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GUEST: Willy Wonka made consuming media literal with his “Wonka Vision” invention that teleported a giant chocolate bar to be eaten right out of a TV screen. Sadly, this kind of instant gratification will likely only exist in fiction. With the arrival of buyable pins and stoppable buttons, however, brands may have found the next best […]... →

Microsoft’s Cortana personal digital assistant is now working on PCs running Windows 10, not just Windows Phones. That means Cortana is a lot more visible as a competitor to Apple’s Siri and Google Now. Cortana certainly has her share of tricks. As I’ve discovered in recent weeks, Cortana can tell time, show stock prices, open […]... →

Netherlands-based mobile marketer iQU has acquired two other mobile marketing companies TinyLoot and Target Gamers. In doing so, the Dutch company is assembling new ways to deal with the challenges of mobile game discovery and monetization. TinyLoot started by rethinking the business model where players pay for games. TinyLoot wanted to turn that on its head, paying […]... →

Posted by wrttnwrdIn spite of all the advice, the strategic discussions and the conference talks, we Internet marketers are still algorithmic thinkers. That’s obvious when you think of SEO. Even when we talk about content, we’re algorithmic thinkers. Ask yourself: How many times has a client asked you, “How much content do we need?” How often do you still hear “How unique does this page need to be?” That’s 100% algorithmic thinking: Produce a certain amount of content, move up a certain number of spaces. Bu... →

Right now the Apple Watch seems like the only game in town when it comes to smartwatches. And Android watch makers need to do something drastic to get back in the game. As expected, the Watch captured the imaginations of the Apple faithful, and many of them ordered one of the devices the first chance they […]... →

(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court will hear oral arguments on Dec. 4 in lawsuits that challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s “net neutrality” rules, which prevent broadband providers from blocking or slowing Internet traffic, the court said on Monday. USTelecom, a trade group for broadband providers, and other opponents of the rules sued the FCC […]... →

Joanna Penn is a life-long entrepreneur that has also worked for major corporations and has even run her own scuba diving business. But after years of not finding what made her happy, she turned to writing books and found the true success she'd wanted all along. Fifteen books later, this fiction and nonfiction author is the epitome of success in the self-publishing movement. Want to know how to leave your day job and become a full-time successful author?... →

If history is written by the victors, government surveillance agencies will have an awfully long list of sources to cite. Domestic digital surveillance has often seemed to be a threat endured mostly by the social media generation, but details have continued to emerge that remind us of decades of sophisticated, automated spying from the NSA and others. Before the government was peering… Read More... →

Conversations around diversity in tech often focus on the “pipeline” and getting more people from underrepresented groups through the door. But that’s just a first step. The next, most critical step is retention. There’s no point in a company using its resources to hire a diverse people if they’re not going to offer them an environment that is both supporting… Read More... →

Entrepreneurs are giving the healthcare industry a much-needed injection of innovation. Enthusiasm for new ideas and solutions in healthcare is clear from the 200 percent growth in funding for digital health companies between 2010 and 2014. Digital health companies received a record-breaking $4.1 billion in funding in 2014, and more than $600 million in the first quarter of 2015. Read More... →

Copyblogger.com started it all on this particular crazy portion of the journey. It's constantly evolved over the years, and it's about to take another giant step forward. When you strip away the fact that Copyblogger has historically been the mothership platform for our company, you realize that it's essentially a membership site with free and paid components. The foundational elements of a scalable, replicable membership site model are already in place there.... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

"Есть два способа отвечать на конкуренцию […] первый способ долгосрочно работает, второй – нет".... →

Today's guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is a successful author and screenwriter, and he has written a book and produced a movie about his life, called I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell . His books have sold more than three million copies and have been translated into 30 different languages. He also founded (and sold) Tropaion Publishing, which pioneered the idea of author as publisher.... →

PayPal appears to be borrowing some design from Nike in a mockup on its own website. Over the weekend, I noticed somebody retweet an image of two “your cart” designs side by side — one PayPal, one Nike.The similarities are rather, uh, remarkable. @PayPal design team, did you perhaps get inspired by Nike for the cart design […]... →

Any press is good press, apparently, as Reddit hit a new 8 billion page view record in July admist community upheaval over new policies and leadership. Reddit grew from 175 million unique visitors in May to 177 million in June. But as hot takes flew in a media frenzy around volunteers blacking out Subreddits and CEO Ellen Pao’s departure, Reddit’s growth spiked in July bringing it… Read More... →

Right before Tracy Lawrence went into fundraising mode for her catering startup Chewse last year, she cut off her hair. She didn’t know it at the time, but later upon reflection, she thought it might have been a subconscious choice in trying to improve her odds. “I found I was trying to play it androgynous,” she said. “But it didn’t work, because I wasn’t… Read More... →

Агентство ITsMetro не закрыло от посторонних кусок "лендинга" с контактами всех, кто заинтересовался рекламным объявлением.... →

And now for an update in the continuing saga of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a controversial piece of legislation currently in the Senate that, to some, represents an important tool to bolster the sharing of threat data between the government and private entities, and to others is a privacy-wrecking mess. Read More... →

The Y Combinator (YC) team is growing and expanding its focus to no longer just include software startups. The popular accelerator program has brought on board Luke Iseman as a full-time staffer to help hardware startups grow quickly at a faster rate than before. Prior to YC, Iseman was the cofounder and chief technology officer for […]... →