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What search data can tell us about the next James Bond
- June 11, 2016
- Posted by: Digital Devil's Advocate
- Category: Digital Devils Locker
No CommentsImage: Michael Buckner/Chris Jackson/Albert L. Ortega/Getting images Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba and Gillian Anderson have all been mooted for the role. LONDON — The question of who will be the next James – or Jane – Bond has been debated furiously ever since Daniel Craig started suggesting he was […] Click here to go to
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Drones: Putting China’s economy on autopilot
- June 11, 2016
- Posted by: Digital Devil's Advocate
- Category: Digital Devils Locker
How to join the network The global drone market has been rapidly expanding, attracting loyal consumers while integrating itself as an emerging pillar in the technological sector. One country that has seen an extremely rapid rise in drone growth in terms of usage and production is China. Already heavily […] Click here to go to
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The impending bot backlash
- June 7, 2016
- Posted by: Digital Devil's Advocate
- Category: Digital Devils Locker
Everyone seems to be jumping on the bot bandwagon. Chatbots are not only being touted as the end of apps, but also the next paradigm in human-computer interaction — and, if you believe the hype, the end of many customer service jobs, too. But bots are unlikely to live […] Click here to go to
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Sean Rad says Tinder will be more trans-friendly
- June 7, 2016
- Posted by: Digital Devil's Advocate
- Category: Digital Devils Locker
Tinder is set to unveil a new experience for transgender users within the next couple of months. Thus far, the app has never accounted for the non-gender-conforming demographic, instead exclusively serving cisgender users through filters for male and female only, both to self-identify and to search. In a talk […] Click here to go to
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Microsoft Accelerator startup DefinedCrowd connects machine learning with native speakers
- June 7, 2016
- Posted by: Digital Devil's Advocate
- Category: Digital Devils Locker
Part of Microsoft Accelerator’s batch 3 of startups, DefinedCrowd is filling a niche in the big data and machine learning community, providing near-real-time feeds of rich language data, checked by actual well-informed humans all over the world. The need comes from the Catch-22 that often arrests deep data analysis, […] Click here to go to
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The Rise of the Bots – What marketers need to know about chatbots
- June 6, 2016
- Posted by: Digital Devil's Advocate
- Category: Digital Devils Locker
2016. A Bot Odyssey Bots are the marketing equivalent of drones, but a couple of years behind. A few years ago no one had heard of them and they didn’t really work very well (except the sinister military sort), but now everyone and their mum seems to have a […] Click here to go to
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The social network landscape [#ChartoftheDay]
- June 6, 2016
- Posted by: Digital Devil's Advocate
- Category: Digital Devils Locker
Facebook is dominating the social media landscape. But by how much? The average Smartphone user spends in excess of 2 hours a day looking at their screens, either texting, browsing the internet, scrolling through emails and more often than not using apps. Now it’s the use of apps in […] Click here to go to
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eBay does not want to be a lesser version of Amazon
- June 6, 2016
- Posted by: Digital Devil's Advocate
- Category: Digital Devils Locker
Image: lance ulanoff/mashable From left to right: Walt Mossberg, Jason Del Ray and eBay CEO Devin Wenig Remember eBay? It’s no longer just the auction site or a destination for other people’s used stuff. It’s a commerce destination with more than 100 million users that, according to eBay CEO […] Click here to go to
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Average age of tech company’s employees [#ChartoftheDay]
- June 6, 2016
- Posted by: Digital Devil's Advocate
- Category: Digital Devils Locker
Does the age of the employees affect the culture of the company? The average age of the engineers that built the most powerful rocket ever built in human history, which landed a man on the moon, had an average age of 28. Now the average age of a NASA […] Click here to go to
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What you can learn from three brands that went viral
- June 5, 2016
- Posted by: Digital Devil's Advocate
- Category: Digital Devils Locker
There’s no magic formula for going viral, but there are ways to boost your chances. You’ve heard the success stories: A brand creates content that takes off unexpectedly and elevates its reach and influence dramatically. So how do you make it happen for yourself? There’s not a magic formula, […] Click here to go to