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October 18, 2018
Social media is a crucial part of your marketing strategy. It can help you generate buzz around your products and your brand by having users share your content. But social networks are incredibly busy and filled with stimuli. With so much going on, how do you make sure that users will […]
September 19, 2018
You may have heard of the Chinese military treatise: Sun Zi Art of War, written by the Chinese philosopher Sun Zi around the 4th to 5th century B.C. Possibly one of the most popular saying from the Chinese strategist goes “Know Yourself, Know Your Opponent; Hundred Battles, Hundred Won”. Which means to […]
September 5, 2018
There is a common notion that the average English-speaking adult knows between 20,000 and 30,000 words. Recently, a research was published about an analysis of 10 years worth of Wall Street Journal newspapers. It reported that after removing duplicates and names, less than 20,000 unique words were used. I have a huge interest in linguistics, […]
September 1, 2018
Have you ever been stuck on a word while writing a blog post, article or story online? Sometimes we simply can not find the right word to deliver our message. It is true that word visualization and brainstorming can come in handy when we need to expand our topic further. However, most […]
August 1, 2018
We are happy to announce the launch of our new Emotion Analysis API! This new API enables you to detect the emotions of a paragraph of text. In total, our API can identify 6 different emotions. Those are: joy, anger, sadness, disgust, surprise, and fear. After analyzing the paragraph, our Emotion Analysis […]
July 31, 2018
So you finished your app or browser extension and now would like to implement a payment system for in-app purchases. You want to sell extra features or virtual goods, but you don’t know where to start. There are many choices and a lot of the implementation seems daunting. No worries. Google Payments to […]
July 24, 2018
It seems like a difficult topic, but as language users, we can all easily relate to the theory that lies behind Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis —a position of linguistic relativity—argues that language ‘is not merely a reproducing instrument for voicing ideas, but is itself a shaper of ideas, the programme and guide for the individual’s […]
July 24, 2018
Often times, I’ve heard from people who run AdWords campaigns or write blog post that they do very little keyword research. They just use the keywords provided in AdWords Keyword Planner or simply come up with keywords themselves. Yes, this may work, but why put it to chance. Thorough keyword research is […]
July 7, 2018
Imagine endless text on a web page and endless scrolling! While your goal is to find the exact words or related phrase, the Ctrl+F shortcut can not guarantee quick search results with multiple words. Nowadays, various tools are available for you to save time and effort while skimming through a web page. So believe it or […]