Combining the ease and accessibility of e-commerce with the community engagement of social media, social commerce is a growing trend for 2021. As an online brand or business, social commerce doesn’t just help you market your products to a wider audience; it also allows you to more easily and effectively convert your social media followers into paying customers.

In a world where civil unrest and economic uncertainty are on the rise amid a worldwide pandemic, venture capital firms still find ways to throw ridiculous amounts of money at trendy startups. If you haven't heard, Gorillas is the latest in a wave of quirky-named food delivery startups spreading across Europe and poking its tendrils towards the US.

An investigation by German IT Collective Zerforschung found that even with over $300 million in cash, the tech infrastructure of Gorillas leaks like a sieve.

Powerful platform to build chatbots for your teams on Facebook, Slack, WhatsApp, and more.

The fact that the internet of things is constantly improving its core functionality in terms of greater connectivity, data computations and storage, and predictive analysis has given rise to the concept of the Internet of Behavior (IoB).

With data coming from various sources and narrowing into integrated and sorted data streams, the analysis of human behavior, interests, and preferences has become the new concept to diverge businesses into.

Having behavioral sciences and psychological perspectives at work, IoB tends to trace out the path for better product development and service integration for greater customer satisfaction.

The new WebExtensions Community Group will try to forge a common architecture for future web extensions, and is inviting developers to join the effort.

The new group, shortened WECG, consists of members from each of the major browser developers. Member chairs are held by Timothy Hatcher of Apple and Simeon Vincent of Google. Current participants include employees from Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft.

The WebExtensions Community Group has two goals:

• Make extension creation easier for developers by specifying a consistent model and common core of functionality, APIs, and permissions.
• Outline an architecture that enhances performance and is even more secure and resistant to abuse.

This is the story of the most unbelievable demo I've been given in world of open source. You can't make this stuff up.

The data economy depends on violating our right to privacy on a massive scale, collecting as much personal data as possible for profit.

You may think to yourself: “I’ve done nothing wrong, so I have nothing to worry about, nothing to fear.” You’re wrong. Does everyone who can access your data have your best interests at heart?

Of course not. That’s why you keep your credit card number to yourself, and why you have a lock on the entrance to your home. If you don’t go around giving your email account password to strangers, then you shouldn’t go around giving away your personal data.

The more companies know about you, the more power they have over you.

You can grow your blog in two ways:

1. Get more traffic.
2. Do more with the traffic you have.

In my opinion, you should do both even though most people focus on the first option.

Interactive content is a huge opportunity that’s still in its infancy. If you ever wished you discovered something before everyone else adopted it, this is it.

You probably noticed that not all types of interactive content is easy to create. I don’t recommend you try to create all of the types at the same time. Pick one or two that fit well with your audience and website, and focus on perfecting those.

Prosus NV said it struck a $1.8 billion deal to acquire Stack Overflow, an online community for software developers, in a bet on growing demand for online tech learning.

Prosus, one of Europe’s most valuable tech companies, is best known as the largest shareholder in Chinese internet and videogaming giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. Listed in Amsterdam, Prosus signaled its appetite for deal making when it sold a small portion of its equity stake in Tencent in April for $14.6 billion. The Stack Overflow deal ranks among Prosus’ biggest acquisitions.

CRMs are not enough anymore, you need a Customer Data Platform.

What is a Customer Data Platform?

Not unlike a CRM, a CDP collects customer data.

But the similarities end there, with two crucial differences:

• All users: CRMs focus on known or potential customers, CDPs track all users, anonymous or identified.
• All data: instead of structured data collected manually or semi-manually, CDPs ingest data produced by any channel: online or offline, structured or unstructured.

More importantly, CDPs handle identity resolution allowing you to create a unified profile of your customers and audience across all channels.