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Aug 17, 2018
Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are "dead." Their enterprise role is restricted to infrastructure duties. Digital Business Officers (DBOs) - immersed in business units - should become the champions of digital, where old and new business processes and models leverage emerging digital technology.
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Aug 16, 2018
Now that Alex Jones has been booted off Facebook, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify and his Twitter account has been locked for 7 days, here is what you will miss.
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Aug 16, 2018
Buffer / BuzzSumo Facebook Marketing Report analyzes 43 million Facebook Business Page posts and finds 50 percent decline in engagement (2018). They also offer some useful Facebook marketing strategy help that we share as well.
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Aug 16, 2018
Loneliness is an affliction most people are familiar with, but not so many of us are aware that loneliness is lethal and a public health crisis. A crisis that may be disproportionately affecting those isolated by distance and even by the very digital technology they think connects them to society.
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Aug 16, 2018
We are hosting events across the country in our quest to understand the issues facing the over 50 market. We have gatherings that are informal with 5-10 people in attendance. Our next move is into public events where we can include more voices.
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Aug 16, 2018
The Spoke is a recommendation engine that aggregates your friends' movie and restaurant recommendations and makes them yours.
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Aug 16, 2018
A tech takeover of the advertising business was in full swing this summer at the annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, the Oscar of the advertising industry, with Google, Facebook, IBM, Pinterest, Twitter, Unity or YouTube seizing the show's best spots: The beaches.
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Aug 15, 2018
Why do good brand stories matter, and what is a brand story? Storytelling is key to our civilisation and a good narrative key to marketing our brand and making it stand out in a crowded marketplace. Here are some steps to creating an authentic brand story.
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Aug 15, 2018
Not quite four years old, Bumble has launched its own fund to invest in other female-founded and female-led startups.
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Aug 14, 2018
Recruiting and managing Boards of Directors is difficult at best and dangerous -- if done poorly -- at worst. Make sure your Directors are competent, and remember that boards represent shareholders to which they have fiduciary responsibilities. Remember also that boards can be very political.
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Aug 14, 2018
Millennials are twice as likely than Baby Boomers to suffer anxiety. New solutions are here to ease professional and personal stress
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Aug 14, 2018
Millennials are twice as likely than Baby Boomers to suffer anxiety. New solutions are here to ease professional and personal stress
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Aug 14, 2018
Celebrities like Trisha Yearwood and Tony Horton are selling their wares on TalkShopLive and Co-founder Bryan Moore explains how you can too.
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Aug 14, 2018
Current and former Tinder executives are suing the dating app's parent companies for allegedly bullying and misleading plaintiffs out of billions in stock value, among other complaints.
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Aug 14, 2018
Current and former Tinder executives are suing the dating app's parent companies for allegedly bullying and misleading plaintiffs out of billions in stock value, among other complaints.
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Aug 14, 2018
Current and former Tinder executives are suing the dating app's parent companies for allegedly bullying and misleading plaintiffs out of billions in stock value, among other complaints.
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Aug 14, 2018
Current and former Tinder executives are suing the dating app's parent companies for allegedly bullying and misleading plaintiffs out of billions in stock value, among other complaints.
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Aug 14, 2018
Facebook will show all 380 La Liga games live in India, Pakistan and six other countries in what is a win-win deal for both the social network and Spanish soccer's expansion plans
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Aug 14, 2018
Accepting social networks as alone time will help us use them in a healthier more productive way.
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Aug 14, 2018
Ubiquity6 launched its full stack AR cloud solution today.
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Aug 14, 2018
Ubiquity6 launched its full stack AR cloud solution today.
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Aug 14, 2018
Swedish politicians and lawmakers observed what happened in 2016 in the U.S. elections and prepared a number of countermeasures to fight disinformation, fake news and organized propaganda. Will it suffice?
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Aug 14, 2018
A free burrito app is exactly what the world needs. Dos Toros has got you covered with Burrito Time.
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Aug 14, 2018
A free burrito app is exactly what the world needs. Dos Toros has got you covered with Burrito Time.
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Aug 14, 2018
NASA will soon launch astronauts from U.S. soil after retiring the Space Shuttle but the space program never left.
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Aug 13, 2018
Whether Tesla goes private or stays public, here are 5 things Tesla can do to live up to its potential.
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Aug 13, 2018
Burn scars from wildfires pose a flood threat. Here is the science behind this "hidden hazard."
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Aug 13, 2018
Informed consent and the right to opt out are sacred tenets of ethical research, yet Science, Nature, PNAS and APA's response to Social Science One's Facebook research datasets raises the question of whether those rights are still relevant to today's big data era.
