Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Although The Washington Post partners with Facebook Instant Articles and Google AMP, which help speed mobile load times, it’s also striking out on its own.Over a two-month period, a team of Post engineers cobbled together a proprietary tech solution called Zeus that sped mobile page-load times by 75%. Viewability improved by 20% in current tests…
Guest column: Kemper Smith of the audience insights company Parse.ly says the company expects that given the contentious campaign and the limited opportunities for the candidates to meet face-to-face, one can expect the debates to generate web traffic peaks that rival those in the primary and conventions T/.dropcaphe nominees for President of the United States…
In years to come, conversations will breathe new life into software — particularly the boring enterprise tools millions of knowledge workers begrudgingly use every day. Conversational user interfaces (CUIs) work because of our familiarity with messaging. Even the most technically complex interactions can look as simple as getting an SMS text when presented as a conversation. There…
A Pin saved to Pinterest is much more than just an image. Each of the 75 billion Pins saved is a visual bookmark with dozens of signals, such as the website it originated from, as well as its country and language of origin. As more than half of all Pinners are outside the U.S.,…
Edit: Instagram has fixed this issue, presumably because of this article. Facebook and Twitter still have not. I used Instagram as the prime example, but the main takeaway is that the target=”_blank” vulnerability is extremely common. The individual web developer should guard against it and the browsers should consider modifying this behavior. If you use…
If there’s one macro trend with which almost every publisher is struggling, it’s the increasing distribution power of platforms like Facebook, and how that is continuing to disrupt traditional media business models. Where they once controlled the entire process from creation to consumption, media companies now see their power over almost all the elements of…
Last year, the WordCamp US organizing team asked me to assist them with putting all the selected talks into the grid. It was a lot of fun and a challenge, but I was able to do it because I had a set of personas ready. Personas are regularly used in web design to make sure that…
Today we’re excited to announce the release of PressForward 4.0. Our newest release continues our move toward a dependency injected structure and brings significant performance upgrades as well as several feature enhancements. Updates to the Open Graph library, the methodology for building nominations in the Nominate This Bookmarklet, and changes to how post meta is…
No one writes anything on the internet. HTML does not have a tag for bylines. The web’s fundamental technology has tags for six different headers, figure captions, navigation and asides. It does not have a tag for authorship. HTML5, designed for “allowing you to describe more precisely what your content is,” cannot describe who wrote…
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