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Scientists at Facebook have published a paper showing that they manipulated the content seen by more than 600,000 users in an attempt to determine whether this would affect their emotional state. The paper, “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks,” was published in The Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences. It shows how Facebook data scientists tweaked the algorithm that determines which posts appear on users’ news feeds—specifically, researchers skewed the number of positive or negative terms seen by randomly selected users. Facebook th...

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Reach the right audience with the right message – at exactly the right time. That's the golden rule of direct response advertising. Marketers live and die by this concept. But when it comes to digital media? We struggle – simply because it's physically impossible to reach millions of people with personalized messages. We give up easily and convince ourselves that digital media has limited value beyond basic brand-building.

Smart marketers know social media is a customer engagement power tool. The problem? They can’t prove it.

IT has become central to marketing, and many companies are creating hybrid executives who straddle the two functions.

The iPhone is good at many trivial tasks such as playing games and watching videos, but this week I experienced firsthand how much its portability and apps matter when dealing with an emergency situation. Yesterday, my friends and I went to see Arcade Fire at Rock in Roma, an annual event where artists play in

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The nature of the Internet and the business-models of social networks means that privacy as commonly understood is dead; tech companies need to learn to self-regulate or governments will do it for …

From Yahoo’s GIFs to Coca-Cola’s cinemagraph that got 80,000 notes on Tumblr, this form of media should be taken seriously by businesses of all sizes.

Starbucks is planning to foot part of the bill for an online bachelor's degree for U.S. employees who work at least 20 hours a week in its cafes, corporate offices and roasting plants.

Between a feature-by-feature review (members only) and an analysis of strategic underpinnings, I’ve written nearly three thousand words about Apple’s WWDC announcements. Still, though, it fee…

Nearly everyone seems to think they’d make a great PM (engineers, consultants, you name it), but the reality is that most folks just can’t hack it.

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You're churning out a lot of content, but are they optimized to be found by search engines? Vertical Measures President Arnie Kuenn shows how in this guide.