Leland Char

Consultant @McKinsey

[Leland Char @CharLeland]

@livekit Hey @LiveKit team 👋 We're super eager to upgrade our voice agents to Gemini 3.1 Flash Live!

We're currently hitting a 1007 WebSocket error because 3.1 rejects send_client_content during generate_reply. I see PR #5238 perfectly fixes these A2A payload issues!

Any ETA ? 🚀🎙️

[Leland Char @CharLeland]

Just submitted SayMei to the @Replit Mobile Buildathon. It's an AI Chinese teacher — real-time voice conversations with a lip-synced video avatar, persistent memory across sessions, and 231 lessons covering HSK 1-6. No other app combines all three. Built entirely on @Replit

[Leland Char @CharLeland]

Apple’s change is expected to impact the ability of advertisers to target ads the way they have been, since people likely won’t opt in to letting apps track them. https://t.co/UwzTCQNNwZ

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For the first time, Amazon provided advertisers with attribution data that showed when ads bought through its demand-side platform led to purchases made in-person at its more than 500 Whole Foods Markets across the U.S. https://t.co/jIiBeaMiwR

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Walmart U.S. Q1 comp sales1 grew 6.0%; 16.0% on a two-year stack. Q1 FY22 GAAP EPS of $0.97; Adjusted EPS2 of $1.69. https://t.co/opRIP8FhGD

[Leland Char @CharLeland]

Virtual try-on is a game-changer and solves what has historically been one of the most difficult things to replicate online: understanding fit and how an item will actually look on you. https://t.co/xrO8tcbJfl

[Leland Char @CharLeland]

Advertising has replaced product recommendations and personalization on Amazon and other retailers’ websites. https://t.co/vM2BdAsIMV

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The telecom giant saw an opportunity to put a dent in digital advertising's duopoly by combining its muscle in the mobile space with the reach and name recognition of publishers like AOL and Yahoo. https://t.co/Jn6YcUZCZr

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Fraudsters infected nearly one million mobile devices with software that mimicked streaming-TV apps and collected revenue from unsuspecting advertisers, according to cybersecurity company Human Security Inc. https://t.co/w5DyIU4GUZ

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Family Dollar is the latest retailer to launch a media network, allowing the discount chain to work more closely with brands and allows those partner brands better access to customers. https://t.co/XM3I4QK8jJ

[Leland Char @CharLeland]

Testing helps keep our communities safe, allows us to travel and to hug and see loved ones, while still following CDC guidance to keep ourselves and others safe. https://t.co/RDWDjpapZ9

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A new sales deck shows how Walmart is ramping up its digital advertising pitch to compete with Amazon and other retailers. https://t.co/83xxUz5MTu

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A bipartisan group of lawmakers is asking questions about the inner workings of digital advertising amid worries the industry’s user-targeting capabilities could pose a threat to national security. https://t.co/nwECyTA9FA

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Amazon. com Inc.’s share of the U.S. digital ad market grew to 10.3% last year from 7.8% in 2019, according to a new report from research firm eMarketer. https://t.co/j6f30zlRMD

[Leland Char @CharLeland]

As iPhone maker rolls out software update, apps and advertisers look to other methods to reach users and target ads. https://t.co/HafueDFWc9

[Leland Char @CharLeland]

Digital advertisers are pushing alternatives to web cookies that compete with a Google proposal, the latest industry efforts to adjust to new curbs on how personal data is used online. https://t.co/zcgN6zMjGe

[Leland Char @CharLeland]

With the recent announcement from Google that it will not use alternate identifiers to track data in its products, even after third-party cookies are phased out, brands and publishers are feeling the heat. https://t.co/byyvKK58BV

[Leland Char @CharLeland]

The Big Three of digital advertising—Google, Facebook, and Amazon—already dominated that sector going into 2020. The pandemic pushed them into command of the entire advertising economy. https://t.co/0WBFqAYxVH

[Leland Char @CharLeland]

Media buyers say there’s a glut of retail media digital inventory, but their clients are not won over. Instead, their ad budgets are still prioritizing the same platforms for search inventory they’ve always relied on for impressions. https://t.co/63VUOoH8xS

[Leland Char @CharLeland]

T-Mobile US Inc. will automatically enroll its phone subscribers in an advertising program informed by their online activity, testing businesses’ appetite for information that other companies have restricted. https://t.co/GDMK8DcdCt