Here are some web trends for 2020:
Responsive web design in 2020 should be a given because every serious project that you create should look good and be completely usable on all devices. But there’s no need to over-complicate things.
Web Development in 2020: What Coding Tools You Should Learn article gives an overview of recommendations what you learn to become a web developer in 2020.
You might have seen Web 3.0 on some slides. What is the definition of web 3 we are talking about here?
There seems to be many different to choose from… Some claim that you need to blockchain the cloud IOT otherwise you’ll just get a stack overflow in the mainframe but I don’t agree on that.
Information on the web address bar will be reduced on some web browsers. With the release of Chrome 79, Google completes its goal of erasing www from the browser by no longer allowing Chrome users to automatically show the www trivial subdomain in the address bar.
You still should target to build quality web site and avoid the signs of a low-quality web site. Get good inspiration for your web site design.
Still a clear and logical structure is the first thing that needs to be turned over in mind before the work on the website gears up. The website structure for search robots is its internal links. The more links go to a page, the higher its priority within the website, and the more times the search engine crawls it.
You should upgrade your web site, but you need to do it sensibly and well. Remember that a site upgrade can ruin your search engine visibility if you do it badly. The biggest risk to your site getting free search engine visibility is site redesign. Bad technology selection can ruin the visibility of a new site months before launch. Many new sites built on JavaScript application frameworks do not benefit in any way from the new technologies. Before you go into this bandwagon, you should think critically about whether your site will benefit from the dynamic capabilities of these technologies more than they can damage your search engine visibility. Well built redirects can help you keep the most outbound links after site changes.
If you go to the JavaScript framework route on your web site, keep in mind that there are many to choose, and you need to choose carefully to find one that fits for your needs and is actively developed also in the future.
JavaScript survey: Devs love a bit of React, but Angular and Cordova declining. And you’re not alone… a chunk of pros also feel JS is ‘overly complex’
Keep in mind the recent changes on the video players and Google analytics. And for animated content keep in mind that GIF animations exists still as a potential tool to use.
Keep in mind the the security. There is a skill gap in security for many. I’m not going to say anything that anyone who runs a public-facing web server doesn’t already know: the majority of these automated blind requests are for WordPress directories and files. PHP exploits are a distant second. And there are many other things that are automatically attacked. Test your site with security scanners.
APIs now account for 40% of the attack surface for all web-enabled apps. OWASP has identified 10 areas where enterprises can lower that risk. There are many vulnerability scanning tools available. Check also How to prepare and use Docker for web pentest . Mozilla has a nice on-line tool for web site security scanning.
The slow death of Flash continues. If you still use Flash, say goodbye to it. Google says goodbye to Flash, will stop indexing Flash content in search.
Use HTTPS on your site because without it your site rating will drop on search engines visibility. It is nowadays easy to get HTTPS certificates.
Write good content and avoid publishing fake news on your site. Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy,
Think to who you are aiming to your business web site to. Analyze who is your “true visitor” or “power user”. A true visitor is a visitor to a website who shows a genuine interest in the content of the site. True visitors are the people who should get more of your site and have the potential to increase the sales and impact of your business. The content that your business offers is intended to attract visitors who are interested in it. When they show their interest, they are also very likely to be the target group of the company.
Should you think of your content management system (CMS) choice? Flexibility, efficiency, better content creation: these are just some of the promised benefits of a new CMS. Here is How to convince your developers to change CMS.
Here are some fun for the end:
Did you know that if a spider creates a web at a place?
The place is called a website
Confession: How JavaScript was made.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
“Digimarkkinoinnin mittaaminen on liian helppoa ja siksi sen vaikuttavuutta mitataan kerta toisensa jälkeen väärin”, Omnicom Media Groupin Teemu Neiglick väitti torstaina 25.11. järjestetyssä Aina tulee sanomista LIVE -webinaarissa. Teemua haastatteli Jaakko Kuivalainen Sanomalta.
Lue keskustelun parhaat palat ja katso webinaarin tallenne kokonaisuudessaan
#ainatuleesanomistalive #digimarkkinointi
Oletko aina mitannut digimarkkinointia väärin?
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Digimarkkinoinnin mittaaminen on liian helppoa ja siksi sen vaikuttavuutta mitataan kerta toisensa jälkeen väärin, Omnicom Media Groupin Teemu Neiglick väittää. Teemua haastatteli Aina tulee sanomista LIVE -webinaarissa Jaakko Kuivalainen.