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Aug 13, 2018
Plexiglass is an eight-week accelerator programme that just had its first graduation. Here's why that matters.
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Aug 13, 2018
I want to have a very successful business. More and more I have questions about using social media as a vehicle to get there. My company is here to promote well-being. These platforms are proven to cause depression and anxiety. How can I reach people where they are without doing more harm than good?
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Aug 13, 2018
The Fine Brothers have built a thriving media company the past 14 years on the back of their own popular YouTube videos. Now they've evolved FBE into a diverse company preparing for the coming transformation of how people watch video entertainment through online providers.
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Aug 13, 2018
We interviewed Anna Pettus, VP of Strategic Ops. at TechStyle Fashion Group, the parent company to JustFab, ShoeDazzle, Fabletics and Rihanna's new Savage x Fenty. Anna discussed how TechStyle is re-thinking the customer service experience while growing the e-commerce busines
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Aug 13, 2018
We interviewed Anna Pettus, VP of Strategic Ops. at TechStyle Fashion Group, the parent company to JustFab, ShoeDazzle, Fabletics and Rihanna's new Savage x Fenty. Anna discussed how TechStyle is re-thinking the customer service experience while growing the e-commerce busines
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Aug 13, 2018
Fortnite launched season five last week, which resulted in almost immediate server downtime. Thankfully, Pornhub was there to pick up the slack.
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Aug 13, 2018
Is your Facebook Page suffering from a steep drop in engagement rate? According to a 2018 study conducted by Buzzsumo and Buffer, you're not alone.
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Aug 13, 2018
A shopper's ability to see "before and after" images before he or she actually buys an untested product (or a service like a haircut) removes a pain point that cuts to the heart of most consumer decisions: perceived risk.
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Aug 13, 2018
A shopper's ability to see "before and after" images before he or she actually buys an untested product (or a service like a haircut) removes a pain point that cuts to the heart of most consumer decisions: perceived risk.
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Aug 13, 2018
Meet the woman behind the digital healthcare community that's educating consumers around the world about weed for wellness.
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Aug 13, 2018
Emerging managers with diverse backgrounds (industry, cultural, etc.) have hacked venture in more ways than one. Their contrarian approaches have significant outcomes and shaped our world (eg: Chris Sacca with Uber, Twitter, Instagram etc.). We find it important to find and share such stories.
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Aug 13, 2018
Emerging managers with diverse backgrounds (industry, cultural, etc.) have hacked venture in more ways than one. Their contrarian approaches have significant outcomes and shaped our world (eg: Chris Sacca with Uber, Twitter, Instagram etc.). We find it important to find and share such stories.
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Aug 13, 2018
No longer the icing on the brand cake, a social conscience is vital to success in every respect. Aside instigating an ethical mindset there's major mileage in noting how charities - a sector where shoe-string budgets drive strategic ingenuity - are connecting authentically and mobilizing support.
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Aug 12, 2018
We should always focus on the person that's reading or watching our content, and what they are feeling, and why? That leads us to a POV that each piece of content has a job in a person's life.
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Aug 12, 2018
Stock market regulation - particularly the role of the SEC - could be applied to fight the poisonous effects of misinformation on our political process.
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Aug 12, 2018
Social Science One was intended to usher in a new era of transparency and reproducibility in social media research, but the initiative's silence on whether it will permit open replication raises concern.
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Aug 12, 2018
This digital nomad is traveling the world to find out how entrepreneurship changes from country to country.
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Aug 11, 2018
Over the past few years, wedding planning has changed as well, thanks to social media. There are striking differences between the ideal wedding today and the ideal wedding in the pre-social media era. As anyone might expect, the cost of weddings has also been affected.
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Aug 10, 2018
Neuroscience has a decent grasp on the ways our brain develops, processes stimuli and reacts to the world around us. But with each day, that world becomes noisier, more cluttered and chaotic. But to stop ugly, angry social media engagements, we have to know why our brains like conflict and drama.
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Aug 10, 2018
It's only a matter of time before conspiracy theorist Alex Jones will run afoul of Twitter's rules.
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Aug 10, 2018
The War against smoking and nicotine addiction is being lost to Vaping. Potential Health Care disaster in the making.
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Aug 10, 2018
The War against smoking and nicotine addiction is being lost to Vaping. Potential Health Care disaster in the making.
