PSFK These days, it’s tough to be a CMO. You have to make sure your team of community managers produces tons of (appropriate) daily content and spread it across a slew of social media sites. You’re humanizing the voice of the brand every day; it’s time consuming and difficult to consistently come up with...
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Tumblr today announced that all blogs as well as the Tumblr Dashboard will be unavailable for a “few hours” on Saturday October 6, starting at 4:00AM EST (1:00AM PST). The company explained this was a required move as the microblogging platform, which serves billions of impressions for its 150 million users, attempts to further...
As shown in the Create The Web event, Adobe recently launched an entirely new family of Edge products focused on emerging Web technologies and open standards. This is a promising development on Adobe’s part, and should help make working with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript a bit easier for beginners. Edge Web Fonts is one...
London-based cloud platform Import.io, is launching its data exchange for connecting suppliers with users via a single API. Founded in June this year, the company grew from Kusiri, the data aggregator used by large companies to manage information. Import.io takes the underlying technology from Kusiri and adds a web layer so that more people can...
It’s been a busy few weeks. You may have noticed that we skipped our usual GigaOM Pro recap last week, as all hands were on deck at our Mobilize conference. Coming up next, we’ll be launching our first international event, with Structure:Europe in Amsterdam on October 16-17. In the meantime, check out what our...
Imagine a day when your phone has all of your health information. It knows your goals, your time horizons and what activities you need to focus on to achieve those goals. It knows your schedule, whether you like to do things alone or in groups and who you like to train with. It knows...
In the fight over private versus public clouds, we’re all arguing about the same thing. But we keep doing it because we somehow believe we can confuse the customer into buying “more of mine” and “less of hers” if we explain how our vision of cloud is better. I’ve written about what cloud is...
Microsoft’s rebooted mobile OS, Windows Phone 8, arrives in a matter of weeks – so it’s a case of Windows Phone 7 is dead, long live Windows Phone 8 right? Not so fast. WP8 is certainly Microsoft’s new weapon of choice for competing in the smartphone space — with no further OS updates planned for...
Facebook has to show more ads to make more money, right? Wrong. Or at least not necessarily. If it expands its new off-site ad network and Gifts ecommerce product, it could rely on its data, not its traffic, to grow its revenues. That would leave its site and apps uncluttered, designed to maximize enjoyment,...