I'm sure everyone thinks that MIT researchers are worthy of appreciation and always work on inventing new and useful things. Well, after an invention announced today I have to say that this will be only partly true, as these researchers just invented the Like-A-Hug Jacket that gives its owner a hug when they receive a Like on Facebook.
The 2012 Facebook–Datalogix partnership opened the offline-conversion measurement era that defined the next decade — and ended when Apple's 2021 App Tracking Transparency rollout broke the underlying signal substrate and cost Meta an estimated $10 billion in 2022 revenue. The four measurement eras, the architecture that survived, and the AI-engine retrieval layer that is now the next measurement frontier.
Where Americans get their news in 2026 — 86% digital, 54% social, TikTok at 20%, AI answer engines reshaping the top of the funnel.
From the 2012 "should we automate tweets" question through Sprinklr, Sprout Social, ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, and the 2026 agentic-posting frontier — the social media automation case file.
The second edition of Social Media Week Chicago offers a wide range of events for both novices and experts, 90 of which are completely free.
For many years, there was a general rule about customer opinion in the cosmetics industry: it mattered, but didn't usually make a difference.
The famous personalized content discovery service StumbleUpon recently made some changes, adapting to new trends and making it more easily for users to find and share great content online and today announced all of its users about some Terms of Service and Privacy Policy updates in a detailed yet very friendly manner. This is one of those not so often times we get to praise someone for doing it right!
Beyoncé's 2012 #IWASHERE performance at the UN General Assembly launched the largest synchronized social media campaign in history. Five lessons every operator running cause-aligned communications can borrow from how the architecture actually worked.
Nearly half of Internet users now post original images to the Web, and photos and videos become some sort of a “social currency” online, as a new report the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows.
Haven Holidays let its Facebook community invent its ice cream flavor in 2012. Strawberry Trifle won. The mechanics scaled to TikTok and Reels — but the structural lesson on community-as-content didn't change.