During the session, we covered the following:

News Topics:

• Super Bowl Commercials and Social Media
  • Commercial time highly coveted, especially when the game goes into overtime and there are more opportunities to run ads
  • Ranking social media impact of commercials during the Super Bowl
• Snapchat working on Lenses to identify Landscapes
  • Feature would go along with face recognition to intelligently overlay augmented reality animations and objects overtop of scenes captured through your camera
  • Different from its existing smart Lenses, which can add features like snowfall to scenes, because it can actually create virtual objects that appear to interact and intersect with the real world
•  (Tease for next week) – Facebook Working on Advanced Photo Recognition
  • Automatic Alt Text (AAT) for photos, a technology that can describe the contents of photos for people who are visually impaired
  • Captions are currently able to describe objects
  • Expanding the abilities to include 12 Actions, which will create ability to describe scene and some context

Lesson of the Week: 

• New Profile Walkthrough on LinkedIn
• SnapChat Mobile Walkthrough

To learn more about new topics and interesting ideas, see Dean’s Twitter feed.

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