Nic HodgesFinal thoughts on Facebook (hopefully)I’ve been getting a lot of questions around Facebook, data access, and digital marketing strategies over the past few weeks. Last night I…Apr 12, 2018Apr 12, 2018
Nic Hodges18 Things, #18: The walled gardens winThe web is now well in to its twenties. When it was born it was open, free, and collaborative. The last two decades have been a process of…Dec 15, 2017Dec 15, 2017
Nic Hodges18 Things, #17: Government proposals on algorithmic transparency lawsAlgorithms increasingly govern our lives, often in ways we can’t quite see. There’s a growing concern about the impact of these algorithms…Dec 13, 2017Dec 13, 2017
Nic Hodges18 Things, #16: Bad stuff scales tooThe internet has allowed a lot of good things to scale. Sadly though, whenever good things are created people will work out how to use them…Dec 13, 2017Dec 13, 2017
Nic Hodges18 Things, #15: Tech is the new junk-food, founders are the new bankersAs many people and businesses shift away from the near-religious worship of “disruption”, 2018 will see an increase in public concern about…Dec 11, 2017Dec 11, 2017
Nic Hodges18 Things, #14: Online retail continues the march offlineYou can’t talk about online retail in western markets without focusing 90% of your time on Amazon. And if you focus on Amazon you’ll notice…Dec 10, 2017Dec 10, 2017
Nic Hodges18 Things, #13: Fake news will continue to be an issue as long as we try to solve it with…Prior to November 2016, fake news wasn’t a thing. We’re now 13 months in to this new post-truth world, and the genie can’t be put back in…Dec 7, 2017Dec 7, 2017
Nic Hodges18 Things, #12: The world’s biggest ad fraud network uncoveredThere’s not a lot of people banging the drum about ad fraud, but it continues to be a huge problem. Like $13 billion huge. I don’t expect…Dec 6, 2017Dec 6, 2017
Nic Hodges18 Things, #11: Regulation will cause one of the gig-economy unicorns to pull out of a countryIf you believe the hype, the gig-economy is one of the greatest gifts Silicon Valley has bestowed upon the world. People everywhere can…Dec 5, 2017Dec 5, 2017
Nic Hodges18 Things, #10: Commercialisation of AI will be all about supervised learningMost mainstream media around Artificial Intelligence focuses on unsupervised and reinforcement learning (or misguided chat about Artificial…Dec 4, 2017Dec 4, 2017