I had the privilege of participating in an important conversation about the state and future of social media and gaming and the need to protect users from harmful content and engagement. Joining me in that conversation wasĀ Chris Priebe, CEO & founder of Two Hat Security and Stewart Rogers of VentureBeat. You can listen to it (and I encourage you to do so) here. Leading up to the discussion, I spoke withĀ VentureBeat on the subject and the critical need for intelligent…
Brian Solis Featured on VentureBeat Live – Making Content Moderation Good For Business
Brian Solis recently appeared on VB Live to discuss the challenges of content moderation for online platforms. In a preview of the webinar, Solis told VentureBeat, āItās becoming increasingly clear that user generated content on social platforms is open to all kinds of abuse, like livestreamed violence, cyberbullying, and toxic user behavior. Companies need to start asking themselves how to balance the benefits of engaging users on social platforms.ā Solis continues, āThis is a problem of human interaction and behavior,…
Is Social Media and Gaming Safe? Why Intelligent Content Moderation is the Next Competitive Advantage
I have two small children who, from time-to-time, get to watch YouTube Kids. Even with all of the filters and safety triggers engaged, there are still ways in which those with sinister intent can introduce dangerous content packaged in seemingly harmless videos. Recently, children all over the world were subjected to their favorite Disney characters behaving poorly and in some cases, dangerously, in what’s now referred to as “Elsagate” on YouTube. In February 2019, kids were also trolled by evildoers…
Visioncritical.com Touts Brian Solisā āX: The Experience When Business Meets Designā in Article about a Webinar called āThe Customer Experience Revolutionā
Solisā 2015 bestselling book āX: The Experience When Business Meets Designā is touted in an article (by Kelvin Claveria) about an April 2019 Vision Critical webinar called āThe Customer Experience Revolution.ā Though the headline says, āWhy people are raving about X, the new book from Brian Solis,ā: the article starts with a mention of the seminar, in which Solis shared concepts and insight taken from the book. Nick Stein, senior VP of marketing at Vision Critical, joined Solis in the…
Is the Golden Age of tech blogging over?
My colleague Jeremiah Owyang sure ruffled some feathers with his post claiming that the Golden Age of tech blogging is over. Aside from being a mentor and a tireless analyst, he’s also a long-time blogger. His words over the years helped blaze the trail for blogging and ultimately the micromedia bonanza that he believes is contributing to the erosion of long-form social prose. In his article, he quotes good friends Loic Lemeur, Ben Metcalfe, Ben Parr, Francine Hardaway, Chris Heuer…
San Jose Mercury News to Lay off 101 Workers
Hat tip over to Nick Douglas at ValleyWag. Not that I want to start reporting about every media outlet that lays off reporters…but I do want to highlight the inevitable reality and need for publishers to redefine their business models immediately. There have been many flags along the way, with the most recent being the break-away of Silicon Beat’s Matt Marshall to startVentureBeat andMike Langberg’s decisionto leave journalism (after 18 years at the Merc) to join The TDA Group, a…
Office2.0 version 1.5, Additional Insight from Day One
The other day, I was reading Read/Write Web before heading up to Office 2.0 and Richard McManus posted some great questions to stimulate dialogue and create a forum for truly interesting market and technology analysis. Does Office 2.0 represent a revolution, a paradigm shift? Or just incremental improvement on Microsoft Office? What Office 2.0 apps and services best represent the paradigm shift of Office 2.0 to you? Do you agree that Googleās web-based office apps are more evolutionary than revolutionary?…
Shutterfly Hits the Street with IPO – Web 1.0 Still Has Legs
Online photo sharing and printing service Shutterfly raised $87 million in an IPO today, closing up 3.7% at $15.55 per share, reaching a ceiling of $16.73, according to VentureBeat. Marshall Kirkpatrick of TechCrunch observed, “In a time when IPOs are among the least common liquidity events enjoyed by Web 2.0 startups, for a photosharing site to remain independent and go public is interesting relative to all the startups we profile here.” I personally find this interesting on many levels. Just…
STIRR It Up! Founder’s Mixer 1.6 Raises the Bar
This was STIRR ās sixth event and there was no doubt that it was the biggest to date. In fact they had to move from Blue Chalk in Palo Alto to The Whisper Lounge in SF in order to accomodate the growth. In discussions with Sean Ness and Joanne Wan, estimates were easily placed at about 225. 225…? Kudos STIRR team! STIRR is an effective mix of āliveā social and business networking among a highly qualified crowd of tech innovators,…
VentureBeat Launches, Crashes, and Emerges as the Valley’s Newest, Must-Read Blog
What a last couple of days….sorry to report on this so late, but, as always, you will get one helluva a report! For all of you SiliconBeat readers, you may have found this message… And for you others, you may have read at SiliconBeat, Valleywag, Stowe Boyd’s Message, among many others…VentureBeat recently launched, and then crashed amidst the linking frenzy that ensued…but has emerged as a bonafide resource for Venture-related deals and companies worth tracking in and around Silicon Valley….
