Customer Behavior - To keep up in today's fast-paced consumer environment, marketers need to measure and analyze signals that are up to the minute, accurate, and in context. | Continue reading
Most integrated development environments (IDEs) and text editors are full of useful features, but, for the most part, they aren’t connected to the Internet. Because of this, developers often have to switch context to Google the solution to a problem or look at a language’s manual … | Continue reading
Gary Vaynerchuk is the co-founder and CEO of Vaynermedia. He’ll be speaking at TNW Europe in Amsterdam this May, alongside 130 other top-flight speakers. It’s no secret that we are living in an era where everybody is a media company. This is something I have said time and time a … | Continue reading
With language like this, social networks become a natural point of interaction between people and things, and TAGs will make it seem effortless for us all. This is already the way existing entities on the Internet (including Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) create relevance and c … | Continue reading
The advent of email tracking has caused quite a bit of ruckus, and is generally, rather creepy. A NY-based startup called One More Company made an attempt to tackle this head-on with a service called Trackbuster, but now they’re interested in something else: “enhancing emails” by … | Continue reading
Shonali Burke, CEO of Shonali Burke Consulting, joins the Influence Pros Podcast to talk about wearing many hats, the importance of context, and keeping community at the center of everything. | Continue reading
You can't ask for much better mashup fodder than Kanye West's "I Love Kanye": it's short, spare, rhythmically precise, and unmistakable no matter the context. That's a long way of saying it's "good." John Tesh's baroque, absurd "Roundball Rock" was the theme song for NBC's NBA co … | Continue reading
Every few years, a public figure proposes repression and violence in the name of patriotism, and we go back to the dystopian novel It Can’t Happen Here. Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 book is currently being read in the context of Donald Trump’s presidential run, built on bare-faced xenoph … | Continue reading
My former boss, Jerry Ceppos, once said he worried that the San Jose Mercury News was covering the tech industry without enough scope or context, as if we would have covered the Italian Renaissance by measuring how many cans of paint were sold. At the time he said this, Silicon V … | Continue reading
“There is no substitute for knowledge.” [W. Edwards Deming, The New Economics] At Conversation Agent we believe in developing knowledge so that we can extract the right data at the right time to make decisions appropriately. Which is why there are no shortcuts to knowledge —it is … | Continue reading
Asana, an enterprise app that lets people set and track projects and other goals, has hit a goal of its own: today, the company is announcing that it has raised $50 million. The Series C round — led by Y-Combinator’s Sam Altman — values the company at $600 million, the company te … | Continue reading
For human lip readers, context is key in deciphering words stripped of the full nuance of their audio cues. But a technology model for lip-reading developed at the University of East Anglia in the UK has been shown to be able to interpret mouthed words with a greater degree of ac … | Continue reading
Creating content on the Web can be tedious, but Adobe thinks it’s cracked the code. A new Adobe Labs project is not only trying to help us stay creative, but also building content for multiple delivery mediums. First, Smart Authority monitors your text input, then pulls in relate … | Continue reading
When Apple introduced its new iPad Pro 9.7″, one of the small technical specifications touted has led to the most questions from readers: the new embedded Apple SIM. For context, Apple introduced its Apple SIM — a programmable version of a regular SIM card that allowed people to … | Continue reading
Zendesk has launched a new app to help a company’s service agents better respond to support tickets. Called Pathfinder, it arms them with insights, data, and context about the customer’s “journey” on the site so agents can provide relevant information to solve problems faster. “W … | Continue reading
Apple today responded to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys’ reply to Apple’s motion to vacate an order to help the FBI unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone. “This case arises in a difficult context after a terrible tragedy. But it is in just such … | Continue reading
For some reason three of the links to today's Learning Habit went missing between the time I tested the new format and the time it sent. Maybe it got ahead of itself like the rest of our clocks for Daylight Time Savings. Here are the links: 2. / How informality is more than nice … | Continue reading
Veritas Genetics was one of the first companies to sequence the entire human genome for under $1,000 in 2015. It’s now taken that technology a step further by delivering the results of your entire genome in an app. To put in context just how radical this is, consider the first at … | Continue reading
Microsoft-owned Skype today announced new integrations of its messaging and calling capabilities inside more Microsoft services: specifically Office Online (that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote Online) and OneDrive. “This creates a natural, collaborative experience … | Continue reading
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are on track to sell roughly 50,000 copies of their new album This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, a total that seems unremarkable until you put it in the right context. Their first-week sales are being dwarfed by those of The 1975, the ambitious British pop band w … | Continue reading
One of my favorite William Gibson short stories is called "The Winter Market," and it's about psychic art. The protagonist is the oneiric version of a film editor, handling the potent, nihilistic dreams of a dying prodigy. Midway through, there's a phrase that I've been thinking … | Continue reading
When you think of using your favorite mobile app, what words come to mind? Convenient? Simple? Frictionless? Now, what if I change the context to buying something on mobile? Do those same qualities of ease still apply? For many consumers the answer is, unfortunately, nope. Not ye … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: A Facebook executive said yesterday that Facebook’s Messenger would be opening itself up to marketing, but he avoided using the word “ads” to describe the service, in what appeared to be a subtle correction of a report released last week saying Facebook will soon “laun … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss BuzzFeed in the context of the Brother Orange story, then talk about Amazon’s Dash Button and Home Services initiative, along with a dive into the technical details of Amazon’s balance sheet (sorry, it’s a bit dry) and why Ben is nervo … | Continue reading
In this week’s episode Ben and James discuss tradeoffs in the context of net neutrality, AT&T’s new gigabit service, and Lenovo’s Superfish debacle Note: when talking about the history of cable, Ben kept saying “companies” instead of “communities.” Sorry for the confusion! Links … | Continue reading
I've written a package for chaining context-aware handlers in Go, called Stack. It was heavily inspired by Alice. What do you mean by 'context-aware'? If you're using a middleware pattern to process HTTP requests in Go, you may want to share some data or context between middl … | Continue reading
metaio presented the VENTURI research project at its annual insideAR 2014 conference on augmented reality, which took place in Munich on the 29th and 30th October. A typical part of the conference is the presentation of funded research projects that Metaio is involved in. VENTURI … | Continue reading
Twitter offers a phenomenal platform for the social sharing of information. We describe new resources that have been created in the context of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) to support the academic study of Twitter as a real-time information source. We formalize an informat … | Continue reading
Twitter offers a phenomenal platform for the social sharing of information. We describe new resources that have been created in the context of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) to support the academic study of Twitter as a real-time information source. We formalize an informat … | Continue reading
I can divide the negative responses to my previous blog into the following categories: The Outraged Haters. “You F-ing Clown.” The Condescending Elitists. “Oh, Bob, I’m so dissapointed.” The Unprepared True Believers. “Subduction can’t be tolerated.” The Rational Disagreers. … | Continue reading