffic and gasoline use that will lead to financial and environmental savings. Freight transport will most likely be the first serious foray into the world of driverless cars by major car manufacturers.

A recent article by Venture Beat reports on what percentage of  phones shipped in Q1 2014 each of the major OS comprise. The ‘shocking’ focus of the article is that Android ships 4x more phone than Apple, and Blackberry is less then 1% of phones shipped in Q1.

Apple not owning the entire piechart is not all bad news though, since the 5S (16GB) was the top sold phone in Q1 2014, leading in front of Samsung which owns 27% of the smartphone market. Google is catching up with Apple in another area though, become more helpful than Siri.

More shocking though was a grey part of the pie chart which went unaddressed; 30% of phone shipped were not Android, iOS, or Windows. 30%. 3 in every 10 individuals who purchases a phone in Q1 purchases a “basic mobile phone”.

via VentureBeat

The A/B testing world is getting a little bit less competitive with the shutdown of Predictive Edge – an e-commerce startup. They are the latest in Dropbox’s string of acquisitions (17th to be exact). The founders have hanging up their A/B hats and now focusing on a new undisclosed project which they say is “solving challenges outside of the world of A/B testing”.

Sour Patch Kids come to Snapchat with a series of short video pranks that highlight the sweet & sour aspect of the candies. The short videos will be seen as stories on Snapchat for users to watch.

The focus of Predictive Edge was dynamic pricing. developing solutions for places companies such as Uber. Dropbox has recently acquired Parastructure which is a data analytics startup along similar links to Predictive Edge, Mobile Span, which is a cloud security company, and DropTalk which is a messaging startup.

A hint at what is to come can be seen on Predictive Edge found Marty Hu’s LinkedIn, where he describes his current job as ‘Building Mailbox at Dropbox’.

Mercedes-Benz Unveils Self-Driving ‘Future Truck’ on German’s Autobahn via Mashable

Study: Android ships 4x more phones than Apple, & Blackberry is a rounding error via Venture Beat

Apple’s iPhone 5S tops Samsung for #1 slot in global smartphone rankings via Venture Beat

Okay, Google, you official beat Siri via Venture Beat

Sour Patch Kids’ Snapchat Effort Is a First for Mondelez Brands via Adweek

Dropbox Buys E-Commerce A/B Testing Service Predictive Edge, Shuts It Down via Tech Crunch

Dropbox acquires A/B testing startup Predictive Edge via Venture Beat

Dropbox buys Droptalk bringing conversations and storage closer together via Venture Beat

Dropbox buys MobileSpan, a ticket to enterprise security via Venture Beat

Dropbox acquired stealthy data analytics startup Parastructure via Venture Beat

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[Jessica]: Welcome to another episode. This is Jessica.

[Pavel]: And this is Pavel.

[Jessica]: Hope you’re all doing well. Pavel, what is new in your ….?

[Pavel]: A lot of interesting stuff. I had an amazing 4th of July weekend. It was great to get a way. I eat a lot of new food that I’ve never eaten before. Crab legs which were hard to break open but I got really good at like pulling out the meat without having bite at shell I guess. It’s great for the first time and cobbler, peach cobbler which is like apple pie but a peach. And…

[Jessica]: What was your favorite food, new food item that you tried?

[Pavel]: It’s the good one. I’m gonna go with the peach cobbler because I’m a sucker for desserts and it was very sweet and delicious.

[Jessica]: Nice.

[Pavel]: But you know it’s great.  Let’s get to get a way a little bit. And to hang out and experience some seldom hospitality. What about you? What’s up, you’ve been up to?

[Jessica]: I spent the 4th of July weekend holiday just working on some stuff I don’t have time to do. Because I’m pretty busy. You know, as our loyal fans will find out next week for shadowing as well as we’re looking for. We have a new site coming out soon.

[Pavel]: Yeah.

[Jessica]: So I spend some time just working content for that. And just relax, you know, I have a lot of weddings this summer that have to travel and enjoying  … whatever …time I

[Pavel]: Travelling can be very stressful.

[Jessica]: It’s tiring. I think it’s something with the altitude. When you’re in the plane like the pressure and you’re going to the time zone.

[Pavel]: I don’t see the people, the social pressure, talking. Funny story, I’ve never been to a wedding.

[Jessica]: What?! Ever? In your entire life?

