Artificial Intelligence to transform web, says Yury Milner: “I think that in 10 years if you ask a question on a social network and you get an answer you will not know if a computer or a person has answered you… When you receive a question, you will not know if it has been asked by a person or an artificial intelligence. And by answering you help the computer create an algorithm.” http://bit.ly/e9hH7P
“[Andrea] Linett began a new job this week as the creative director of eBay Fashion. One of her responsibilities is to enliven the experience of online shopping at a site that often feels more like a digital flea market.”
“World of Warcraft” + Xbox Kinect = Magic via @mashable http://on.mash.to/gT8I2h
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“…the larger issue is the publishing industry’s insistence on using new platforms like the iPad to ape antiquated models like print, when it could be using them to develop entirely new ones.”
Luxury Society: The Digital Agenda
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Social commerce, personalization, customization key for fashion in 2011
“2011 is the year of information curation and the dawn of the curator… networks and services that cater to the role of the curator will emerge, with several already leading the way. Storify, Curated.by, Pearltrees, Scoop.it, and Paper.li are becoming the coveted services of choice amongst curators as they not only enable the repackaging and dissemination of information, they do so in captivating and engaging formats.”
@NYTimes magazine on the rise of innovation consultants and thinking about thinking - In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm - http://nyti.ms/gtch4Z
Interestingly, YouTube Trends, “a destination for daily insight into the zeitgeist of the world’s largest video site,” offers an editorial layer over the raw stats.
A good question. Or is it? … The metric called ‘Tweet Impressions’ is meaningless and not a useful way to approach the evaluation of the channel. It’s using the old model of exposure for a new channel based on active participation… Instead count how many followers you get. How many people re-tweet.
Flash sale site @GiltGroupe has launched the luxury fashion industry’s first Google Chrome Web App, providing a streamlined pageless shopping experience via createthegroup. “Our strategy behind Gilt for Chrome is twofold,” said Esther Park, senior product manager at Gilt Groupe, New York. “First, it is an R&D platform for us – we want to utilize the latest technology to develop the best shopping experience possible. “Second, we wanted to address some of the customer pain points we hear from our male customers,” she said. More via Luxury Daily
Reblogged from CREATETHE GROUP
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