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Mar 22, 2019
The global water crisis is a subset of climate change. Here are 3 flaws with framing them against each other.
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Mar 22, 2019
How do you get an advantage over your competitors? In this article, discover how to spy on your competitors and what you need to spy on in order to improve your own digital marketing strategies - and gain that ever elusive competitive advantage.
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Mar 21, 2019
How much is enough for YouTube creators? We should focus less on the answer and more why we're asking the question to begin with.
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Mar 21, 2019
With a thoughtful strategy in place—a strategy that goes beyond a technical imperative—companies can capitalize on several core benefits of APIs.
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Mar 21, 2019
Facebook has just admitted to exposing hundreds of millions of passwords. Find out who is impacted and how to secure your account
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Mar 21, 2019
Facebook has just admitted to exposing hundreds of millions of passwords. Find out who is impacted and how to secure your account
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Mar 21, 2019
Twitter is a divisive topic for many nonprofits -- but success on Twitter can come in many different forms. Here's how your nonprofit can benefit from using Twitter, even with a very limited time investment.
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Mar 21, 2019
Rather than rendering governments obsolete and ensuring unfettered information access, the web has actually not only entrenched the power of governments over information but gone further to grant them powers of control unimaginable in the print era.
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Mar 21, 2019
Apple is set to launch its own streaming TV service next week, but it will never beat Netflix or even Hulu because 'Friends'
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Mar 21, 2019
The Moon may be a great place to make water according to NASA scientists. Here's why.
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Mar 21, 2019
Do you want to drive more traffic to your blog? Leverage these 4 tried and tested blog promotion methods to boost shares and traffic.
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Mar 21, 2019
As artificial intelligence-driven automation changes the nature of work and workplaces in unpredictable ways, how are nations shifting the way they think about the workforce?
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Mar 20, 2019
The story of how Kubi Springer went from an intern with Diddy to helping some of the largest companies in the world to build their brand
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Mar 20, 2019
Get free followers on Instagram; that is the holy grail for marketers and indie content producers. Let's look at the data from studying 48 million people to get to the top 11 steps or ways of free Instagram follower nirvana...
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Mar 20, 2019
Evaluating the future of influence relating to celebrities, influencers and brands.
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Mar 20, 2019
After his open letter on privacy, is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg serious about privacy issues surrounding users of the social network behemoth and its associated platforms Instagram and WhatsApp? One fintech industry pioneer widely recognized as the inventor of digital cash (crypto) begs to differ.
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Mar 20, 2019
After his open letter on privacy, is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg serious about privacy issues surrounding users of the social network behemoth and its associated platforms Instagram and WhatsApp? One fintech industry pioneer widely recognized as the inventor of digital cash (crypto) begs to differ.
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Mar 20, 2019
I love to discover new and clever ways to get things done, I think most of us do. There are a ton of apps out there that are designed to make life a bit easier, but these are the top 5 that I use consistently to make my day run a bit smoother.
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Mar 19, 2019
Viacom is taking its case directly to DirecTV customers after failing to come to terms on a new distribution agreement with the satellite TV provider's corporate parent AT&T.
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Mar 19, 2019
After years of criticism, Facebook has agreed to "sweeping" changes in how it treats housing, employment, and credit advertisements.
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Mar 19, 2019
After years of criticism, Facebook has agreed to "sweeping" changes in how it treats housing, employment, and credit advertisements.
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Mar 19, 2019
The crowdfunding world - traditional or more blockchain/crypto-related - might be getting a little more crowded of late. As a financing vehicle it has been around for years, but is there a shift in the sands with some traditional platforms mounting a fight back and giving ICOs a run for their money?
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Mar 19, 2019
The rise of white nationalist terrorism shows how accelerating technology needs a new ethics of use.
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Mar 19, 2019
It is worth looking more closely at how automated content moderation works today and especially the cost-capability tradeoff and the lack of incentives for platforms to remove horrific content given that they profit monetarily from such material.
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Mar 19, 2019
Recent social media backlash, over JK Rowling's latest Dumbledore interview, shows that Twitter is tired of her performative retconning.
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Mar 19, 2019
A new avatar, a funny nickname and a specific outlook are all it takes to create a new identity. While it may seem strange, the companies investing in virtual avatars are betting big on a simple concept—that the future will be virtually mediated.