Digimarkkinointia on perinteisesti tutkittu käyttäytymispolkuja seuraamalla. Kun 3. osapuolen evästeet poistuvat, näiden polkujen seuraaminen ei ole enää mahdollista.
Teemu Neiglickin mukaan digimarkkinoinnin mittaamisen ongelma on, että siinä ei huomioida normaalisti tulevaa myyntiä eikä muuta markkinointia. Jos nämä jätetään huomiotta, kokonaiskuvaa ei pysty muodostamaan.
Markkinoinnin vaikuttavuutta on mitattu vuosikymmeniä erilaisilla ennustemalleilla.
”Nyt kun ennustemallit ja datamassojen analyysit tulevat pakostakin digimarkkinoinnin pariin, niin paljastuu aika merkittäviä eroja siitä, miten olemme uskoneet digimarkkinoinnin toimivan ja miten se aidosti toimii”, Neiglick sanoo.
Käyttäytymispolun seuranta ei kerro Neiglickin mukaan mitään digimarkkinoinnin vaikuttavuudesta.
”Vanha sanonta ’Sitä saa mitä mittaa’ pitää ehdottomasti paikkansa.”
3. osapuolen keksien poistuessa tilalle täytyy kehittää uusia mittaamistapoja.
OMG:ssa on mitattu digimarkkinointia itseoppivilla aikasarjamalleilla datamassoista. Mittaustavassa haetaan korrelaatiota näkyvyyteen ja toivottuun lopputulokseen. Toinen tutkimusmetodi on paneelidata, jossa tutkitaan silmänliikekameroilla mitä ihmiset huomaavat.
”Digimarkkinoinnin vaikuttavuuden näkökulmasta yksi haastavimpia asioita on, että sen huomaaminen on tosi heikkoa. Jos ymmärrämme, miten saamme parannettua digimarkkinoinnin huomaamista, sillä on iso tosi merkitys mainonnan vaikuttavuuteen.”
Tehokkaimmin digimarkkinointi huomataan Neiglickin mukaan aamuisin kello 7‒9 välillä.
”Mainonta huomataan yli 30 % paremmin, kun kohtaaminen tapahtuu aamun tunteina.”
Formaatit kannattaa asemoida hyvin sisällön yhteyteen sopiviksi.
”Sisällöistä ylivoimaisesti tehokkain on liikkuva kuva. Sen käytöllä on suora yhteys parempaan huomaamiseen”, Neiglick vinkkaa.
Digimarkkinoinnissa muistijäljen aikaansaaminen vaatii toistoa, viestien variointia ja tarinan kerronnan osaamista.
Hakukoneissa suurin osa budjetista menee olemassa olevien asiakkaiden aktivointiin.
”Eli myynti olisi tapahtunut joka tapauksessa. Kannattaa optimoida uusasiakashankinnan puolta”, Neiglick neuvoo.
Mittaaminen kannattaa laittaa kuntoon, sillä evästeet ovat jo pitkälti poistuneet ja käyttäjien hyväksyntää on koko ajan vaikeampi saada.
Myös sisältöihin kannattaa panostaa.
”Näemme keskimäärin ihan luokatonta digimarkkinointia. Huonot sisällöt ovat huonoja investointeja.”
”Haussa saa ensimmäisenä todennäköisesti ROIta parannettua. Hakuun tuhlataan meidän kokemuksemme mukaan eniten rahaa.”
Neiglickin mukaan nyt jos koskaan on hyvä panostaa oman asiakaskannan kerryttämiseen.
”Se on keksien jälkeisessä maailmassa asia, johon kannattaa investoida.”
”Keksien poistumisen aiheuttama murros vie meitä hyvään suuntaan. Joudumme aidosti miettimään, mikä vaikuttaa ja mikä ei, ja mistä se johtuu”, Neiglick summaa.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://pudding.cool/2021/10/lenna/
In 2021, sharing content is easier than ever. Our lingua franca is visual: memes, infographics, TikToks. Our references cross borders and platforms, shared and remixed a hundred different ways in minutes. Digital culture is collective by default
But as the internet reaches its “dirty 30s,” what happens when pieces of digital culture that have been saved, screenshotted, and reposted for years need to retire? Let’s dig into the story of one of these artifacts: The Lenna image.
