I attended a presentation from Edmunds.com, the car-shopping site, this week. They said they can predict whether a site visitor will convert within two clicks on the site.
@PaulS, I think not being on Facebook for 20-somethings is like not having a phone forty years ago. Feelings of "disconnection" and not belonging, etc. Why do people overshare? Perhaps because their friends do. Peer pressure lives on in cyberspace, not just the schoolyard.
We're going to continue to see negative consequences of personal data collection. Take iTunes for example. Have you ever read through the privacy statements that you are agreeing to? They have so many pages, and the average person is not reading the legal print. Agreeing to these documents, just to use iTunes, is allowing Apple to learn a whole lot about you. They want this data because there is a lot of profitability in that information.
Many people don't even realize what info they put out about themselves that is viewable by 1000's of people if they wanted to view it. This has nothing to do about companies collecting data but some people will yell and scream about these privacy policies but yet post there address and phone numbers, likes and dislikes on Facebook.
I know a 20-something who closes and opens a new Facebook account every six months. She uses different names and vets her friends to create a clean slate each time. I'd say she's very aware of privacy, and has had to go through this process to get rid of people who turn out to bully her.
You'd think so, Mary, especially as this group is the one that -- I'd expect anyway -- to be most impacted by social media privacy breaches, in terms of it affecting future employment, potential relationships, college admissions, etc. After all, this is the generation that grew up with social media, often creating Facebook profiles before they were "legally" allowed to according to the site's terms. This age group includes people who have included questionable posts and pictures without a thought of the future, things like drinking/drugs, sex, racist/sexist jokes, etc., that could really come back and bite them. You do hear, of course, about folk in established careers who have done some dumb things online so it's not limited only to teens and 20-somethings!
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Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
