In early 2019, Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Facebook’s annual developer conference — dwarfed by a series of jumbotron-size screens in the backdrop — and declared: “The future is private.” Zuckerberg, noting while Facebook has spent its first decade-plus years building public, town square-like platforms, its next chapter will focus on the “digital equivalent …
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In an effort to encourage users to not be ‘likes’ obsessed and bring focus back to the content itself; Instagram developers have been experimenting with an update that will remove like counts in certain countries. The idea being to remove the feature all together for all markets. So far this experiment with the likes feature …
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I’m as equally excited about this concept as I am skeptical. However, before jumping into this, let me just say that I’m not affiliated with not compensated but Volkfi. I’m just an avid techie/futurist hooked on technologically progress and the democratization of resources that it usually brings. Whew that’s a mouthful ^_^. Let’s start with …
Google has added a new Easter egg celebrating the theatrical release of Avengers: Endgame. Just goto Google[dot]com and search “Thanos”, there you will find ( on the right under his info card ) and then click the gauntlet. Go ahead, I’ll wait… In the mean time maybe check out a spoiler-free review by our friends …
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There is more to Martin Luther King Jr. Day than a day of rest. Here are 8 lessons marketers can learn from this famous man who gave one of the most famous speeches in world history. 1. Have a dream (aka a goal) In order to accomplish anything, you must have a …
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Sci-fi books, movies, and shows often accurately predict the future. From debit cards to video chat to landing on the moon—even the UI designs seen in Star Trek and the like are pretty on-trend. UIs of the future are always flat and feature mostly typography and strokes/lines. It seems like sci-fi accurately predicted the flat …
Browser cache is a useful function for web browsing, it makes visiting your favorite sites faster because your browser stores data from the site instead of downloading it refresh every time. However. this function can be a real pain point for developers. Modern day browsers nowadays cache every front-end resource like javascript or CSS style sheets. …
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The web is a rapidly evolving space. Technologies and development techniques can appear quickly. Ever improving tools allow for greater freedom when designing interfaces and interactions. And because of this, web design patterns and techniques can begin to trend within a short period of time. Below is a list of web design trends to keep …
