F-Commerce Trips as Gap to Penney Shut Facebook Stores: Retail (Corrects to remove wrongly attributed quote in seventh paragraph of Feb. 17 story.) Last April, Gamestop Corp. (GME) opened a store on Facebook to generate sales among the 3.5 million-plus customers who’d declared themselves “fans” of the video game retailer. Six months later, the store was quietly shuttered. Gamestop has company. Facebook, which this month filed for an initial public offering, has sought to be a top shopping destination for its 845 million members. “There was a lot of anticipation that Facebook would turn into a new destination, a store, a place where people would shop,” Mulpuru said in a telephone interview. A year ago, investors hailed so-called F-commerce as the next big thing, speculating that the company had potential to threaten Amazon.com Inc. David Fisch, Facebook’s director of business development, said in June that the site would make shopping online, previously a solitary experience, more social. Physical Goods Shut Quickly J.C. Cracks in Model
Big Data’s Impact in the World Welcome to the Age of Big Data. The new megarich of Silicon Valley, first at Google and now Facebook, are masters at harnessing the data of the Web — online searches, posts and messages — with Internet advertising. At the World Economic Forum last month in Davos, Switzerland, Big Data was a marquee topic. A report by the forum, “Big Data, Big Impact,” declared data a new class of economic asset, like currency or gold. Rick Smolan, creator of the “Day in the Life” photography series, is planning a project later this year, “The Human Face of Big Data,” documenting the collection and uses of data. What is Big Data? Link these communicating sensors to computing intelligence and you see the rise of what is called the Internet of Things or the Industrial Internet. Data is not only becoming more available but also more understandable to computers. But the computer tools for gleaning knowledge and insights from the Internet era’s vast trove of unstructured data are fast gaining ground. Photo
QR code QR code for the URL of the English Wikipedia Mobile main page, " QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response Code) is the trademark for a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional barcode) first designed for the automotive industry in Japan. A barcode is a machine-readable optical label that contains information about the item to which it is attached. A QR code uses four standardized encoding modes (numeric, alphanumeric, byte / binary, and kanji) to efficiently store data; extensions may also be used.[1] The QR Code system became popular outside the automotive industry due to its fast readability and greater storage capacity compared to standard UPC barcodes. A QR code consists of black modules (square dots) arranged in a square grid on a white background, which can be read by an imaging device (such as a camera) and processed using Reed–Solomon error correction until the image can be appropriately interpreted. History[edit] Standards[edit] Uses[edit] URLs[edit]
Google Busted With Hand in Safari-Browser Cookie Jar | Threat Level Google intentionally circumvented the default privacy settings of Apple’s Safari browser, using a backdoor to set cookies on browsers set to reject them, in the latest privacy debacle for the search and advertising giant. Google immediately disabled the practice after the Wall Street Journal disclosed the practice Thursday night, which was discovered by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer and confirmed by security consultant Ashkan Soltani. Safari, which accounts for about 6% of desktop browsing and more than 50% of mobile browsing, is the only major browser to block so-called third-party cookies by default. When you visit a website, all browsers, including Safari, allow that site to put a small tracking file on your computer, which allows the site to identify a unique user, track what they’ve done and remember settings. However, many sites also have Facebook “Like” buttons, ads served by third parties, weather widgets powered by other sites or comment systems run by a third party.
