“We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay.” [1]
TayTweets with Trolls: Microsoft Research’s Painful Lesson in Conversation Crowdsourcing
In March 2016, Microsoft launched Tay, a Twitter bot that could learn from its conversations with others. The experiment quickly unraveled.
Dataminr: Actionable signals from Twitter
Dataminr specializes in the real-time analysis of data from a variety of news and social media sources to provide differentiated and expedient support to media, public sector, finance, and corporate security entities. Their value is in their ability to rapidly […]
Shut out: Can Meerkat win the mobile live streaming war?
In March, techies (myself included: http://www.geekwire.com/2015/why-meerkat-is-going-to-make-it/) went wild over a new kind of live streaming. A startup called Meerkat launched a mobile app that let users broadcast high quality live video to the world straight from their phones, using Twitter […]
Niche: Winning the Race to Become a Digital Advertising Marketplace for Social Media Stars
How digital and social media have spawned a new generation of advertising agencies, and why companies like Niche have been able to capitalize.
Get a Slice of This: Domino’s Dominates Pizza through Digital
Domino’s builds customer loyalty and lowers costs with best-in-class digital tech