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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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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The problems fostered by social media, search, and recommendation algorithms was never an engineering issue, but one of financial incentives (of profit growth) not aligning with algorithms’ safe, effective, and equitable deployment. The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed.

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Complete Guide for Customized Education App Development

Tech News Gather

When developing an educational app, it is essential that students have the option to sign up using their social media accounts. This is a convenient option for students who do not have access to the internet or encounter network problems. Social Media. Student Sign-up. Push Notification. Course Management.

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Web Development Trends 2019

KeyCDN

Now that nearly everyone with internet access is web literate, developers need to start literally thinking outside of the box to hold the attention of the user. Asking users to log into your website via their Facebook account or other social media credentials is no longer recommended.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

In the late 1990s, marketing and advertising agencies saw the potential of eye-tracking for the Internet and started using the technology to analyze how people consume content online. For instance, Nielsen’s research conducted in 2006 showed that people read content on the Internet in an F-shaped pattern. Advertising In Context.

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Understanding How MySQL Collation and Charset Settings Impact Performance

Percona

Web applications rely on databases to run the internet, powering everything from e-commerce platforms to social media networks to streaming services. 20-generic Processors | physical = 2, cores = 28, virtual = 56, hyperthreading = yes Models | 56xIntel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5120 CPU @ 2.20GHz< Memory Total | 376.6G

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12 different types of mobile testing with real-life examples

Testsigma

Today we are using mobile phones for social media, shopping, banking, movies, online meetings, emails, and whatnot. Because it is difficult to have so many real users to test, we use automated tools to create virtual users. Can we have a single day in our life without a mobile phone today? You’d be thinking of a no right?

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