[Pavel]: Aha. I think I was attending into a wedding when I was 2 ‘coz I had a home video of me dancing in it in a wedding but I’ve never actually been into a wedding.

[Jessica]: Here’s my interpretation what happened. You go into this wedding when you’re 2, you steal the show with your like phenomenal dancing skills and everyone’s like woah! woah! We can never invite this kid because he gets all the attention in our big day and that you’re like abandoned from weddings but no one’s told you, they don’t want to hurt your feelings but your dancing skills were so amazing. As a 2 year old, they saw your skill.

[Pavel]: They saw my potential!

[Jessica]: We can never invite this kid back into our wedding. He will take all the attention, intentionally.

[Pavel]: I think that maybe, actually, my dancing has a reputation. It precedes itself.

[Jessica]: Totally!

[Pavel]: But yeah, it’s been exciting weekend news as well. I’m just gonna get out there and we’re gonna talk Google a little bit.

[Jessica]: You know, we should, I think that we should do a timer of how long it takes us to talk about Google every episode.

[Pavel]: We should call it Google Watch.

[Jessica]: Not to be confused with Google Watch.

[Pavel]: But speaking of Google. Google car obviously has been making with talk about past before now we’re seeing one of the first real life uses of it. Few days ago, Daimler which is the parent company of a Mercedes -  Benz, they unveiled a, the illustration video of one of their concepts called the Mercedes – Benz Future Truck 2025  which basically, is a vehicle that can drive on its own at the high speeds on the German’s Autobahn and they were really looking into solving the freight transportation problem because it’s one of the, from what I understand and from what I’ve read about, it is one of the easier things to solve and one of the more major things to solve. Freight transportation has been on the sites for Google and then, a lot of manufacturer as well because we as consumers on really think about it but it’s the lifeblood of nations. You know transport things back and forth. So take it figure it away. How to get the driver less involve that would not only elevate safety concerns because there’s been also a lot of drivers tend to over-worked themselves. And they need have minimum sleep hours that they do but a lot of times at dawn.

[Jessica]: Yeah. It observes how many hours a day they can still drive on the road.

[Pavel]: Yeah. Like… In the system, what the Google Car attempts to solve that, so there’s still human driver who can switch control the truck but it’s a hand three experience for the driver and it uses multiple systems to analyze the road and to make sure the other cars on the road would be keep safe. And I recently watch the talk of Larry Page and Sergey Brin for shadowing; I will reveal more of what was said on the new website. And it talked about, what Google Car can do to solve societal problems, reducing traffic, allowing people to drive whether wise couldn’t drive and that’s a more far fetch thing right now because there’s a lot of you know a lot of personal consumer concerns but if they can implement the system starting on the industrial level of or transportation and freight. I think that’s a great a step for Google car and to this market and to show that it is a safe technology that could work with a human driver and still give them the time to not have actually driving the whole time and to have a safety concerns with that.

[Jessica]: I think it will be a little interesting. A lot of industrial transportation is still done with train. A lot of people don’t think about it but quite of it is but there’s a limitation too because the train truck so go to world towns necessarily. Other … that do but starting in the industrial level is great because you have a lot of standardize routes that … So, Amazon for example. Amazon continues half shipment like go from their sorting facilities indeed Apples to the other sorting facilities around like the big ones in South or even going West Phoenix and trucks manufactured facilities and distribution facilities. The trucks going there every day, and the set schedule that leave within transportation you have. So how about calls like an LTS, like last in a truck load or full truck load. A lot of times those overload haulers would disserve a trailer there until they got swallowed come back in drop out a new trailer to pick it up. I think a lot of money can be saved. It will be interesting to see if they cannibalize the rail road industry at all.

[Pavel]: Actually we mention that saving money, the efficiency I wanna think he said that, Sergey Brin mentioned is it increases the efficiency of traffic and transportation in general. And I love that their doing their German Autobahn because you know they are well-known of their high speeds. Using Google Systems and Google Car and automated you know processes that they have. I think they would be able to create like this strange system on roads.

[Jessica]: Yeah that’s why I just thinking. I was literally just having the same thought.

[Pavel]: And what if cannibalize rail roads? I mean rail roads, have, you know, been a lifeblood of America and other countries.  But I do think at some point the limitations will be too costly.

