ResearchSocial second-quarter 2014: analysis and outlook
We’re now transitioning to a new economic model where the exploding scale of both mobile and cloud has shifted real value to the services that connect us. At the same time… Read more »
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We’re now transitioning to a new economic model where the exploding scale of both mobile and cloud has shifted real value to the services that connect us. At the same time… Read more »
Facebook is constantly experimenting on its users by tweaking the newsfeed in both large and small ways, a former member of the company’s data science team confirms, and some of the… Read more »
The attempt to use Reddit to drive traffic to its new online-gaming news destination worked wonders for CBSi’s website OnGamers, until the link-sharing community spotted what it calls vote manipulation and… Read more »
A study manipulated the news feeds of hundreds of thousands of Facebook users in an attempt to show that emotional responses can be affected by the behavior of our social connections,… Read more »
Google(s goog)’s earliest social network, the decade-old Orkut, will shut its virtual doors at the end of September, the company said on Monday. This mainly affects Brazilians, as the service has… Read more »
I read the buzzy stories and commentary about Google I/O with great interest this week, and wrote a piece about their new pricing on Google Drive and what that means (see Google… Read more »
Professional social network Declara has expanded its series A round to include two new investors and an additional $9 million in funding. The company’s technology platform uses machine learning to connect… Read more »
Organizations need a coherent approach to innovation, one that allows successes to be replicated and failures to provide lessons for the future. That means the different innovation techniques or priorities need… Read more »
Google, Facebook and Amazon have shown us again this week why the combination of a quasi-monopoly, vested interests and an inscrutable algorithm can be a dangerous thing for internet users, since… Read more »
Facebook’s director of product Mike Hudack posted a rant about the inadequacies of the media — including some new-media sites like Vox — and their focus on click-bait content, but many… Read more »