Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Google AMP is bad for E-commerce If you are like most merchants you have at least considered using Google AMP on your website. If you are not yet familiar with AMP, it stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It is a Google service / project that allows you to create a mobile version of your site…
Introduction This is my third blog post on AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages). My first post (Do we really need Google AMP?) was published back in October 2015 when AMP was first announced, and my second (Implementing Accelerated Mobile Pages) was published in December 2015 and from then on I’ve published all posts on this…
.entry-header When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem— if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything he wants, including the UI of the application itself. He can then induce the user to undertake an unsafe action, and a…
If you’ve spent any time looking into Google’s “Accelerated Mobile Pages” (AMP) project, I’m sure you’ll agree: it’s wonderful to hear the AMP team talk about how using their framework (and hosting the output on servers owned or approved by Google) creates faster sites, and happier users. Few corporations have done as much as Google…
Disney Channel has decided it’s done with Jake Paul. Over the weekend, the company announced that the 20-year-old social-media star, and sometimes actor, would be leaving his role on Disney’s Bizaardvark. Paul’s mid-season departure — as in, Disney decided it was best to get Paul off the show as quickly as possible — follows public…
Everything old, or not really that old, is new again in Silicon Valley. According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, Google is working on its answer to Snapchat. It’s called Stamp — a portmanteau of “stories” and “AMP,” the acronym for Accelerated Mobile Pages, Google’s quick-loading web articles — and you could…
The Diviners author Libba Bray has some thoughts on this all-female Lord of the Flies remake Vania Stoyanova; Scholastic Paperworks This week, news broke that an all-female remake of Lord of the Flies may be the works at Warner Bros. Audiences responded vocally on Twitter, and many noted that there were plenty of all-female nods to William…
By Patrick Kulp2017-09-01 18:47:07 UTC Pour one out for Juicero.The company behind the infamously useless $400 machine that empties fruit pulp out of bags has officially run out of juice. The once-hyped startup became a poster child for Silicon Valley’s most ridiculous excesses when Bloomberg discovered earlier this year that it could be disrupted by…