The Lenna image may be relatively unknown in pop culture today, but in the engineering world, it remains an icon.
Lena Forsén, the real human behind the Lenna image, was first published in Playboy in 1972. Soon after, USC engineers searching for a suitable test image for their image processing research sought inspiration from the magazine. They deemed Lenna the right fit and scanned the image into digital, RGB existence
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The British Competition and Markets Authorities ruled that Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy could harm social media users and advertisers in the country.
U.K. Antitrust Regulator Orders Facebook To Sell Giphy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2021/11/30/uk-antitrust-regulator-orders-facebook-to-sell-giphy/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Gordie
The U.K.’s competition regulator ordered Facebook’s parent company, Meta, to sell the animated image-sharing platform Giphy on Tuesday, a move that is set to unwind an 18 month-old acquisition and deal a blow to the recently rebranded company.
Tomi Engdahl says:
“Totuudellisuus on radikaali ajatus, kun puhutaan markkinoinnista. Se toimii kuitenkin paremmin kuin voisi äkkiseltään kuvitella”, kirjoittaa the other danish guyn Tommi Lähde.
#vaikuttavamarkkinointi #ainatuleesanomista
Mitä jos puhuttaisiin ihan vaan totta?
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Totuudellisuus on radikaali ajatus, kun puhutaan markkinoinnista. Se toimii kuitenkin paremmin kuin voisi äkkiseltään kuvitella, kirjoittaa the other danish guyn Tommi Lähde.
Tarinankerronnalla on aina ollut valtava voima ihmiskunnan historiassa. Jopa meneillään olevan digivallankumouksen keskeltä voi tehdä havainnon, että ihmisiin vaikuttaminen ei ole olennaisesti muuttunut vuosituhansien aikana, vaikka retoriikan keinovalikoima on kasvanut.
Retoriikalla tarkoitetaan yleisesti menestyksekästä ja vakuuttavaa puhetaitoa. Sitä on luonnehdittu myös suostuttelemisen taidoksi, mutta kysymys ei ole pelkästään kuorrutuksesta. Sen ytimessä on kyky ilmaista itsensä ja viestiä tarkoituksensa.
Antiikin Kreikassa poliittisen uran luominen edellytti henkilöltä sitä, että hän kykeni saavuttamaan kansanjoukot omien ajatus-tensa taakse. Tärkeintä oli vakuuttavuus, ei ensisijaisesti totuus, koska totuudellisemmatkin ajatukset ja mielipiteet saattoivat jäädä häviölle, jos ne esitettiin huonosti.
Totuudellisuus on radikaali ajatus, kun puhutaan markkinoinnista. Se toimii kuitenkin paremmin kuin voisi äkkisel-tään kuvitella. Meihin ihmisiin on sisään rakennettuna mekanismi, joka erottaa vilpittömän ja vilpillisen viestinnän toisistaan; markkinoijan sanojen ja tekojen suhde paljastaa sen lahjomattomasti. Joten jos pitää valita kertooko tarinan, joka on itselle merkityksellinen ja totta, vai tarinallistaako jotain keksittyä, on pelkästään tulosten valossa helppo valita ensin mainittu tapa.
Tarina näet muuttuu kannattavaksi iiketoiminnaksi vasta siinä vaiheessa, kun se resonoi vastaanottajassa. Mitä henkilö-kohtaisempi ja todempi tarina, sitä universaalimpi on sen vaikutus. Ja kääntäen, yhteys ihmisiin jää syntymättä, jos ei puhu totta.
Medialla on ihan yhtä iso merkitys kuin itse tarinalla. Uskottava mediaympäristö ei ole kiinni vain puolueettomasta tiedonvälityksestä vaan siitä, mitä ja miten media kertoo itsestään mainostajille.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Twitter Bans Users From Posting ‘Private Media’ Without a Person’s Consent
https://thehackernews.com/2021/11/twitter-bans-users-from-posting-private.html
Twitter on Tuesday announced an expansion to its private information policy to include private media, effectively prohibiting the sharing of photos and videos without express permission from the individuals depicted in them with an aim to curb doxxing and harassment.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The tool developers love or love to hate
Why developers are so divided over WordPress
The tool devs love or love to hate
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After seeing WordPress top the most dreaded platform on Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey for two years in a row (2019 and 2020), a few weeks ago we explored why developers hate using the CMS.
