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WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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API-Security-Checklist - A checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT github is a software engineering tool for software version control that has been leveraged for large open source projects. It has also been used to co-edit documents with a high level of version control and large population of authors. I wanted to share this - along with previous posts on software engineering blogs and 2 factor authentication support - as a great example of how digital can help transform the way people work. Unfortunately I find that organizations have yet to become aware of this great tool, maybe because it is a little bit too geeky for non technical employees. What do you think? Are there more user friendly tools like this? 
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These are the steps you can take and the tools you'll need to remain anonymous and hidden online. Tor, VPN, burner emails, encryption, bitcoin, etc.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Discusses different solutions to remain anonymous online, from TOR to bitcoins.
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Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. You can run it against any web page, public or requiring authentication. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, and more. You can run Lighthouse as a Chrome Extension, from the command line, or as a Node module. You give Lighthouse a URL to audit, it runs a series of audits against the page, and then it generates a report on how well the page did. From there, use the failing audits as indicators on how to improve the page. Each audit has a reference doc explaining why the audit is important, as well as how to fix it.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Digital transformation occurs via the web, more often than not. Google has been giving the web developer community amazing tools, from the pagespeed solutions to the chrome browser developer tools. Now lighthouse is a new solution to help us developers in our quest to build fast and efficient web solutions. Check it out.
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The short version: I'm loading over 1 billion breached accounts into HIBP. These are from 2 different "combo lists", collections of email addresses and passwords from all sorts of different locations. I've verified their accuracy (including my own record in one of them) and many hundreds of millions of the
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Pretty much your whole life is online and digitize today. Your only protection from crooks is strong passwords that you never reuse. This article provides in depth discussion on the millions of passwords that are being sold for few dollars on the dark web. It should help you understand why this is important and what to do to be more secure.
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Is the future of content management decoupled? Centralization around a single source of content has never been more important as marketers aim to reach
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Another look into new web and mobile CMS solutions.
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From
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Building a new website seems like an impossibly hard task, something that'd take a few hours at best and a few weeks or months at worst. You'd never make a new website just to share a couple reports or write about a project you're working on. You could, however. With the newly redesigned Google Sites—one of Google's best yet least known apps—you can build a full website for free in minutes. Here's how.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Good to know that there is less and less friction to be online and in the cloud for teams and businesses. Moreover, I like using zapier to connect my different cloud solutions and performs simple tasks. For example, I use it to archive into a spreadsheet every tweet I post: useful when you want to quickly refer to it!
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Google Calendar was likely the second Google app you tried, right after Gmail, when you got your first Google account. With a history dating back to 2006, one that's overshadowed by Gmail and Google's other apps, it's easy to overlook Google Calendar's deep set of features. Even though it appears to just be a basic calendar app at first glance, Google Calendar has the features you need to manage almost any calendar needs. In this article, you'll find 30 tips and tricks to customize the app and make it work for your needs. Whether you're wrangling an international business spanning multiple time zones, or just need a better way to track events with friends and family, here's how you can use Google Calendar to manage all that and more.
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Just useful, a bit technical at times.
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Worried about new ransomware attacks infecting your systems? Learn how ransomware works + get tips to block ransomware and deal with ransomware recovery.
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Amazing reference concerning ransomware: what they are, trends, recommendations, etc. Very well done, very useful.
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An open source data visualization framework built with the goal of making the visual representation of complex data easy for everyone.
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Simple. Easy. Efficient. Wow.
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There's a powerful tool hiding in your browser: Inspect Element.
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A simple overview of a very useful and powerful tool.
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Running a store can be hard, tiring work that requires you to wear many hats. Between shipping out orders, managing inventory, keeping track of accounting data, and answering yet another customer's email, it's easy to get overwhelmed. But it doesn't have to be that hard. Your eCommerce platform and other companion apps can keep your store running smoothly, managing the busywork so you can focus on your products and customers.
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Creating and running an ecommerce store does not require technical skills anymore: anyone can do it. This paper provides very useful links to help anyone find solutions, tools and techniques to plan and execute the most common tasks behind a successful ecommerce store. Enjoy!
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Floodwatch is a Chrome extension that tracks the ads you see as you browse the internet. It offers tools to help you understand both the volume and the types of ads you’re being served during the course of normal browsing, with the goal of increasing awareness of how advertisers track your browsing behavior, build their version of your online identity, and target their ads to you as an individual. We want to assemble the largest amount of advertising data we can— and then not give it to the advertisers.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Knowing what information is captured about you, stored and the digital profiles that is created behind the scenes as you browse the web is a first step in regaining control over our digital twin so we can have better digital lives.
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Why #AdBlockers May be as Bad as the #Ads they are blocking: they need to make $$ using ads+tracking
For publishers and advertisers, Internet ad blockers are a scourge. But the blockers also have to pay the bills.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Surveillance is part of the web browsing experience mostly due to ads and social beacons. Trying to block them off not only degrades the user experience but may not provide the expected benefits as it may provide a different type of surveillance. Ad blocking does not appear to be the solution after all. So what can provide more privacy when surfing the web? The question remains open.
Jean-Marie Grange's comment,
December 20, 2016 1:12 PM
Maybe one solution would be for content publishers to offer the choice of paying a fair amount for ad-free content... http://sco.lt/7CrAVl
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Now a new breed of software applications is reshaping sales force management. Their common characteristic: Using digital data exhaust, which is the data generated from the regular activities of a sales force or their customers, to change the behaviour of frontline sales representatives in ways that dramatically improve sales productivity and effectiveness.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Daily activities leave digital traces that can be leveraged to improve processes and deliver value in organizations. We often overlook this data in organizations but we should realize that companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple and others have invested huge amounts of efforts to dig into the data exhaust of our digital and physical world activities in order to extract, infer, predict our tastes and behaviour. If it works for them, it should work for us as well, no?
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Onfido delivers next-generation background checks, helping the world’s most innovative businesses verify anyone, anywhere.
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AI and Big Data are being applied to identity verification by a startup that has received 25M in funding and is poaching employees from Google.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT AI and other techniques will provide enhance capabilities to deter theft and privacy violations. They will become essential tools in digital transformation of businesses. For example, UBER is using Onfido to verify that people are who they claim they are, thus making their service better able to curb credit card theft, and protect drivers by ensuring their passengers can be tracked is they behave inappropriately.
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When it comes to the myriad risks companies face across digital channels — social, mobile, and web — security and risk (S&R) pros track a much smaller portion of their environment than they realize. Without comprehensively and persistently monitoring risk in digital channels, companies remain susceptible to a wide variety of brand, cyber, and physical risk events. Despite the high stakes, many organizations struggle to improve digital risk visibility and mitigate related risks.
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Use this link to access the Forrester report for free on solutions to help protect your organization from the digital threats your corporation faces on its brand, cyber presence or physical locations.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT First, the paper describes the various risks you may face in a digital world. If you don'T know the difference between OSINT, TECHINT, SIGINT, HUMINT, CHINT then you must read it. Good to know. Second, it lists the various ways in which you can protect yourself. Interesting. Finally, it lists tools you can use to secure your company. Useful.
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Predix, GE's cloud-based platform (PaaS) for Industrial Internet applications, combines people, machines, big data and analytics. Discover Predix today.
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GE's industrial Internet means that in the future they may be best known for their infrastructure than their products and devices. Watch for it.
More importantly, the industrial internet and Predix tools came out of a strong digital transformation vision carried out by an exceptional Chief Digital Officer (CDO), Linda Boff. See her profile for more details: http://cdoclub.com/us-chief-digital-officer-of-the-year-linda-boff-on-digital-transformation-at-ge/
I wrote about GE industrial internet in the past: see here http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses?q=ge
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It's easy for leaders to say they're serious about using technology to reinvent their businesses. Yet all too often they focus only on strategy and fail to leverage the tools and apps that could keep them current and spark new ideas for commercial use. And being hands-on with tech provides another key benefit: it puts you in the shoes of customers and employees, forcing you to think about the user experience. So, beyond the AI tool in your smartphone, what other technologies can bring business insight—and help you streamline your workday to boot? Here's what some of the CEOs we work with use on a daily basis.
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Tools to use if you don't already.
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Surfer en toute liberté, c'est possible! Il existe des alternatives aux Gmail, Slack et autres Dropbox, qui collectent vos données en échange de leurs services. Guide pas à pas pour reprendre le contrôle.
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(in french) Afraid that Google and others know too much about you? Want to know how to live and work outside of the major tools and solutions? This blog post offers a list of solutions to help you do just that.
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Summary post that explains what deep linking is and what it is used for in mobile devices and apps. Links to a full length report (for a fee).
WHY THIS IMPORTANT mobile apps have limitations when you need to link to specific pages or products from digital mobile apps for examples. This technology and solutions such as Branch may provide a solution for digital marketing teams.
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From
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Bots are handy little assistants that hang out in your app, wait for commands, and then find or create the thing you need. They're another way to use your favorite apps without needing to open those apps, running automated tasks for you. They're the big new thing—a core part of Slack, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram's newest features—and yet they seem too complicated to build and use. Turns out, bots are simple enough for anyone to make. Here's how you can make a bot to do anything you want in a few minutes without any coding—along with a dozen examples of bots that real teams are using today, and a Slack bot cheat sheet for a handy reference to help build your own bots.
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A detailed how-to article on how to build a chat bot using Zapier, a popular online programming automation tool.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Robots or "bots" will become more and more common in the near future as they integrate seamlessly into our most common chat programs such as Facebook messenger. They will become popular because they allow any company to have a presence inside popular mobile apps and do not require any installation from users: they just type in requests and get responses in return. Directions, orders, and information will be streamed by those autonomous programs to help you fulfill daily tasks. This article highlights an important aspect of bot programming: they will become easier and easier to create, especially for common and recurring problems.
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Stay up-to-date with the latest product announcements and new advancements from Automated Insights.
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The company automated insights uses its AI tools to automatically write summary of baseball games (http://bit.ly/2a9g7qR), financial portfolio (http://bit.ly/2a9gG3T), and many other. This blog describes many of these applications.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT I wrote about automated insights in the past (http://sco.lt/7FRff7) as it was starting and have been watching ever since. It is important to take notice that AI has been hired by the Associated Press to write summary texts that go straight to the wire without human intervention (http://sco.lt/7FRff7).
This is a trend worth watching as it means AI is slowing replacing human workers with machine intelligence in fields that were previously though impossible - here the redaction of human readable texts and stories. I wrote about data on why no job is safe from automatization and robotization (http://sco.lt/64xeyX).
Anyone putting together a digital strategy must absolutely consider the use of such AI tools in the coming years, and thus have a roadmap with trials starting as soon as NOW.
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Dark traffic is affecting your site and skewing your analytics, making it tough to figure out how your marketing is doing. Here's how to deal with it.
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Explain what dark traffic is - actually direct in google analytics - and explains how to reduce it in order to improve analytics results.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Analytics is an essential of digital transformation and very often the primary reason to go digital as it provides ability to monitor exactly what customers are doing, of ten in realtime. However, managing and exploiting the analytics data requires very careful analysis and planning and posting such as this one provides methods to improve the quality of your analysis and improve the visibility you get from your digital investment.
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Every company has products, websites, systems and solutions that require a changelog to be kept to ensure end users know about the changes as they occur. This is the perfect tool for that.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
Good tools are essential to be at your best. I find this list useful, along with the tool roundup the company provides at regular intervals: http://www.stacklist.com/articles/new-tools-roundup-13/
I wrote about the betapage.co tool roundup in the past, a similar reference: http://sco.lt/73Og3F