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Backlinko · Brian Dean
If you’re serious about SEO, you NEED to optimize for RankBrain. Why? Well, Google recently announced that RankBrain is Google’s third most important ranking signal. And it’s becoming more important every day. In today’s guide you’re going to learn everything you need to know about Google’s RankBrain algorithm. Let’s…
Dinosaur Comics!
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Daring Fireball · John Gruber
prosthetic knowledge
Blade Runner 9732Project by Quentin Lengelé recreates Deckard’s appartment from Blade Runner, and is available for free at Steam: BR9732 is a Virtual Tour inside Deckard’s apartment. Want to have a drink at the balcony watching the streets from the 97th floor? Always wanted to start the Esper Machine by yourself and…
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
We do this in two ways: The first is refusing to be clear and precise about what the mission is. Avoiding specifics about what we hope to accomplish and for whom. Being vague about success and (thus about failure). After...
Yoast • SEO for everyone · Joost de Valk
You might have noticed: Google has made search results snippets longer. In the past it showed up to ~160 characters, now it can be much, much longer. We’re currently researching what this means for site owners. We’ve also changed the Yoast SEO recommendations for meta description length in expectation of the results…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Parental Controls & Internet Filtering — Circle this looks interesting; internet time limits and per-user/per-device content filtering, for kids (tags: apps kids android ios circle filtering family parenting) Brutal London ‘A book about London’s gorgeous, brutalist architecture includes dainty DIY papercraft…
Signal v. Noise - Medium · Claire Lew
Interconnected · Matt Webb
1. Seat 14C is a collection of short stories all with the same premise. Each is a first-person account of the passenger in Seat 14C, on ANA Flight #008, as this passenger discovers they've mysteriously been transported 20 years into the future. There are some biiiiig name authors. Bruce Sterling's story is fantastic:…
bunnie's blog · bunnie
There’s an Internet controversy going on between Dale Dougherty, the CEO of Maker Media and Naomi Wu (@realsexycyborg), a Chinese Maker and Internet personality. Briefly, Dale Doughtery tweeted a single line questioning Naomi Wu’s authenticity, which is destroying Naomi’s reputation and livelihood in China. In short,…
MailChimp Email Marketing BlogMailChimp Email Marketing Blog · John
Last Tuesday, we announced in an email to our customers that MailChimp is adding single opt-in as an option for email lists, and making it the default setting in new and existing lists starting October 31. However, we’ve made an important change for MailChimp users located in the European Union: If your primary…
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
Elections are the only place where marketers try to get fewer people to buy what's being sold. In many elections in the US, fewer than half the population votes. Which means, of course, that in most elections, not only doesn't...
Google Analytics Blog · Adam Singer
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
From Apple’s knowledgebase: If you updated your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to iOS 11.1 and find that when you type the letter “i” it autocorrects to the letter “A” with a symbol, learn what to do. Apple suggests creating a text replacement shortcut to swap the letter I for the letter i. Yeah, really. […]◉
Neil Gaiman's Journal · noreply@blogger.com (Neil Gaiman)
My friends Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol were married yesterday. I wrote and read something for them at the wedding party.Afterwards a few people found me and asked me what I'd read and where they could find it, and I explained I had written it for Sxip and Coco that morning, and then they asked if they could read it…
We Make Money Not Art · Regine
Trebor Scholz exposes the uncaring reality of contingent digital work, which is thriving at the expense of employment and worker rights. The book is meant to inspire readers to join the growing number of worker-owned“platform cooperatives,” rethink unions, and build a better future of work
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
fun to see Line Rider still thriving more than a decade after its release
LukeW | Digital Product Design + Strategy · info@lukew.com
At the Chrome Dev Summit in San Francisco, Thao Tran and Chris Wilson discussed the user experience benefits made possible by new Web technologies with a number of case studies. Here's my notes from their talk: The new bar for web experiences New modern Web technologies provide an unparalleled opportunity to raise…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Yonatan Zunger’s twitter thread on Twitter’s problem with policy issues ‘I worked on policy issues at G+ and YT for years. It was *painfully* obvious that Twitter never took them seriously.’ This thread is full of good information on “free speech”, nazis, Trump, Gamergate and Twitter’s harrassment problem. (Via Peter…
John Herrman · By JOHN HERRMAN
Franklin Foer argues that Silicon Valley is an “existential threat” to the individual and society.
