Wrote this piece on how Entropy is creating Web 3.0 under our noses about a month ago and it continues to get daily readership.
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Even with publishers grousing about Facebook's shortcomings as a source of revenue and organic traffic, publishers are putting a lot more resources into dark posts, according to Keywee data.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
This report showing publishers buying more Facebook traffic isn't a huge surprise since FB is pushing us in that direction. What is surprising is the apparent efficacy of the spend.
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Blockchains Are Bigger than Bitcoin Blockchains, those distributed, networked, verified and shared transactions, are going to eclipse Bitcoin and blow up how we do business online. Once you know what I know and we all know everything about everyone, a point we are headed toward anyway, imagine what predictive analytics and the Internet of Things can do for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Money is already dead man walking and blockchains promise to kill it the rest of the way - and that's a good thing as we share in this Curagami post.
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Eric Siegel is an expert in predictive analytics and data mining and a former computer science professor at Columbia University, where he won th
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Good video on how big data and predictive analytics should and will live harmoniously together.
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Chatbots Are Coming
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Chatbots and keychains are what's next. 
malek's curator insight,
June 27, 2017 6:53 PM
Get a free crash course on everything chatbots, straight from the experts
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Content & RankBrain What we have here is a failure to communicate. Cool Hand Luke's famous quote applies to SEO and content marketing in the age of a semi-autonomous almost sentient ranking algorithm as this excellent INC post shares.
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Flipboard's Analytics
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These content marketing tools will help you automate and improve the performance of your content marketing strategy.
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Data is a sizzling hot topic these days. Marketers are learning how to use the right information to drive leads and close sales in record time.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Telling Stories with Data
Data without a story is something only an accountant could love. Data with a story and a few charts, graphis and infographics and anyone can understand, join and help.
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As Google's head of artificial intelligence takes charge of search, deep learning is already changing the way Googling works.
Via Lockall, Andreas Christodoulou
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Read our post on seo life after RankBrain: http://www.curagami.com/google-rankbrain-scorched-earth/ 
José Gil de Sagredo's curator insight,
March 25, 2016 7:33 AM
Read our post on seo life after RankBrain: http://www.curagami.com/google-rankbrain-scorched-earth/
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2 + 2 = Zebra
Why is Rankbrain, Kim's post and the future of SEO important?
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Plans Won't Save You
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The DoD's "Hack the Pentagon" program could signal a new approach for defending the federal government's networks.
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* Multi-platform Content Curation - That phrase describes Scoop.it's mission so they CRUSH WP here too. http://sco.lt/590bYn
malek's curator insight,
February 26, 2016 4:42 PM
When stats confirm anecdotal evidence: Good job @Martin (Marty) Smith , you nailed it, I had the same Scoop-it-first, feeling, and here you come with numbers and case for Scoop.it. It's all about shared interests (what you rightly called, tribe of advocates) and friendly platform. Thank you for mention |
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Rather than narrow our definition of impact, we should use metrics to explore richness and diversity of outcomes. Via Nader Ale Ebrahim, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Agree, the web is complex. We need metrics that help sort the wheat from the chaff. 
Nader Ale Ebrahim's curator insight,
July 12, 2017 1:12 PM
Rather than narrow our definition of impact, we should use metrics to explore richness and diversity of outcomes.
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The Mythical Silver Bullet Dashboard
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
We don't believe in silver bullets. The web moves too fast. This new dashboard suffers from some of the same "clouding" problems we are all too familiar with, but there's more of it (lol).
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AI & Creativity
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
This post does make one think about how "human" tasks will change once automated by AI and robots.
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Revenge of the Nerds
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Cool kids and algorithms are eating the world...what else is new?
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Clutter of Digital Marketing Added a postscript to our Curagami post entitled The Gravity of Digital marketing. Somehow I stumbled over a very cool chart from the "Opte Project" showing the web's density 2003 versus 2010.
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Branding in a Revolution
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People are focusing on the wrong thing when analyzing Apple's path forward in the face of slowing iPhone sales. Via Philippe J DEWOST
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Apple Pivot, Will We Care 
Philippe J DEWOST's curator insight,
May 15, 2016 3:57 AM
Drowning by Numbers ; Apple might be surprising us again by opening entirely new product / service categories and they have the resources for doing so. 
Juan Ortega's curator insight,
May 20, 2016 4:34 AM
Historia de Apple con número de unidades vendidas de cada producto
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Cool Use of Google Analytics Reports
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Great blow by blow of a creative way to use Google Analytics Reports. Too Good.
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The documentary is being reinvented for virtual reality, but what challenges does this pose to content creators? Via Dr. Karen Dietz, Os Ishmael
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Marty Note Os Note Here's a fascinating article about the problems with virtual reality storytelling and empathy.
Virtual Reality (VR) is all the rage and very popular at SXSW. We know storytelling is a powerhouse for building our empathy muscles. But what is the impact of VR on empathy?
Turns out, it's not what you think.
The aim of VR is to encourage a human connection and understanding between those wearing a headset and the characters in the story.
Problems around empathy rise when certain stories simply generate a feeling of helplessness in the participant that leads to greater detachment -- not greater human connection.
I love what one of those interviewed for the article says near the end: "But the empathy idea presents another problem for me – the notion that the world's problems arise from a scarcity of feeling rather than from issues of power, inequality and exploitation of people and planetary resources." Hear hear.
There are more details and insights to read in this long-very-long post, and it will make you go, "huh".
What do you think about VR, empathy, and this storytelling trend? 
