Remember that scene in 2010’s The Social Network, about the founding of Facebook, where Mark Zuckerberg races through the snow back to his dorm room and adds “Relationship Status” before setting The Facebook (as it was called) live? “This is what drives life in college. Are you having sex or aren’t you?” Aaron Sorkin has Jesse Eisenberg-as-Young Zuckerberg say, as he adds … Read More
On May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation will go into effect. The culmination of years of negotiations and debate, the GDPR will establish a new set of rules regarding the way companies can collect and use data in the European Union. The idea is to establish a single standard across the EU which will help protect the privacy of consumers … Read More
Hulu and YouTube have both been building their audiences for live television over the past year, with around 450,000 and 300,000 subscribers respectively. As they look to scale these audiences, it’s anticipated that both Hulu and YouTube will begin selling ads on their live TV packages. You may have noticed YouTube TV’s logo all over last year’s Major League Baseball … Read More
So you’ve read our piece on SEO Basics, about how Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is so important, and you’ve started implementing some of the suggestions in your own work. That’s great. So let’s take a deeper look at some SEO principles you can use to make your site rank even higher, starting with Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). What is Latent … Read More
So you have a website. That’s awesome, right? Whether you selling a product, or you’ve got a blog about your life’s passion, whatever it is, you need people to see. It’s very much like the old cliche about a tree falling in a forest only nobody hears it. If nobody is looking at your website, it may as well not … Read More
Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to dominate the news week, as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before a joint session of the Senate Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Tuesday, and then before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday. In addition to unleashing a torrent of Zuckerberg Memes and leading to continued hand-wringing about how Facebook lets advertisers use customers’ … Read More
Along with the rise of “woke” brands, we’re seeing a trend recently of brands showing their personality by sharing jokes, roasting competitors, and clapping back at rude posts made by customers and others. Call it Snarky Brand Voice. Wendy’s may be the best-known of the brands in this trend. The Wendy’s Twitter account loves to take shots at rival McDonald’s … Read More
Facebook’s run of bad news continued over the weekend after an internal memo from 2016 was leaked to the internet. The memo, which was written by Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, and entitled “The Ugly,” bluntly argued that growth was Facebook’s goal, and that anything bad that happened as a side-effect, like bullying, users committing suicide, or organizing terrorist attacks, were not … Read More
Facebook has been having a rough week. The social network is making moves to protect people’s data – starting with the data advertisers use. Facebook announced Wednesday that it would be ending “Partner Categories”, which allows the use of data provided by third-party companies. This can be problematic because it can sometimes be a loophole through which discrimination against things … Read More
