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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Pew Research Center:
An in-depth look at US teenagers and social media in 2022: 95% say they use YouTube, 67% use TikTok, 62% use Instagram, 59% use Snapchat, and 32% use Facebook — TikTok has established itself as one of the top online platforms for U.S. teens, while the share of teens who use Facebook has fallen sharply
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social-media-and-technology-2022/
TikTok has established itself as one of the top online platforms for U.S. teens, while the share of teens who use Facebook has fallen sharply
The landscape of social media is ever-changing, especially among teens who often are on the leading edge of this space. A new Pew Research Center survey of American teenagers ages 13 to 17 finds TikTok has rocketed in popularity since its North American debut several years ago and now is a top social media platform for teens among the platforms covered in this survey. Some 67% of teens say they ever use TikTok, with 16% of all teens saying they use it almost constantly. Meanwhile, the share of teens who say they use Facebook, a dominant social media platform among teens in the Center’s 2014-15 survey, has plummeted from 71% then to 32% today.
YouTube tops the 2022 teen online landscape among the platforms covered in the Center’s new survey, as it is used by 95% of teens. TikTok is next on the list of platforms that were asked about in this survey (67%), followed by Instagram and Snapchat, which are both used by about six-in-ten teens. After those platforms come Facebook with 32% and smaller shares who use Twitter, Twitch, WhatsApp, Reddit and Tumblr.1
Changes in the social media landscape since 2014-15 extend beyond TikTok’s rise and Facebook’s fall. Growing shares of teens say they are using Instagram and Snapchat since then. Conversely, Twitter and Tumblr saw declining shares of teens who report using their platforms. And two of the platforms the Center tracked in the earlier survey – Vine and Google+ – no longer exist.
There are some notable demographic differences in teens’ social media choices. For example, teen boys are more likely than teen girls to say they use YouTube, Twitch and Reddit, whereas teen girls are more likely than teen boys to use TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. In addition, higher shares of Black and Hispanic teens report using TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and WhatsApp compared with White teens.
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Kahden samankokoisen amerikkalaisen uutismediayhtiön erilaiset tulokset – NYT menestyy, Gannett ei. Keskittyminen yhteen julkaisuun näyttää olevan tie menestykseen.
Opinion | Why does the New York Times prosper while Gannett struggles? Here are four reasons
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2022/why-does-the-new-york-times-prosper-while-gannett-struggles-here-are-four-reasons/
Where Gannett has spread itself too thin, the Times has found overwhelming success with its longstanding digital-focused plan
Wednesday, The New York Times Co. reported typical net growth in its various digital subscription offerings of 180,000 and an operating profit for the second quarter of $76 million.
Thursday morning, Gannett, whose holdings include USA Today and more than 200 regional outlets, reported digital gains of its own – 120,000 more paid digital-only subscribers than the previous quarter. But it posted an operating loss of $54 million. Wall Street responded by taking the value of Gannett’s already battered stock down by roughly a quarter Thursday and Friday.
The companies are roughly the same size – Gannett actually somewhat larger with $749 million in revenues for the second quarter compared to the Times’ $556 million. So why the diverging fortunes?
Gannett also serves a national audience. But look at expenses.
The New York Times, with its mammoth 1,800-plus newsroom can produce a single news report for all its customers. Gannett needs to turn out more than 200 reports daily. The company probably has at least double the news staff, but it is no secret that at its smallest papers, the daily reports have become thinner than thin, in extreme cases produced with just one-full-time reporter and a remote editor.
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Verkkokaupan myynti tuplaantui, kun Ida Fram kääri hihat ja alkoi parannella kello- ja kultasepänliike Lindroosin verkkomainontaa.
Lue täältä, kuinka onnistuimme!
https://idafram.fi/toitamme/verkkomainonta-tuplasi-myynnin/
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News Corp alkaa viimein päästä jyvälle uutisbisneksen digitaalisesta transformaatiosta.
News Corp almost doubles its profits on back of digital advertising and subscribers
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/09/news-corp-almost-doubles-its-profits-on-back-of-digital-advertising-and-subscribers
Rupert Murdoch’s publishing and media giant attributes record profits and revenue to acquisitions and digital transformation
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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn rolls out new features to court creators, including a clickable link on images, templates for posts, and the ability to mix images and videos — LinkedIn announced today that it’s rolling out new features for creators that are designed to make it easier to share visual content on the social network.
LinkedIn rolls out new tools to give creators more ways to share visual content
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/11/linkedin-tools-helping-creators-post-visual-content/
LinkedIn announced today that it’s rolling out new features for creators that are designed to make it easier to share visual content on the social network. The launch marks LinkedIn’s latest effort toward building out a platform for creating content and courting creators.
In the coming weeks, creators on LinkedIn will be able to add a clickable link directly onto their images and videos to drive traffic to their websites or other resources, regardless of whether they’re on or off LinkedIn. For example, the company notes that creators can use the new feature to link to their most recent newsletters or their personal websites. You can add a clickable link by tapping the “Add a link” icon after creating a new post on mobile with an image or video.
The company is also launching a new Templates feature that is designed to help creators ensure that their text posts will stand out in users’ feeds. The Templates are designed to give text posts a pop of color to make them more visually pleasing and eye-catching for viewers.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lean-visual-content-creation-linkedin-keren-baruch/
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Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg:
Some companies are hiring B2B influencers, mostly on LinkedIn, to pitch to other companies; LinkedIn says 11M+ users have enabled “creator mode” as of July 2022 — Bernard Marr, 49, who has degrees in business, engineering, and information technology, is interested in topics …
The Rise of the LinkedIn B2B Influencer
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-08/b2b-businesses-embrace-linkedin-influencer-marketing
Companies are discovering that experts in their fields can help them sell to other enterprises, like the consumer brand stars of TikTok.
