There is lots to enjoy in this article by Doc Searls about what he calls “adtech”. To give you a brief explanation, it starts with this quote: In old-fashioned publishing, advertising was advertising; but in the digital world, advertising has been replaced by adtech, which is based on tracking and has become a cancer on…
I still use Feedly to follow RSS feed, because I know that I’m going to get everything I want to see. No social media company is going to decide for me, and no social media company is keeping track of what I click on or don’t click on. One of the main reasons RSS is…
I agree, I love the idea of making screening tests available, but I’m not comfortable with a marketing company that already knows so much about us through our search and browsing habits being able to put that together with the answers to the test. Here’s the thing… Depression screening tests — like the PHQ-9 that…
After I linked to something last week about how Sarahah seemed like maybe it was a bad idea, I’m glad to see someone figuring out the advantages of anonymity and doing something good with it. Even as reports about Sarahah app being misused by cyber bullies surface, Aware — a Chennai-based NGO that creates awareness…
I don’t normally go getting political online, but I just wanted to point out that this is what it looks like when a government decides certain speech can’t be tolerated. If you live in the US and are sad that our government allows speech that you don’t happen to like, and doesn’t punish people for…
I suppose this was inevitable, but does the world really need a social network for shopping? “Amazon Spark has one big advantage over Instagram. That’s because its e-commerce component is integrated directly into the social feed. Instagram can’t compete with that. In fact, Spark users can shop on Amazon without even leaving the social site.”…