Big news and a big admission for online designer shop Fab.com as it continues to scale up and make itself more user-friendly: the site is, for the first time, now letting people browse its online shop without them needing to log in — putting the online shop in line with the company’s mobile app...
Fully-automated online translation is one of the oldest cloud-based services out there (I’m thinking Babelfish in the late Nineties), but nonetheless it remains one of the most obviously incomplete. That’s not to say there aren’t good automated translation services out there – both Google and Microsoft, and even Babelfish, do as good a job...
The much-anticipated Facebook Exchange, intended to help advertisers target ads at customers who have visited their site, finally launched Thursday and the early indications are it could be a game-changer. That’s according to Triggit, a real-time media management company that is one of a handful of partners Facebook has worked with in the beta...
Facebook began allowing partners in its Exchange cookie-based real-time bidding retargeted ads program to share results this morning, and data from AdRoll, Triggit, and TellApart show the ads earn businesses up to 16X what they spend. Facebook revealed the new ad format in June, and by August we were already hearing the ads were performing...
IMDb.com, the 57th most trafficked site in the world, was born in the late 1980s on a Usenet board called rec.arts.movies where movie buffs swapped lists of actors, casts, directors and other trivia. But lists are only so useful. In October 1990, someone asked the board, “Does anyone out there have a Unix or C...
It takes more than a big idea and a thorough business plan to start a new business. Most entrepreneurs aren’t quite sure what else it takes until they’re well underway, and many are shocked to discover important elements of startup success that they simply hadn’t considered at all. To find out what startups learn...
The recent political conventions underscored a few disconcerting trends. Our political leadership is not only out of touch with reality but also tends to distort the truth. How can social-media-based innovations address these challenges? Given that social media excel at connecting people with society’s leaders, there is no question social entrepreneurs can play a...
These days Facebook dominates almost every market worldwide but the social network has added a new string to its bow after it hit 15 million active users in Japan, overtaking previously dominant rival Mixi in the process. The figures were revealed by COO Sheryl Sandberg, who is currently visiting the country. Sandberg told the Nikkei that Facebook...
The Regents of the University of California and its lawsuit-happy patent licensee Eolas Technologies yesterday filed lawsuits against Facebook, Disney and Wal-Mart over four interactive technology patents they believe the companies are infringing. Reuters reported the lawsuits earlier today, but we’ve embedded the court documents for the Facebook case below for your perusal. The...