Posts in category ”Web industry”
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The perils of social media
For the last decade, many seems have succumbed to the neural addiction of social media. People are endlessly scrolling their feeds, or “doomscrolling” as it is often being referred to these days.
A decade of development
What happens in a decade? On the Internet, apparently everything. Back in 2007, smartphones were barely a thing. There were no app stores, no tablets worth mentioning, and responsive design was still several years away from becoming the thing every client suddenly needed yesterday.
The death of Google Reader
A short time after the shutdown of WaSP, another familiar piece of the web is being escorted behind the shed. Google announced today that Google Reader will close on July 1st.
Touchscreens and visual impairment
Several years ago, accessibility discussions were full of talk about Braille displays, those clever little devices with pins rising and falling beneath your fingertips, turning the digital world into something you could actually touch.
The Google age
There was a time when finding out Abraham Lincoln’s birthday required actual effort. You’d walk into a library, hunt down an encyclopedia that smelled faintly of dust, flip through hundreds of pages until you found the answer.
Storage and data overload
Each day, an estimated 100 billion clicks ricochet around the web, following some 55 trillion links buried in HTML pages. That’s roughly in the neighborhood of the number of synaptic connections in the human brain.
The wave of social media
Social media has conquered a disturbingly large chunk of our lives in a remarkably short time. And one of the chief accomplices in this little coup has been the smartphone.
Report from @media conference in London
The @media conference, officially renamed Web Directions, used to be one of the great pilgrimages for web developers. Once a year the tribe gathered in London, swapping arguments and war stories while the generals of the web standards movement confirmed their positions in the ongoing crusade.
Google adds more caffeine
Google has just upgraded its vast, humming indexing machine and appropriately enough called the new system Caffeine. The name fits. Google’s index is now refreshed much more frequently than before.
First impressions of iPad
I’ve had the good fortune to get my hands on Apple’s new iPad twice during the past week. Long enough to poke it, prod it, read on it and generally try to determine whether this thing is actually useful, or merely another beautifully designed object from Cupertino engineered to separate otherwise sensible adults from their money.