[Jessica]: One of the big challenges of trails is when you have stuff to make go from, let’s say you’re buying something comes into the port, here comes in Chicago goes to Customs and it goes to railroads to Denver but you still have to load on into a trailer to get it to their respond destination. They’re just  skipping the rail road shortsightedly smaller. There’s still gonna be cargo that goes on train because it’s just too big for roads and you know, solar … So we’re talking solar. Wind Power, the company that makes the big windmills they shift primarily is a rail road because when shipping over the road then their special permanent … And you have standardized route. You know, it’s easier to specially from machine learning, it’s like it’s easier when you have standard process.

[Pavel]: And it’s also in high way, which, highway is a lot easier than city for driving for Google System that we … So yeah. I’m excited for what is gonna do and obviously some time out still they are looking at 2025 being you know the year that completely rose out. But until then I really do believe that Google will continue to improve the system and that by the time that it rose out, public perception of drivers was cars will be much more positive and less relook than it is today. So yeah I’m excited about that, and as I’m excited about many of Google’s venture.

[Jessica]: Yes. I would like to know where teleportation is.

[Pavel]: That’s I think, that’s one of their Google ex-ventures.

[jessica]: Probably. They are doing a lot, Ahmm, definitely! It will be interesting to see and of course, you know will, I’m sure will be talking about self-driving cars, again.

[Pavel]: It’s a promise, actually.

[Jessica]: Yeah! It’s a 100% chance. Yeah, something else, kind of interesting with Google that I saw, there’s an article which willing to shown note about how Google Now.

[Pavel]: Look, we’re now starting talking Google again.

[Jessica]: How Google is more helpful than Siri!

[Pavel]: Ohhh.

[Jessica]: Yeah, So when asking questions like Google Now because of its it really strong post of machine learning with that its now able to surpass Siri. So if you’ll ask question like how was, what’s the weather doing in the south or simple or somewhere and if its slicked up with your like flight and everything like Google Now … And oh you’re flying there and you’re getting in Saturday night. So it will give you the weather for Saturday night or let’s just saying what the weather is right now. … says to contacts more than Siri.

[Pavel]: Yeah. Siri is actually one of the last. I don’t know Apple has and been working a lot for national speech recognition by their definitely behind Google and the technology that is currently available but from what I understand they’ve been hiring a lot of people around machine learning and people who’ve done speech recognition from, I believe companies called New Ones and they are really looking up into ranking up Siri and I think it’s a wonderful for society to have options for digital assistance.

[Jessica]: And that’s what Apple release sold Siri ads, the digital personal assistant and I think Google now is set up to be your answer to whatever question you have.

[Pavel]: To a question that you may not even know you want to ask. Interesting tidbit about Google Now and the earliest federation of Google as we all familiar you know, Google offers the I’m Feeling Lucky from when you type within. Larry Page mention that was their first attempt to implement a Google Now type of process where you can get the answer without actually having to click or find it but the time they couldn’t implement it because they have the same hardware and software capabilities and now with the mobile, with the proliferation of the mobile devices in the context that our phones have, you know, like the flight information for example. It’s able to pull in all this relevant data to give you something meaningful and I think as Google and Apple continue to enter more about lives. This assistance, you know, Google Now or Siri will become more and more sophisticated  because it just have to allow more data.

[Jessica]: Did you? When Google first came out in its earlier adorations, did you ever use the “I’m Feeling Lucky†button?

[Pavel]: I have never used it. I have literally not once used it.

[Jessica]: Ohh. I used it quite frequently but never … it or want it.

[Pavel]: It’s an odd name, an awkwardly named function.

[Jessica]: I think it’s introduced as, by whoever a teacher or someone who said, “ Yeah! You may push this and its wonder like, Yeah! I’m just gonna bid all and just like rely on this algorithm and tell me what I need.  This algorithm is wrong. Follow up question, only a little bit about Google, think of every single individual you know who has a cellphone. What percentage of your friends or people in your network that you know do you think that have a cellphone that would be considered a basic mobile phone, so,  not Apple, not Android, not Microsoft, not Blackberry.

[Pavel]: So basically, not a Smart Phone or you know that’s Smart Phone.

[Jessica]: So it would be like a dump phone or one that’s not really major.

[Pavel]: Something like, I’m thinking zero. I’m sure I have friends but I don’t…  ‘coz I could still make fun of them.