Educational Peaks's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 6:28 AM
Marty Note Os Note Here's a fascinating article about the problems with virtual reality storytelling and empathy.
Virtual Reality (VR) is all the rage and very popular at SXSW. We know storytelling is a powerhouse for building our empathy muscles. But what is the impact of VR on empathy?
Turns out, it's not what you think.
The aim of VR is to encourage a human connection and understanding between those wearing a headset and the characters in the story.
Problems around empathy rise when certain stories simply generate a feeling of helplessness in the participant that leads to greater detachment -- not greater human connection.
I love what one of those interviewed for the article says near the end: "But the empathy idea presents another problem for me – the notion that the world's problems arise from a scarcity of feeling rather than from issues of power, inequality and exploitation of people and planetary resources." Hear hear.
There are more details and insights to read in this long-very-long post, and it will make you go, "huh".
What do you think about VR, empathy, and this storytelling trend? 
Stephania Savva, Ph.D's curator insight,
March 24, 2016 6:33 AM
Marty Note Os Note Here's a fascinating article about the problems with virtual reality storytelling and empathy.
Virtual Reality (VR) is all the rage and very popular at SXSW. We know storytelling is a powerhouse for building our empathy muscles. But what is the impact of VR on empathy?
Turns out, it's not what you think.
The aim of VR is to encourage a human connection and understanding between those wearing a headset and the characters in the story.
Problems around empathy rise when certain stories simply generate a feeling of helplessness in the participant that leads to greater detachment -- not greater human connection.
I love what one of those interviewed for the article says near the end: "But the empathy idea presents another problem for me – the notion that the world's problems arise from a scarcity of feeling rather than from issues of power, inequality and exploitation of people and planetary resources." Hear hear.
There are more details and insights to read in this long-very-long post, and it will make you go, "huh".
What do you think about VR, empathy, and this storytelling trend? 
Mark E. Deschaine, PhD's curator insight,
March 26, 2016 8:20 AM
Marty Note Os Note Here's a fascinating article about the problems with virtual reality storytelling and empathy.
Virtual Reality (VR) is all the rage and very popular at SXSW. We know storytelling is a powerhouse for building our empathy muscles. But what is the impact of VR on empathy?
Turns out, it's not what you think.
The aim of VR is to encourage a human connection and understanding between those wearing a headset and the characters in the story.
Problems around empathy rise when certain stories simply generate a feeling of helplessness in the participant that leads to greater detachment -- not greater human connection.
I love what one of those interviewed for the article says near the end: "But the empathy idea presents another problem for me – the notion that the world's problems arise from a scarcity of feeling rather than from issues of power, inequality and exploitation of people and planetary resources." Hear hear.
There are more details and insights to read in this long-very-long post, and it will make you go, "huh".
What do you think about VR, empathy, and this storytelling trend?
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Best Content Marketers is a great quesiton we answer in a different way focusing on best day-to-day content marketers from Scoopit, Gplus & Medium.
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What’s the difference between a company that uses big data like a grown-up and one that is still in the playpen? Collect it, store it, crunch it, display i
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Great post about how BIG DATA is eating the world. 
michel verstrepen's curator insight,
March 12, 2016 12:06 PM
Great post about how BIG DATA is eating the world. 
Jean-Pierre Blanger's curator insight,
March 13, 2016 10:49 AM
Great post about how BIG DATA is eating the world.
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Video games have been part of the art world for yearsbut a solo museum retrospective of a designer is a first.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Won't be the last.
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Entropy and 2013
Little did I know how accurate this article was/is. The web and what we know as "websites" is changing. I saw a great statement today. In an article I scooped about the 20 trends of 2013 http://www.scoop.it/t/design-revolution/p/3994915454/20-web-development-and-design-trends-2013-from-creative-maniacs .
The article discusses the loosening of the web. Static pages defined a priori are going away. Code and systems design will replace predefined pages with pages created on the fly.
The advantage to creating pages on the fly is HUGE. Pages are more easily tuned to their audience in the moment. You might we wondering how this would work.
Let's say you arrive at this page from my Mobile Revolution. There is content here tagged "mobile" so that mobile content, given your previous location, would become could be re-positioned to create ScentTrail, a sense of a meaningful path.
Visitors can branch and websites of the not very distant future will simply reform around the path. If we stand at the end of the static web on the gates of the dynamic and algorithm controlled one the ultimate destination is the fluid intuitive semantic web.
Entropy's roll is to continue to remove organization, there is a video in the piece showing how sand is much more likely to build random piles than sand castles. The web is headed in the direction of random sand piles than sand castles.
There is another seemingly tangential reason I think entropy is inevitable. We are changing too. The web isn't passive. To interact with it is to be changed. One of my favorite books is A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule The Future by Daniel Pink http://www.danpink.com/books/whole-new-mind.
Right brainers are creatives and left brainers are detailed oriented engineers. Pink's persuasive argument is we've engineered as far as we can. Think of the web. The pressure on Internet marketing now is NOT creation of a website anyone can do that. The pressure is in creating content that wins hearts and minds.
You see the movement from left-brain to right. The web needed to be built, but now that it is creating art is what matter most. Artists are also much more tuned to entropy. Artists routinely build and tear, tear and build.
Entropy, the natural move from organization to randomness, favors artists and his happening faster and faster.
I kept riffing on entropy on Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/102639884404823294558/posts/SvgmhHHKL6D
How Entropy Is Creating Web 3.0 Right Under Our Noses :).
http://www.scoop.it/t/design-revolution/p/3994915454/20-web-development-and-design-trends-2013-from-creative-maniacs