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evgeny lavrov

New Gadget From Amazon Makes Grocery Shopping Dangerously Easy | Gadget Lab | WIRED - 2 views

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    "GADGET LAB amazon amazon dash amazon fresh FOLLOW WIRED Twitter Facebook RSS New Gadget From Amazon Makes Grocery Shopping Dangerously Easy"
Olga Bykova

A Map Of Your City's Invisible Neighborhoods, According To Foursquare | Co.Design: busi... - 0 views

  • Livehoods clusters this data into what becomes a collection distinctive neighborhoods--places filled with people who enjoy going to the same restaurants, coffee shops, and music venues
  • In other words, the digital map lined up with many residents’ own mental maps
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    Livehoods clusters this data into what becomes a collection distinctive neighborhoods--places filled with people who enjoy going to the same restaurants, coffee shops, and music venues
evgeny lavrov

One Day, Google Will Deliver the Stuff You Want Before You Ask | Wired Business | Wired... - 0 views

  • As personal digital assistant apps such as Google Now become widespread, so does the idea of algorithms that can not only meet but anticipate our needs
  • eBay lets you shop at only one store at a time and promises delivery “in about an hour,” while Google lets you shop at multiple stores and pick your own delivery time window.
  • customers won’t be ordering stuff from eBay anymore. Instead, they’ll let their phones do it.
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  • “Ambient commerce is about consumers turning over their trust to the machine,” Sheldon says
  • Between what these companies know about our interests, our friends, our whereabouts, our purchases, and anything else we’re willing to feed them, whether by email, Twitter, Facebook, GPS, or credit card, they probably should have a very good idea of what we want and when and where we want it.
Maria Gurova

Instagram Testing 3D Touch Ads - 1 views

  • says the move by Instagram is part of an ongoing initiative to add more e-commerce features to the platform, as well as more ways to display and interact with products
  • "Mobile commerce is definitely a space we are looking at closely.
  • Instagram has become increasingly more interested in advertising and has deployed a variety of new products and ad formats for advertisers.
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    Instagram is testing tools that might make it the e-comemerce platform of the future
Anton Vorykhalov

Sketching Pictures Could Be the Future of Online Shopping | Digital Trends - 0 views

  • Forget keywords — this new system lets you search with rudimentary sketches
  • They’ve taught a deep learning neural network — an incredibly powerful tool that mimics the way that the human brain works — to recognize hand-drawn sketches and use them to search for real-life products.
  • The network was “trained” to match sketches to photos based on a data set consisting of around 30,000 sketch-photo comparisons.
Anton Vorykhalov

Goxip is a 'shoppable Instagram' for fashion followers in Asia | TechCrunch - 1 views

  • Gimenez’s take is “shoppable Instagram:” an app that uses image recognition and a large collection of retailers — 400-500 merchants selling over two million items from upwards of 15,000 brands — to create a more engaging and ultimately more fruitful social commerce experience.
  • Social commerce, the idea of buying products listed on social media sites, is huge in Asia.
  • “When you see anything online or on Instagram, the frustration is that you can’t shop even when people are using it as merchants,
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

Out in the Open: The Tiny Box That Lets You Take Your Data Back From Google | Enterpris... - 0 views

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    The National Security Agency is scanning your email. Google and Facebook are hoarding your personal data. And online advertisers are selling your shopping habits to the highest bidder. Today, more than ever, people are thinking about how to opt out of this madness without quitting the internet entirely.
Maria Gurova

Amazon Will Open Over 300 Physical Bookstores Because Life Is a Practical Joke Played O... - 1 views

  • Amazon is working on plans to open hundreds of brick-and-mortar bookstores
  • Amazon already has one physical store that opened back in November.
  • Physical bookstores quickly turned into showroom floors where people would browse and then go buy books for cheap at Amazon.
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  • We can’t wait to see Netflix open up laserdisc rental shops next
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    so far this is only speculations and rumors. but let's see how the story evolves 
isoldatenkova

Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better | World... - 1 views

  • Everything you considered a product, has now become a service. We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives.
  • In our city we don't pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.
  • Shopping? I can't really remember what that is. For most of us, it has been turned into choosing things to use. Sometimes I find this fun, and sometimes I just want the algorithm to do it for me. It knows my taste better than I do by now.
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  • Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.
Oleg Batluk

Retail Asia Expo 2016 - Brand-New Internet Retailing Expo Introduces Cutting-Edge Techn... - 0 views

  • The Expo will bring the latest and finest products, solutions and strategies to feed retailers' hunger for impressing their customers and expanding their online territories
  • internet retailing business
  • Augment Paris HQ
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  • Imagine the needs and benefits of visiting a local physical retail store being replaced by AR. Even more accurately, it aims to improve and bring a brand-new shopping experience to consumers by using a digital model of a product to simulate its existence in everyday reality
  • The Alibaba Group, one of the world's biggest online commerce companies, will be participating in RAE's brand new feature: the Internet Retailing Theatre
alexbelov

Future of messaging apps - 3 views

  • users of the messaging app WeChat can order food, call a taxi, check their bank balance and even shop flash sales of limited-edition goods. And for the user, the experience is just like texting a friend.
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    Messengers are becoming a platform for B2C communication offering a new retail experience and allowing to order goods, get special offers or discounts, check or top up balance, book tickets, or schedule activities. Businesses start using AI and language processing technologies to automate communication with their customers.
Maria Gurova

4 | These Sideways Skyscrapers Reimagine A City That's About Livability, Not Height Rec... - 0 views

  • what if there was a kinder kind of high-rise?
  • PinkCloud.dk entered renderings that showed horizontal neighborhoods flipped on their sides
  • FLIP/CITY, green space would connect workplaces, shops, and residences for people of various incomes on a vertical scale.
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  • . The architects argued that flipping a landscape vertically, so that public space connects homes, schools, and workplaces within one building, would create more mixed use communities than high-rises with hundreds of rooms simply stacked on top of one another.
  • developers are rarely enthused about building diverse communities--often, it's more profitable for them to build new, luxury towers that act like gated communities for the rich. A project like FLIP/CITY would likely require political will, too, and zoning laws would have to adapt to the new mixed-use shapes and needs created by them.
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    another idea for a eco conscious city planning
evgeny lavrov

The Battle for the Last Unconquered Screen-The One in Your Car - WSJ - 0 views

  • The average American driver spends 51 minutes a day in the car
  • On future screens, local restaurants, doctors’ offices and other services could target ads based on typical driving routes
  • “We see this as the battle for the fourth screen,”
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  • Data privacy is a particular concern for German car makers
  • Beyond Apple and Google, other tech companies are working to get their offerings incorporated into car systems
  • Samsung Electronics Co
  • Microsoft Corp. is also edging
  • The launch of self-driving vehicles in the coming years could bring even more screens into the car, on and off the dashboard, as passengers get more time to work, shop or watch movies on the road.
isoldatenkova

Millennials don't deserve NYC - 0 views

  • They’re the greatest generation — of couch potatoes.
  • A growing number of 18- to-34-year-olds, the world’s largest age group, prefer to unwind by staying in, watching Netflix and ordering Seamless, rather than by getting down at a club or bellying up to a bar.
  • on average, millennials stream 2.7 hours of TV shows a day, while the earlier generation, Gen X, does about 1.8 hours.
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  • Millennials, it seems, have discovered that the need to socialize face-to-face is waning, as food, shopping, friends, entertainment and even sex are all an app tap away.
  • The study also found that millennials spend about 3.1 hours a day on their mobile devices, compared with Generation X’s 1.7 hours.
  • You know, the whole ‘Netflix and chill,’ whatever you think about it . . . it’s kind of a trend,” he says.
  • They’re not consuming alcohol, but they’re consuming a lot of media — and it’s depressing them,
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