Friday, September 20, 2013

Why do people flee Facebook?

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September 20, 2013
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Pinterest plans "promoted pins" pilot program
Pinterest is to begin testing "promoted pins," with participants seeing their content promoted in search results and category feeds. The network won't accept payment for the pins during the testing phase, and promised that it will strive to make promoted content tasteful and non-intrusive. "I know some of you may be thinking, 'Oh great ... here come the banner ads.' But we're determined to not let that happen," CEO Ben Silbermann wrote in a blog post announcing the test. Advertising Age (tiered subscription model) (9/19), TechCrunch (9/19)
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Facebook's "AI team" is getting deep into data
Facebook has assembled a team of eight artificial-intelligence researchers to process its data using simulated networks of brain cells, in the hope of obtaining insights into the social site's user base. The "deep learning" technology is already popular at Google, where it's been used to teach computers to recognize cats in YouTube videos. MIT Technology Review online (9/20)
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Why do people flee Facebook?
A survey of people who have abandoned Facebook suggests that almost half of those who walked away did so because of privacy concerns. Other reasons cited include dissatisfaction with the site and its design, social-friendship issues and addiction issues. Time.com (9/19)
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How Pinterest can work for B2B marketing
Pinterest drives as much, if not more, revenue per click than Twitter and Facebook, making it an effective place for business-to-business marketers to position their brand, Erica Ayotte writes. Pinterest's international expansion can help companies find prospective leads in new markets, and the visual aspect of the site is engaging enough to drive robust traffic back to a B2B site, Ayotte writes. Pinterest's visual nature also allows marketers to easily repurpose other content, she writes. SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Social Media (9/20)
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Facebook update is bad news for black-hat marketers
Facebook's latest updates to its EdgeRank algorithm could have a big effect on social media marketers, James Thomas writes. People who play by the rules should be fine, but unethical marketers could find that shady tricks no longer give them or their clients much of an edge. "[T]he impact will be small to begin with, then all of a sudden the social hammer will drop and thousands of black hat practitioners will be out of a job," Thomas writes. Social Media Explorer (9/20)
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Eating hardtack and drinking grog? No wonder pirates were so mean
Many of pirates' misdeeds might have been committed in pursuit of a more imaginative diet, historians say. On their long voyages, pirates typically subsisted on dry meat and weevil-infested biscuits, so some took to raiding coastal towns in search of beef, turtle meat and other fresh food. SmithsonianMag.com/Food & Think blog (9/19)
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