This guest post comes from Mark O’Neill. Mark is a frequent speaker and blogger on APIs and security. He is the co-founder and CTO at Vordel , now part of Axway. In his new role as VP Innovation, he manages Axway’s Identity and API Management strategy, including the API […] .
Category: Social Media Trends
How data scientists are changing the face of business intelligence
How data scientists are changing the face of business intelligence Nick Cicero 9 hours ago Follow Humans are walking data centers and our interactions and behaviors, no matter how minuscule, are building a near infinite pool of aggregate data over the course of our lifetime. This data can be […] .
Africa’s mobile money makes its way to Europe with M-Pesa
Editor’s note: Tomorrow Transformed explores innovative approaches and opportunities available in business and society through technology. (CNN) — Snapchat may be the latest application with a new mobilepayment feature launched this week, but the idea that made Snapcash possible was spawned more than seven years ago in Africa. When […] .
Facebook censorship has increased 19% in the past 6 months
Now more than ever, governments around the world are eager to get their hands on data about Facebook users — and now more than ever, they want to remove content disappear from the social network. Global surveillance requests for Facebook user data in the first half of 2014 increased […] .
Spotify kills its app platform three years after its launch
A A Permalink to Spotify kills its app platform three years after its launch Summary: Spotify wanted to make its desktop client more social when it introduced third-party apps three years ago. Now, those apps are getting killed off. Spotify is killing its app platform as it updates its […] .
Twitch bans nude, suggestive gaming
By Doug Gross , CNN Twitch, on which users broadcast images of themselves playing video games, was purchased by Yahoo in August. (CNN) — Looks like it’s a bad time to be sexing up your publicly viewable video gaming. With debate swirling over treatment of women in gaming, Twitch, […] .
Top Five Health Innovations of the Week
This week’s innovations include a video service that connects patients with doctors and a new technology for painless injections. Each week PSFK.com with its partner Boehringer Ingelheim brings you a snapshot of five innovative ideas that are reshaping the health care industry. This week’s innovations include a video service […] .
How Researching Competitors Can Improve Your Blog Content
Do you need ideas for blog topics? Do you know what content performs best for your competitors? When you know what content works for your competitors, you can use those topics to brainstorm ideas for your own blog articles. In this article I’ll share five ways to research your […] .
Facebook wants to bring back the anonymous chatroom
Facebook has released a new chatroom app called Rooms where people can talk about shared interests under fake names. (CNN) — Remember in the late ’90s when you would kill time in AOL and IRC chatrooms or post on Usenet? You’d strike up conversations with strangers about subjects you […] .
Content Creators Flee From YouTube, Flock to Facebook for Videos
One of the most interesting data pulls we have done in a long time shows that YouTube is coming under increasing pressure to maintain their status as a major distributor of video content. And where are marketers increasingly going for sharing video content? Yes, that’s right, Facebook. Socialbakers analyzed over […] .
These Brands are Great Storytellers and Excel at Social Customer Care
Achieving Socially Devoted or Smart Storyteller status is tough, and for good reason. It’s extremely difficult to excel at both customer care and producing top-notch, engaging content, frequently. The recently-launched Smart Storytellers benchmark measures content performance by industry and page size that perform in the top 25% against the competition; […] .
Many users are outraged at the idea that Twitter might use an algorithm to filter their feeds
Summary: The suggestion that Twitter might apply Facebook-style algorithmic filtering to its timelines — something executives have said they are considering — seemed to strike many users as the worst thing that could happen to the service A post we published at Gigaom on Thursday morning seems to have […] .
Infographic: How social is affecting back-to-school shopping
Crowdtap Back to School Shopping Infographic Back-to-school shopping is back — spending will reach $74.9 billion this year, according to National Retail Federation estimates, making back-to-school the second biggest consumer spending season of the year, other than the winter holidays. The NRF also reports that consumers are planning to […] .
The Infusion of Brand Marketing and Big Data Analytics
The Infusion of Brand Marketing and Big Data Analytics Branding is a representation of the market identity of a company. It is a tool by which a company is able to build their own identity, to communicate what their products are, the quality of their services and the projection […] .
Adidas Neo Label Hosts World’s First Tweet-Powered Fashion Show
Adidas Neo Label Hosts World’s First Tweet-Powered Fashion Show If it wasn’t for the screaming teens running after Selena Gomez in her Cadillac, down 11th avenue in New York City, you wouldn’t have know that an Adidas fashion show was taking place. It was a scramble, boys and girls […] .
YouTube Videos: What’s not to like?
YouTube Videos: What’s not to like? image In addition to the displayed number of views, YouTube has a unique rating system that allows users to show whether they Like or Dislike a video, created in order to level the playing field and distribute content. Before March 2010, a 1–5 […] .
Harnessing Mobile Users: The Power of Big Data in Social Apps
Harnessing Mobile Users: The Power of Big Data in Social Apps The mobile application space has exploded in recent years. This exponential growth is a result of increased demand for mobile applications that serve any need from ordering a pizza to sending sepia-soaked selfies to friends. With demand has […] .
Influence: Be the First to Give [INFOGRAPHIC]
Influence: Be the First to Give [INFOGRAPHIC] In the digital world we are fascinated by influence. We want to know who has influence and we want to know who is influenced by whom. We strive for influence in our personal and professional lives and we reject the overt nature […] .
10 Reasons to Combine Search and Social
10 Reasons to Combine Search and Social The combination of search and social is one which cannot be ignored and must be embraced by all. Search engines have changed the way they rank your business because of the integration of social media signals when looking at search algorithms. Around […] .
Twitter reviewing policies after Robin Williams’ daughter harassed
By Doug Gross , CNN Zelda Williams, the daughter of Robin Williams, closed her social media accounts after receiving abusive messages. Zelda Williams, the daughter of Robin Williams, closed her social media accounts after receiving abusive messages. (CNN) — Twitter is looking to revamp its user-protection policies after Zelda […] .