Bernard Marr, 49, who has degrees in business, engineering, and information technology, is interested in topics such as artificial intelligence and digital transformation. In his online videos about the future of technology and business strategy, the gray-haired consultant and author usually wears a black suit jacket and black T-shirt to offer his take on top industry trends with a calm, instructive delivery. It’s not your typical influencer performance.
And yet 2 million people follow Marr on social media, and he’s attracted big brands looking to drive sales by partnering on his posts, including International Business Machines, Microsoft, and Alphabet’s Google. “It’s always been companies coming to me saying, ‘Do you want to work together? We’ve got these interesting stories to share, and you’ve got an audience,’” says Marr, whose social media content creation takes up a third of his working hours and contributes as much as half of his income.
Marr is part of a small but growing segment of the marketing world known as business-to-business influencing. Most people are familiar with the army of young influencers making viral videos on TikTok and Instagram for brands looking to reach consumers, predominantly in beauty, fashion, travel, and food, but also in finance and pets. Now, enterprise businesses that sell to other companies are tapping into the trend by working with influencers like Marr. “These conversations are happening anyways, right?” says Rahul Titus, global head of influence at WPP Plc’s Ogilvy agency. “You might not be starting or instigating these conversations, but your buyers are on Reddit and LinkedIn and all these social media platforms.”
Ogilvy’s public-relations branch is building a B2B influence specialist team, with the expectation that as much as one-fifth of its hundreds-strong influence group could eventually be focused on such work. B2B contracts can be 10% to 20% more expensive than a typical consumer brand influence deal, Titus says. The idea with B2B influencer marketing is not to generate immediate sales, he says, but to nudge the key executives who manage business spending in the direction of certain products, because businesses are much less likely than individual consumers to make impulse purchases.
Telecommunications companies Vodafone Group Plc and Samsung Electronics Co. are working with Ogilvy to sell their business plans through influencers such as Sharmadean Reid.
While channels for B2B marketing can include anything from in-person appearances at conferences to Twitter posts, the key forum is LinkedIn. The Microsoft Corp.-owned social network has attracted more creators by bolstering its staff who work with them, says Ben Jeffries, chief executive officer of Influencer, which links brands with online personalities. “You’ve got creatives taking LinkedIn more seriously,” Jeffries says. B2B influence has taken off in the past year, he says, estimating it has roughly tripled as a proportion of brand spending on influencers.
LinkedIn says it had more than 144,000 members with “creator” in their job title as of December 2021, up 16% from the previous year. It’s been focused on helping creators share stories and engage with audiences, and, as of July, more than 11 million members had turned on creator mode—a program the company started offering in March 2021 that allows a member to be identified as a content-producing authority with particular expertise. LinkedIn is also encouraging influence work by enabling newsletters and now has more than 18,000 people regularly publishing on the platform, including prominent businesspeople Melinda Gates, Ariana Huffington, and Richard Branson.
To be sure, B2B influencer campaigns still account for a minuscule proportion of the vast sums spent on influencer marketing—potentially generating $11.7 billion in revenue by the end of this year, according to one estimate—which is itself just a tiny slice of the conventional advertising market. Media owners netted about $776 billion in total advertising revenue last year
B2B marketing is also more complicated than consumer influencer campaigns, with a smaller pool of possible talent who have the credentials and knowledge to pitch to business people effectively. And it can be harder to connect with audiences when some products, such as insurance, can’t be held in the influencer’s hands like a tube of lipstick.
Still, many traditional enterprise marketers are getting in on the trend.
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Makena Kelly / The Verge:
The US FEC approves Google’s proposal to keep campaign emails from being marked as spam, after GOP lawmakers said Gmail was censoring right-wing emails — It’s good news for Republicans facing falling fundraising — On Thursday, the Federal Election Commission approved a new proposal …
Gmail is now officially allowed to spam-proof politicians’ emails
It’s good news for Republicans facing falling fundraising
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/11/23301554/google-gmail-spam-filters-republicans-gop-trump?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
On Thursday, the Federal Election Commission approved a new proposal from Google to keep campaign emails from being marked as spam.
Google’s plan, first reported by Axios in June, would allow for candidates, political party committees, and leadership political action committees to apply for the program that would make their messages exempt from Gmail’s spam detection systems. While Google did not need the FEC to approve the plan before rolling it out, it sought a vote earlier this summer to ensure the program wasn’t at risk of breaking current election regulations. In its Thursday ruling, the FEC confirmed that Google’s plan was legal.
“I have a hard time getting around the fact that this is a unique benefit offered to political committees”
“Our goal during this pilot program is to assess alternative ways of addressing concerns from bulk senders, while giving users clear controls over their inboxes to minimize unwanted email,” José Castañeda, a Google spokesperson, said in a statement to The Verge on Thursday. “We will continue to monitor feedback as the pilot rolls out to ensure it is meeting its goals.”
But Google’s explanations couldn’t change the minds of Republicans who are struggling to meet their online fundraising goals this cycle. The New York Times reported last month that the total amount donated to GOP entities and federal campaigns fell by more than 12 percent in the second quarter when compared to the first quarter. The drop is highly unusual, especially as small-dollar donations traditionally increase as elections approach.
That fundraising decline combined with the controversial filtering study roused Republicans into a frenzy over the summer. Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and nearly two dozen other Republicans put out a bill that would ban email providers like Google from algorithmically sorting federal campaign emails. In a draft memo obtained by The Washington Post earlier this month, the National Republican Senatorial Committee argued that “Google and its algorithms have handed a distinct advantage to Democrat fundraising efforts, resulting in Republicans raising millions of dollars less than they should.”
