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Cheat Sheet: Predictions 2025

This year’s cheat sheet contains 63 entries, up just a bit from 61 last year. Once again, Forbes offers the most potential, with several of its contributors likely to explore what’s to come.

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Cheat Sheet: Creator Targets

The creator phenomenon is a tough one to simplify for a cheat sheet; this one is equal parts product reviewers and analytical reporters. Then again, multiple entry points can make a cheat sheet more valuable.

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Cheat Sheet: Kubernetes Targets

Here’s a cheat sheet with 15 targets who cover Kubernetes. It’s a different take on the devops and open source names you already know. Several folks at the New Stack cover Kubernetes — Joab writes the most.

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Cheat Sheet: Cloud Targets

Lots of people cover cloud these days but who’s at the core of it? This SWMS cheat sheet offers 17 targets across Tier 1, trades and verticals. The challenge was not to omit obvious go-to’s, but still come up with targets you may not have considered.

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Cheat Sheet: Luxury Gift Guides

This short-and sweet cheat sheet will guide you to edit shops that produce luxury gift guides. You may get a kick out of the products and services of appeal to the rich.

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Cheat Sheet: Design Targets

In B2B, design often refers to silicon and semiconductors. But just as often, it means the art and science of building elegant, successful consumer-facing products and services. This makes it challenging to build a cheat sheet…

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Cheat Sheet: Design Podcasts

Here are seven podcasts produced by legit experts in the design field. The podcasts are updated frequently, so there appears to be a good amount of “inventory” for you to pitch to.

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The Atlantic Goes Monthly Again in Print

The Atlantic soon will publish 12 print editions a year, up from ten. “The greatness of print and especially a print magazine is that it sits still for you,” EIC Jeffrey Goldberg tells CNN. “It doesn’t beep and flash and demand that you do things.”

TechCrunch Redesigns

TechCrunch redesigned this week. Still green, less clutter. Built for the phone. Events and newsletters rank higher in the home page scroll than startups, venture and AI. No enterprise section. Parent Yahoo invested this money to build engagement. More changes due in 2025, EIC Connie Loizos says.

Wired To Launch Awards Program

Adweek’s Mark Stenberg reports that Wired is getting into the awards business. The Wired 101 Awards will debut in October. Be on the lookout for the announcement.

BI’s AI-based Paywall Increased Conversions by 75 Percent

BI’s publishing software knows what you’ve clicked on before and where you came from. Through Google Analytics, BI also knows how all readers react to certain content. Once you visit, BI knows whether to ask you to subscribe, or to register, or just to let you see everything for just that one visit. Conversions rose 75 percent this year. Digiday got the scoop (subscription required).

A Forbes Within Forbes

Fascinating piece from Lars Lofgren about how a Forbes subsidiary — under the Forbes name — has managed to dominate Google search results…

…and now it turns out that Forbes — both iterations — are set to be purchased by the venture arm of Koch Industries. Nice scoop, Sara.

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