Top Ten Trends Of 2014 From World Economic Forum Underscore The Need For...
Today the World Economic Forum (WEF) published their analysis of the Top Ten Trends Facing The World In 2014 based on insights gained from research completed with their Network of Global Agenda...
View ArticleGhost in the Cloud: Dealing with data after death
This article originally appeared on The Next WebDeath is nothing new to Dr. John Troyer. As Deputy Director of the UK’s sole centre devoted to studying the social aspects of death, dying and...
View ArticleNative, web, platform: What’s the best way to build a new app?
Abhay Parasnis is the president abnd COO at Kony, Inc. Disclosure: Kony is a mobile platform provider. For today’s business, the question is no longer “Do we need an app?” It’s “How many, what kind,...
View ArticleHow Node.js Got Big
Today Node.js is a hot topic. It’s the server side programming environment de rigueur for fast, lightweight development. But that hasn’t always been the case. Node.js inventor Ryan Dahl, saw Node.js as...
View ArticleHow to use your network to launch your next idea faster
This article originally appeared on The Next WebJake Nickell is Threadless‘s young and fearless entrepreneurial leader. Currently, he’s focused on running the worldwide, hugely successful business that...
View ArticleWhen Do Mobile Display Ads Work? And Why?
When professors Miklos Sarvary, Andrew Stephen and Yakov Bart set up an experiment to test the effectiveness of mobile display ads, they were extremely skeptical. “How can this little noisy message...
View ArticleChances are you’re not reading this on a mobile device
Analytics startup Parse.ly has released its third bi-monthly “Authority Report” on Wednesday, and the big finding is that the majority of traffic for some top online publishers still comes via laptop...
View ArticleBots are now the dominant species on the Internet, study says
I, for one, welcome our new bot overlords … particularly since they are still allowing us humans to use the Internet. According to a new report from security content delivery network Incapsula, 61.5...
View ArticleReport: Over the past year, search traffic has dropped while social traffic...
This article originally appeared on The Next WebSocial discovery and sharing platform Shareaholic today released a report comparing search traffic versus social traffic over the last 13 months. While...
View ArticleFour Big Questions (And Predictions) For Social Media In 2014
The past year has been a wild one for those watching and living social media. In the span of 12 months, we saw a major IPO (Twitter), billion dollar sale (Tumblr), rise of a new disappearing messaging...
View ArticleHow DataWind’s $38 tablet is turning the world upside down (for the better)
This article originally appeared on The Next WebOver the past couple years, DataWind has been up-ending the emerging tablet market with its budget Aakash and Ubislate tablets, which sell for as low as...
View ArticleLive Video Becomes the Hot New Web Trend
For a week in the middle of the winter, all the world's film geeks trundle off to the cold -- to screen, drink, and party their way through the annual pilgrimage know as Sundance. Historically, you had...
View ArticleWhy Digital Health Will Have Huge Impact
Digital Health has big buzz this year. For example, it was a hot topic at both the Consumer Electronics Show (“CES”) and the more-serious JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. (“Digital Health” refers to...
View ArticleHow The Internet Of Things Is More Like The Industrial Revolution Than The...
By Glen Martin Philadelphia’s Centennial Exposition of 1876 was America’s first World’s Fair, and was ostensibly held to mark the nation’s 100th birthday. But it heralded the future as much as it...
View ArticleSkyrocket Your Consumer Engagement With The Right Social Media Images
As new social media platforms emerge, the way consumers engage with brands continues to change and evolve. Keeping up with the latest social media trends can seem like a daunting task for many...
View ArticleHow to Use Interesting Research to Help Market Your Business
12 Ways To Beat Gas Prices Without Changing Your Car As a small business, running rigorous research on your target audience does not always squeeze its way into your budget. It always seems better to...
View Article5 (Relativity Simple) Steps To B2B Social Media Marketing Success
There are plenty of well-documented social media stories in the business to consumer world, such as JCPenney's recent Super Bowl "Mitten" tweets. However, the business to business world has been a bit...
View ArticleOpera’s Sponsored Web Pass lets brands give you free mobile Internet for...
This article originally appeared on The Next WebBrowser-maker Opera is shaking up the mobile advertising market just a little, after it introduced Sponsored Web Pass, a new version of its pay-as-you-go...
View ArticleEssential Tips For Creating Apps People Will Actually Use
Marketers may compare launching a successful mobile app to summiting Mount Everest. In actuality, you have better odds with the mountain. The average smartphone user downloaded 26 apps in 2013, yet...
View ArticleWe Could Never Give Up The Internet, But We Wouldn’t Mind Ditching Facebook
Despite the unflattering portrait of a stressed-out, Internet-addled American, there's no denying this: We really, truly love the web. But there are some parts, like social media, that we could live...
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