How to create a content strategy – and measure its value Got a website? You need a content strategy. Too many websites are meticulously built and then filled with thrown-together content that doesn’t engage with the customer. Think about how you browse the Internet as a consumer. Your goal is to expand your business’ reach, drive sales and increase its profitability. A content strategy will help you understand the content your customer is interested in so you can give it to them. First, what’s a content strategy? I am going to define a content strategy as a framework within which businesses can manage the content being published about their brand and products/services online in order to ensure that they are always seen as authority content publishers that deserve search engine and user respect. This post focuses on digital content, but you can build a content strategy that accounts for all marketing activity in order to successfully manage an integrated marketing plan. Here’s how to get started on creating and measuring yours. Establish a goal
Denso - Security QR Code or SQRC VitreoQR, Denso's authorized distributor, delivers ONLY ISO18004 Compliant QR Code Solutions. A Single QR Code that can Point to Two Distinctly Different Destinations - One that is Public and Another that is Secure and Private SQRC is Denso's unique variation of QR Code technology that allows users to encode both public and private data where security and confidentiality is an absolute requirement. While a SQRC Code looks just like any other QR Code, SQRC codes contain two additional data components. When scanned with any consumer or public device the SQRC behaves just like any other QR Code, sending that device to the destination intended by the creator of the code. • Identity Confirmation • Fraud Detection • Counterfeit Prevention and Detection • Inventory Management and Tracking • Applications in Health Care • Secure Financial Transactions • Access Control Systems • Validity Verification
Amex Invests $100 Million In Its Future: Digital Ecosystem, Not The Plastic Card In its press release today American Express revealed explicitly that its new $100 million Digital Commerce Investment Initiative was destined to fund "early stage startups to facilitate the company's digital transformation." If that sounds like a firm that's aware it's got to rapidly pivot, that's because that's exactly what's going on. Amex's Dan Schulman, Group President Enterprise Growth, spoke to Fast Company to explain the move: As far as saying that the credit card is going to evolve, Schulman noted, "It goes even further than that. Where traditional credit card transactions were all about giving the merchant a secure and authenticated copy of those all-important 16 raised silver numbers on the face of your card, technological developments like NFC, smartphone payments and even innovations like Square and Google Wallet show that there's scope for a much richer interaction to go on at the moment of payment--something that's never been possible before.
Kort peptalk for slitne bloggere Det skal gå så fort nå for tiden. Det var Kristin Oudmayer som sa det på Twitter denne uken, riktignok med andre ord, men budskapet hennes: Hun minnet seg selv, og oss andre, om at det er så mye enklere å dra en Facebook-oppdatering på én setning enn å fordype seg i de lange tankerekkene på en blogg. Jeg tror Kristin har veldig rett for tiden. Først en liten oppmuntring til bloggere som vurderer å legge opp (jeg har selv vært i den kategorien det siste året): Leter du etter måter å få hundrevis av kommentarer på? Dernest en advarsel: Vi lever i en priviligert del av verden, der det frie ordet er selvsagt, men vi glemmer ofte – forbløffende ofte – at det finnes steder der det vi gjør er misunnelsesverdig. Etter det en oppmuntring igjen: Det er de lange resonnementene som til sist vil vinne. Så litt motivasjon:Finn roen. Bonusinspirasjoner: Gå på et antikvariat – se andres levde liv.
Secure / Encrypted QR Codes 5 Paradoxes Shaping the Future of Mobile Commerce Igor Faletski is the CEO of Mobify, a web platform that optimizes ecommerce and publishing sites for mobile and powers more than 20,000 sites. Remember when it took 23 clicks to find movie showtimes on your mobile phone? While that may seem like an eon ago, in reality it’s just been a few short years. The mobile evolution has been advancing at a break-neck pace. “Mobile is ramping up faster than any other technology we have seen in the past,” says Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins. With that growth comes a new set of user behaviors and consumer trends. 1. My company powers about 20,000 ecommerce sites. While multiple factors contribute to this data, the most important may be the power of the tablet, which has quickly emerged as the third digital screen in consumers' lives, in addition to desktops and smartphones. IPad users generally have higher education and higher income than general internet users. The moral of the story for retailers? 2. 3. 4. 5. Yes, we’re living in an app culture.
Social TV is here – for real! | Kajsa Hartig Chinatown, London. Benedict Cumberbatch during filming of Sherlock. CC-BY. This weekend another part of the series Sherlock was aired on Swedish national TV. As I wrote exactly a year ago, Twitter is the place to be when the ESC competitions are running. This year, the social TV has taken a step forward. As a huge amount of people are already watching TV with their laptop, iPad or mobile phone at hand, it seems like watching two screens at the same time is not a problem. Tweets by Mattias Boström, @mattiasb QR Code - How Secure Are QR Codes? How Secure is a QR Code? It would be easy to assume because of how basic a QR Code is, that few security concerns exist. There are however some areas in which QR Codes can pose a risk to your security and safety. QR Codes are small harmless patterns printed onto a surface (billboard, poster etc) and their intent is only to help you get data from a printed medium to a digital medium. You would also expect that given their use is mostly to provide the user with a small snippets of information conveniently, that nobody would be interested in altering them or making them malicious? Well there are a couple of reasons and things to keep in mind. The first and probably main reason would be phishing. Picture this, you see a poster published by your long term and trusted bank for a great new service they are offering, it’s for a limited time only so you jump at the chance to get more info. It’s not as complicated as you may think. In order to do this you would need to do some preparation.