March Madness is in full swing, taking most everyone’s attention, as well as the Washington landslide, Chicago train crash, and Boston fire. But the top shares this week weren’t about those stories. Let’s see what you (the web) were sharing this week.
From Outbrain to Taboola and now AddThis––the great thing about content-based recommendation tools is that you have lots of great options and don’t have to limit your site to just one. Although they all recommend content, they each work differently, and have unique capabilities and algorithms for you to consider.
Over the last few months, we’ve been talking to bloggers and crunching the numbers to discover ways to increase sharing for anyone who owns a website. What we found is that there are a few simple things that you can do (now) to increase sharing on your site.
With Pi Day, St. Patrick’s Day festivities, and the start of March Madness, the web was loaded with interesting content being shared this week. Here are some of the top pieces shared.
Hydra is a distributed data processing and storage system developed at AddThis, which we recently released as open source. It ingests streams of data and builds hierarchical tree structures that are aggregates, summaries, or transformations of the data. Sibling nodes in the tree are stored in lexicographic sorted order. This ordering is often used explicitly by the human when writing queries or implicitly by the query system to optimize the execution of queries. Continue →
We’re excited to announce that one of our most requested features is now available in AddThis Pro: inline content recommendation widget.
There’s a madness that’ll be taking over for three weeks. It’s known as the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Headlines this week were dominated by news of the missing Boeing 777 plane that was traveling from Malaysia to Beijing, and SXSW, which is now in the music portion of the annual conference in Austin. Interestingly enough, however, the top shared content wasn’t about either of these. Let’s take a look.
Marc Andreessen––a early pioneer of the Internet as the co-author of the first graphical web browser and co-founder of Netscape––wrote a series of tweets that culminated in a blog post explaining how he sees journalism changing, and how Internet technologies are going to facilitate the news media growing ten to one hundred times what it is today.
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