Wired article by Olaf Groth, Tobias Straube and Dan Zehr discussing a market that establishes a price for privacy-assured data and returns a fair share of that value to the people: Today, people fuel the digital economy with vast streams of data but have virtually no power to demand fair compensation for it. The companies...
Author: Martin Treiber
On the potential Impact of banning Political Ads on Social Media
Worth reading: this Wired article that discusses the potential impact of banning political ads on social media. Political Ads serve as entry point to phony astroturf communities. For example, the now infamous Internet Research Agency (IRA for short) purchased only 3400 Facebook and Instagram ads. Compare this to the over 61500 Facebook posts, 116000 Instagram...
Converging Solutions: Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition
Humans are almost hardwired to recognize faces. It’s important for us to tell people apart and we barely think about it. But the recognition process is far from being understood. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have compared how deep neural networks recognize faces and compared this with activation pattern data from...
Wie bringt man einen Chatbot auf das Smartphone?
Ist doch ganz einfach, möchte man meinen. In der Tat gibt es mehrere Möglichkeiten, Chatbots auf Messenger-Plattformen (WhatsApp, FB Messenger, etc.) zu verwenden oder auf der mobilen Webseite bzw. in Apps per Widget zu integrieren. Diese Methoden haben allerdings mehrere Probleme: 1. Mix von Business und privaten. Nützt man eine Messenger-Plattform für sein Business, konkurriert...
Chatbots on Smartphones: It’s not a love story, but it’s worth trying
It’s easy, you might say. In fact, there are several ways to use chatbots on messenger platforms (WhatsApp, FB Messenger, etc.) or to integrate them on the mobile website or apps via widget. However, these methods have several problems: 1. Mix of business and private. If you use a messenger platform for your business, you...
Warum News-Pull keine Lösung für WhatsApp Newsletter ist
Mit dem nahenden Ende von WhatsApp Newslettern sind Unternehmen auf der Suche nach Alternativen um den Verlust der über Jahre aufgebauten Reichweite zu verhindern. Eine Lösung ist der Umstieg auf News-Pull. Hier muss der User WhatsApp öffnen, in den Newsletter Channel wechseln und eine Nachricht schicken (z.B. einen Buchstaben). Erst dann erhält wird dem User...
Why News-Pull is no Solution for WhatsApp Newsletters
With the approaching end of WhatsApp newsletters, companies are looking for alternatives to prevent the loss of their WhatsApp newsletter audience. One solution is the switch to News-Pull. Here the subscriber must open WhatsApp, switch to the newsletter channel and send a message (for example, a letter). Only then will the subscriber receive the newsletter...
5 things we learned about AI this year – MIT Technology Review Insights
The five main results of studies MIT Technology Review Insights has conducted on AI: Sixty-three percent of businesses in a worldwide survey to the MIT Technology Review Global Panel have a centralized AI plan or are using AI on a case by case basis. Companies are making big AI-driven gains in efficiency and customer satisfaction....
No, FaceApp Isn’t Sending All Your Photos to Russia, But It Shows Why Tech Companies Have a Very Real Trust Problem
A now deleted tweet by a developer triggered a number of blog posts and articles claiming that Russians were involved (FaceApp’s developers are based in Russia), and that the app was uploading your photos to servers in countries that you’d rather not like to see your data stored. This is a reminder how trust is...
Why your App is no replacement for WhatsApp newsletters
The WhatsApp newsletter ban has huge impact on businesses. While some businesses will just abandon their WhatsApp audience, others will try to convert users into their apps. This might work for some users, but there are several reasons this might not work very well: Users value the WhatsApp newsletter style. It gives them quick access...