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Mar 19, 2019
Along with its Google Plus app, Google is shutting down Google Inbox on the same day, joining Allo and tons of other apps in the Google App Graveyard
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Mar 19, 2019
Despite his early business success, Joe Binder finds comparison a difficult drug to quit.
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Mar 18, 2019
Four lessons that emerged from a panel of experts that watched the Great Plains flooding unfold.
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Mar 18, 2019
In just three short decades, the web has taken us from governments as gatekeepers to informational anarchy to a new era in which a handful of private companies act as gatekeepers to the world. Perhaps the path forward is to create an information literate public that can tame the chaos on its own.
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Mar 17, 2019
By treating reifications, assertions about assertions, as first-class objects in the Semantic Web, the idea of interchange between property and semantic graphs and the ability to work with graphs using a much broader set of tools opens up.
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Mar 17, 2019
We are increasingly commercializing the study of misinformation into sham science based on false findings derived from bad data wrapped in a shiny wrapper of technological hype and hyperbole. How do we restore scientific rigor to the study of misinformation and where do we go from here?
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Mar 17, 2019
It is now a year ago that the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which saw Facebook user data hoovered up for use in political campaigns, broke into the headlines. The legal and business repercussions continue to this day, but has Mark Zuckerberg actually learned his lesson?
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Mar 16, 2019
As we are increasingly separated from the production process of the information we consume, what does this suggest about the future of our trust in information?
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Mar 16, 2019
Know your (limited) rights when it comes to Greyhound buses.
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Mar 16, 2019
There was a common thread that I picked up in the many examples of exemplary retailers being singled out at ShopTalk. Simply put, it's the creation of great customer value, over selling goods. This was particularly evident among the successful category disruptors represented.
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Mar 15, 2019
Be under no illusion, whether the person who made the Newsfeed is at Facebook or not, the Newsfeed will survive and thrive.
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Mar 15, 2019
Tech giants are scrambling to contain a 17-minute video of mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in what is one of the most insidious uses of sharing violence on social media.
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Mar 15, 2019
Internet companies sought to contain the fallout after a mass shooter broadcast a 17-minute video of his deadly attack on two New Zealand mosques and left a trail of references to other hate crimes on social networks, highlighting these ubiquitous' platforms role in fostering extremist views.
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Mar 15, 2019
Tech giants are scrambling to contain a 17-minute video of mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in what is one of the most insidious uses of sharing violence on social media.
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Mar 15, 2019
Many consumers think nothing of accessing video streaming services without paying for it using someone else's account even though it's stealing.
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Mar 15, 2019
The next version of Android brings significant enhancements for photographers.
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Mar 15, 2019
Following a significant data breach, a titanic loss of consumer trust, calls by numerous politicians for regulation, and a massive service outage, Facebook wants to become a bank issuing its own cryptocurrency. Who will trust Facebook Bank?
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Mar 14, 2019
Consumer protection advocates fear that the folks featured in a new Aladdin commercial might not be friends like me.
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Mar 14, 2019
Memes have exploded in popularity and they are hard for brands to control. This article discusses how McDonald's, Starbucks, Balenciaga, Apple Air Pods, Netflix and IHOP have entered the meme conversation with highly viral memes, some intended and some as consumer generated content.
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Mar 14, 2019
Memes have exploded in popularity and they are hard for brands to control. This article discusses how McDonald's, Starbucks, Balenciaga, Apple Air Pods, Netflix and IHOP have entered the meme conversation with highly viral memes, some intended and some as consumer generated content.
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Mar 14, 2019
Facebook said an outage kept users from posting updates, sending messages, commenting and using other functionalities, for more than 22 hours was the result of a server configuration change.
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Mar 14, 2019
The #DressForSTEM movement on PI Day brings much needed attention to the challenges women face in STEM careers.
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Mar 14, 2019
Record-breaking VR game officially eclipses the 1M install mark in just under a year.
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Mar 14, 2019
Record-breaking VR game officially eclipses the 1M install mark in just under a year.
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Mar 14, 2019
Facebook and Instagram users were unable to access the service yesterday. So what happened?
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Mar 14, 2019
While millions of users bemoaned yesterday's social media meltdown, the global outage of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook was great news for rival messaging company Telegram.
