Electronic Scores Rank Consumers by Potential Value…
The pace of these types of things will only increase… AMERICANS are obsessed with their scores. Credit scores, G.P.A.’s, SAT’s, blood pressure and cholesterol levels — you name it. So here’s a new...
View ArticleWelcome to the new reputation economy and what that could mean
A couple of key points from this great article: Personal reputation has been a means of making socioeconomic decisions for thousands of years. The difference today is that network technologies are...
View ArticleAirbnb Launches Neighborhoods, Providing The Definitive Travel Guide For...
I was surprised by this news… Today in San Francisco, Airbnb announced the launch of Airbnb Neighborhoods. The new product allows users to find the experiences they want based on their int.. Today in...
View ArticleHow Entropy Is Creating Web 3.0 Right Under Our Noses
Really good thought provoking post here, worth thinking about how this will effect your industry. Marty’s StruggleI’ve had a problem lately. I’ve been preoccupied with how my job as a Marketing...
View ArticleAs We May Think: A 1945 Essay on Information Overload, “Curation,” and...
Really good piece here about a topic we think is new to our time but has been thought about years ago: “There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing...
View ArticleHow Luxury Will Win the Shopping Wars
“Clearly unsatisfactory” is what Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly called the company’s third-quarter earnings. It’s a droll bit of understatement–so French!–when words like “plunge” and “dismal” more...
View ArticleGoogle’s New Data Highlighter Lets You Add Structured Data To Your Sites...
Google wants website owners to add as much structured data to their sites as possible in order to improve its search results and Knowledge Graph boxes with rich snippets like event listings, reviews...
View ArticleReport: Data Caps Help Carriers Rake In Huge Profits
Here’s some commentary… Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch.Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other...
View ArticleIntel Is Reportedly Going To Destroy The Cable Model By Offering People The...
Intel has been looking at TV for a while. Intel is reportedly on the cusp of delivering something that consumers around the world have been wanting for a long, long time. Kelly Clay at Forbes...
View ArticleThe Real-Time Marketing Drumbeat Gets Louder, as Agencies, Brands Sign On
Companies are using what they learn from rapid-response marketing in social media to create efficiencies in their broader marketing organization and to find ways to deploy real-time strategies not...
View ArticleBack to the future: What if the ‘mass media’ era was just an accident of...
When it comes to the traditional media business, there is often a pervasive nostalgia for “the good old days,” when a handful of newspapers and TV networks ruled over the media landscape and...
View ArticleOur Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control
Maybe in some cases, but probably not where patents and copyrights are concerned. Just look at the controversy over a recent ruling that made unlocking your cellphone a felony punishable by five years...
View ArticleWise.io Debuts Machine Learning Service That Offers To The Public What Google...
Google, LinkedIn and Amazon have thousands of engineers who point their work inward to build better recommendations, search and other Internet-scale features. Wise.io is launching today to offer a...
View ArticleHow Starbucks Went Digital– And Why You Should, Too (Infographic)
As other companies struggle to adjust to an increasingly digital world, Starbucks stands out as a success story. A stunning 94 percent of all Facebook users are either a Starbucks fan or friends with...
View ArticleThe Future of Digital Marketing Is You
I agree with this pretty much 100%: Every minute, the worlds 2 billion Internet users upload staggering volumes of data to the web: an estimated 200 billion emails, 48 hours of YouTube videos, 684,478...
View ArticleDont Diss Cheap Smartphones. Theyre About to Change Everything
That means for a vast number of people in a vast number of countries, the cheap handset will be the first screen, and the only screen. Their primary interface with the world. A way of connecting to...
View ArticleOnline Video to Make Up 84 Percent of Net Traffic, Cisco Says
Internet traffic will likely more than double in five years, and much of it will be used for online video, according to a new estimate from Cisco Systems, which released its annual Internet traffic...
View ArticleMindRDR A Google Glass App You Control With Your Thoughts
Google Glass has made a name for itself (somewhat infamously) as head-mounted hardware that you can control with your voice and a sliding finger. Now, a team based out of interactive studio This Place...
View ArticleGoogle’s most important business has a huge problem
Google stock has been flat for a couple of years, and we’ve decided to take a closer look at why. One metric that people who are pessimistic about Google like to talk about is the declining amount that...
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