Once Google reached out to the FEC asking to issue a decision on its legality, the commission opened the program up for public comment. Nearly all of the hundreds of comments filed with the commission were negative. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) argued that Google’s proposal would be a boon for Republicans and open Gmail up to “abusive fundraising tactics.”
“It’s sad that instead of simply stopping sending spam emails, Republicans engaged in a bad-faith pressure campaign — and it’s even more unfortunate that Google bought it,” Daniel Wessel, DNC deputy communications director, told The Verge in June.
Former President Donald Trump’s campaigns have come under fire for using spammy tactics in its fundraising emails, often using misleading subject lines or mimicking conversations voters might have with friends and family over the internet. On Tuesday, Republican candidate for US Senate in Pennsylvania Dr. Mehmet Oz came under fire for sending out a campaign fundraising email to supporters with the subject line “FBI RAID – BREAKING INFORMATION” only hours after the FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home earlier in the week.
With the FEC’s Thursday decision, Google will soon allow for campaigns like Oz’s to apply for the program and ensure that their emails, despite using spam-like methods and language, won’t be filtered out of a user’s inbox.
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One of the biggest textbook publishers is tired of not making any money when you buy a used textbook — and wants to explore using NFTs to get a cut
https://www.businessinsider.com/publisher-pearson-explores-nfts-make-money-off-used-textbook-sales-2022-8
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https://idafram.fi/ajankohtaista/google-analytics-4-mika-muuttuu-ja-miksi/
Verkkoanalytiikka kertoo, kuinka paljon verkkopalvelussa on käyttäjiä ja mitä he tekevät. Luultavasti sivustollanne on ollut käytössä analytiikan suosituin ilmaistyökalu Google Universal Analytics (UA). Vanha Analytics on tullut tiensä päähän ja lakkaa kohta toimimasta. Sen korvaa seuraavan sukupolven mittausratkaisu Google Analytics 4.
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Teens have abandoned Facebook, Pew study says
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/11/teens-abandoned-facebook-pew-study/
Gen Z internet use is on the rise, but the rate at which teens use Facebook is rapidly declining. A Pew Research Center study on teens, technology and social media found that only 32% of teens aged 13-17 use Facebook at all, but in a previous survey from 2014-2015, that figure was 71%, beating out platforms like Instagram and Snapchat.
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Google Is About To Stop Answering Your Stupid Questions
This actually seems like a pretty good idea.
https://www.iflscience.com/google-is-about-to-stop-answering-your-stupid-questions-64849
In a long blog post, Google has announced that it is about to stop answering your stupid questions. Surprisingly, the more you look into it, the more it sounds like a pretty good idea.
“By using our latest AI model, Multitask Unified Model (MUM), our systems can now understand the notion of consensus, which is when multiple high-quality sources on the web all agree on the same fact,” the team write in their update.
If the algorithm finds that there is a consensus on the topic – even if various articles word the fact in different ways – it can return a snippet with the relevant information.
Google will also add more context to the “about this result” section, to include information about ownership of companies, reviews about sources, and whether Google cannot find much info about a source, to help users think a little more critically about the information they are accessing through the search engine.
“Google was built on the premise that information can be a powerful thing for people around the world,”
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https://www.facebook.com/133078200051894/posts/pfbid0388aL7kLfUp9WDRY4sKXqpUEZY6gsjcfKsWFmLbEiEHmYio8Vi7fXqXzNuGzXSKTkl/
Perinteinen Googlen Universal Analytics (UA) palvelu loppuu 1.7.2023 ja samalla poistuu myös UA:n seurantahistoria.
Tilalle on nyt saatavissa meidän kautta täysin uusi Googlen Analytics 4 (GA4) palvelu, johon saa myös integroitua Google Ads palvelun. Google Analytics 4 toimii rinnakkain vanhan Google Universal Analyticsin kanssa 1.7.2023 asti, joten saat kaiken hyödyn irti jo nyt uudesta GA4 seurannasta.
“GA4 on uudenlainen mittauskokonaisuus, joka on suunniteltu mittauksen tulevaisuutta varten:
Se kerää dataa sekä verkkosivustoilta että sovelluksista ymmärtääkseen asiakaspolkua paremmin.
Se käyttää istuntopohjaisen datan sijaan tapahtumia.
Se sisältää yksityisyysasetuksia, kuten evästeettömän mittauksen, sekä toiminnan mallintamisen ja konversiomallinnuksen.
Ennusteominaisuuksista saat vinkkejä ilman monimutkaisia malleja.
Suorat integroinnit media-alustoihin auttavat kerryttämään tapahtumia.
1.7.2023 alkaen tavalliset Universal Analytics ‑mittauskokonaisuudet eivät enää käsittele dataa. Voit nähdä Universal Analytics ‐raporttisi vielä jonkin aikaa 1.7.2023 jälkeen. Uutta dataa tulee kuitenkin vain Google Analytics 4 ‐mittauskokonaisuuksiin.” -Google
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Googling the exact same phrase that you see on Twitter will likely return the same information you saw on Twitter. Just because it’s from a search engine doesn’t make it more reliable.
Google Search Is Quietly Damaging Democracy
https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-quietly-damaging-democracy/?utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_facebook&utm_brand=wired&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
A series of incremental changes over the years has transformed the tool from an explorative search function to one that is ripe for deception.
GOOGLE’S AESTHETIC HAS always been rooted in a clean appearance—a homepage free of advertising and pop-up clutter, adorned only with a signature “doodle” decorating its name. Part of why many users love Google is its sleek designs and ability to return remarkably accurate results. Yet the simplicity of Google’s homepage is deceptively static. Overtime, the way that the corporation returns information has shifted ever so slightly. These incremental changes go largely unnoticed by the millions of users who rely on the search engine daily, but it has fundamentally changed the information seeking processes—and not necessarily for the better.