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Mar 13, 2019
Wednesday's sustained outage of Facebook and Instagram for millions of users worldwide led to some unique challenges for nonprofits around the U.S., especially the 24-hour Roanoke Valley Gives event taking place in western Virginia.
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Mar 13, 2019
Facebook and Instagram users on Wednesday were met with messages that the social media sites were down. Some users aren't able to log into their accounts at all while others are experiencing limited functionality.
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Mar 13, 2019
Facebook and Instagram users on Wednesday were met with messages that the social media sites were down. Some users aren't able to log into their accounts at all while others are experiencing limited functionality.
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Mar 13, 2019
The "bomb cyclone" affecting the U.S. is "not" an inland hurricane - The basics on how hurricanes and mid-latitude cyclones differ.
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Mar 13, 2019
The "bomb cyclone" affecting the U.S. is "not" an inland hurricane - The basics on how hurricanes and mid-latitude cyclones differ.
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Mar 13, 2019
IBM's recent use of a huge collection of photographs stored on Flickr to train facial recognition algorithms could open a very interesting discussion regarding the use of all the pictures and materials we constantly upload to social media.
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Mar 13, 2019
The hashtag appears to have emerged on Twitter as a response of the shift from conversation to sharing, but as its popularity declines, what might replace it?
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Mar 13, 2019
Are technology oligarchies good or bad for competition in the marketplace? Should the giant technology companies that own huge segments of their markets, be broken up to encourage more innovation and competition? Or is "big" good for consumers?
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Mar 13, 2019
Africa is threatened by Tropical Cyclone Idai on one coast and Saharan dust on the other coast. Here's what is happening.
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Mar 13, 2019
Ad boycotts are based on the faulty notion that there is a relationship between the ads and content that's near them.
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Mar 13, 2019
Ad boycotts are a pointless distraction that creates more problems than they solve. The best way for Fox haters to "punish" the news channel is to ignore it.
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Mar 13, 2019
See where you rank in this study and why people have strong emotions on this topic.
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Mar 12, 2019
Huawei should know better by now than to use stock photography to promote a smartphone camera.
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Mar 12, 2019
The distinctions between machine learning and semantics are disappearing - they are both simply tools for managing the metadata associated with the data that flows through every organization and domain.
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Mar 12, 2019
Twitter has shrunk almost in half, shed its vaunted geotagged resolution, centralized around an ever-older set of elite accounts and transitioned from a place to hear from the world to a place to retweet from afar. What does this mean for the future of the global town square?
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Mar 12, 2019
We must confront the most existential question of the digital age: has Facebook grown so powerful that it is now simply too late to do anything about it?
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Mar 12, 2019
A new challenge has gone viral and this one is prompting people around the world to clean up their nearby green areas and post before/after photos.
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Mar 12, 2019
A smartphone app from behemoth automotive nav and infotainment maker HERE lets users plan rides to shared destinations via multiple providers in 15 global cities, with more to come. What now, Uber?
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Mar 12, 2019
A smartphone app from behemoth automotive nav and infotainment maker HERE lets users plan rides to shared destinations via multiple providers in 15 global cities, with more to come. What now, Uber?
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Mar 12, 2019
A new campaign targets Apple's iOS but could be adapted for Android. Here's how to avoid it
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Mar 12, 2019
A new report lists the happiest and the unhappiest cities in the country.
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Mar 12, 2019
Not all personal branding advice is valuable. Here's some common advice you must ignore so you can build your personal brand and expand your success.
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Mar 11, 2019
In a world in which data is increasingly seen as a bulwark against misinformation, perhaps we should spend a bit more time reexamining all of the truisms we take for granted about what our data actually tells us.
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Mar 11, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg just made a lengthy announcement that has been described as a privacy pivot. Zuckerberg's plan is a pragmatic move of a hyper-focused, obsessive CEO and little to do with privacy; it is not even a pivot; it appears tone-deaf as it gives ammunition to those who criticize Facebook.
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Mar 11, 2019
Six weather and climate factors indicating a healthy El Niño right now.
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Mar 11, 2019
Nonprofits often wonder why their Facebook content -- and particularly their live-streaming videos -- are not receiving a lot of traditional engagement. But success often comes when nonprofits look beyond the 'like' button to measure genuine impact.
