As businesses come looking to optimize ads in our news feeds, TellApart could convince them to invest in one of our oldest feeds: the inbox.
One of the great pleasures of Gibson's fiction – though he is canny enough to include periodic expository info-dumps to help the confused catch up – is that sense of not being spoon-fed: his futures convince because the reader arrives in them as a tourist and learns their languages by immersion.
In one study, dieters fed pizza and convinced they'd "ruined" their daily diet goal ate 50% more cookies immediately afterward than those not on diets at all.
Facebook found that it could only create a constantly churning, always-interesting News Feed by convincing the whole world to make and share content.
They could send these subscribers marketing messages through the news feed, but convincing users to click off-site and away from their friends was difficult.
Paranoia fed terror, but having convinced himself of the Bolsheviks' right to rule, Ransome stuck to his guns.
Just after his sophomore year at Yale in 2002, Billy Parish stood before a rapidly retreating glacier in India that feeds the Ganges River, convinced that he had come face to face with climate change and that he had to do something about it.
Since so many of these gadget/widget things are based on nice displays of RSS feeds, I'm convinced the possibilities are nearly endless.
In an editorial published on the Journal's website yesterday, seven doctors with more initials after their names than I can count tried to stem the flow of reactionary paranoia and fear that has gripped some Americans and has been fed by politicians eager to convince people they're doing something, anything, about Ebola. .
American voters are fed up with our politics, convinced that the wealthy are now likely to control the electoral process.
