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Six degrees of separation in instant messaging | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Six degrees of separation in instant messaging. Dataset , Instant Messaging , Internet , Online Communications , Roland Piquepaille. This study has been led at Microsoft Research Redmond lab by Eric Horvitz and Jure Leskovec, who was an intern at the time. Tags: IM , Microsoft Corp.

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Facebook Updates that May Warrant a Marketing Plan Tweak!

Harp Interactive

It is hard for marketers to keep up with all the developments on Facebook, let alone in the social universe. Facebook is being used for everyday tasks like e-mail, instant messaging, reading news, blogs, RSS feeds, search and shopping. Are highly targeted Facebook ads part of your marketing mix?

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Why social media teams will be at the center of conversational commerce

Sprout Social

A better way to understand the difference between the two types of commerce strategies is to breakdown which platforms are used in each scenario: Conversational Commerce: Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Microsoft Cortana, Instagram DMs. We just expanded our partnership with @Shopify to 27 new countries.

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Get Ready for the Bots – on Facebook Messenger

Mindjumpers

Luckily, these bots are not machine learning bots, such as the disaster that was Microsoft’s Tay. Thanks to their highly advanced Send/Receive API, these bots are able to reply with actual structured messages, including links, images, hotel reservations, the weather etc. Besides banks, what other markets will benefit from this?

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Get Ready for the Bots – on Facebook Messenger

Mindjumpers

Luckily, these bots are not machine learning bots, such as the disaster that was Microsoft’s Tay. Thanks to their highly advanced Send/Receive API, these bots are able to reply with actual structured messages, including links, images, hotel reservations, the weather etc. Besides banks, what other markets will benefit from this?

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comScore Releases First Public Report of Online Usage in Singapore

Bill Hartzer

One of the most notable aspects of the report is that people in Singapore spend more time sending instant messages. In fact, instant messaging has the largest share of Singaporeans’ time spent online. Instant Messengers 24.2% Microsoft Sites followed in second with 1.9 Microsoft Sites 1,929 76.5%

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

I have literally copied the G&S description in Microsoft Word to check the word count, and it is 32 pages long and 16,728 words total. I guess their intention is to “corner the market” and cover just about every possible scenario that they could possibly put into the application. But this is much, much longer.