As research has shown, much of these design changes now link back to Google properties, placing its products above competitors. Instead of showing just a series of blue links, its goal, according to official SEC documents filed by Alphabet, is to increasingly “provide direct answers.” By adding all of these features, Google—as well as competitors such as DuckDuckGo and Bing, which also summarize content—has effectively changed the experience from an explorative search environment to a platform designed around verification, replacing a process that enables learning and investigation with one that is more like a fact-checking service.
Google’s latest desire to answer our questions for us, rather than requiring us to click on the returns and find the answers for ourselves, is not particularly problematic if what you’re seeking is a straightforward fact like how many ounces make up a gallon. The problem is, many rely on search engines to seek out information about more convoluted topics. And, as my research reveals, this shift can lead to incorrect returns that often disrupt democratic participation, confirm unsubstantiated claims, and are easily manipulatable by people looking to spread falsehoods.
the disinformation is still widely accessible with a simple Google search.
The trouble is, many users still rely on Google to fact-check information, and doing so might strengthen their belief in false claims. This is not only because Google sometimes delivers misleading or incorrect information, but also because people I spoke with for my research believed that Google’s top search returns were “more important,” “more relevant,” and “more accurate,” and they trusted Google more than the news—they considered it to be a more objective source.
“IKEA effect of misinformation.” Business scholars have found that when consumers build their own merchandise, they value the product more than an already assembled item of similar quality—they feel more competent and therefore happier with their purchase. Conspiracy theorists and propagandists are drawing on the same strategy, providing a tangible, do-it-yourself quality to the information they provide. Independently conducting a search on a given topic makes audiences feel like they are engaging in an act of self-discovery when they are actually participating in a scavenger-hunt engineered by those spreading the lies.
To combat this, users must recalibrate their thinking on what Google is and how information is returned to them, particularly as a heated midterm season approaches. Rather than assume that returns validate truth, we must apply the same scrutiny we’ve learned to have toward information on social media. Googling the exact same phrase that you see on Twitter will likely return the same information you saw on Twitter. Just because it’s from a search engine doesn’t make it more reliable. We must be mindful of the keywords we start with, but we should also take a bit more time to explore the information returned to us. Rather than rely on quick answers to tough questions, take the time to click on the links,
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UK Adults Are Sourcing Their News From TikTok https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/social-media/uk-adults-tiktok/
A new survey conducted by OFCOM, the UK’s communications regulator has found that an increasing number of British adults are using TikTok as their primary source for news. They also found that Instagram and YouTube are popular social-media driven sources for news. According to the survey respondents, 44% get their news from “people they follow”.
32% rely on their friends and family but just 24% are following or using traditional media outlets like ITV or the BBC. This shift in news consumption is not restricted to the UK either. Similar research suggests that 25% of millennials and Gen Z users are sourcing their news from TikTok too. This would indicate that far from being a just a platform for viral videos, TikTok could establish itself as an important source of timely information too.
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Kolumni: Influensserit valittavat, että heitä ei arvosteta – ja se kertoo Suomesta pelkkää hyvää
Oskari Onninen
https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/e0da853a-4538-42e7-b1e8-065f1f35e7a7
Miten influensserit saivat myytyä seuraajille ja medialle ajatuksen, että he ovat yhteiskunnan päähänpotkittuja, kysyy kolumnisti Oskari Onninen.
Vannisella siis menee hyvin. Hän elää arvojensa mukaista, vastuullista elämää. Mutta eräs asia harmittaa häntä.
”Ulkopuolelta ei ole tullut arvostusta eikä kiinnostusta”, hän sanoo.
Arvostuksen puute johtuu Vannisen mukaan siitä, että ala on ”nuorten naisten itse luoma”. Kerrankin eräs kaljaanmenevä setämies arvosteli heidän työtään oikein lehdessä. Trauma jäi.
Influensserikollega Stella Harasek on pahoitellut Gloriassa samaa: ”Jos nuoret miehet olisivat tehneet sen, [luoneet uuden alan] heitä olisi pidetty neroina.”
Ja Helsingin Sanomien päätoimittaja Anu Ubaud Aamukahvilla-podcastissa: ”Se on tosi liikuttavaa ja mahtavaa, että (– –) te olette luoneet kokonaan uuden liiketoiminnan ja bisneksen.”
”Yhden naisen mainostoimiston” ja tavallisen mainostoimiston ero on siinä, ettei jälkimmäisen kovapalkkainen pomo voivottele toistuvasti lehtijutuissa, ettei alaa arvosteta.
Onkin vuosikymmenen vaikuttajakampanja, miten influensserit ovat onnistuneet markkinoimaan medialle ja ilmeisen itsetunto-ongelmaisille seuraajilleen sen, että kaksisataa tonnia vuodessa tienaava bossladykin on tosiasiassa uhri – vähän kuin se bangladeshilainen naisorja, jonka omin pikku kätösin tekemistä rievuista saat 20 prosentin alen koodilla misogynia22.
Vaikuttajien voikerrus on vastaava itkuvirsi kuin kitinä siitä, että Suomi vihaa yrittäjiä ja verot ja demarit, vaikka tänäkin vuonna Maailman talousfoorumin selvityksessä Suomi oli kolmanneksi paras maa yrittäjälle 13 mittarilla laskettuna.
Suomalaisesta yhteiskunnasta kertoo pelkkää hyvää, ettei ylpeästi ahne mainosalusta ole arvostetuimpien ammattien kärkijoukossa siinä missä kätilö ja opettaja, vaan rinnastuu pikemminkin kaupparatsuun ja puhelinmyyjään.