[Jessica]: Would you say confidently that it’s not 30%?

[Pavel]: It’s not 30%. It’s maybe 2%.

[Jessica]: So, that should be have this … came out and their focus was that the percentage of phone shifted in Quarter 1 of 2014 that most of them were Android. And that was the focus, it’s a 44% Android, about 10% Apple and their big focus was on headline was that Android ships 4x many phones than Apple, & BlackBerry is less than percent.

[Pavel]: Oh. Wow.  Well, Android has traditionally had a market share.

[Jessica]: Yeah. I think there’s a far, they have far more phone options. Ahmm, looking at the list like Samsung. The Samsung Galaxy S4 release in Asia as different sq than in United States … was counted two different phones but what I thought was really interesting from this article that I got completely overlooked is I’m looking at this pie chart which will share what was shown out and 30% of people or 30% of phone shifted in the first quarter were considered basic mobile phones.

[Pavel]:  Really?

[Jessica]: And that’s town, it looks like the annual growth of town was like 40% of those and 40% annual, 25% quarter to quarter but still 30% of phone shifted are…

[Pavel]: I could believe that maybe for elderly…

[Jessica]: They got the good generator bug for old people?

[Pavel]: What’s that?

[Jessica]: It’s a, remember like, I don’t know if your little sister has one of this but like little kid phone that has really big button. It’s like that but it’s an actual phone for old people. So this huge button. Super basic, my grandparents have flip phone which they, everyone tell to turn off …

[Pavel]: Hey, my grandma has flip phone, too.

[Jessica]: It’s only way ‘coz they can’t like understand to lock. It’s too much explainly … push bug to lock. But I was thinking about this like, when I work in you know, more formal corporate of America, the phone that I have was Android pr else the Blackberry, assuming that many constructions or more industrial labor job that gives company phone, they are not Smart Phone … the next which have like …

[Pavel]: Oh I remember that.

[Jessica]:  But I think I found that shocking but the article it looks like it didn’t get over it.

[Pavel]: Let’s see a high number. I’m curious to see, and I would love to see and have more statistics on it. Maybe by some demographic data on who is buying it maybe by geographical location that are primarily… I’m curious what’s the urban versus you know, country I guess. That should be shown by full of Smart Phone versus flip phones or in a dump phones.

[Jessica]: Something that 2 articles are on the page. Only seen is a lot,where you see articles that says like Google+ is dead and the next article is like why you need to be in Google+. So we have this article about Android ships 4x as many phones as Apple, the next article is about how Apple the iPhone was the number 1 shift phone in quarter 1 of 2014 and it found that the highest, we have the 5S, the 16Gb was the top recorder one, followed by like 3 Samsung phones, 2 comes from Galaxy S4′s, 1 was the Asian marked one as US market’s SKUs and then it was another iPhone. So even though Apple is you know 4th what Android is for phone shift there’s still winning the game with the, i think there are few models but the models are ranking higher … the Android phones.

[Pavel]: Yeah, I mean and that’s one of Apple’s strength I feel to keep a tight group on their projects and you know, keeping a very slim product line and working in a very specific set of products. Google in general, Android systems, there are more or less available to other phone company.

[Jessica]: I think Android really takes the tail on glass … with you know, for the good, the pride of prince of Apple is going to 20% and Android saying, “Ahhh, we’ll take everyone else”.

[Pavel]: We’ll take the 80% which is 4x as much.

[Jessica]: Yeah. Definitely. I actually, just said it was interesting ‘coz I, my grandparents had a flip phone. I think I had one from Blackberry and got rid of it. And now, everyone I know has Smart phone.

[Pavel]: And part of what I was wondering, you know, again the urban versus the suburban, I guess. Distribution is you need Wi-Fi if you don’t have a consistent access of Wi-Fi, your Smart phone is useless, more or less. And as Wi-Fi, the internet generally continues proliferate, How much of that would influence people to get Smart phone?

[Jessica]: What we do see a lot of developing nations were their capable of minding things. They should straight too Smart to small cellphones … Definitely, a … more data on it. I don’t think it’s a global service.

