Daring Fireball · John Gruber
2016
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Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Google Shelves Project Ara
Me, a little over a year ago: Serious question: would non-nerds like to assemble their own smartphone? Julia Love, Reuters, today: Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended Project Ara, its ambitious effort to build what is known as a modular smartphone with interchangeable components, as part of a broader push to…
prosthetic knowledge
MocoShort film from Stiller Studios celebrates the 30th birthday...
MocoShort film from Stiller Studios celebrates the 30th birthday of Pixar’s groundbreaking 3D animation Luxo Jr, recreating it using robotic motion cameras:On August 17th 1986, the geniuses at Pixar released a short film that would change the way we make films, forever.Here are our motion control robots programmed to…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Tony Edward
Is your HTTPS setup causing SEO issues?
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Ginny Marvin
UPDATED: A visual history of Google ad labeling in search results
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Barry Schwartz
Google: There is no PageRank dilution when using 301, 302, or 30x redirects anymore
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Facebook Says That It Will Override Ad Blockers
Andrew Bosworth of Facebook, in a press release euphemistically titled “A New Way to Control the Ads You See on Facebook, and an Update on Ad Blocking”: We’ve designed our ad formats, ad performance and controls to address the underlying reasons people have turned to ad blocking software. When we asked people about…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Google Debuts New Photos Commercial
This ad is perfect. The only reason it exists is because Apple has decided to be stingy with their storage offerings: the iPhone still starts at 16 GB, and iCloud offers just 5 GB for free. It may only be an extra dollar per month to get 50 GB of storage, but why does it […]◉
Schneier on Security · Bruce Schneier
Hacking the Vote
Russia has attacked the US in cyberspace in an attempt to influence our national election, many experts have concluded. We need to take this national security threat seriously and both respond and defend, despite the partisan nature of this particular attack. There is virtually no debate about that, either from the…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Over 100 Redesigned and More Diverse Emoji Coming With iOS 10
Apple PR: More than one hundred new and redesigned emoji characters will be available to iPhone and iPad users this fall with iOS 10. This exciting update brings more gender options to existing characters, including new female athletes and professionals, adds beautiful redesigns of popular emoji, a new rainbow flag…
Waxy.org Links
Only 9% of America chose Trump and Clinton as the nominees
elegant visualization from the New York Times
Why Not? — Medium · Eric Soelzer
Bots for Higher Education — an interview with Drew Magliozzi of AdmitHub
When I started reviewing the earliest proposals to speak at Talkabot, the submission from AdmitHub really jumped out at me. In short, this…Continue reading on Why Not? »
The Art of Less Doing · Florence Bout
The Art of Less Doing - Chapter 1
This week, we’re going to do something special.Rather than post our regular blog, we’re going to give you access to Chapter 1 of my new book, The Art of Less Doing.The book is an in-depth exploration of my revolutionary Optimize, Automate, Outsource methodology, and valuable lessons derived from the 80/20 rule, the 3…
The Ad Contrarian · noreply@blogger.com (BOB HOFFMAN)
Kev Sticks Little Weenie In Big Mouth
Kev, Kev, Kev... when are you going to learn to keep your stupid fucking mouth shut?As regular readers know, I have a love-hate relationship with Saatchi & Saatchi Chief Global Douchinator Kevin Roberts. I love to ridicule his pompous horseshit (like here, here, and here) but I hate to listen to his dopey…
Wondermark · David Malki
#1236; In which a Reminder is constant
Dinosaur Comics!
i was gonna say this is a regional saying but my research shows it's used all over the place and each region thinks they invented it so OH WELL
archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - search - about← previousJuly 20th, 2016nextJuly 20th, 2016: I'm off to San Diego Comic Con today! If you wanna meet up and exchange ONLY THE HIGHEST OF FIVES, here's where and when we can make that happen! Hey, my new (NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING, WHAT WHAT) book Romeo…
Both Sides of the Table — Medium · Mark Suster
Another Major Win for LA Tech
Waxy.org Links
I'm With the Banned
ferocious and sad Laurie Penny piece on MIlo, Trump, and weaponized insincerity
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
‘The Internet Is Turning Us All Into Sociopaths’
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Dollar Shave Club and The Disruption of Everything
Dollar Shave Club is a textbook example of how the new Internet economy will destroy value in incumbent industries.
