Affinities are All About Content, Context and Location

The Internet of Things will undoubtedly benefit from affinity-based targeting in more ways than one. But IoT is about so much more than having a refrigerator that automatically re-orders your favorite brand of yogurt. At the FutureM conference in Boston last September, speakers from Kraft and Dunkin’ Donuts indicated that they are looking to solutions…

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How to Tailgate Like a Southern Football Fanatic (Using Mutual Affinities)

As a southerner, I spend a disproportionate amount of my life thinking about college football and eating.  As any reader of Garden & Gun knows, the two of these come together each Saturday in the fall via the time-honored “tailgate” tradition1.  During my undergrad at NC State, no game experience was complete without pregame spicy…

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