Here’s a rare treat, Dear Reader: three items about Customer Data Platforms. We’ll start with news that B2B CDP Leadspace has launched a native Salesforce integration making Leadspace’s contact data, intent signals, and predictive modeling scores available directly within the Salesforce CRM interface.
Today’s marketers have more data available than ever but struggle to pull it together in a usable format. Customer Data Platform (CDP) technology offers the promise to solve this problem by offering easy-to-deploy systems resulting in data unification and sharing. But marketers, technologists and executives rightly wonder: can CDP really deliver on this promise?
I’m pretty sure that Mojo Vision wasn’t kidding when they announced they have emerged from stealth to offer “invisible computing”, but they certainly seem ripe for ridicule. Saying “the company did not offer any immediate specifics regarding product availability or planned form factors” doesn’t help. The general idea is augmented reality for hands-free data display. They did say they’ve raised more than $50 million dollars, apparently on the reputations of the co-founders.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.