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Mar 11, 2019
In our rush to livestream our lives into Facebook's walled garden, we are signing away the rights to our privacy, our thoughts and even our likenesses to a private company that can do what it pleases with our information and is under no obligation of any kind to tell us what it does with our lives.
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Mar 11, 2019
Shoptalk 2019 offered a lot of insight into the top concerns for retailers, and shed light onto possible strategies for succeeding in the future.
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Mar 11, 2019
Consumers' ability to control when and how they watch ads on the net is being eroded by the increasing intrusiveness of online advertising. The risk that many consumers will be alienated is high.
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Mar 11, 2019
Is our conversation about Facebook and privacy something new, born of the Cambridge Analytica scandal or did the events of last year simply bring the dormant issue of privacy back into the global conversation after three years of silence?
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Mar 11, 2019
They're just okay? The new ones recently announced seem the best yet.
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Mar 11, 2019
High-end brands, as well as consumer electronics, have recently been advertised for spot prices up to 300 Euros primarily to the general public. Individuals are being asked to transfer crypto and when transfer is completed, the seller vanishes with the money and the products are never delivered.
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Mar 11, 2019
Following a new wave of Instagram Cryptocurrency fraud in which fraudulent sellers offer luxury brands to anticipated buyers at bargain prices, each user that consider a purchase of an item via Instagram might review a potential purchase using the following seven-step process.
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Mar 10, 2019
One of the top folks responsible for putting Broadway performers in plum roles is not a casting director.
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Mar 10, 2019
Computer scientist and author Cal Newport shares how to have more intention around the way we use digital tools in order to live a fuller life.
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Mar 10, 2019
Perhaps Facebook is like Moses: It has its eye on the promised land. It won't get there itself, but it has pointed the way for others. The Internet's land of milk and honey represents an intersection of privacy, intimacy and interconnectedness--things that human beings will always crave deeply.
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Mar 10, 2019
Branding and marketing are two slices of a pie that gives companies a competitive edge over others in their industry. They differ slightly, but both of these things are needed for companies' long term survival. Branding deals with an image and message that resonates with the company's audience.
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Mar 10, 2019
If our data mattered, we would be spending the time to understand it and adjusting our methodologies and research agendas to match its strengths and limitations. In a world in which we seem increasingly uninterested in what our data actually says, is there any hope left for the future of "big data?"
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Mar 09, 2019
The Battle for YouTube has been taken over by a dogmatism that is a disservice to the platform and community. It's time to unsubscribe.
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Mar 08, 2019
As we increasingly shift towards streaming and e-books, that externalization of information and centralization to an ever-smaller number of streaming companies means we are edging ever closer to 1984's "memory hole."
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Mar 08, 2019
In the last 110 years, since the first (domestic) women's day, some important progress has been made to ensure women's equal rights. These successes will erode if the suppression of women's equal rights is reintroduced by other means.
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Mar 08, 2019
The biggest tech companies have gotten too big, presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren argues. She is proposing to break up Amazon, Facebook and Google, regulate them like utilities and unwind many of hteacquisitions the firms have made in recent years.
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Mar 08, 2019
Five reasons why Elizabeth Warren is not targeting Apple for breakup.
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Mar 08, 2019
If technology and policy are truly going to protect women from violence, they must abandon norms of victim blaming and instead target the people who stalk as well as the tech companies whose devices and software can easily be exploited to harm women.
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Mar 08, 2019
Given the lack of competitive broadband markets, many cord-cutters can't say goodbye to their cable company entirely.
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Mar 08, 2019
How is it then that over almost seven years all of our statisticians, programmers, disciplinary experts and other data scientists missed all of these warning signs and failed to adjust how they were using Twitter? Have we simply stopped looking at the data we analyze? Or are we just chasing fads?
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Mar 08, 2019
New search analytics reveal a strong correlation between interest in Marvel Studios' first female title character and engagement with female empowerment issues online.
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Mar 08, 2019
Personal finance expert Farnoosh Torabi is launching a pop-up called Stacks House to create an interactive experience for women and money. Her goal is to change the way women see money and financial literacy. For Gen Z and Millennial women, this might be exactly the right tool to help build wealth.
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