Martech Mashup: Customer Insights with Conductor

27/02/2017 SMK Editor

Do you want to understand what your customers are really searching for? A new app from Conductor aims to help answer that age-old question, using some very clever tech. Who's alwa ....

Pinterest's futuristic Visual Discovery tools

27/02/2017 SMK Editor

Pinterest has launched a range of high-tech Visual Discovery tools intended to help users discover new products, and ideally part with s ....

Study: YouTube still kicking goals

27/02/2017 SMK Editor

While Facebook has made great advances in video over the past two years, YouTube remains the undisputed king of online moving pictures. Blockbusters A ....

Facebook given token opportunity in personal security

24/02/2017 SMK Editor

In lieu of traditional email password recovery, Facebook will be introducing encrypted tokens that can be stored for a rainy day. Brad Hill gives his two cents Facebook engineer Brad Hill announced at the  ....

Instagram gets sticky, goes ‘hands-free’

24/02/2017 SMK Editor

Hot on the heels of Snapchat, Instagram added some new features for a surge at the start of the year. Make your Instastories pop with stickers ....

Twitter algorithm tweak: relevance trumps recency

24/02/2017 SMK Editor

With precisely zero fanfare, Twitter changed the way it picks and shows search results. Following Facebook Emulating how Fac ....

Facebook launches Discover People to Pay it Forward

23/02/2017 SMK Editor

Looking to connect with even more people on Facebook? Now there's a feature that may boost your digital buddy count. Friendship Circle? The Facebook app on iOS and Android now includes Discover People. The feature displays a list of Facebook ....

Is Snapchat’s audience being snapped up by Instagram?

23/02/2017 SMK Editor

  As Snapchat prepares to go public, evidence shows that copycat tactics from Instagram are making a serious dent in user numbers.   Suspiciously familiar Competitors aping each other’s best features, especially in app-land, is no ....

Viber launches disappearing ‘secret messages’

23/02/2017 SMK Editor

Popular messaging app Viber has taken a page out of Snapchat’s book and launched ‘secret messages’, where photo and video messages disappear after they’re viewed. Top-secret ....

Facebook updates to show more relevant news

22/02/2017 SMK Editor

Facebook has tinkered with the News Feed in an effort to cough up more relevant stories. Sing me a song Facebook is teaming new signals with a real-time prediction algorithm to better identify stories considered authentic and more targeted to your prefer ....

Facebook developing its own TV Streaming App

22/02/2017 SMK Editor

First there was mobile. Then there was video and live streaming. Now Facebook is turning its gaze towards television. Watch this space Facebook is reportedly working on developing a TV app for streaming set-top boxes. The app would work w ....