Interestingly enough, we ended up getting some impassioned responses from developers who love WordPress. Just visit some of the many Quora and Reddit threads about the CMS and you’ll find die-hard WordPress haters and lovers battling it out.
We decided to dig deeper into this story. What’s actually fueling this rift within the developer community and what could WordPress do to appease Stack Overflow respondents?
What WordPress fans love about the CMS: It’s built for everyone
When WordPress started out in 2003, it was built to help bloggers and small businesses develop websites without the need for coding skills. Rather than having to build a site from scratch or hire an expensive agency, these individuals and small teams could simply choose from a number of beautifully designed ‘theme’ templates, customize, and go.
The success of this much simpler and more accessible model held promise for users who wanted to spread their reach. There are now over 4,000 themes to choose from.
The problem: It’s become a victim of its own success
The accessibility WordPress was built to offer may just be the cause of the divide we now see within the developer community. With 64 million users across the globe, O’Leary believes:
They’re really the victims of their own success. You can never fully please anyone at that level of market penetration.
The problem is, with the amount of sites that are run on WordPress, the majority of them will be running on the traditional way of doing things, making it difficult to introduce really far reaching updates without alienating a large group of clients. With the constant and high speed rate of innovation in the dev community, O’Leary expects the gap between old and new technology to only get wider:
Furthermore, while having such an open system has its upsides, it also means there isn’t a defined standard for code or code quality.
So can WordPress actually keep the accessibility its fans love while modernizing its offering for frustrated devs?
If you read our previous article, you’ll remember Dominik Angerer, CEO of headless CMS platform Storyblok, shared some of the difficulties he and his cofounder faced when working with traditional CMS systems.
Catching up with him again, he shared that he believes most legacy systems (including WordPress, Squarespace, Drupal and others) are now transitioning towards a headless approach.
In his view, this will really help them modernize their offering for today’s users:
WordPress is actively moving into an API-based approach. This will allow developers to use any technology they want to use and gives them more control over technology choice, update cycles, and even security benefits.
We’ve talked about how a bad WordPress project can completely lock you into a technology stack that you can’t update. In general WordPress is actually moving towards a headless direction themselves. Adapting to the API-based approach and with a hosted version you don’t have to worry as much about updating or having to use some of the old security hotfixes of the past.
Whilst WordPress has made a huge push towards the adoption of a new editor experience called “Gutenberg” — built on the back of React — it’s fair to say there has been a somewhat mixed, even polarized reaction to it.
“If it were my call, I think fully splitting the legacy WordPress infrastructure from new developments would be a great start,” said O’Leary.
“A legacy WordPress could still exist, enabling existing sites to be maintained with the traditional implementation and without needing to adopt an approach which doesn’t suit all use cases. Ideally, there could be a newer, more headless-centric version based around modern approaches (headless/jamstack frontends) and without the clutter or bloat that can often come with themes.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
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Tomi Engdahl says:
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
A look at Trump Media & Technology Group, which lacks a product, users, publicly identified executives, and revenue, and its merger with DWAC, valued at $1.85B
https://popular.info/p/trumps-new-media-company-is-a-16
Tomi Engdahl says:
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Twitter is testing a new process for reporting harmful tweets that lets US users describe what happened, and will use this data to improve its responses — Twitter is trying out some changes to the way that users report tweets that they believe might break Twitter’s rules.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/07/twitter-reported-tweets-analysis/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Axios:
Seventeen groups representing ~150 newspapers quietly filed antitrust lawsuits in the past year against Google and Meta for monopolizing the digital ads market — Newspapers all over the country have been quietly filing antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook for the past year …
Scoop: Over 200 papers quietly sue Big Tech
https://www.axios.com/1-local-newspapers-lawsuits-facebook-google-3c3dee3a-cce3-49ef-b0a2-7a98c2e15c91.html
Newspapers all over the country have been quietly filing antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook for the past year, alleging the two firms monopolized the digital ad market for revenue that would otherwise go to local news.
Why it matters: What started as a small-town effort to take a stand against Big Tech has turned into a national movement, with over 200 newspapers involved across dozens of states.
“The intellectual framework for this developed over the last 3-4 years,” said Doug Reynolds, managing partner of HD Media, a holding company that owns several West Virginia newspapers, including the Charleston Gazette-Mail.
