That competitive crowd makes user acquisition something of an arms race for messaging apps — albeit, an ongoing one, that's augmented by a parallel social feature-creep marathon, required to keep pace with each other and with evolving comms fashions in order to keep those precious users engaged.
That competitive crowd makes user acquisition something of an arms race for messaging apps — albeit, an ongoing one, that's augmented by a parallel social feature-creep marathon, required to keep pace with each other and with evolving comms fashions in order to keep those precious users engaged.
Our results with NHT and HSC showed that crowding impairs the acquisition of aversive associations.
The unnamed project would bring a crowd approach to the acquisition of new titles using a voting system that ranks new books based on crowd favorites.
If Oculus is trying to regain any of the respect they may have lost from the more hardcore geek crowd following the Facebook acquisition, this is a pretty damned good first step.
Great street cred in the Borg-hating crowd, and with the acquisition of Macromedia, an opportunity to extend Flash as an XML-aware runtime for stitching together rich internet applications to challenge the hamstrung Office and related business apps.
We explore the process and outcome of this crowdsourcing project and derive actionable design principles for a three-phased civic innovation crowdsourcing process including: (1) crowd construction, (2) crowd knowledge acquisition, and (3) crowd knowledge assimilation.
It points to what might be called festivalist collecting: the acquisition of large, crowd-pleasing artworks that are entertaining and irresistible on a superficial level.
Google has always been ahead of the pack when it comes to Maps, and with the recent acquisition of Waze crowd-sourced mapping technology, Google's lead will likely only get bigger.
The startup, which was profitable at the time of the acquisition, runs a crowd-sourced database where its 5 million users snap photos of coupons and share them with others – turning the images into mobile-ready offers you can use when at local stores or restaurants.
