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Apple's Forthcoming "Healthbook" Software: An insanely detailed leak of Apple’s forthcoming Healthbook software (likely a part of iOS 8) by Mark Gurman: Each category of functionality is a card in the Healthbook. Cards are distinguished by a color, and the tabs can be arranged to fit user preferences. As can be seen…
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Just a few minutes ago, Nate Silver’s new FiveThirtyEight site launched. While it’s not known how much ESPN is paying Silver, it’s certainly a substantial amount, especially when you consider 20% of visitors to the New York Times stopped by Silver’s blog. Silver’s FiveThirtyEight is one of a growing number of…
Singapore Mini Maker Faire · megadolen
It started with just a handful of students who readily took up the hands-on challenge to build their own microscope by hacking a webcam. In a short while, the two tables that were full of gadgets gradually drew attention, until a point that we can hardly view what was happening at Marc Dusseiller’s pop-up…
Yoast • The Art & Science of Website Optimization · Michiel Heijmans
We’ve been doing our website reviews for quite some time now. Over the past years, we have reviewed more than 1,700 websites (!) and counting. In this article, I’d like to show you how our reviews can help your website by highlighting some of the recommendations and how the follow-up on that resulted in increased…
Yoast · Joost de Valk
Today we’re releasing what’s probably the single biggest update to our WordPress SEO plugin since its initial release. It improves speed, fixes a ton of bugs and edge cases and adds a new bulk title & description editor. On top of that we’ve changed several default settings and added some smaller new features.…
Yoast • SEO for everyone · Michiel Heijmans
Two years ago, we wrote about why we really don’t like sliders. We still don’t like sliders. If your theme forces you to include a slider (also named carousels) on your homepage, please realize that it’s making you use a feature that has no value for SEO. A feature that is probably slowing down your site […]
Cognition by Happy Cog · Alison Harshbarger
The web has been all about style guides lately. Everyone from the BBC to Code for America to Yelp released their guides to the public, and style-guide-automating tools like KSS and Hologram are becoming increasingly popular. At Happy Cog, we’ve been making our clients’ style guides more interactive. Our newer style…
True Ventures · Jon
Every tribe, be it a business, a networking group or a family, needs focused time together to set goals, reflect on mission and spend time just being together. It’s how we dial down the noise of the outside world and connect with what is most important. It’s where dreams find the freedom to grow into big, audacious…
Google Analytics Blog · Adam Singer
Noah Kagan's Okdork.com · Tyler V
Howdy everyone. A few months ago, my friend Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income interviewed me for his podcast. Little did I know that podcasts are a channel with significantly less competition than blogs and a fervent subscriber base that is LARGE in masses. Think about it… Most blog posts you skim while having 30…
Singapore Mini Maker Faire · kramanathan
If you are coming to Science Centre Singapore on 13th March 2014, do drop by at the Annexe Foyer. Marc Dusseiller - transdisciplinary scholar, cultural facilitator and artist – will be setting up a mobile Makerspace from 11am onwards at the Annexe foyer. So, drop in for some spontaneous bio tinkering and be…
Bjango Articles · Marc Edwards
OS X’s Color Picker panel has been around for an eternity and is jam packed full of great features. One of my favourites is the ability to sample colours from images.
An Entirely Other Day: Full Feed · Greg Knauss
Romantimatic — the little app I wrote to remind the distracted or forgetful to text nice things to their significant other — is a month old today. It’s been an interesting month. The app has sold just over 875 copies,...
Google Analytics Blog · Adam Singer
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Matt McGee
A List Apart: The Full Feed
Three weeks ago, A List Apart went open source. The markup on the website is something I feel very close to. Over the years, if I’ve been unsure of how to mark something up, I’ve often referenced the HTML on A List Apart to see how it’s been done there because I know the people who work on it really care about…
The Morning News - Headlines
UN reports 300,000 Nigerians uprooted and displaced as a result of Boko Harem violence. Unlike Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel, Facebook and Google are everywhere and nowhere, making today’s image of “the worker” similarly invisible. President Abe reconsiders Japan’s official apology to “comfort women,” aka, military…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Danny Sullivan
Bernard Leong · Bernard Leong
I wished that I knew about the book “Mastering the Rockefeller Habits” by Verne Harnish when I was working on my startup a few years back. There are definitely things that we should not have done during that time. Jamie Lee, the co-founder of Lunch Actually and now Prizle (which I am an investor in […]The post If you…
UXGia
The Bad #1Tens of thousands of commuters pass by this full front ad at Yishun MRT everyday. I bet everyone who has seen the ad finds it inspiring and creative. But the campaign is doomed to fail. The call to action message is so inconspicious nobody would ever notice that the invitation to donate by tapping at the…
Subtraction.com
Now that we’ve got the basics of Wildcard’s identity in place, we’ve started to work on some of the supporting elements. I don’t really make it a habit to carry business cards anymore but I’ve always enjoyed the exercise of encapsulating contact details and the most basic elements of a brand into a small, 3 x 2.5-in.…
Rands in Repose · rands
Written in 1965. Rings painfully true today. Defense arousal prevents the listener from concentrating upon the message. Not only do defensive communicators send off multiple value, motive and affect cues, but also defensive recipients distort what they receive. As a person becomes more and more defensive, he or she…
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
This article is by definition very US-centric, but the general principles apply broadly For anyone remotely connected to technology, the idea that net neutrality is an unabashed good seems incontrovertible, and one of the most popular examples of why it matters is Netflix. Consumers get a video competitor to their…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Steve Jobs, back in 1997, on the strategy that still guides Apple today.