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Aug 10, 2018
Internet companies have for too long asserted that they are simply plumbers, running value-neutral pipes to convey content. Like Dorsey, they contend that it is for others to determine the truth of what runs through those pipes and to refute falsehoods.
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Aug 10, 2018
Facebook's inaugural academic research dataset with Social Science One raises serious questions about the company's commitment to allowing users to actually delete their data or have control over who can access and use their private information.
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Aug 10, 2018
LunchBlocker, the latest app from MSCHF, in support of MobyDish, is another silly app for silly people.
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Aug 10, 2018
Facebook is removing blueprints for 3D printed guns from its site, saying they fall foul of its community guidelines on the sale or exchange of firearms.
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Aug 10, 2018
Facebook is removing blueprints for 3D printed guns from its site, saying they fall foul of its community guidelines on the sale or exchange of firearms.
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Aug 09, 2018
Students at Utah State University can now swipe right on their school — or more specifically its Sexual Assault and Anti-Violence Information Office. The office, or SAAVI for short, created a profile on the popular Tinder dating app to reach students.
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Aug 09, 2018
There's a lot of crying. The trick as CTO is to do it under my desk.
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Aug 09, 2018
The academic world's latest salvo in the war against Facebook's new privacy efforts is a letter demanding the company exempt them from its rules against mass harvesting, fake accounts and fake posts, ironically asking the company roll back the very protections academia had long fought for.
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Aug 09, 2018
The science behind the viral picture of California wildfires that is actually a Hawaiian sunset.
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Aug 08, 2018
Earlier this year Sandberg and Zuckerberg alluded to an ad-free subscription Facebook, but would ad-free really translate to surveillance free? Medium's vast archive of user data, its terms of service and its silence on how it uses all of that data offers a note of caution.
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Aug 08, 2018
New York's City Council voted to pass a package of bills around ride hails, including a one-year moratorium on vehicle licenses as regulators study the effects, and minimum pay rules.
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Aug 08, 2018
New York's City Council voted to pass a package of bills around ride hails, including a one-year moratorium on vehicle licenses as regulators study the effects, and minimum pay rules.
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Aug 08, 2018
New York's City Council approved a of package ride-hail bills, including a one-year moratorium on vehicle licenses as regulators study the effects, and minimum pay rules.
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Aug 08, 2018
Perseid meteor shower viewing may be hampered by wildfire smoke. How can you find out if your area will be affected?
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Aug 08, 2018
With companies who utilize it growing 50% faster than those who don't, here's why 'big data' is a big deal for business owners.
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Aug 07, 2018
As part of the social media giant's plan to end the toxic culture of abuse by users, Twitter is using college professors to audit its platform. The company claims to have reviewed more than 230 proposals globally, though none of the winners were black professors or from HBCU's.
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Aug 07, 2018
Today's connected consumers are not swayed in the long term by temporary incentives nor do they feel beholden to a brand because it managed to attract their attention with a clever campaign. Only those brands who proactively work at evolving with the digital times will be left standing.
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Aug 07, 2018
Today's connected consumers are not swayed in the long term by temporary incentives nor do they feel beholden to a brand because it managed to attract their attention with a clever campaign. Only those brands who proactively work at evolving with the digital times will be left standing.
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Aug 07, 2018
Researchers using data from Twitter to analyze trends in e-cigarette use in the U.S. found the conversation dominated by bot accounts, which appeared to favor positive messages.
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Aug 07, 2018
Researchers using data from Twitter to analyze trends in e-cigarette use in the U.S. found the conversation dominated by bot accounts, which appeared to favor positive messages.
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Aug 07, 2018
After concerns were raised earlier this year, the Pentagon has banned military troops and other workers at sensitive sites from using fitness trackers and other applications that can reveal the user's location.
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Aug 06, 2018
When dealing with people in this "world's most public customer service channel," companies have to be ready for almost anything. But sometimes the front-line customer service agent is not equipped to handle a situation; it is in these cases that escalation is essential.
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Aug 06, 2018
I spoke with Co-Founders Brian Verne and Ishaan Sutaria about the vision behind their company, the future of sports media and their plans for building a social entertainment empire.
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Aug 06, 2018
Facebook has been in talks with banks to get access to your financial data. Sounds great doesn't it?
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Aug 03, 2018
The decision by Google and others to let web content creators add smart snippets, coupled with the use of schema.org, will make it possible to turn your web pages into rich, intelligent databases. It's been a long journey, but with this, the Semantic Web becomes a reality.
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Aug 03, 2018
It's ultimately worthwhile for physicians to build up a social media presence.