Reynolds, along with a group of lawyers, filed the first newspaper lawsuit of this kind in January in West Virginia.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta launches a website that lets fans buy digital tokens called Stars to tip Facebook creators using Facebook Pay, avoiding app store payment commissions — Meta (formerly Facebook) has found a new way to avoid the app stores’ commissions on in-app purchases with the launch of a new website …
Facebook’s new website lets fans buy ‘Stars’ without paying the app stores’ commissions
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/07/facebooks-new-website-lets-fans-buy-stars-without-paying-the-app-stores-commissions/
Meta (formerly Facebook) has found a new way to avoid the app stores’ commissions on in-app purchases with the launch of a new website where people can buy “Stars” — the virtual items that allow fans to express their support for favorite creators during Facebook videos and livestreams. Typically, Stars are bought as in-app purchases on mobile devices where they’re subject to a revenue share with the app store platform provider — meaning, Apple or Google. But when fans purchase Stars via the new Facebook website, they’ll use Facebook Pay, not Apple or Google’s payment mechanisms.
This will allow fans to “get more Star for their money at lower rates,” notes a Facebook announcement.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer:
Amazon says it will shut down Alexa.com, its global website ranking system, on May 1, 2022, after 25 years of operation
Amazon is shutting down web ranking site Alexa.com
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/amazon-is-shutting-down-web-ranking-site-alexacom/
Amazon announced on Wednesday plans to shut down its global website ranking system and competitor analysis tool “Alexa.com”, which has been available for 25 years.
Alexa.com is a subsidiary company of Amazon and it’s widely known for its global ranking system which uses web traffic data from its partners to list the most popular internet companies.
In addition to the global website ranking system, Amazon’s Alexa.com also offers a full suite of SEO and competitor analysis tools with its paid subscriptions.
In a new support document, Amazon says that it will be discontinuing the Alexa.com platform in May 2022 and no new monthly stats will be released going forward.
“Twenty-five years ago, we founded Alexa Internet. After two decades of helping you find, reach, and convert your digital audience, we’ve made the difficult decision to retire Alexa.com on May 1, 2022. Thank you for making us your go-to resource for content research, competitive analysis, keyword research, and so much more,” the company stated.
We will be retiring Alexa.com on May 1, 2022
https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410503838999
Twenty-five years ago, we founded Alexa Internet. After two decades of helping you find, reach, and convert your digital audience, we’ve made the difficult decision to retire Alexa.com on May 1, 2022. Thank you for making us your go-to resource for content research, competitive analysis, keyword research, and so much more.
We have been proud to serve you as customers.
Thank you sincerely,
The Alexa.com Team
Tomi Engdahl says:
Queenie Wong / CNET:
Meta says its new AI system, Few-Shot Learner, needs little training data to quickly adapt to fighting new types of harmful content like COVID-19 misinformation
Facebook parent Meta uses AI to tackle new types of harmful content
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/facebook-parent-meta-uses-ai-to-tackle-new-types-of-harmful-content/
The company has been testing new AI technology to flag posts that discourage COVID-19 vaccines or imply violence, which may be harder to catch.
Tomi Engdahl says:
CISA Releases Guidance on Protecting Organization-Run Social Media Accounts
https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/current-activity/2021/12/09/cisa-releases-guidance-protecting-organization-run-social-media
CISA has released Capacity Enhancement Guide (CEG): Social Media Account Protection, which details ways to protect the security of organization-run social media accounts. Malicious cyber actors that successfully compromise social media accountsincluding accounts used by federal agenciescould spread false or sensitive information to a wide audience. The measures described in the CEG aim to reduce the risk of unauthorized access on platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Could India Be The Crucial Battleground For Open Access To Scientific Research?
https://hackaday.com/2021/12/09/could-india-be-the-crucial-battleground-for-open-access-to-scientific-research/
One of the hottest topics in the world of scientific publishing over the last couple of decades has been the growing pressure to release the fruits of public-funded scientific research from the paywalled clutches of commercial publishers. This week comes news of a new front in this ongoing battle, as a group of Indian researchers have filed an intervention application with the help of the Indian Internet Freedom Foundation in a case that involves the publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and the American Chemical Society who have filed a copyright infringement suit against in the Delhi High Court against the LibGen & Sci-Hub shadow library websites.
