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Social media giants urged to tackle data-scraping privacy risks

TechCrunch

.’s ICO, Canada’s OPC and Hong Kong’s OPCPD, has urged mainstream social media platforms to protect users’ public posts from scraping — warning they face a legal responsibility to do so in most markets.

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Why so many SaaS companies are launching their own media operations

TechCrunch

Around 2003, as blogs began to take hold in the internet psyche , it became clear that these writing tools could be more than an outlet for an individual’s ruminations — they also had vast potential for business and marketing. It turns out that writing a corporate blog was just the first step in a longer, broader media journey.

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How Data is Changing the Media & Entertainment Industry

CIO

In the media and entertainment business, success is engaging viewers and creating “stickiness.” Traditionally, media and entertainment companies only used data for basic operational reporting. That happens when you understand viewer preferences and understand how audiences interact or consume content.

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The internet moments that defined 2023

TechCrunch

Sometimes, the internet’s most viral memes may seem entirely incomprehensible (like when Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne), but the things that captivate our attention online matter. Can you believe that it was only this summer when Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne?

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Oxford study says internet use doesn’t harm mental health, but its research has limits

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In one of the largest studies ever on mental health and internet use, the Oxford Internet Institute has declared that there is no “smoking gun” linking the internet with psychological harm.

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Capsule gets $1.5M to build ‘super simple’ decentralized social media

TechCrunch

” Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media. Given the intent with TIC is to hosts all sorts of decentralized apps it’s possible — indeed, likely — that a bunch of decentralized social media plays will emerge. Polychain Capital outted its Beacon Fund last September.

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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. The nationwide outage affected phone and internet service for about 12.2 The impact was profound. Expect more ISP failures.

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