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Aug 02, 2018
Once Vogue Arabia was released, supermodel Naomi Campbell implore the company to create a Vogue Africa as a contributing editor to British Vogue. The publication has yet to credit African designers for their impact on the global fashion industry, and help them to attract more consumers.
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Aug 01, 2018
Fake news, conspiracies, and outright lies (FCL) intended to undermine US institutions and the US culture are exploding in social media. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify FCL when they occur and counter-attack in real-time with evidence. Foundations can fund a consortia to kill FCL.
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Aug 01, 2018
Fake news, conspiracies, and outright lies (FCL) intended to undermine US institutions and the US culture are exploding in social media. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify FCL when they occur and counter-attack in real-time with evidence. Foundations can fund a consortia to kill FCL.
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Aug 01, 2018
Fake news, conspiracies, and outright lies (FCL) intended to undermine US institutions and the US culture are exploding in social media. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify FCL when they occur and counter-attack in real-time with evidence. Foundations can fund a consortia to kill FCL.
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Aug 01, 2018
Say cheese! (And watch what happens).
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Aug 01, 2018
No more pretending you aren't addicted to social media.
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Aug 01, 2018
Months after its founders have left the company, WhatsApp is making it easier for more businesses to potentially advertise through the messaging service.
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Aug 01, 2018
Nearly 17 years after Garrett Camp first launched StumbleUpon, he's building off of what he learned and applying it to a new company, called Mix.
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Aug 01, 2018
MoviePass is on its way to being a failed experiment. Can it be saved if it moves to the blockchain? A price hike won't do it.
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Aug 01, 2018
Kneejerk regulations to protect user privacy may come at a cost for law enforcement.
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Aug 01, 2018
Smart technology is becoming more and more popular, so council members weighed in with tips on what the government should prioritize with regard to implementing it in cities.
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Aug 01, 2018
Daniel Franklin is executive/diplomatic editor of The Economist. We sat down with him to discuss the world/ work of quality journalism in a PostTruth world. He has worked with the publication for 30 years, including as Europe Editor, Washington Bureau Chief, & Editor-in-Chief of Economist.com
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Aug 01, 2018
Daniel Franklin is executive/diplomatic editor of The Economist. We sat down with him to discuss the world/ work of quality journalism in a PostTruth world. He has worked with the publication for over 30 years, including as Europe editor, Washington bureau chief and editor-in-chief of Economist.com.
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Aug 01, 2018
H&M's agile new brand, Nyden is differentiating itself from its mothership and the rest of the high street by marching to the beat of its own drum: considering itself part start-up, they'll be no standard seasons nor collections, just drops when it deems fit and collabs with ‘tribal' tastemakers.
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Jul 31, 2018
This article examines how Documents, the French ethnographic-artistic publication now almost 90 years old, was in many respects a precursor to the Internet, especially the various visual experiments I have observed over the years online.
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Jul 31, 2018
Facebook expects revenue to "decelerate" in the second half of 2018, declining by high-single-digit percentages (8%-9%) from prior quarters sequentially in both Q3 and Q4 mostly due to fewer ads in the "News Feed", which accounts for more than 80% of Facebook's total revenue.
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Jul 31, 2018
Once again the social media giant is trying to reign in the possible misuse of its 2.2 billion users data. Facebook has suspended Crimson Hexagon for harvesting data from its site. Has the bar for suspension been lowered somewhat over the last year?
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Jul 31, 2018
Once again the social media giant is trying to reign in the possible misuse of its 2.2 billion users data. Facebook has suspended Crimson Hexagon for harvesting data from its site. Has the bar for suspension been lowered somewhat over the last year?
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Jul 31, 2018
Facebook announced it has deleted 32 pages linked to disinformation and political interference; unfortunately, the platform's chock full of them.
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Jul 31, 2018
Facebook announced it has deleted 32 pages linked to disinformation and political interference; unfortunately, the platform's chock full of them.
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Jul 31, 2018
Facebook announced it has deleted 32 pages linked to disinformation and political interference; unfortunately, the platform's chock full of them.
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Jul 31, 2018
Facebook announced it has deleted 32 pages linked to disinformation and political interference; unfortunately, the platform's chock full of them.
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Jul 31, 2018
The TV Time community, consisting primarily of 18-34 year-olds, has tracked more than 10 billion episodes of television to date and users check into the app more than 43 million times per month. Today, the company announced the launch of its new global analytics platform, TVLytics.
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Jul 31, 2018
NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence unveiled last week The News Hero, a Facebook game designed to help readers identify online misinformation.
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