[Pavel]: Mobile has a huge, I meant that’s really just preaching to the quire here with you and you know, our fans but yeah, mobiles has a future to see not just proliferation of phones but the proliferation of mobile apps. Mobile first apps. Not just mobile only like snapshot. I love what snapshot is doing. I’m probably one of the biggest fan of snapshot because I think they captures the spirit of mobile, in a way that I haven’t seen all the social networks captured. And a lot of questions have been ask how snapshot gonna make money? So one of the reason things announced, they started a campaign what sour patch kids, which I haven’t seen the biggest brand out there but we could go or maybe 2 weeks ago. They had the ADC, the music festival, they had the separate thing for it and it was basically like a live stream or they got people story shown publicly, and that’s what sour patch kids are doing. So they’re basically, creating sketch with the mascara or whatever and they’re joining the same commercials that would see TV except it’s you know, film in someone’s phone and they had 7D-second story that they had. I think we campaign started yesterday believe I found and now I saw the story that was the collection of 6-second vine pranks, basically. And it captures the idea that you don’t need the same distribution channels of TV to get your product out. You don’t need to fancy equipment, you just need your phone and idea. And they have like a vine superstar forgot’s name and they brought them honor that you just did pranks. And it’s a simple idea and to a lot of people that may seem childish but I really do think what snapshot is allowing companies to do and allowing people. First and foremost, … to have this real time communication that they don’t have with other channels. Like I see Fe, my girlfriend, she goes on checks her snapshots stories. As often, as she checks Instagram. She isn’t check Facebook, she checks Twitter sometimes. I was online and she … some guy in front of you checks his snapshots stories. People are using the app. People are sharing stories, there are people communicating  in ways that they haven’t before. You don’t have a profile, you don’t need to show off in the same way and have you know.

[Jessica]: It’s more personal, like even so I snob a GrubHub frequently. I do an accident at once, I included them on when I was spamming like everyone … and I included them and they responded and it was, I was sitting in a friend’s office with the Empire State Building’s background. Like, woah! What a horrible view, you’re being sarcastic. And I think I look a toy Dinosaur in that look. And they responded like ” It’s the worst! ” and it’s you have develop this personal relationship with the brand. When you use that? I’ve seen a lot of brands that would just push marketing, when you have that two-way communication or even there is someone that I’m … snapshot who sends, who send me a picture when his responding to something someone else sent him. I think it’s all one way. I meant it’s, it feels very personal.

[Pavel]: Yeah and it is even the pushed messages. I believed, I don’t really do, I don’t follow … for … or for deals like on Twitter or Facebook.

[Jessica]: You seen someone snapshot like … to watch?

[Pavel]: I’d love though.  It’s so raw but it’s funny and it’s like I haven’t seen it. I am entertained by snapshot, push messaging and grabhubs coupons. I use them. That’s the only time I actually use coupons because I get the code and I can just order from my phone. I haven’t, never explicitly receive coupons through facebook or twitter in the same way that I’ve use and it’s just allowing me in a more convenient way because you know it sent to me. I only have, you know, personally I have like 10 messages at most from people including like in the story so I’m not innodated with information in the same way I’m on twitter or facebook.

[Jessica]: D’you think because it’s so well curated that you have it, you’ve set a small group that you really know people…

[Pavel]: No, I just think it’s not as widespread yet.

[Jessica]: Yea, I think, you know with the sour patch kids. The group that they are targetting is so specific on snapshot that I think your hour wide of any activity. You might have less of a reach but you’re actually hour wide per person who sees it and it’s gonna be a lot greater.

[Pavel]: Oh yeah. I think Gary V made this point, you know, when someone sends you snapshot you know they’re gonna look at it becaue this message will disappear and there is this sense of “Oh I have only six seconds to look at it.” And you look at it for six seconds.

[Jessica]: I love it that it’s so… There is a gentleman I follow named Jessie who I went to highschool with and he travels around Europe cause I think he’s woking in Germany right now. And I don’t check my snapshot for good maybe once a week but I’ll have like 20 from him. And they’re amazing, they’re like “This is Switzerland and Austria” just like awesome, awesome, awesome photos. And there’s always little text with it, sometimes it’s a video. But I love that I just have like a cue of his so it doesn’t show me his name thirty times.

[Pavel]: Yeah, and you just see like a 70 second video.

[Jessica]: Yeah, I spent like 10 minutes on it the other day cause I have like 60 of them.

