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Who Do We Think We Are?
Who Do We Think We Are?
As Americans celebrate the Fourth of July in blazing red, white and blue, the emphasis this year is on the blue.
·mobile.nytimes.com·
Who Do We Think We Are?
Facebook tinkered with users’ feeds for a massive psychology experiment
Facebook tinkered with users’ feeds for a massive psychology experiment
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...
·avclub.com·
Facebook tinkered with users’ feeds for a massive psychology experiment
The Gunfighter
The Gunfighter
Just another period western meta comedy short film. Featuring the mellifluous voice of Nick Offerman. I hope you enjoy it! WINNER Audience Award for Best Short Film - LA Film Fest WINNER Audience Award for Best Short Film - Napa Valley Film Festival WINNER Audience Award for Best Narrative Short - Sidewalk Film Festival WINNER Jury Award for Best Short Film - Macon Film Festival WINNER Jury Award for Best Short Film - Hill Country Film Festival WINNER Jury Award for Best Comedy - LA Shorts WINNER Jury Award and Audience Award for Best Short Film - Hell's Half Mile WINNER Jury Award for Exce...
·vimeo.com·
The Gunfighter
3 Simple Steps that Amplify Your Facebook Ads
3 Simple Steps that Amplify Your Facebook Ads
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.
·adparlor.com·
3 Simple Steps that Amplify Your Facebook Ads
Essential
Essential
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
·macstories.net·
Essential
The Trouble With Apple’s Health App
The Trouble With Apple’s Health App
The new app faces two major challenges: health records systems’ inability to share information, and people’s unwillingness to do so.
·nytimes.com·
The Trouble With Apple’s Health App
Privacy is Dead
Privacy is Dead
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 …
·stratechery.com·
Privacy is Dead
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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…
·stratechery.com·
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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.
·thenextweb.com·
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