Vuonna 2013 Suomessa keskusteltiin, millä tavoin bloginpitäjien eli tulevien influenssereiden pitäisi merkitä se, että postaus ihanasta aamiaisesta parvekkeella on tosiasiassa maksettu mainos.
Oli kuitenkin yksi taho, jolle nykyisenkaltainen merkintämalli ei meinannut kelvata: bloggarit. He pitivät sitä holhoavana ja ilmaisunvapautta rajoittavana.
Mutta se olikin sitä aikaa, kun vaikuttajat vielä olivat aitoja ja seisoivat arvojensa takana.
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https://hackaday.com/2022/08/17/were-hiring-come-join-us-6/
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Facebook’s In-App Browser Injects JavaScript Into Third-Party Websites
Meta reportedly says it needs to inject the script into websites to respect privacy choices.
https://uk.pcmag.com/security/142071/facebooks-in-app-browser-injects-javascript-into-third-party-websites
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https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/18/google-will-roll-out-new-updates-to-reduce-low-quality-and-unoriginal-content-in-search-results/
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https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/15/how-should-web3-companies-approach-fundraising-during-a-downturn/
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https://www.iflscience.com/google-is-no-longer-the-worlds-most-popular-website-62055
Tomi Engdahl says:
Charlotte Shane / New York Times:
A look at the emotional power of TikTok audio memes, which have emerged as a cultural currency as strong as, or stronger than, images and text — ‘Brain — feel.’ — On March 25, 2020, Chris Gleason was in bed at his parents’ house in Pennsylvania, thinking up ideas for videos that might go viral.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/17/magazine/tiktok-sounds-memes.html
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10 USEFUL Websites You Wish You Knew Earlier!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egL77by9On0
Timestamps
00:00 10 Cool Websites Everyone Should Know!
00:24 Find Out If You’ve Been Hacked
02:20 Test Your Hearing Online
03:45 Easily Install Apps
04:55 Find Alternative Software
05:33 Get Free Pictures
06:44 Personality Test
07:43 Meal Planner
08:37 Find the Right Answer – Computational Intelligence
09:47 Bring Your Photos to Life
10:33 Find Something to Watch
11:16 Wrap Up
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2022/08/20/eurooppa-hakee-parempaa-tiedonhakua-internetiin/
Tomi Engdahl says:
#Vinkki: tarvitsetko vuokaavioita, prosessikaavioita, karttoja, aikataulutaulukoita tai muita kaavioita? Voit rakentaa niitä selaimessasi ilmaiseksi sovelluksella, joka ei edes edellytä sisäänkirjautumista. Tsekkaa video ja löydä uusi suosikkisivusi!
https://youtu.be/ZduHPmIxl_4
Tomi Engdahl says:
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Mobile commerce, one-click checkouts, and short-form video have enabled “drops” to spread beyond the fashion world, turning product launches into marquee events
Companies Used to Announce Products. Now They ‘Drop’ Them.
Technology is changing the launch of everything from soap to sneakers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-used-to-announce-products-now-they-drop-them-11661572855?mod=djemalertNEWS
Once upon a time, not that many years ago, most companies with important new products just announced them, perhaps with a press conference, and maybe a big advertising push.
These days, new products—not just from chic fashion brands but also fast-food chains and mattress makers—get “dropped.” And what that means, and why it’s become pervasive, says a lot about how the twinned technologies of social media and e-commerce have changed the way people shop—especially for Generation Z and millennials, for whom drops are almost inescapable.
“Drop” isn’t just a buzzy term for product launches. It’s a particular approach to turning them into marquee events that entail countdown clocks, limited editions of customized goods, collaborations between influencers and brands, and an addictive cycle of continuous new releases.
There are drops for just about every category of products you can name. Dozens, if not hundreds of drops happen every day, announced in companies’ own apps and on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and other social networks. The likes of Chipotle (which dropped cilantro soap), McDonald’s (T-shirts and other clothes in collaboration with stars like Kid Kudi), and mattress maker Serta (pillowy fashion sneakers) drop merchandise to build their brands, and buzz. But the majority of drops are small-batch items from individuals and direct-to-consumer startups offering snacks, drinks, cosmetics, toys, digital goods, and even perishables like kombucha and oysters.
The concept of the product drop isn’t new. It originated in streetwear shops in Tokyo in the late 1980s, and was popularized in the U.S. in the late 1990s by lifestyle brands like Supreme. Back then, drops required young people to wait outside exclusive outlets for hours, to buy limited editions of fashion items.
Technology has enabled this phenomenon to spread nearly everywhere in the U.S. consumer economy. It’s a product of the heady mix of mobile commerce, one-click checkouts, and the rise of short-form video on TikTok and its imitators, including Instagram’s Reels and YouTube’s Shorts—all with algorithms that allow anyone to become an “influencer.” Drops now happen not only at boutiques on the hippest streets of the biggest cities, but on mobile phones everywhere, with all the same mechanics—exclusivity, suspense, a mad rush to buy.
But first, a definition
By general consensus, a drop is any time a company announces a limited edition of a product either without preamble—sometimes called a “shock drop”—or else announces in advance that something is coming, and lets users know exactly when they should open a social media app or the company’s own app (or website) to purchase it.
Drops have become so institutionalized in fashion that in 2015
“Drops as a model is something that millennials and Gen Z consumers are just used to now,” says Mr. Todisco.