Social Science researchers move Delhi High Court to protect LibGen & SciHub
https://internetfreedom.in/social-science-researchers-move-delhi-high-court-to-protect-libgen-scihub/
Tomi Engdahl says:
This website has 61% battery power remaining.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power.html
Runs on a solar powered server located in Barcelona and will go off-line during longer periods of bad weather. This page shows live data relating to power supply, power demand, and energy storage.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2021/12/10/today-is-my-last-day-at-hackaday-thanks-for-all-the-hacks/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Rest of World:
A look at Chinese fast fashion online retailer Shein, as 2020 sales reportedly hit $10B thanks to knockoff items, a nimble supply chain, and social media
How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion
https://restofworld.org/2021/how-shein-beat-amazon-and-reinvented-fast-fashion/
By connecting China’s garment factories with Western Gen-Z customers, Shein ushered in a new era of “ultra-fast” shopping.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Axios:
Source: 1.6M+ readers pay for the Guardian, of which 1M make recurring payments for digital content, 100K are print subscribers, and 500K make one-off donations
4. Scoop: The Guardian has more than 1 million recurring supporters
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-1ac3ad5e-71a9-44a8-a2a2-7db9924cf15f.html?chunk=3&utm_term=twsocialshare#story3
The Guardian now has 1 million people that pay for its digital content on a recurrent basis, Axios has learned. This time three years ago, that number was 534,000.
Why it matters: It’s an impressive feat for a company that doesn’t have a paywall.
The Guardian has a supporter model, in which readers can either subscribe to its apps or make a recurring financial contribution.
More than 1 million people subscribe to its apps for a fee or chose to make a recurring financial contribution. A subscriber fee is £5.99 pounds monthly and £99 pounds annually.
Supporters can also make a one-off contribution, but those aren’t tallied as a part of the 1 million number.
The big picture: About half of the 1 million people who pay for The Guardian’s digital content are from outside of the UK and over 220,000 come from North America.
Guardian launched its U.S. site in 2011 and its Australian site in 2013.
In total, over 1.6 million people pay for the Guardian. That includes the 1 million people who pay recurrent amounts for its digital content, over 100,000 print subscribers, and roughly 500,000 people who give one-off donations.
Tomi Engdahl says:
New York Times:
How China helps foreign influencers in the country who spread pro-China messages, funding their travel and generating lucrative, likely inauthentic, traffic — We are on the outskirts of Shanghai today at the most incredible hotel we’ve ever stayed at. — It’s the first in the world built inside a quarry.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/technology/china-propaganda-youtube-influencers.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times says its Games and Cooking standalone products have 1M subscriptions each
Both Cooking and Games Reach 1 Million Subscriptions
https://www.nytco.com/press/both-cooking-and-games-reach-1-million-subscriptions/
The Times also marked one million international subscriptions in November.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Joel Khalili / TechRadar:
Profile of Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive, which marked its 25th anniversary in May and stores 70PB+ of data, including 635B webpages and 34M books — Meet Brewster Kahle, the internet’s chief librarian — Audio player loading… On the same day in 1996, Brewster Kahle founded …
The story of the fight to archive the internet
By Joel Khalili
Meet Brewster Kahle, the internet’s chief librarian
https://www.techradar.com/news/the-story-of-the-fight-to-archive-the-internet
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Interview with Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute on how Congress can regulate social media platforms while abiding by the First Amendment
Can we regulate social media without breaking the First Amendment?
https://www.theverge.com/22838473/social-media-first-amendment-regulation-section-230-decoder-podcast?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, helps us answer the question
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YLE:
Leaked docs: Facebook has not developed Finnish-language automated moderation for hate speech and other content, and employs just 11 moderators based in Berlin
Facebook failing at Finnish moderation
https://yle.fi/news/3-12238371
A data leak reveals Facebook is unable to control hate speech in minority languages like Finnish.
A Facebook data leak has revealed that Finnish-language moderation rests with a handful of moderators, eleven people working in Berlin. While the social media giant praises the efficiency of its automated moderation tools, documents obtained by Yle show that these are of little use when it comes to small languages like Finnish.
The company’s ability to detect hate speech is not as good as Facebook has led users to believe. Moderation for languages like Finnish is often half-baked, a fact apparent in thousands of pages of leaked internal Facebook documents obtained by Yle.
These documents show that Facebook has not developed Finnish-language automated moderation for things like hate speech, violence and nudity.
