The relevancy-defining, edge-weighting algorithms of Google’s Knowledge Graph, Facebook’s Open Graph and Gravity’s Interest Ontology are closely guarded company secrets. Imagine if that data was available to everyone — it would… Read more »
Financial institutions are looking beyond FICO scores to Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets to measure a borrower’s risk profile. That’s not always bad. Read more »
Email sometimes seems like an outdated technology, but email newsletters can still be a thriving business model. The former CEO of Daily Candy offers some guidelines. Read more »
Ahead of our Mobilize event Oct. 16 and 17, we asked experts how 50 billion connected devices and 6 billion people change their industry. In this essay GE’s Bill Ruh tackles the topic of data. Read more »
In her new ebook, Cybersexism, Laurie Penny argues that the degradation of women online has become all too common — and condemns those who think it is innocuous. Read more »
When it comes to converting interest in your app to downloads, permissions can be a huge stumbling block. Here’s how to make the user more comfortable, and more likely to install… Read more »
With internet.org Facebooks strikes at Google and Apple in the quest for global domination. The next fights won’t play out in Europe and the U.S., but in developing nations. Read more »
Over the course of a decade, GigaOM writer Mathew Ingram used a variety of tools to snoop on the online behavior of his three daughters — in this post, his daughter… Read more »
Facebook pitched hashtags as a wondrous upgrade for users. The real beneficiaries will be brands and advertisers as they get ever closer to their potential customers. Read more »