One reason drops are popular with young people is that they can make shopping exciting again, says Andrea Hernandez, founder of Snaxshot, a consumer-product consulting firm. In a world where anything you need and most of what you want can be delivered the same day, after a quick search on Amazon, drops create a sense of scarcity—and exclusivity. The other thing they can do is help convince consumers to trust that they’re getting something good. Frequently, drops come from brands that fill social media with content about how their products are made, and by whom, she adds.
Another reason drops are spreading beyond fashion is that all industries now face similar supply chain bottlenecks, and drops can be a way to manage, or even make a virtue of such challenges
“Because they only release a limited number of items and are time-bound, drops actually simplify logistics and forecasting for brands, as there is no need to restock—when it’s gone, it’s gone,” she adds.
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Kurt Gessler:
Tribune Publishing says disabling Google’s AMP led to very little impact on mobile search referrals, as year-long drops mostly aligned to broader search trends
What happened when we disabled Google AMP at Tribune Publishing? Shockingly little. So you should try it, too
https://kurtgessler.medium.com/what-happened-when-we-disabled-google-amp-at-tribune-publishing-2fa65a2f2a40
AMP is a Google-created open source HTML framework featuring lean pages optimized to be more performant on mobile devices. While encouraging good behavior, it also limited design and homogenized the content-level page experience. First appearing in 2016, AMP pages were quickly rolled out by most U.S. news publishers, incentivized by not just snappy load times, but by Google locking non-AMP pages out of key mobile search positions, like the “Top Stories” carousel.
Even Twitter in 2017 linked to AMP pages from iOS and Android apps. AMP, like Facebook Instant Articles, was everywhere, becoming an offer many publishers couldn’t refuse.
But in late May 2021, amid continued complaints of loss of control over user experience and subscription integration nightmares, Google said they were ending that AMP mandate in its June 2021 Core Algorithm Update:
“As part of this update, we’ll also incorporate the page experience metrics into our ranking criteria for the Top Stories feature in Search on mobile, and remove the AMP requirement from Top Stories eligibility.”
Instead, Google would rely on its now ubiquitous Core Web Vitals metrics and related signals. Five months later, Twitter phased out support of AMP. Around this time, we at Tribune Publishing made the decision to phase out AMP as we rolled out a redesign of our content-level pages in spring of 2022.
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Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:
Social media “war rooms” that are set up to fight misinformation and reported on by the media ahead of the US midterms are nothing more than theater
The Election War Room Scam
https://www.garbageday.email/p/bracing-for-impact?triedSigningIn=true
We’re less than three months away from the US midterms, which means we are officially in the “Here’s what this tech company is doing to battle misinformation” news cycle. So, let’s see how it’s going, shall we? Twitter says it’s focusing on “elevating reliable resources”. Facebook is going to be using “false content” warning labels and restricting political ad purchases in the week before the election. And TikTok is really pulling out all the stops.
TikTok published a blog post laughably titled, “Our commitment to election integrity,” earlier this month. What’s the commitment? A register to vote widget! An “Elections Center” hub inside the app! Revolutionary stuff. Partnerships with fact-checking organizations! You love to see it. TikTok also says it will block paid political content, which, you know, ignoring the existence of dark money, is a good step, I suppose.
I want to ask something of an uncomfortable question. Why does misinformation and disinformation suddenly matter during an election? It’s a question that’s been on my mind for years.
And, while I think what we do online impacts how we see the world and, thus, affects how our democracies function, it feels as if both the media and the companies that run these platforms have turned misinformation and disinformation into a weird live event focused on the idea that if voters see too many bad posts in the week leading up to a big vote, democracy is doomed. Never mind all the bad posts they see every other day of the year.
I remember the hilariously dumb “war room” that Facebook setup for Brazil’s 2018 election, complete with little Brazilian flags on computers. I imagine it was similar to what I saw in Italy, which was a bunch of screens with live CrowdTangle dashboards, basically. Only, in 2018, Facebook’s “war room” did not to stop misinformation about Brazil’s election from spreading via the platform’s very own ad library. Also, the biggest source of election misinformation in Brazil was WhatsApp
When platforms set up these “war rooms” and get news organizations to report on these stunts as if they matter, they’re able to create this mental picture of a company proactively safeguarding their platform to uphold democracy. They want you to imagine Mark Zuckerberg standing in a command center bracing for impact as a Macedonian high school computer lab deploys a wave of Pepe the Frog memes in the replies to an unsuspecting CNN anchor’s tweet.
It’s all theater and it’s meant to obscure the fact that misinformation and disinformation are integral parts of using a user-generated content platform with a sharing functionality. I mean, really seriously, just stop for a second and think about how you would even solve this problem. There are obviously notable differences between how Twitter and 4chan are moderated, but misinformation and disinformation are inseparable parts of both.
Mark Scott, the chief technology correspondent for Politico, had a great series of tweets about this earlier this month. “If your strategy is to rely on fact-checkers for content moderation and/or election integrity on social media, you might as well just give up and go home,” he wrote. “This is not to knock the work of all of fact-checking groups out there. It is a noble aim: to debunk falsehoods. But they are understaffed, under-resourced and, increasingly, faced financial pressures to pump out as many fact-checks as possible vs making a notable difference.”
Alright, so, you’re probably saying, “ok, tough guy, well, what do we do if we can’t rely on fact-checkers?” Well, honestly, media blackouts are a possible model. America obviously doesn’t have them, but many countries have specific rules about how mass media can report on an election in the pivotal hours leading up to it. I think it’s interesting that these platforms spend a huge amount of resources on their little widgets and hubs and tabs and labels, but none of them are “committed to democracy” enough to just pull the plug on themselves for two days. We had elections before social media. It, arguably, went a lot better tbh.
