Reputation management is as important as a dynamic social media strategy

If you work hard and spend millions a year obtaining new visitors to your website, should you not also take the same care in managing the reputation of your brand through other people’s comments online? Hotels Seek Quicker Redress on TripAdvisor Reviews – NYTimes.com “The world of the Internet and particularly social media has pretty [...]

Google Boost: a push to simplify ad-buying at a local level

Google Launches Boost, Easy Local Advertising With Artificial Intelligence – NYTimes.com Boost appears aimed at turning Google advertising for local businesses from a complex art often hired-out to specialist consultants into a turn-key technology with far less friction than non-technical business owners experience today.

Book piracy is “about to arrive on a massive scale”

Your time is up, publishers. Book piracy is about to arrive on a massive scale – Telegraph Blogs a conservative estimate this month suggests there are 1.5-3 million people looking for pirated eBooks every day

Music business in great health… less so for record companies

It is a bit late to try to charge people for downloading music. Revenue will have to come from other potential sources. What’s working in music: Having a ball | The Economist (IFPI, an international trade group, reckons that 19 out of every 20 tracks downloaded are illegal) that it ought to be possible to [...]

MovieReshape: Tracking and Reshaping of Humans in Videos

Robots already “protecting” borders and military facilities

How long before they carry a live gun? How long before the operation of that gun is also automated? Who is responsible in case of errors? The military? The programmers? The politicians? No one? How long before they are used by the police too for crowd “dispersal”? How long before they are used against “homeland [...]