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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#
Waxy.org Links
Matt Haughey looks back on leaving MetaFilter, one year later
lessons learned running an online community turned business
Waxy.org Links
Graphtreon
I'm familiar with most of Patreon's top creators, but I have to admit, #1 was a big surprise
The Typekit Blog · Tim Brown
Combining Typefaces: Free guide to great typography
Originally published by Five Simple Steps in 2013, my Pocket Guide to Combining Typefaces has sold thousands of copies, been used in college curricula, and been cited in conference talks by industry-leading designers. Unfortunately, Five Simple Steps closed its doors this month. Because this pocket guide is no longer…
Waxy.org Links
A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley
"Why has crowdfunding not worked for me? Is it worth pre-ordering a Tesla Model 3?"
Waxy.org Links
I Want Your Email Address
"Welcome to the middle of this post. Now, can I please have your email address?"
Interconnected · Matt Webb
How my Twitter bot makes personalised animated GIFs
Ben Brown noticed that my bot @5point9billion made him a personalised animated GIF when it tweeted him yesterday (on the occasion of light that left Earth as he was born, right at that moment passing the star Iota Pegasi, a little over 38 light years away). And he was curious about how it did that. So: There's a…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2016-04-25
Bots won’t replace apps. Better apps will replace apps As I’ll explain, messenger apps’ apparent success in fulfilling such a surprising array of tasks does not owe to the triumph of “conversational UI.” What they’ve achieved can be much more instructively framed as an adept exploitation of Silicon Valley phone OS…
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
No More Deceptive Download Buttons
Schneier on Security · schneier
Bypassing Phone Security through Social Engineering
Blog – Observatory · ken segall
Of Steve Jobs and Andy Grove
Last week we lost another pioneer of technology with the passing of Andy Grove. I can’t say I knew Andy well. I can only speak of him anecdotally, as I was part of his ad agency creative team for four years-plus in the early 2000s. At that time, Andy was more of a spiritual adviser […]
We Make Money Not Art · Regine
Destructables, DIY for protest and creative dissent
Destructables.org is a DIY repository of projects of protest and creative dissent. The site features user generated step-by-step video and photo/text based instructions for a wide range of dissenting actions, including art actions, billboard alterations, shop-dropping, protest strategies, protest props, methods of…
Asymco · Horace Dediu
The Next 40
In Apple’s first 40 years it shipped 1,591,092,250 computers[1]. This shipment total is higher than any other computer company in its first 40 years. Actually there are no other PC makers that are 40 years old. One computer maker (IBM) is older but they only sold PCs for 24 years and what they still sell they don’t…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2016-03-20
Modern Irish genome closely matches pre-Celt DNA, not Celtic Radiocarbon dating shows that the bones discovered at McCuaig’s go back to about 2000 B.C. That makes them hundreds of years older than the oldest artifacts generally considered to be Celtic — relics unearthed from Celt homelands of continental Europe, most…
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
Hong Kong.
Lefsetz Letter · bob
Getting Our Attention
1. Know who we are. From day one, you should be collecting e-mail addresses and building up a social media following. This is the first line of aggression, the first way to make people aware of what you’re doing. To ignore this precept is like making phone calls without a directory. You can’t talk to […] The post…
Lefsetz Letter · bob
Part Two – In My Own Way
Ray LaMontagne – Part Two – In My Own Way – YouTube Ray LaMontagne – Part Two – In My Own Way – Spotify HAVE YOU HEARD THIS??? I’ve got no time for Ray LaMontagne, late to the party with his dirgey music appealing to softies who weren’t there the first time around… And then […] The post Part Two – In My Own Way…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
The Amazon Tax
Amazon is building a lot of businesses that look like AWS: taxes on major industries that work to everyone's benefit. The reason, though, is that AWS is a lot like Amazon itself.
Wondermark · David Malki
#1204; The Cargo Cult of Adulthood
Kitbashed - The Origins of Star Wars · Michael Heilemann
The Millennium Falcon
It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
Yoast • SEO for everyone · Jono Alderson
Setting up WordPress for AMP: Accelerated Mobile Pages
This post explains what AMP is and aims to do, who should implement and why, how to get your WordPress site ready for AMP and how to make sure Yoast SEO integrates nicely with it. What are Accelerated Mobile Pages/AMP? The Accelerated Mobile Pages project aims to make pages load instantly on mobile. The web is slow…
Overflow · Niel de la Rouviere
Working Remotely: How we develop Buffer over 10 different timezones
At Buffer, we’re a fully distributed team. We recently closed our office in San Francisco and now have a team in 12 different timezones. One of the frequent questions we receive is, “How do you work as a remote developer with so many timezones?”It’s such a great question and helps me reflect on some the unique…