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“Pitäisikö minun tehdä verkkokurssi vai jäsenyyssivusto?” ja muita kysymyksiä jäsenyyssivustoista [Video]
https://www.digivallankumous.fi/jasenyyssivusto-vai-verkkokurssi/
Onko jäsenyyssivuston tekeminen oikea vaihtoehto sinulle? Kuinka paljon sisältöä pitää tehdä omalle jäsenyyssivustolle joka kuukausi? Näihin ja moniin muihin kysymyksiin saat vastaukset tässä videossa
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Join the EMP FI affiliate programme
https://www.webgains.com/front/publisher/program/view/programID/270915
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Dear Sophie: How do I get an O-1 visa to freelance on web3 projects?
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/17/dear-sophie-how-do-i-get-an-o-1-visa-to-freelance-on-web3-projects/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.maketecheasier.com/free-ad-blockers-microsoft-edge/
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This is Facebook’s plan to be cool again
Land of the Giants examines the past, present, and future of the News Feed
https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/17/23309770/future-of-facebook-feed-discovery-engine-land-of-the-giants-podcast
Tomi Engdahl says:
CASE JAUHOJENGI – ELI MIKSI JOURNALISMI EI VOI TOIMIA SOSIAALISEN MEDIAN TAVOIN
https://blog.netprofile.fi/case-jauhojengi-eli-miksi-journalismi-ei-voi-toimia-sosiaalisen-median-tavoin
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Verge:
Sources: Twitter was working to monetize its adult content with OnlyFans-style subscriptions until a “red team” noted the prevalence of CSAM on the platform — Internal documents and Twitter employees reveal the need for massive investment to remove illegal content — but executives haven’t listened
How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor
https://www.theverge.com/23327809/twitter-onlyfans-child-sexual-content-problem-elon-musk?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Internal documents and Twitter employees reveal the need for massive investment to remove illegal content — but executives haven’t listened
Tomi Engdahl says:
Executives are apparently well-informed about the issue, and the company is doing little to fix it
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New York Times:
Sources: The Washington Post is on track to lose money in 2022 after years of profitability, and CEO Fred Ryan floated cutting 100 jobs; WaPo denies staff cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/business/media/washington-post-jeff-bezos-revenue.html
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Google says it has not yet approved Truth Social’s Play Store app due to insufficient content moderation; CEO Devin Nunes said the decision “is up to Google” — Google hasn’t yet approved Truth Social’s Android app for distribution via its Play Store because of insufficient content moderation …
Scoop: Truth Social’s Google Play Store holdup
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/30/trump-truth-social-google-android-moderation
Google hasn’t yet approved Truth Social’s Android app for distribution via its Play Store because of insufficient content moderation, a Google spokesperson tells Axios.
Be smart: Google and other tech platforms have reason to proceed carefully with Trump’s new app.
Last year, many platforms banned Trump along with some right-wing apps and personalities, following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Google pulled Parler, a social media app for conservatives, from its Play Store at that time, citing moderation issues. Parler still appears to be banned from the Play Store.
The bottom line: Because Truth Social isn’t available on Android operating systems, around 44% of U.S. smartphone users can’t download it.
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Giles Turner / Bloomberg:
In an SEC filing, Elon Musk adds Peiter Zatko’s allegations as a reason to terminate the $44B takeover bid, saying Twitter is in “material noncompliance”
Elon Musk Attacks Twitter Deal Over Whistle-Blower as Feud Escalates
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-30/musk-adds-whistleblower-as-new-reason-to-cancel-twitter-deal
Former Twitter security head raised questions about user data
Twitter lawyers say Musk’s case is “invalid and wrongful”
Lawyers for Elon Musk and Twitter Inc. are sparring over how a whistle-blower’s accusations could affect the outcome of Musk’s proposed $44 billion takeover of the social media platform.
In a securities filing on Tuesday, lawyers for Musk said the allegations by Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s ex-head of security, including claims of “egregious deficiencies” in the platform’s defenses against hackers and privacy issues, meant that Twitter had breached the terms of the merger agreement.
Shortly after, Twitter’s lawyers responded with their own filing, saying Musk’s case for termination of the deal is “invalid and wrongful.”
Musk has been attempting for months to try and extract himself from the takeover of Twitter, initially claiming that the company’s user figures are inflated by millions of robot accounts. But Zatko’s claims, which emerged last week, have given Musk’s side new ammunition. Zatko, who was fired from Twitter earlier this year, raised questions about severe shortcomings in the social media company’s handling of users’ personal data, including running out-of-date software. He also said executives had withheld information about breaches and lack of protections for user data.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Top cybersecurity expert claims that more than 80 percent of Twitter accounts are probably bots
https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/more-than-80-percent-of-twitter-accounts-are-probably-bots/amp_articleshow/93919184.cms
Top cybersecurity expert claimed that eight out of ten Twitter accounts are fake.
Dan Woods, a top cybersecurity expert has also worked with the US federal law enforcement and intelligence organisations.
Earlier, Musk terminated a $44 billion Twitter deal over bots and spam.
Dan Woods, Global Head of Intelligence at cybersecurity company F5, who spent more than 20 years with the US federal law enforcement and intelligence organisations, told The Australian that more than 80 per cent of Twitter accounts are probably bots — a massive claim as Twitter says only 5 per cent of its users are bots/spams.
“Sure sounds higher than 5 per cent,” tweeted Musk, along with tagging the news article.
“On a $/bot basis, this deal is awesome,” he chuckled.
Musk has terminated the $44 billion Twitter takeover deal, and the matter is now in a US court, over the presence of bots on the platform, and seeks answers from Agrawal via an open debate.
According to Woods, a former CIA and FBI cybersecurity specialist, both Musk and Twitter have underestimated the bot problem on the micro-blogging platform.