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https://hard-drive.net/report-this-article-can-run-doom/
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Mozilla expects to generate more than $500M in revenue this year
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/13/mozilla-expects-to-generate-more-than-500m-in-revenue-this-year/
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WordPress on loistava alusta lähes kaikkien verkkosivujen julkaisualustaksi, mutta Drupalillakin on paikkansa
https://into-digital.fi/wordpress-on-loistava-alusta/
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TikTok ousts Google to become favourite online destination
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59768617
Move over Google, TikTok is the world’s new most popular online destination.
The viral video app gets more hits than the American search engine, according to Cloudflare, an IT security company.
The rankings show that TikTok knocked Google off the top spot in February, March and June this year, and has held the number one position since August.
Last year Google was first, and a number of sites including TikTok, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix were all in the top 10.
Cloudfare said it tracks data using its tool Cloudflare Radar, which monitors web traffic.
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Adtech vendors still tracking EU users who deny consent via IAB’s TCF, study suggests
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/17/adalytics-tcf-research/
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https://thenextweb.com/news/why-developers-divided-over-wordpress
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Ranked: The World’s Most Popular Social Networks, and Who Owns Them
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-social-networks-worldwide-by-users/
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https://www.hostingpalvelu.fi/blogi/mika-on-core-web-vitals/
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https://www.fiercermedia.fi/tuloksellinen-internet-mainonta-case-studyt-11-21/
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Googlen vastaisku perinteiseen natiivimainontaan, Discovery Ads
Google Discovery Adsilla voit saavuttaa samanlaisia etuja kuin natiivimainonnalla.
https://www.digimarkkinointi.fi/blogi/natiivimainonta_vs_discovery_ads
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This vital programming language is in a fragile position. A new plan aims to help
The language that powers 78% of the web needs a bit of help.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-vital-programming-language-is-in-a-fragile-position-this-new-plan-aims-to-help/
PHP, one of the most popular programming languages, is to be supported by the creation of a new foundation to ensure its future.
PHP, created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, is a popular language to learn in part because it is used in about 78% of the world’s websites, according to W3Techs data.
Czech-based IDE maker JetBrains announced the new PHP Foundation this week. It’s comprised of a handful of companies that will help fund PHP’s future development, including Automattic, Laravel, Acquia, Zend, Private Packagist, Symfony, Craft CMS, Tideways, and PrestaShop, as well as JetBrains.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2021/11/the-php-foundation/
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DuckDuckGo Signals Entry Into Desktop Browser Market
https://www.securityweek.com/duckduckgo-signals-entry-desktop-browser-market
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Everything Is Actually Google Chrome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvYGY2l8Lbo
Chromium, the underlying code of Google Chrome, is at the heart of many more things than you might think.
Viewer comments:
I also remember reading a story about how an Edge dev mentioned one of the reasons why they moved to chromium was cause Google was breaking stuff their browser did via Youtube updates.
The original Microsoft Edge absolutely sucked when it came to compatibility with Google-owned websites, and I theorized that Google could’ve been intentionally designing their sites to work poorly on Edge so that users would be motivated to switch to Chrome.
Yep, and sadly Microsoft has to give in since they already struggling to have EdgeHTML gain more developer support and markets hare to back it up. They could’ve have gone to same Firefox engine, but Chromium is just a stronger and natural choice if they wish to deal less with Google shenanigans, even then sometimes Google sites break but alot less compared to when they use their own engine. Even giants give in from another giant, worse on that there will be huge loss in competition.
Chromes html was faster anyways so I see this as a total win.
Developers will always go for the common denominator and it’s hard to code for standards and expect everything to run smoothly on every browser. Chrome is kinda like the internet explorer of today although the saving grace is chromium is open source.
Firefox engine is not called quantum it’s called gecko – Firefox quantum was an update that completely overhauled gecko to match chromium’s speed
In 2017, we completely rebuilt our browser engine (called Quantum), to ensure Firefox could compete with other major browsers. Can’t be called Gecko as it is very different.
They probably rebranded Gecko as Quantum. I mean, Gecko is now called Quantum on their website (FAQ section).
No, It is not. I find it faster than Vivaldi, which is based on Chromium. On and modern Desktop cpu you won’t notice difference. I am using Firefox as my main browser. I use Chrome for testing only.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Prince of Persia in JavaScript: https://princejs.com/
Up arrow to jump.
Shift to creep, grab ledges (and hold on), pick up item and use the sword.
