Oct 31, 2018Introducing Hindsight’s Advisory BoardOver the past two months, the team at Hindsight has been meticulously assembling a team of advisors that can assist the Company with its next stage of growth. We were careful to select market experts with different but complimentary skillsets, each addressing a critical success factor for the Company. …Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Aug 8, 2018Better Archive Organization and SEO With This One ChangeWhy Keyword Tagging is Key — A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of giving a series of webinars for Local Media Association on the important topic of Keyword Tagging and the benefits it has for archive organization and search engine optimization. The content I presented is an accumulation of knowledge I have gathered through…SEO5 min readSEO5 min read
Aug 2, 2018Context: A Powerful New Way to Engage Digital News Readers“We believe there are millions of thinking people who want to deepen their understanding of the world and are dissatisfied with what they get from traditional news and their social feeds.” — Ev Williams, founder of Medium It seems counter-intuitive that as consumption of digital media grows, people are becoming…Media4 min readMedia4 min read
Jul 24, 2018FCC’s ruling on the Sinclair tribune deal: surprising or not?Hi everyone, my name is Akash Bhat and I’m a summer intern at Hindsight and I’ve been closely following the breaking news about Sinclair Broadcast Group’s bid to buy Tribune Media. Here’s my view of the story. Back in May, media giant Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that they were in…FCC5 min readFCC5 min read
May 21, 2018Looking at Current News Content Recommendation SystemsContent recommendation plays an important part in online publication’s ecosystem. It provides a reader with suggestions with what to read next and has a revenue stream attached to it whether its additional revenue from internal circulated content or ad revenue through external sponsored content. In fact, according to Parse.ly on…Native Advertising5 min readNative Advertising5 min read
Mar 28, 2018Reflecting On Our First 6 Months: Customer Conversations -> ChangeThe first 6 months of Hindsight has been full of ups and downs, highs and lows, laughs and conflicts. But mostly, it has been full of change. From changing our office location, to adding an engineer, to adding/replacing innovation partners, and finally to pivoting our product, change has been the…Startup5 min readStartup5 min read
Mar 20, 2018Hiring Technical Employees as a Non-Technical FounderAbout a year ago, I decided I wanted to build a software product to improve research across the web. It was a problem that persisted in my financial career. Yes, my financial career. I wanted to build a software product with no software development expertise. A tall order. But possible…Startup4 min readStartup4 min read
Dec 11, 2017Academia to Industry Part 1: Version ControlHello, world! My name is Onur Kara, and I am the Lead Data Scientist at Hindsight Technology Solutions, where we focus on implementing and improving upon big data and machine learning techniques in order to utilize them in natural language processing applications in the publication industry. A little about me…Version Control6 min readVersion Control6 min read
Oct 3, 2017Hello World! Introduction to Hindsight!As a journalist, you spend hours creating articles, drafting stories, and perfecting engaging content, only to realize that your creation will probably be viewed for less than a day. But aged content doesn’t necessary need to be forgotten. And it is not irrelevant, outdated, and/or obsolete. The problem with publications…Data Science3 min readData Science3 min read