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Facebook, Life’s New Gatekeeper
I don’t want to be a writer — now or ever — who tries desperately to find a tech angle for major news stories. In the case of the murders this week of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five police officers in Dallas, it is especially pertinent to place empathy, listening, and compassion ahead of […]◉
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Apple Pulls ‘I Sea’ From the App Store
Patrick Howell O’Neill, of the Daily Dot: A popular app that claims to scan the Mediterranean Sea in real time for adrift refugees does not work as its developers claim it does and may be a ploy to win an advertising industry award, experts say. The app, I Sea, was nominated at the Canne Lions […]◉
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Grey Group Childishly Defends ‘I Sea’ App
Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica: On Thursday, a Grey Group spokesman, Owen Dougherty, insisted to Ars that “the app is real… the attack on us by [an] unnamed ‘tech blogger’ is the fraud in all of this. [It’s] not worthy of comment let alone coverage.” […] We responded: “What impact and results did this have? Were […]◉
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2016-06-26
There are liars and then there’s Boris Johnson and Michael Gove Post-brexit post-mortem from Nicholas Cohen in the grauniad: The Vote Leave campaign followed the tactics of the sleazy columnist to the letter. First, it came out with the big, bold solution: leave. Then it dismissed all who raised well-founded worries…
Periscope High-Performance SQL Blog
Cohorted Engagement with Comparable Time Windows in SQL
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Icons vs. Textual Labels in UI Design
A very smart essay from Information Architects: What does this [series of icons] tell us? Not much, except that icons save space and great icons look fresh. But unless you have designed and assigned them yourself, their clarity is suspect. An icon can represent a thousand different words, and that is precisely the…
Asymco · Horace Dediu
State of the Ecosystem
At WWDC 2016 Apple offered a set of new data points to illustrate its ecosystem’s robustness. First, the number of registered developers increased by 2 million in the last year to a total of 13 million. That is a growth rate of 18%. To compare this total consider that Oracle claimed in 2014 9 million…
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
Flexbox to the rescue!
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Facebook Begins Allowing Advertisers to Target Non-Users
Juan Carlos Perez, writing for PC World in 2009: Facebook’s controversial Beacon ad system tracks the activities of all users of its third-party partner sites, including people who have never signed up with Facebook or who have deactivated their accounts, CA (Computer Associates) has found. Beacon captures detailed…
Idle Words
Shuffleboard At McMurdo
Somewhere below the Antarctic circle, I catch Tatiana, the waitress from the port side dining room, in a moment of leisure. This is the first time I've ever seen her off-duty. The galley crew on the Akademik Shokalskiy work twelve-hour days preparing, serving, clearing, and cleaning up after meals for fifty-six…
Monday Note — Medium · Frederic Filloux
Want to boost your news app? Hire a gamer.
News publishers have a lot to learn from the gaming industry. Especially when it comes to testing and promoting apps.Continue reading on Monday Note »
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2016-05-23
100 thieves steal $13m in three hours from cash machines across Japan ‘Police believe that as many as 100 people, none of whom have been apprehended, worked together using forged credit cards containing account details illegally obtained from a bank in South Africa. The culprits used the fake cards at 1,400…
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
Deeper Integration of Search Console in Google Analytics
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
Introducing rich cards
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
Tie your sites together with property sets in Search Console
Communities Dominate Brands · Tomi T Ahonen
The Nokia Saga Predictions on This Blog: Full Listing with Links
Now that the tech gods had been merciful - or as I wrote in 2013 when we heard Nokia was selling its total handset business, I posted this plea: "if the gods of technology have any sense of justice, they...
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Project Ara, Now Less Ambitious, Still a Dumb Idea
The Morning News - Headlines
May 20, 2016
Oklahoma’s legislation to outlaw abortions is so “blatantly unconstitutional” that it’s hardly enforceable. McDonald’s reports that higher pay and better benefits have boosted their bottom line. Verizon strike faces challenges indicative of labor’s larger struggles. Colonialism is alive in Western Sahara; thousands…
Waxy.org Links
YACHT's stolen sex tape was a PR stunt gone wrong
misguided hoax from a group I admire; their apology doesn't help much
Wondermark · David Malki
True Stuff from Old Books: The Pleasures of Camping Out
Last week, I returned from Comics Camp in Juneau, Alaska! It was really, really great. I made, renewed, and formalized many friendships, and I left camp more inspired, less cynical, and more joyful than I had been going in. If you’ve seen my “True Stuff from Old Books” talk, you’ve probably heard me read this bit, […]
Robin's blog
Writing with the machine
It’s like writing with a deranged but very well-read parrot on your shoulder.
Clive Thompson · Clive
How to discover a new type of cloud
Back in 2006, Don Anderson snapped this picture of an amazing cloud formation. He uploaded it the web site of the “Cloud Appreciation Society”, a deliciously-named organization founded 2004. But it turns out that Anderson wasn’t alone. Other members of the Society were discovering, all around the world, this same…
Rands in Repose · rands
Medium or WordPress?
As you may have noticed, I’ve been posting work to Medium for several months now. This started out as an experiment to see the magnitude of the reaction to successful pieces I’ve already written here. The results? There are a lot of humans out there and many of them traipsing around Medium had never read… More#