[Pavel]: Yeah? Wow. I haven’t.. Like again, snapshot is exciting to me.

[Jessica]: It’s such a different experience.

[Pavel]: And I’m excited that it’s not innodated with information and brands because it’s hard right now, it’s hard for brands to figure out how to market. Not that I mean how to market, how to advertise, how to push their message because you need to have a cellphone, you need to have someone who’s specifically doing it and you need to connect to a specific, unique number. Marketers aren’t even figuring out instagram yet because a lot of times…

[Jessica]: Marketers haven’t figure out how to do marketing online yet. I mean, I would go that far. There’s a lot of companies that are literally just taking their tv yet and putting on the youtube video or they’re taking…

[Pavel]: But Im’m just talking simply from the hardware limitation because you could only upload while there’s ways around it but more or less you can only upload through your phone and that scares brands for some reason because they need to do it through their computer.

[Jessica]: You can have thirty people that can see it.

[Pavel]: Yeah. So it’s the fact that it’s limited to your phone. I love it. And that’s part of what makes it so personal because I know it’s not from someone’s phone or wasn’t some that uploaded this photo.

[Jessica]: They pick your name because you can’t select which honestly if anyone. If I’m kind of anyone and their last name is past like C or D. They don’t get it from me because I spam.

[Pavel]: I’m so excited about snapshot. Again I’m happy they did not get bought out. Someone needs to something different.

[Jessica]: That was like the marketing. When they, everyone was so upset that they turn down the offer and then like two days later they release all their updates and it was like

“Ooooh!”.

[Pavel]: No, I was upset with that people who were upset with them. I’m like, everyone was like ” Oh, they’re stupid, they turn that money.” And it’s like, you know this whole American capitalist “Oh how can turn down 3 billion, you’re so dumb!”. It’s like, they have a vision. They have a vision that they truly believe in and they want to create something. Like they’re not, maybe they will not make 3 billion next five years but for people to be so upset at someone else not taking money and instead working under dream or vision. I was upset of people for that especially people in the marketing world who then go around complaining about facebook. Oh, I can’t believe facebook is hurting my organic reach so why don’t you want more competitors. Why don’t you want other means of, you know, engaging with other people. It didn’t make sense to me.

[Jessica]: I think we talked about this when it came out, when all the updates too. Snapshot has done a lot of, they made a lot smart moves where they kept the interest of snapshot and their fanbase and their userbase in mine instead of looking at how we’ve been of a person in front of us.

[Pavel]: And they’re slowly bringing brand that make sense for them. Grabhub make sense for them..

[Jessica]: Wolf brand would like to see on snapshot

[Pavel]: I would love to see not a brand, let’s say like some sports team. Like i would love to see, you know, behind the scenes like you know… Kobe Bryant is like goofing around the lock room or something.

[Jessica]: You know, Mark Cuban has his own version of kind of like a whispher snapshot combination.

[Pavel]: What’s it called?

[Jessica]: Dustpan

[Pavel]: Santa?

[Jessica]: Something cause he had all that SCC trouble, they suspended like he’s text messages and emails so he wants a platform where you can, where everything stored in the cloud and nothing is ever reaching on the server and it’s just completely erased right away. Cause if it was like thinking of a sports team, you know, he’s very tech forward. And I could see him doing something but he…

[Pavel]: And wherever he publicly complained about facebook about a year ago

[Jessica]: Siverdust

[Pavel]: I don’t know if I like that name

[Jessica]: He bought it in the 90′s which is why it sounds old.

[Pavel]: Did he buy the name or did he give the idea back?

[Jessica]: He bought the domain. I think Mark Cuban like many of us are digital hoarders when it comes to domains and such. I think snapshot is a great way to form a two way communcation chain but it needs to be done right. Like Gary V snaps at people a lot, like he sends stuff on snapshot a lot but I’ve responded to his stuff, like sent him “Oh, we have to send egazoo and panda has his face painted like a panda bear.” I sent that to Gary V and he never responded. Right, so it’s like a one way communication chain and he is someone who’s, who I think does a lot of really good things in the social space. So I just kinda pointed he dropped the ball on that. And I’ll say he did because like it was a one way communcation chain. The value of social in this new platform is the two way communcation be able to take the user feedback or move people from like send me something on snapshot and then moving it over to a platform.

