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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. The market was maturing.

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Web Design Done Well: Excellent Editorial

Smashing Magazine

Stuff like this is why Gabriel Gianordoli was voted World’s Best Designer at the 2020 Society for News Design awards. This article on exponential spreading from March 2020 (remember that?) The Marshall Project Mixes Media. Speaking of the transformative powers of the internet, how about an interactive story.

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AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3

O'Reilly

GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Using models like GPT-3, multiple entities could inundate social media platforms with misinformation at a scale where the majority of the information online would become useless.

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AV1 Image File Format (AVIF)

KeyCDN

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. The most promising compression tool right now was developed by the Alliance for Open Media on its AV1 format and is called AVIF.

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Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

Smashing Magazine

2020-12-17T15:00:13+00:00. 2020-12-17T16:33:49+00:00. Size Up The Competition The internet is a big place. In acknowledgement of this trend, Google went fully mobile-first in early 2020. This is the internet; you can do just about anything. Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF). Frederick O’Brien.

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

Apple continues to self-preference through exclusive API access for Safari; e.g., the ability to install PWA s to the home screen, implement media codecs, and much else. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. Instead, Fruit Co.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. Master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance.