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How I Build Websites (A loose manifesto)

Patrick Rhone: Here’s some loose and evolving thoughts about how I build websites. I’m mainly writing this for my own use and something I can point potential clients to about what I believe in. It may be of help to others as well.

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Welcome to the Bold and Blocky Instagram Era of Book Covers

Altijd interessant hoe dingen mekaar beïnvloeden: At a time when half of all book purchases in the U.S. are made on Amazon — and many of those on mobile — the first job of a book cover, after gesturing at the content inside, is to look great in miniature. 

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The facts about Facebook

Techcrunch met een “critical reading” van Zuckerberg’s opiniestuk vorige week: The Facebook founder is fighting because he knows his platform is a targeted attack; On individual attention, via privacy-hostile behaviorally targeted ads (his euphemism for this is “relevant ads”); on social cohesion, via divisive algorithms that drive outrage in order to maximize platform engagement; and […]

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Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think

Matthew Ball op Redef: Studies find that Fortnite’s players spend one to one and a half hours per day in the game, versus thirty minutes for active Snapchat or Instagram users. Fortnite wasn’t designed to be a Second Life-style experience, or even a digital “third place“; it became one organically. What’s more, it is drastically out-monetizing dedicated social squares […]

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📸 Mooie lucht

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Never Tweet

Farhad Manjoo: Twitter is not that carefree clubhouse for journalism anymore. Instead it is the epicenter of a nonstop information war, an almost comically undermanaged gladiatorial arena where activists and disinformation artists and politicians and marketers gather to target and influence the wider media world.

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Facebook is helping husbands ‘brainwash’ their wives with targeted ads

Daily Dot vond een bedrijfje dat interessant gebruik maakt van cookies aan de hand waarvan Facebook je targeted ads kan tonen. Zo kan een winkel je de uitbreidingset van Kolonisten van Catan aanbevelen als je het spel bij hen kocht. Of, zoals Spinner doet, gedragsbeïnvloeding in gang steken door mensen artikels te laten zien: Regardless […]

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Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger

The New York Times: To assuage concerns, Mr. Zuckerberg called a follow-up meeting with WhatsApp employees a few days later, three of the people said. On Dec. 7, employees gathered around microphones at the WhatsApp offices to ask him why he was so invested in merging the services. Some said his answers were vague and […]

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iPad Pro – A new way to go behind the scenes

Ik ben zo zot van mijn iPad Pro omdat die het echt, echt, echt ontzettend makkelijk maakt om content te creëren. En daardoor krijg je daar ook zin in. Zie ook dit (reclame)filmpje van Apple: Luma Fusion (❤️) is eigenhandig dé app die mij zin deed krijgen om filmpjes te maken.

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For AirPods early adopters, Apple’s hit wireless earbuds are showing their age

Zac Hall op 9to5mac: But batteries are consumable, we all know so well now, and that’s proven true for the tiny batteries inside AirPods after two years of daily use. Battery life that once exceeded five hours now struggles to power AirPods through three hours of continuous usage at the same volume. Exact hetzelfde: vroeger […]

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