Disable those sticky keys
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John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats, eager to rein in social media and other internet platforms, urge Biden to focus on tech regulation, before Republicans can retake the House or Senate
Lawmakers Want Biden to Play Bigger Role Pushing Tech Legislation
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-want-biden-to-play-bigger-role-pushing-tech-legislation-11640514605?mod=djemalertNEWS
White House ‘not a really active presence’ amid legislative efforts to rein in social media and other internet platforms
Lawmakers say 2022 is shaping up as a pivotal year in their efforts to tighten regulations on social media and other internet platforms—and are pushing President Biden to come off the sidelines.
Democrats and Republicans are working on half a dozen or more major categories of legislation dealing with online privacy and children’s safety, the transparency of companies’ data-collection practices, accountability for content posted on social media and market dominance by a handful of major players.
But these and other proposals face potentially fierce opposition from big technology companies, as well as partisan differences between Republicans and Democrats. While members of both parties are critical of Big Tech, Democrats often have favored tighter restrictions—for example, on harmful content—while Republicans typically have advocated lighter-touch approaches, and have opposed measures that could restrict speech.
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Google Is No Longer The World’s Most Popular Website
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/google-is-no-longer-the-worlds-most-popular-website/
Step aside, Google, you are no longer the world’s most popular website. Searching for stuff is sooooooo 2020.
According to Cloudflare Radar’s popularity ranking, the tech giant has been knocked down to the second most popular domain by a surprise (relative) newcomer. No, despite Microsoft’s crafty trick of making Bing the default search tool for the Edge browser (fun fact: the most popular search term typed into Bing is “Google”) it did not manage to beat Google, and its ever-growing array of services including Maps, Translate, Photos, Flights, Books, and News.
Top 10 most popular domains in late 2021
1) TikTok.com
2) Google.com
3) Facebook.com
4) Microsoft.com
5) Apple.com
6) Amazon.com
7) Netflix.com
8) YouTube.com
9) Twitter.com
10) WhatsApp.com
Tomi Engdahl says:
One of the straightforward hacks that developers can apply is caching servers like memcached between app and database server with slight code modification. Let us see how to install memcached on OpenSUSE #Linux https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-install-memcached-on-opensuse-suse-linux/
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https://css-tricks.com/css-is-awesome/
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Will Chrome 100 be the next Y2K? Not if Google can help it
BY AROL WRIGHT
PUBLISHED DEC 23, 2021
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Preventable Internet madness is nearing
https://www.androidpolice.com/will-chrome-100-be-the-next-y2k-not-if-google-can-help-it/
Google recently changed Chrome’s release cycle from its usual six weeks to four, which means Chrome 100 has been creeping up on us a lot faster lately. It should be landing on the Canary release channel next month, and from there, it’s going to take a few more months to make its way down to the stable branch (currently on Chrome 96). We’re not expecting 100 to be a particularly revolutionary update in terms of feature-set or anything, but it does at least have the potential to be quite interesting, as it may or may not end up breaking a bunch of websites.
The issue affects mostly sites made with web design kits such as Duda, as per the Chromium Bug Tracker (via 9to5Google). These websites read your browser’s User Agent string to see what Chrome version you’re running — unfortunately, sites using Duda only read the first two digits of that number.
That’s not a problem right now, but it’s going to become an issue once version numbers are three digits instead of two. You don’t want websites thinking you’re running Chrome 10 — there’s a genuine chance a lot of them will outright block access for you.
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https://media.sanoma.fi/kirjoituksia-markkinoinnista/2021-11-26-mita-jos-puhuttaisiin-ihan-vaan-totta
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In the future, link to archive.org so these crap articles aren’t supported with our clicks
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If you are looking for a list of high-quality profile creation sites, look for a site that’s dofollow. These sites have a large number of high-quality profiles. Just be sure to enter the correct information and choose the right category.
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DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser (w/Doom)
https://dustinbrett.com/
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Getting Back That YouTube Dislike Button
https://hackaday.com/2022/01/02/getting-back-that-youtube-dislike-button/
“Life, uh, uh, finds a way,” to quote my favorite fictional mathematician. Yes, a hacker, one of us, has figured out a workaround. [Dmitrii Selivanov] has put together the “Return YouTube Dislike” browser extension, which does a couple of things. First, it is pulling archived data about videos, taking advantage of the gap in time between the official announcement, and the removal of the dislike API.
https://returnyoutubedislike.com/
https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike