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Компания Yahoo объявила о расширении партнёрства с аналитической платформой Moat. Теперь рекламодатели смогут измерять видимость нативной видеорекламы в сети Yahoo Gemini с помощью инструментов Moat. Кроме того, они также смогут покупать гарантированный объём видимых показов для этого формата рекламы. Ранее эта возможность была доступна только для медийной и видеорекламы. Внутренние исследования Yahoo показали, что в 2015 году рекламодатели наблюдали повышение показателей эффективности нативной видеореклам... →

Жители Иллинойса подали в суд на Facebook, и другие новости дня. Кратко... →

Goоgle обновил API сервиса Мой бизнес до версии 3.0. В новом релизе появились функции для управления большими объёмами данных о филиалах компании.   Теперь API позволяет: читать отзывы клиентов и отвечать на них; указывать дополнительные атрибуты для филиалов (например, можно ли в ресторане зарезервировать столик, подают ли завтраки, и есть ли открытая веранда); сопоставлять адреса с данными Google Карт; переносить филиал из одного аккаунта в другой с помощью новой команды transfer; указывать основное фо... →

If you use your PayPal account to support a crowdfunding campaign, you can’t rely on its Purchase Protection plan anymore. The payment platform has announced that after June 25, payments made on crowdfunding platforms will no longer be eligible for the program, which allows users to open disputes for items that don’t arrive or are different from described. Read More... →

Пользователи заметили, что Google тестирует чёрные ссылки вместо привычных синих в результатах поиска. Цвет посещённых ссылок также изменился – с фиолетового на серый. Пробный интерфейс тестируется в разных странах – как на десктопах, так и на мобильных устройствах. Об этом свидетельствуют многочисленные сообщения на форуме Google Web Search Help и в Twitter. Новый вариант оформления поисковой выдачи также наблюдают и русскоязычные пользователи: Напомним, что на прошлой неделе Google тестировал новое оф... →

Over the past few months I’ve been on a mission: I want to prove that the future is not going to suck. While this project was originally going to end up in a book – and it still will – I’ve started recording a weekly podcast called Technotopia in which I speak to amazing thinkers about the future. We’ve covered the environment, bitcoin, and why the future will… Read More... →

Many artists use as material for art the raw data produced by our societies, seeking innovative means of display or transforming it into a work of art. By blurring boundaries between art and information, data art dispels the myth of the romantic artist while offering a fundamental artistic act in a critical commentary of the digital age in which we live. Read More... →

Posted by MoosaHemaniThis post was originally in YouMoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Moz, Inc.[Estimated read time: 13 minutes] An effective e-commerce product page captures the audience’s attention and compels them to convert to paying customers. Many e-commerce businesses believe a product page is all about high-resolution images with detailed descriptions fo... →

If anyone wants to text Ryan Leslie and have a one-on-one conversation with a big-deal rapper, here’s his number: 646-887-6978. That’s not a secret. Leslie shares the number publicly and encourages people to message him — it’s a way for him to develop a direct relationship with his fans. And now with his startup SuperPhone, he’s building tech tools to manage… Read More... →

It’s been a long night at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. But this time, you couldn’t see anyone waiting for a boat. Instead, the Cruise Terminal hosted a very special competition — the Disrupt NY Hackathon. Around 650 engineers and designers got together to come up with something cool, something neat, something awesome. The only condition is that they only had 24 hours to work… Read More... →

Every student has a unique learning style, but it’s tough for teachers to figure out if they learn best through lectures, images, reading, self-directed practice, or group projects. By using publicly available education progress data and personality analysis, Lilwil is able to automatically identify a the best teaching method for a student and recommend it to their instructor. Lilwil was… Read More... →

Researchers often need to go beyond Google to find the kind of medical journal articles and flat data files necessary for their work. But many journal articles are locked away in databases like JSTOR or PubMed, which don’t have the reliable search capabilities of an engine like Google — so researchers have to waste time tracking them down. Read More... →

NYU Shanghai students Sean Kelly and Sam Shi wanted to use VR to help increase access to information. Over the weekend at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in New York, the duo initially looked at helping students learn brain surgery but they switched their target and developed Teach-U: VR — a platform that helps students, and particularly young people, learn music. Read More... →

An interesting hack presented on stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2016 is a platform for non-traditional banking services. Called e-susu, the app is designed for people who are involved with informal loan groups to help them better manage the process of lending money within a family or community group, as well as encouraging the saving process via increased transparency. Read More... →

Between Alexa’s built-in functionality and Skills API, you can now use the platform to do almost anything. Simple voice commands let you do things like order a pizza, send someone money on Venmo, or even buy another Echo. But here’s the thing – anyone using your Echo can do these things without your permission, potentially putting you on the line for fraudulent… Read More... →

Can Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa serve as a matchmaker? That’s the idea behind The Blind Date Club, a project from a team of coders presenting today at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 Hackathon. Designed as a voice-activated app for the Echo speaker, The Blind Date Club lets you search for dating profiles by voice, have them read aloud to you, and then get connected with your… Read More... →

Twelve hours into last night’s Disrupt Hackathon Andre Smith still wasn’t sure what he was doing. “People ask me about what my ideas are before the Hackathon,” he explains in a bit of a sleep-deprived daze. I have no idea. I was already in deep. I didn’t really have a clear vision. I had all of this technology on my desk, but I didn’t know what to do with… Read More... →

You have a bunch of ingredients in your fridge, and you don’t know what you want to cook. You just bought an Amazon Echo, dying to figure out some new things to do with it. Well, you can do both of these with a hack put together at TechCrunch Disrupt NY that does just that. With Hungry Host, you use Alexa to list off a bunch of ingredients that you have in your fridge, and it’ll… Read More... →

If it’s your birthday, Mother’s Day or some other significant occasion, it’s likely you’ll receive a barrage of text messages, emails and calls. Even if it’s not a special day, between your friends, significant other and boss, there’s probably a fair amount of action on your phone. Deep Focus summarizes who has contacted you and lets you know how important… Read More... →

Makers of an app called Eliza want to make it as easy for people to track their psychological well-being as it is to track their physical fitness. The Eliza app asks users to record a voice memo, say, venting about an issue they’re dealing with at work or simply reflecting on their day. The app turns the user’s speech into text that’s ready for sentiment analysis. After… Read More... →