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How AI And Big Data Are Changing Century-Old Media Companies

YoungUpstarts

It has stood behind its paywall since 1997, trusting that customers interested in its content would pay upwards of $200 a year for it. Then, based on the resulting score, their paywall tightens or loosens depending on whether the algorithm believes the visitor will convert into a subscriber.

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[Review] Twitter Is Not A Strategy

YoungUpstarts

Should brand marketers “bow to algorithmic salvation”, allowing data and process to ride roughshod over inspiration and creativity? A case in point is Apple, whose “Think Different” campaign in 1997 (see video below) served as a rallying call to those who shared the brand’s values. How do we build strong brands in the digital age?

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What is Wrong With Today's CMS

www.readwriteweb.com

I started using my first content management system around 1997, when things were crude and clumsy. If your search algorithm drives people to use the Google site search, you know what I mean. You would think in the past 15 or so years time would heal all and improvements would be made, but you would be wrong. Search sucks.

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How did you become a hardcore back-end developer?

Diego Basch

Fast forward to 1997. Try not to commit any algorithms with orders of complexity that don’t make sense for what you are doing. I started coding in the 80s. No web, no connectivity for the most part, just simple games, random programs, hardware drivers, random utilities. Basic, Pascal, Assembly, C. Are we killing the network?

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. I was asked several times to write a solution for an algorithmic problem on paper or on a whiteboard. Outdated and Impersonal HR Practices. Let's move on, shall we?

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. Using my analytics background I developed an algorithm to select the best investments. Thanks to Dr. Dan Danyo, North Atlanta Hair Restoration ! #4- 4- Started as a part-time work.

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Lost and Found at a Beauty Contest

Gust

And in 1997, that was pretty cool. One was that our “gluing” algorithms, which combined 3D images taken from different angles, also generated Frankenstein-like seams. How did we get the word out? Well, there was this new thing called the internet and my friend was the director of the Miss Universe pageant.