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New on SSIR: Global Tools for Going Local

Amy Sample Ward

. —– I truly believe that in all communications, information sharing, marketing and even community building there is a natural balancing between more-and-more-global and more-and-more-local. Social media may connect people around the world but it can also connect them locally. Don’t forget the global context!

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New on SSIR: #4Change Examines Social Media for the Climate Change Movement

Amy Sample Ward

Many social media tools are specifically designed for users to tell stories and voice opinions, others are built as aggregators and distributors of users’ stories. Lesson #3: Local vs Global. The final focus area is on the local vs global impact of social media. Examples of Social Media.

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Resolving code review comments with ML

Google Research AI blog

For example, we compared the model performance for datasets with a single reviewer comment per file to datasets with multiple comments per file, and experimented with classifiers to clean up the training data based on a small, curated dataset to choose the model with the best offline precision and recall metrics. 3-way-merge UX in IDE.

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8 strategic hacks for building marketplace liquidity

The Next Web

Start with aggregating scarce and in-demand inventory. Build “localized” network value. For many locally focused marketplaces, its significantly more valuable to dominate a single DMA than thinly penetrate multiple DMA’s given the same revenue traction. Siphon off demand and/or supply from another destination.

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BlaBlaCar raises $115 million to build all-in-one travel app

TechCrunch

BlaBlaCar’s strategy and goal with today’s funding round could be summed up with three pillars — carpooling, buses and aggregation. BlaBlaCar’s total addressable market in this category is huge and the company is mostly focused on moving offline supply to its online marketplace. Let’s start with carpooling, BlaBlaCar’s core business.

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Dropit picks up $25M to digitize brick-and-mortar stores and unify inventories

TechCrunch

So even if a brand or outlet already has online inventory for specific goods, Dropit brings their offline inventory into the mix and joins all the dots to expedite delivery and minimize the impact of shipping goods from further afield. Dropit: Aggregating shopping mall stores into a single marketplace. Integrated.

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Egypt’s e-commerce platform Wasla nabs $9 million from retail finance provider Contact

TechCrunch

Wasla, whose experience is pegged on its browser, has different features including a deal finder that aggregates discount codes and cashback links across a network of merchants. Offline payment is also a costly option for buyers as it comes with a cash-on-delivery fee. Wasla currently has 1.5 million downloads and has experienced 8.5

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