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Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
The UK’s ICO plans to ensure porn websites and adult-only services are verifying users’ ages, expanding on its Age Appropriate Design Code and Children’s Code
UK Data Regulator Tackles Porn Sites Over Children’s Access
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-01/uk-data-regulator-tackles-porn-sites-over-children-s-access
Stance marks a U-turn for UK data protection regulator
Adult sites will be required to prevent children’s access
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has pledged to crack down on porn sites and other adult-only services to ensure they are taking steps, such as verifying users’ ages, to prevent children’s access, the regulator said Friday.
The new enforcement plans are a reversal for the ICO, which had previously maintained that services aimed at adults weren’t subject to the Children’s Code or Age Appropriate Design Code, a set of rules that guide how the UK Data Protection Act should be applied to digital services for children. It also follows a Bloomberg News report last month that showed the regulator hadn’t enforced a single child-protection case in the two years since the Children’s Code came into effect.
Companies that break the rules can face fines of as much as 4% of annual global revenue.
The data watchdog changed its position after facing a legal challenge from 11 civil-society groups in 2021, said John Edwards, who became Information Commissioner in January 2022. Those groups argued that the wording of the code covers all services “likely to be accessed” by children and not just services aimed at children.
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Google and YouTube outline plans to curtail political misinformation during the 2022 US midterms, including highlighting journalism from authoritative sources
https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/01/google-youtube-midterm-elections-us-misinformation/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://blog.netprofile.fi/sisaltotiimin-uusi-vahvistus-on-todellinen-moniottelija
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t like your scrolling habits: Social media is for ‘building relationships,’ not just consuming content
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/04/zuckerberg-social-media-is-for-building-relationships-not-scrolling.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=Intl&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1662297871
While Mark Zuckerberg spends most of his days on social media, you won’t find him mindlessly scrolling through Instagram Reels.
That’s because Zuckerberg thinks social media is best when used to communicate. On a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the Meta CEO said he thinks platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter can be beneficial to users’ well-being — but primarily when they’re used to connect with others.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Publicly Funded Research Will Now Be Public
White House Bans Paywalls on Taxpayer-Funded Research
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/339162-white-house-bans-paywalls-on-taxpayer-funded-research
The White House has updated federal rules to close a loophole that enabled journals to keep taxpayer-funded research behind a paywall.
This policy guidance will end the current “optional embargo” that allows scientific publishing houses to paywall taxpayer-funded research behind a subscription to the whole journal. These costs add up quickly. For a college or university, even the bare minimum of journal subscriptions can add up to thousands of dollars a year, which is a hard sell on a limited budget. And that’s just the required reading.
The new rule also expands the definition of a “scholarly publication” to include “not only peer-reviewed articles but also book chapters and conference proceedings.” And unlike the previous policy, which covered some 20 federal agencies, this new rule applies to all of them. In short: If we the people paid for the research, you the company don’t get to refuse us access to it.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/07/iab-europe-tcf-gdpr-breach-appeal/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.securityweek.com/musks-latest-reason-drop-twitter-deal-whistleblower-payment
Elon Musk on Friday added a severance payment made by Twitter to a whistleblower to the list of reasons he feels entitled to walk away from his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
The Verge launches a redesign with a “modern newsfeed experience” that includes links to other sites, alongside a new logo, typefaces, comment system, and more
Welcome to the new Verge
Revolutionizing the media with blog posts
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/13/23349876/the-verge-website-redesign-new-newsfeed-blogs-logo?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
We’ve got a whole new Verge for you today. Radically new. Sometimes you just have to blow things up and start over.
Yes, we have a sharp new logo that started with the idea of an unfinished interface between the present and the future. Yes, we have a bright new color palette that highlights our work in confident new ways. Yes, we have new typefaces across the board, including serifs for our body copy. Look at these ink traps in our new headline font, Poly Sans. I love them.
Tomi Engdahl says:
EU moves to protect journalists from spyware https://therecord.media/eu-moves-to-protect-journalists-from-spyware/
European Union lawmakers are aiming to protect journalists from member states targeting them with spyware following a number of high-profile incidents across the bloc. Alongside measures promoting ownership transparency and editorial independence, the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) proposed on Friday will introduce strong safeguards against the use of spyware against media, journalists and their families.. B:
Article 4 of the regulation an EU instrument which has direct effect without member states needing to reflect it with their own legislation introduces a general prohibition on member states.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Facebook login buttons vanishing from the web
https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/10/in_brief_security/
The near-ubiquitous Facebook login buttons on third-party websites have begun to vanish, with brands like Dell, Best Buy, Ford Motor Company, Nike, Twitch, Patagonia and others all recently removing the option.
Per CNBC, while Facebook users previously may have enjoyed the option to not have to create a new account on participating websites, the scandal-plagued social media giant has been losing users, who are becoming leery of what they share with Meta’s brands due to accusations of privacy violations.
Identity management company LoginRadius’s CEO Rakesh Soni told CNBC that as user’s have learned more about what Facebook does with their data through scandals like Cambridge Analytica, they’ve soured on the site and don’t want to give it access to online activities outside of what it already knows.
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Mia Sato / The Verge:
A study by Mozilla using YouTube recommendation data from 20,000+ users and 500M+ videos finds the “dislike” and “not interested” buttons have little impact — Even when users tell YouTube they aren’t interested in certain types of videos, similar recommendations keep coming, a new study by Mozilla found.
YouTube’s ‘dislike’ and ‘not interested’ buttons barely work, study finds
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/20/23356434/youtube-dislike-not-interested-buttons-bad-recommendations-mozilla-report?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
A Mozilla report found feedback buttons didn’t stop the majority of similar recommendations