Short Takes
- Angel investor and co-founder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman sees data as the key to the future. He says that entrepreneurs and technologists who seek innovation need to understand the nuances of data in the information age. Fast Company
- If Google needs data, it throws a party. Seventy Kenyan women went to a Google-sponsored ladies mapping party at Nairobi’s iHub in February to help fill in missing local information like schools, markets, and roads. RWW
- Social media analytics: study shows that Facebook likes are more profitable than Tweets. Mashable
- You put it out there, they monitor and sell it. Who owns social media data, you or Big Data services companies? PC World
- The EU Commission is proposing more extensive amendments to data privacy laws including ‘the right to be forgotten’, which would allow users of services like Facebook to have their personal data completely erased. ITProPortal
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Pernod Ricard thinks the Facebook advertiser revolt won’t be enough to curb hate speech online, so it’s developing an app to help
Pernod Ricard is developing an app that will let people flag hate speech they see online.
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‘Hug them close and punch them in the nose’: How upstart Protocol, eager to get inside crowded tech beat, struggled and cut to survive
The company had an ambitious goal: To do for tech news coverage what Politico had done for politics coverage a decade earlier.
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Member Exclusive‘Allow the creators to create’: EOS hands influencers the wheel to drive effectiveness of its TikTok campaigns
In the latest Digiday+ Talk, Soyoung Kang talked about EOS's relationship with TikTok's creative influencers and how her team has used its paid TikTok campaigns to drive organic growth on its own channel.
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SponsoredWhy data clean rooms are a start, but not enough
Clean rooms are intended to be a “safe space” for brands to collaborate with walled gardens, but the greater opportunity for all brands is bringing together all of their data to create a single source of truth that they own and can continually enrich.
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‘My white colleagues are looking to me for answers’: Confessions of a Black ad tech exec
While the ad tech has taken strides toward being more inclusive, it has also suffered setbacks, according to a senior Black exec.
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‘It is important for us to take a leadership role’: How esports giant FaZe Clan is working to root out bad behavior in the gaming community
Lee Trink, CEO of the $240 million esports collective, on its expansion plans and no tolerance rule on divisive language.