[Pavel]: I am actually taking a selfie right and we’re gonna put it on a snapshot story. And I will leave my snapshot name in the notes, show notes, so you can maybe follow in or check out the selfie. The only one thing that I don’t like is you can’t easily change your name.

[Jessica]: I don’t like that either. I didn’t think mine is not a line with my brand and all other platforms.

[Pavel]: Yeah. I don’t why I had a different name on it. I, one of it, Manaveli, which was a..

[Jessica]: Manaveli?

[Pavel]: Yeah, it was my old playstation tag. I got that as a combination of Navel and Makaveli, so I got Manaveli.

[Jessica]: Oh, gotcha. We will put that in the show notes. So something, that kind of leading from the, you know, user experience conversation. Drop box, you know, has gone recently on kind of a been java acquiring other platforms. And they have bought out and shut down predictive edge which was an AB testing platform which is you may not know is the industry in which I spend most of my time. So they acquired predictive edge, they do AB testing specializing in something that is called dynamic pricing. So it’s the idea of when a user comes to your website based on where they are, some of their characteristics, maybe their browser, their history with the site, you’re gonna give them a surprise. That is going to list of the greatest, ideally the greatest revenue for you. So if you have users in one region who like New York City users, people, in general, tend to have higher anchor points are willing to spend more money on things. Your users in New York City, you will introduce them to higher price point, hotels, airlines, all the time. Notably one of the supposed customers of predictive edge was over with their initial pricing schemes. I do believe that’s changed because dropbox shut down predictive edge. This was definitely a more of a higher than an acquisition. So the founders from predictive edge are suddenly their website are no longer working on, that they’re working for dropbox now to solve challenges outside the world of AB testing with one of the followers updating is linkedin, I’d say that in dropbox, he’s now working on building mail at drop.. building mailbox at dropbox. We saw dropbox acquired mobile span, which is a cloud security company. Drop talk was very recent which does messaging and parastructure which is a data analytic start up. I view data analytics as very much of the same line of AB testing because we’re acquiring a lot of data compare on how we really leverage it to get the best customer experience or at least to the response we want. When it looks like and for some of the chatter that we’ve heard around the text space that dropbox is focusing on making a mailbox solution. You know, with google mailbox, you can link things from google drive so my prediction, my prediction for dropbox, they come out with an enterprise level focus mailbox solution that allows you to also collect cloud storage in everything you do, to back everything up.

[Pavel]: I think that where there enterprise level is something that I feel hasn’t got us much attention. I know Google has been going after some enterprise level solution with their google services. I don’t remember where I read it but again that part of what, you know, the word on the sheet was. Their trying to focus their services on enterprise level, dropbox is trying to do that. It makes sense, you know, Microsoft got big through enterprise, I can’t say that word easily, enterprise solutions..

[Jessica]: When they have Outlook 365 released, which is a lot more cloud based, they’re trying push google one drive which is their cloud solution as an alternative to make me share point but there’s.. I think it’s so big in our case that I think it’s hard to be agiled.. it’s really to meet the needs of the customers when you are focusing on building something that it’s just like super super secure and you dont necessarily care if it’s user friendly because of the enterprise is not having people hack into their mail.

[Pavel]: And I think what, you know, google, dropbox folks think on these things. I think the gap between the consumer level aand neterprise level will narrow because the focus, you know, like you said is still about keeping the information secure, but then you have, you know, google has the ability, dropbox has the ability to work on the user experience.

[Jessica]: We did see from Google this year that they’re working and rolling out having on your phone being able to have your work in your personal profile. To still have like your mailbox that’s split between the two so you’re able to share apps and share processes without having to worry about, you know, accidentally overlapping the two.

[Pavel]: And that’s important too, I think, because otherwise if you can’t separate it then you have concerns about, you know, your boss will be concerned that you are using the wrong account or something and…

[Jessica]: A lot of large companies still have very discrete tracking on all of their employee’s activites so I mean, most large companies do or they at least, they may not be extracting on the personal level but overall corporate espionages is still huge huge challenge so they’ll have systems in place that can flag when employees are engaging in certain behavior that is indicative of either like they’re gonna leave or they might be spending their time on other things, a lot of times a little like chapter emails and so do make kind of a profile of what they’re most frequently used terms are, and who the’yre emailing it to build almost like a social network. It’s very interesting the ecosystem of end run and emails prior to its collapse. Prior to…

[Pavel]: The whole scandal?