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Dell Cameron, Gizmodo: Never in the past century has the FBI ever had greater access to consumer data than it does today. It has never been easier to locate a person of interest — be it a terrorist, a counterfeiter, or a child predator. The quickening pace of technology has given rise to new forms […]◉
Schneier on Security · Bruce Schneier
NIST recently published its four-volume SP800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines. Among other things, it makes three important suggestions when it comes to passwords: Stop it with the annoying password complexity rules. They make passwords harder to remember. They increase errors because artificially complex passwords…
The Morning News
In efforts to sow racial discord, Russian agents duped US activists into organizing protests on American soil. ↩︎ BuzzFeed View Post →
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
David Zax, in a must-read article for Fast Company, describes the litigation initiated by Casper against several mattress review websites: On April 29, 2016, Casper filed lawsuits against the owners of Mattress Nerd, Sleep Sherpa, and Sleepopolis (that is, Derek), alleging false advertising and deceptive practices.…
Dinosaur Comics!
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Hicksdesign - Hicks Journal · Jon Hicks
It’s odd that when Apple made the iPad Pro smart cover, they didn’t include somewhere to keep the Pencil. I’ve been using a Zugu case to get around this, but it’s rather big and bulky, and the adjustable velcro stand no longer holds it. Velcro only lasts so long. Next, I tried a Moko Pencil holder with the smart…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Max Rudberg has followed his excellent piece on designing UI elements for the bottom of the iPhone X’s display with this piece about designing for the top. There are a lot of great ideas here that, to my eye, make the most of a less-than-satisfactory resolution of the sensor housing. These design decisions are…
Interconnected · Matt Webb
I've been at a retreat the last few days, 20 of us at a gorgeous hotel in Norway nattering about artificial intelligence. Here's a photo of how insanely beautiful Norway is. And here's a list of who was there, plus some more background on the retreat from the organisers. I collected book recommendations as I've done…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Ethan Marcotte: I’ve had a few conversations with members of the Google AMP team, and I do believe they care about making the web better. But given how AMP pages are privileged in Google’s search results, the net effect of the team’s hard, earnest work comes across as a corporate-backed attempt to rewrite HTML in […]◉
Clive Thompson · Clive
A cab driver took photos of himself and his passengers in San Francisco in the 80s, long before Uber. Inspired by Edward Tufte’s “Sparklines”, here’s a font that can quickly generate a tiny chart for display inside a line of text. Analyzing game-controller movements to study what types of play happen inside a video…
The Official Google Blog · Zeina OweisProduct Manager, G Suite
As a go-to presentation tool, Google Slides already comes equipped with real-time collaboration features. Starting today, we’re introducing new robust features to help you and your team win that pitch, nail that client presentation and get buy-in for new ideas—all while saving valuable time.Here’s a look at the…
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Building on Aggregation Theory, this provides a precise definition of the characteristics of aggregators, and a classification system based on suppliers. Plus, how to think about aggregator regulation.
Schneier on Security · Bruce Schneier
Under European law, service providers like Tinder are required to show users what information they have on them when requested. This author requested, and this is what she received: Some 800 pages came back containing information such as my Facebook "likes," my photos from Instagram (even after I deleted the…
Schneier on Security · Bruce Schneier
They're actually Arris routers, sold or given away by AT&T. There are several security vulnerabilities, some of them very serious. They can be fixed, but because these are routers it takes some skill. We don't know how many routers are affected, and estimates range from thousands to 138,000. Among the…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Barb Palser
Marco.org
Many Apple fans were amused when Phil Schiller explained the removal of the headphone jack on last year’s iPhone as “courage”. But that was nothing compared to what happened last week. For ten years, the iPhone looked like this: A rounded rectangle, bars on top and bottom, and a circle centered in the bottom bar. If…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Observations on film art · bordwellblog
Outrage Coda (2017). DB here: The period from 1985-1995 was a sterling era for world cinema. Whatever you think of Hollywood of that time (it wasn’t as bad as they say), American independent film was flourishing then. On the global stage, things were even better, as witness the rising careers of Hou Hsiao-hsien,…
Dave Trott's Blog · trottdave
A hundred years ago three identical sister ships were built at Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast. They were the biggest and grandest ships in the world. The Olympic was the first to be launched, in 1910. Violet … Continue reading →
The Morning News
The artist JR created a 70-foot child overlooking the US-Mexico border. It's only viewable from the States. ↩︎ Colossal View Post →
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Oscar Perez of Condé Nast explains why they’ve switched on AMP pages across their publishing brands: As a publisher, implementing AMP was a no-brainer. AMP delivers many benefits in terms of performance, consistency, and experience for our mobile users. No, not that. This: AMP increases the visibility and…
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
prosthetic knowledge
InstagifAbhishek Singh hacked together a digital camera with a removable Polaroid-inspired display: I built a camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a little cartridge so you can hold a moving photo in your hand! I’m calling it the “Instagif NextStep”. Don’t ask me why I built it, it sounded like a fun challenge and I…
Wondermark · David Malki