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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. This book shares guidelines and innovative techniques that will help you plan and execute a comprehensive SEO strategy.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

In 1993 and again in 2010 , usability expert Jakob Nielsen found that: 0.1 Interestingly, and perhaps not coincidentally, 100 milliseconds is Google's stated goal when it comes to page load times. In 1968, Robert Miller published a study called Response Time in Man-Computer Conversational Transactions.

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Useful UX Guidelines, Tools And Resources

Smashing Magazine

You’ll find psychology heuristics just like tips for building a winning UX strategy , dive deep into user research and UX writing , and explore real-world examples — good and bad — from which you can learn to create experiences that truly matter. How To Build A Winning UX Strategy. For a talk he gave in 2010, Peter J.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

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Communal Computing’s Many Problems

O'Reilly

Examples include popular home assistants and smart displays like the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod, and many others. In Privacy in Context, Nissenbaum talks about the privacy implications of Google Street View when it places photos of people’s houses on Google Maps. Source: Google Face Match video, [link] ).

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