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The Ad Contrarian · [email protected] (BOB HOFFMAN)
As agencies and marketers continue to throw good money after bad on online ad fantasies, the depth of their gullibility continues to amaze.Yesterday the leading Australian advertising publication, Mumbrella, published a shocking article about Nielsen's re-calibration of Facebook video streaming numbers in…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
MORNING, COMPUTER · Warren Ellis
And on winter days in Giza, it is often possible to see the sun breaking through the clouds and shining down at the same angle as the pyramids: a stairway to heaven, formed by the rays of the sun on which the king, ‘nimble and wise, could ascend to the indestructible stars.’ From In Search […]
Photosynth Blog · Photosynth Team
It's a sad day, but we knew it was coming. We closed the Photosynth service and Web site today. Key parts of the Photosynth code live on in other Microsoft products, and we're proud of the influence Photosynth had on photo technology across the industry during its nine-year life. We hope that everyone who wanted...
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PaintsChainerOnline app from @tai2an can colourize line drawings using neural network training. Upload an image and place some points of colour and away your go: Paints Chainer is line drawing colorizer using chainer. Using CNN, you can colorize your scketch automatically / semi-automatically . The #PaintsChainer…
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
The key for products and politicians used to be maximizing paid and earned media. What matters on the Internet, though, is inspired media.
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Jason Decker
Fresh & New(er) · Seb Chan
As has been the tradition, welcoming in 2017 began with a playing gig at Kooky’s (almost nearly) annual New Years’ Day party. There’s nothing more bacchanalian or comforting than sweating it out in one of Sydney’s longest running safe spaces. And, sadly, it looks likely that over the coming years those safe spaces…
MORNING, COMPUTER · Warren Ellis
I need this so much. Mine. I mean, the updated, 2017 version, of course. “…a typewriter, television screens, video recorder and a photocopier from an 1969 exhibition in Hanover, Germany.” I’m vaguely reminded of the setup that the game writer had in Neal Stephenson’s REAMDE. There’s a fascination with the fictional…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Let me tell you a brief story, in excerpts, of the evolution of Google’s communications apps, starting with a quote from Google employee Nikhyl Singhal in May 2013: Hangouts is designed to be the future of Google Voice, and making/receiving phone calls is just the beginning. Future versions of Hangouts will integrate…
An Entirely Other Day: Full Feed · Greg Knauss
Today is the third anniversary of Romantimatic, a silly little app that caused a silly little ruckus. The app is intended to remind the forgetful or the distracted to text nice things to their sweethearts. This profound assault on true...
Bitsplitting.org · Daniel Jalkut
In his excellent interview with the Accidental Tech Podcast, Chris Lattner defended the goal of Swift being suitable to both beginner and advanced programmers. He cites progressive disclosure, a design philosophy that is often employed in GUI applications, to make otherwise intimidating interfaces appear…
Yoast • SEO for everyone · Joost de Valk
You may have heard the term “AMP” very often lately. In 2015, Google pushed out this new concept called Accelerated Mobile Pages, in short AMP. AMP aims to make pages load instantly on mobile and, thereby, drastically improve the performance of the mobile web. You might wonder if you should get started with it too.…
danah boyd | apophenia · zephoria
Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of propaganda and fake news during this year’s election cycle, many progressives are calling for an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Others are clamoring for solutions that focus on expert fact-checking and labeling. Both of these approaches are…
Signal v. Noise - Medium · DHH
Lefsetz Letter · bob
The job of an artist is to speak truth to power. Where have all the artists gone? They’re hiding. Afraid of losing their living, just like the rest of America, especially those who voted for Trump. America is a nation of ideas. A country where everybody is created equal, where everybody gets a fair chance, […] The…
Lefsetz Letter · bob
The thing about life is it can always get worse. We like to believe God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, but do we even believe in God? We believe there’s a master plan, that it all makes sense… But it doesn’t. This is what they don’t tell you growing up, after they […] The post Debbie Reynolds Dies appeared…