WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

WHY IT MATTERS: interesting read with lots of links and videos to understand some of the tools and techniques YouTube deploys to understand what videos contains. Google then uses this insight to moderate content (ie. 18+) but also provide creators with insights (ie. video segmentation) as well as monetize the content (ie. detect products featured for eCommerce or ad placement). Of course most is machine learning based as evidenced in the chart I extracted, but some good old fashion humans are also part the game. This article helped me view YouTube less as a video broadcast platform than a social media.

WHY IT MATTERS: a clever overview of the digital media world that highlights the importance of digital technology and in particular of unified customer data to break down silos. Very true indeed!

WHY IT MATTERS: chatbots were all the rage last year, often described as a silver bullet to solve all kinds of problems easilly. Now they have become one more solution in the digital transformation arsenal, with PROs and CONs. This post describes the process to setup and configure two popular tools and in the process highlight their capabilities and shortcomings.

WHY IT MATTERS: digital transformation in enterprise remains slow to catch on and this survey result shows that Intranet solutions remain under utilized. Having seen many of them, I can understand why: lots of useless, and out of date documents, no one really in charge of maintenance, no search or bad search engines, etc. Key learning from this chart:

- if you update your intranet, build something simple and make sure people use it

- have a corporate social network, it is useful and people use it

WHY IT MATTERS: say what you will, technology is often the driver of change. Always good to keep track of what's out there and what's possible because who knows, one of these may be useful... ;-)

WHY IT MATTERS: we've seen with recent Facebook meltdown how social media can become a free for all. This 15min video tries to explain what instagram is doing to prevent some of the most annoying elements of un controlled networks: trolls.

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Social logins are very useful but they carry security and privacy concerns that every company must examine as they move to digitalize everything. In "Kill the password" (fmcs.digital/blog/kill-the-password-a-string-of-characters-wont-protect-you/), the author shows the impact of having multiple websites and applications connected with one another. This is a security concern that must be addressed, mitigated or at the very least highlighted so that everyone involved is aware of the risks and the benefits.

Other articles:

• somewhat technical: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-danger-of-social-media-logins-2014-5
• recent stats on social login use: https://betanews.com/2016/10/19/social-logins-convenience-risks/ 

Essential read on this new technology from Facebook that was made possible because of the social graph that Facebook builds. Impressive if only because the solution was easy to build.

Also read the companion article for a high-level description rather than this detailed one: http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/11/14/how-facebooks-safety-check-works.html

A discussion on the impact that technology innovation has had on the election of Trump and more disruption to come from Amazon. 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

The author presents compelling arguments about reasons why technology innovation has had such an impact and forces us to rethink most business models. Moreover the analysis of Trump's election as evidence that the power has shifted from editors and political parties to voters and end users is just brilliant and I will certainly use it in the future!