Opt in tracking – an all too rare experience
I use the Overcast app for podcasts on my iPhone and iPad. It’s really good – straightforward with some useful features like keeping synced between …
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Crypto-consumers
The fact that Ad Blocker and similar plug-ins have long been top of the charts for browser extensions gave us a clue to what people …
Maps made of tweets
This is a lovely image was created by the Visual Insights team at Twitter from billions of geo-tagged tweets posted since 2009. Look closely and …
Data exhaust trails
Another useful insight from Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think: A term of art has emerged to …
Datafication
“Big data” as a term reminds me of “social media” a few years ago. It is in danger – through mis-use and over-use – of …
Crowdsensing: mobile data and predictive algorithms
In Pakistan, mobile data has helped the authorities predict where an epidemic will break out: Researchers working for the Pakistani government developed an early epidemic …
Long term trends: The Ngrams Viewer
“A database of intentions” is how John Battelle described Google. It is a thrilling concept, at times unsettling, that you can see into the searching …
Smells like social media meaning
Falsche freunde. False friends. You hear a phrase that sounds like one you already know and misinterpret it… As I’ve said before this happens all …
Milieus of interest in Amazon recommendations
Networks are an abiding obsession for me. So I love this… This data visualisation video illustrates how Amazon applies the power of networks to selling …
The flawed optimism of digital advertising models
“Do you do any work on how annoying you are?” – Peter Day to an ad re-targeter… In Business, the podcast by the BBC’s Peter …