The Vice Guide to Engagement | Google Think Insights
House of Cards is built on Big Data | Salon
By analysing its subscribers’ preferences, Netflix can be sure its original content will find an audience. But is that a good thing ? | 15 min read
Machine Language | The Verge
How Siri found its voice | 15 min read
When hardware acts like software | Ideas Lab
Digital fabrication — the ability to instruct a machine to create a form defined on a computer — is blurring the line between software and hardware | 10 min read
Invisible money | Fjord
The transformation of money will affect commerce at every level | 5 min read
The death of expertise | The Federalist
Exploring the Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden collapse of any division between professionals and laymen, students and teachers, knowers and wonderers | 15 min read
Why people trust online reviews for dinner but not doctors | Quartz
‘I’d give you five stars if your hands were warmer’ | 5 min read
Why I left advertising to become a software designer | Co.Design
There’s a war for design talent between technology and advertising companies. Marc Scibelli of Infor explains why he left the ad industry after 18 years to focus on the UX of business software | 10 min read
Haven’t made it yet? Don’t stress. Big breakthroughs come in your 30′s | The Atlantic
What the ages of Nobel Prize winners tell us about creativity | 10 min read
How technology makes creative more intelligent | Google Think Insights
Google’s Creative Platforms Evangelist talks about how new tools and platforms can help marketers create “intelligent” ads that are engaging and meaningful to consumers in the moments that matter | 8 min read
How the internet uses nostalgia | The Atlantic
Long-lost memories pop up in music recommendations, personality quizzes, and ads. Why? | 10 min read
Brand building in a digital age | Martin Weigel
Old thinking for new times | 18 min read
When Yahoo Reigned Supreme | Priceonomics
In the 1990′s, Yahoo was a really big deal. What can we learn from that? | 15 min read
A mobile content marketing strategy just became essential | Forbes
What Google’s latest algorithm update means for your content strategy | 10 min read
From foodstamps to fortune| Forbes
How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp into Facebook’s new $19 billion baby | 10 min read
Getting to the bottom of the top end of town: 5 myths about engaging execs | Marketing Magazine
It’s easy to make assumptions when marketing to senior executives. They’re impossible to reach. They don’t read marketing. They’re humourless money-men, who just need the bare facts laid out in short, sharp, staccato fashion. Interestingly, the evidence suggests the opposite | 5 min read
Your story of experience | Smart Company
In today’s connected world, consumers can navigate their own way through a brand experience and buy anything and everything at the tap of a key | 5 min read
