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Category Archives: Facebook
Facebook’s F8 Conference, Day One
It’s day one of F8, Facebook’s annual developer conference. It’s hard to imagine that, for most of us, the platform is barely 10 years old; it was opened to anyone who had a valid email address in September 2006. But, … Continue reading
Tim Cook Just Threw Down on Data Privacy, And It Was Awesome
Apple CEO Tim Cook gave what TechCrunch called a “blistering speech” on data privacy Monday night at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) “Champions of Freedom” event. “I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and … Continue reading
Posted in Altimeter, Artificial Intelligence, data privacy, data security, digital ethics, Ethics, Facebook, Privacy, social data ethics
Tagged Algorithmic accountability, apple, data privacy, DataSift, digital ethics, EPIC, ethical data use, facebook, Google, privacy, susan etlinger, tim cook
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What the end of the Twitter-DataSift partnership means for customers
Disclosures Let’s get this out of the way right up front. DataSift is a client of mine at Altimeter Group. I am closely connected to Twitter via my role as a board member of the Big Boulder Initiative, of which … Continue reading
Data Everywhere: Lessons from Big Data in the TV Industry
During the past several years, the television industry has changed dramatically, spurred by device proliferation, changing distribution methods, and the increasing popularity of social media. Today, TV is everywhere. It’s on your phone, your tablet, your gaming console and someday will be … Continue reading
Posted in Altimeter, Big Data, Data Science, Facebook, HBO, Netflix, Predictive Analytics, Real-Time Enterprise, Research, Social Analytics, Social Data, Social media, Television, Uncategorized
Tagged Altimeter Group, Best Practices, BET, Big Data, Data, Disruption, HBO, HGTV, Netflix, Social TV, susan etlinger, Television
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Facebook’s “Emotional Contagion” Experiment: Was it Ethical?
Update, June 29: Co-author Adam D. I. Kramer posts a response here. By now, you’ve probably heard that data scientists at Facebook recently published a study in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science revealing that, in their words, “emotional states can … Continue reading
Posted in behavior, Big Boulder Initiative, Big Data, Data Science, Ethics, Facebook, Research, Social Data, social data ethics, Social media, Uncategorized
Tagged Altimeter Group, ethics, facebook, health media collaboratory, privacy, sherry emery, social data, social data ethics, social science, susan etlinger
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The Emerging Social Data Ecosystem
It’s Social Data Week, and I spent Monday at DataSift’s San Francisco conference. Like Big Boulder (which is produced by Gnip and is now entering its third year), Social Data Week is focused on the emerging dialogue around social data, its stakeholders, … Continue reading
Facebook Opens its Data API to (Some) Media Partners
Today, Facebook made an announcement that should interest anyone who uses social data. Effective immediately, Facebook will be opening its data API to a select group of media partners. According to today’s blog post, organizations that are part of this … Continue reading