[Jessica]: Everything coming out, they found like there were like networks of employees that were communicating about certain things because they predicted a coming and they want to build a help with each other, you know, to surivive it. Yeah, it’s very. People don’t… You know, your employer doesn’t have to disclose that in most situations.

[Pavel]: I wouldn’t know if I’m gonna work in those situations. But you know, I’m excited about the future dropbox, I actually love the service I recently signed up for the 100 GB and I automatically backed up my iPhone photos to dropbox. I love it, it’s awesome.

[Jessica]: Dropbox or google drive? Who’s winning?

[Pavel]: Dropbox. I don’t know why. I just love dropbox more. I don’t, I can’t put my finger on it, but something about dropbox I like more. And I love mailbox, the app. I love the ability to just news messages, it’s a nice, clean user friendly interface. So I’m excited to actually doing something a lot more than what they were two years ago. You know, two years ago, they were simply just a cloud storage solution now they are expanding, they are growing and, you know, maybe in five years, you’re gonna be making a dent and other areas as well. You know, depending on where the acquisitions go.

[Jessica]: I would like to see dropbox roll out a google apps competitor because I use google apps for a lot of things and there’s definitely limitation to it and I think dropbox can do it better. I don’t need google plot like I know I like google plus since I was still a dome, but I feel like having to interface everything with google plus can be a bit strenous and tedious. I think dropbox can do it better. I don’t need social integration into my cloud storage. I like to have the option, don’t force it on you.

[Pavel]: The one thing I just hate about google drive is it’s, and even google plus because I have my work account, home account and bunch of other accounts, switching between two sometimes doesn’t work, like if I…

[Jessica]: There’s limitations to how many accounts you can have so if you use chrome, you know, you just switch on the top right. If you’re going into drive, there’s limitations on how many accounts you can be logged into and still access drive. I might have like six accounts that are linked and you can only have like three at a time so I have to log other things. I wanna combine dropbox in my google drive accounts but I want it in chrome. Dropbox if you are listening.

[Pavel]: I hope that you are actually. That will be cool.

[Jessica]: Dropbox. No big deal.

[Pavel]: Not yet. Yeah, I’m excited. And just to wrap up, you know, the episodes has been a little long, I would definitely love to hear what your happy moment of the week was.

[Jessica]: It’s so as you.. Cause I thought there were like the New Zealand group or brand. I really didn’t know much about them. But they also did around the super bowl they did if we would have made a super bowl commercial, instead of actually finding the airtime, adn it got a lot more traffic. So it’s interesting they’re making little short videos specifically for youtube, instead of spending money on television apps. What is your happy moment of the week?

[Pavel]: My happy. I have a few. I originally actually gonna go with city bike because I rediscovered how much I love biking and I… God, if you one day passes I got the app. I think the app could reimprove. There’s definitely certain things I don’t like about it, like it doesn’t have a bike lane map, for example. So that was the happy moment part one of me, like discovering this. What I did remember recently. One of my favorite twitters, I forgot to handle, I think its @coentheghost. He’s part of, I don’t know if he’s a he. Their part of, you know, the quote a quote wierd twitter and the profile release a series of excesstential monopoly cards of the community chess and the chance cards and they were hilarious. I can’t really even share what it was because it was, they had the community chess where they had the same illustration for example, you know, the original was, you know, you want 50 dollars for beauty peagent and the guy or the lady rewrote it and it’s like you’re flash is valuable, you use it often and I was just like really weird and it was like get out of jail card was like, there’s only one cage left fly towards the sun. And like that’s my sense of humour and that’s why i love weird twitter.

[Jessica]: It’s very nightville.

[Pavel]: Oh, I love, Oh God. Oh, I love welcome to nightville. That should have been my happy moment.  I think one of these episodes I’m just gonna read a bunch of my favorite, welcome to nightville statuses. It’s the only status that I share on my facebook, as in like share from other brands. So, I gave you guys three happy happy moments.

[Jessica]: We’re delivering..

[Pavel]: You can never have too much happiness.

[Jessica]: Well, let us know what your happy moment of the week was. You can find me at Jessa Bahr on twitter.

[Pavel]: And you can find me at Pavel Navel on twitter, but not snapshot.

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