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"I never expected such hate and venom for merely having a computer cell phone on my head"
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
The Morning News - Headlines
Ukraine’s acting leadership—whom Russia claims “seized power”—to meet with EU for economic assistance. The Russian media continually make the claim that the Ukrainians who protest are Nazis. In China, anti-vice campaign threatens Dongguan’s economic stability, which depends almost entirely on sex tourism. His pride…
Schneier on Security · schneier
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
ImperialViolet – Apple’s SSL/TLS bug as we all know by now, a misplaced “goto fail” caused a critical, huge security flaw in versions of IOS and OSX SSL, since late 2012. Lessons: 1. unit test the failure cases, particularly for critical security code! 2. use braces. 3. dead-code analysis would have caught this. I’m…
Wondermark · David Malki
This post originally ran during the LAST Winter Olympics, in 2014. I think it’s STILL VERY RELEVANT. stirring olympic narratives: • the athlete trained very hard • his/her country wants him/her to win • his/her family is very supportive — David Malki ! (@malki) February 13, 2014 Like lots of you perhaps, I’m watching…
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
The Space Project is making me giddy with anticipation.
information aesthetics
Several research groups around the world in the area of mobility and transportion optimization are exploring the use of a particular slime mould, Physarum polycephalum (the "many-headed slime"), to establish the most efficient routes around congested cities and countries. The moeba-like creature forages for food by…
The Official Google Blog · Emily Wood
A List Apart: The Full Feed · Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Public speaking is tough. You’re trying not to say “um” too much or speak too fast or crash your presentation or poop your pants or do any of the million horrible things that, in those first few minutes you’re up on stage, feel way too possible. I started speaking at web conferences a couple years ago, and have since…
Subtraction.com
Published on Medium: a truly superb memo from Slack founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield to his team on the challenge that they faced several months before launch. There’s so much good stuff in there, so it’s hard to pick out the best quotes, but here are two of my favorites: “Therefore, ‘understanding what people…
LukeW | Digital Product Design + Strategy · info@lukew.com
In his presentation at the An Event Apart in Atlanta GA, Jared Spool walked through the importance of content and user experience for businesses. Here are my notes from his talk: Content Maters Great content stands by itself. It doesn't need a lot of embellishment. Sites are filled with content. But what is the…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
GPLv2 being tested in US court The case is still ongoing, so one to watch. Plaintiff wrote an XML parser and made it available as open source software under the GPLv2. Defendant acquired from another vendor software that included the code, and allegedly distributed that software to parties outside the organization.…
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Before the Internet, the nodes of communication were houses, and the killer app was the telephone. Presuming both you and I were in our respective houses, I could dial a number, and we could talk. It was marvelous, and in retrospect, primitive; real-time is much less interesting, and much more limiting, when it’s the…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Trousseau ‘an interesting approach to a common problem, that of securely passing secrets around an infrastructure. It uses GPG signed files under the hood and nicely integrates with both version control systems and S3.’ I like this as an approach to securely distributing secrets across a stack of services during…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Git is not scalable with too many refs/* Mailing list thread from 2011; git starts to keel over if you tag too much (tags: git tags coding version-control bugs scaling refs) Survey results of EU teens using the internet A lot of unsupervised use: Just under half of children said they access the internet from [...]
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
“A data scientist is a …” “A data scientist is a statistician who lives in San Francisco” – slide from Monkigras this year. lols (tags: data-scientist statistics statistician funny jokes san-francisco tech monkigras) The Million Dollar Deal – YouTube My mate Luke’s doc on the World Series of Poker — now online in…
collision detection · Clive Thompson
Yoast · Michiel Heijmans
In our site reviews we check a website from multiple angles, and because of that we use a variety of tools to determine what to advise. Some tools are for analysing, some for clearing things up when we are in doubt. It only seems logical to provide you with a list of some of these…This post first appeared on Yoast.…