O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

Social Media 88

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 88

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Using models like GPT-3, multiple entities could inundate social media platforms with misinformation at a scale where the majority of the information online would become useless.

Social Media 138

Social Media Media Internet Internet 138

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Alibaba is one of the e-commerce giants that have “run the gamut” from a regular online retail store to a native application (created for mobile shopping purposes) and then on to a PWA. Hence, this feature is also not a perk of only traditional apps.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2014

By comparison, well established businesses in industries like air travel or retail banking are expected to be predictable. By way of example, social media firms had the benefit of time to adjust their products to be mobile centric rather than desktop centric. Prima facie , he appeared to be the sage of Silicon Valley.

Social Media 40

Social Media Retail Ecommerce Media 40

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Now that nearly everyone with internet access is web literate, developers need to start literally thinking outside of the box to hold the attention of the user. Asking users to log into your website via their Facebook account or other social media credentials is no longer recommended.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101