Here are some web trends for 2020:
Responsive web design in 2020 should be a given because every serious project that you create should look good and be completely usable on all devices. But there’s no need to over-complicate things.
Web Development in 2020: What Coding Tools You Should Learn article gives an overview of recommendations what you learn to become a web developer in 2020.
You might have seen Web 3.0 on some slides. What is the definition of web 3 we are talking about here?
There seems to be many different to choose from… Some claim that you need to blockchain the cloud IOT otherwise you’ll just get a stack overflow in the mainframe but I don’t agree on that.
Information on the web address bar will be reduced on some web browsers. With the release of Chrome 79, Google completes its goal of erasing www from the browser by no longer allowing Chrome users to automatically show the www trivial subdomain in the address bar.
You still should target to build quality web site and avoid the signs of a low-quality web site. Get good inspiration for your web site design.
Still a clear and logical structure is the first thing that needs to be turned over in mind before the work on the website gears up. The website structure for search robots is its internal links. The more links go to a page, the higher its priority within the website, and the more times the search engine crawls it.
You should upgrade your web site, but you need to do it sensibly and well. Remember that a site upgrade can ruin your search engine visibility if you do it badly. The biggest risk to your site getting free search engine visibility is site redesign. Bad technology selection can ruin the visibility of a new site months before launch. Many new sites built on JavaScript application frameworks do not benefit in any way from the new technologies. Before you go into this bandwagon, you should think critically about whether your site will benefit from the dynamic capabilities of these technologies more than they can damage your search engine visibility. Well built redirects can help you keep the most outbound links after site changes.
If you go to the JavaScript framework route on your web site, keep in mind that there are many to choose, and you need to choose carefully to find one that fits for your needs and is actively developed also in the future.
JavaScript survey: Devs love a bit of React, but Angular and Cordova declining. And you’re not alone… a chunk of pros also feel JS is ‘overly complex’
Keep in mind the recent changes on the video players and Google analytics. And for animated content keep in mind that GIF animations exists still as a potential tool to use.
Keep in mind the the security. There is a skill gap in security for many. I’m not going to say anything that anyone who runs a public-facing web server doesn’t already know: the majority of these automated blind requests are for WordPress directories and files. PHP exploits are a distant second. And there are many other things that are automatically attacked. Test your site with security scanners.
APIs now account for 40% of the attack surface for all web-enabled apps. OWASP has identified 10 areas where enterprises can lower that risk. There are many vulnerability scanning tools available. Check also How to prepare and use Docker for web pentest . Mozilla has a nice on-line tool for web site security scanning.
The slow death of Flash continues. If you still use Flash, say goodbye to it. Google says goodbye to Flash, will stop indexing Flash content in search.
Use HTTPS on your site because without it your site rating will drop on search engines visibility. It is nowadays easy to get HTTPS certificates.
Write good content and avoid publishing fake news on your site. Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy,
Think to who you are aiming to your business web site to. Analyze who is your “true visitor” or “power user”. A true visitor is a visitor to a website who shows a genuine interest in the content of the site. True visitors are the people who should get more of your site and have the potential to increase the sales and impact of your business. The content that your business offers is intended to attract visitors who are interested in it. When they show their interest, they are also very likely to be the target group of the company.
Should you think of your content management system (CMS) choice? Flexibility, efficiency, better content creation: these are just some of the promised benefits of a new CMS. Here is How to convince your developers to change CMS.
Here are some fun for the end:
Did you know that if a spider creates a web at a place?
The place is called a website
Confession: How JavaScript was made.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Leonard Downie Jr / Washington Post:
In interviews with 75+ journalists and media experts, a Washington Post ex-executive editor finds that newsrooms that move beyond “objectivity” can build trust
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/30/newsrooms-news-reporting-objectivity-diversity/
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
A look at US cases that may set the bounds of free speech online, including Gonzalez v. Google, Twitter v. Taamneh, and a fight over California’s kid safety law
How the Supreme Court could soon change free speech on the internet
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/30/the-supreme-court-could-change-free-speech-on-the-internet.html
The U.S. justice system, including the Supreme Court, will consider cases that will help determine the bounds of free expression on the internet.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has been a bedrock of the tech industry for more than two decades.
But while industry leaders say Section 230 has allowed online platforms to flourish and innovate, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have increasingly pushed to diminish its protections for the multibillion-dollar companies.
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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
A survey of nearly 25K US adults: 29.5% used Twitter in December 2022 and January 2023 vs. 32.4% in October 2022; Democrats’ usage fell as Republicans’ was flat
Twitter Is Shedding Users, Most Of Them Democrats, A New Survey Shows
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/twitter-users-down-democrats-elon-musk
Trust in the platform has dropped among Democrats and risen among Republicans.
The number of people using Twitter in the US has decreased almost 9% since Elon Musk took over, according to a recent study. In October 2022, just before Musk took ownership, the study found, 32.4% of Americans were using Twitter. In December and January, that figure had dropped to 29.5%.
The survey of nearly 25,000 Americans was conducted by the COVID States Project, a joint research initiative by Northeastern University, Harvard University, Rutgers University, and Northwestern University that publishes reports on epidemiology, public opinion polling, and social science.
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Classic Calculators Emulated In Browser
https://hackaday.com/2023/01/30/classic-calculators-emulated-in-browser/
The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, now known simply as MAME, started off as a project to emulate various arcade games. The project is still adding new games to its library, but the framework around MAME makes it capable of emulating pretty much any older computer. The computer doesn’t even need to be a gaming-specific machine as the latest batch of retro hardware they’ve added support for is a number of calculators from the 90s and early 00s including a few classics from Texas Instruments.
https://blog.archive.org/2023/01/29/a-calculated-move-calculators-now-emulated-at-internet-archive/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Karissa Bell / Engadget:
Meta says Facebook had 2B daily active users at the end of Q4, after adding 16M DAUs; WhatsApp crossed 2B daily active users in October 2022
Facebook now has 2 billion users
The social network is still growing even as Meta has made significant cuts.
https://www.engadget.com/facebook-2-billion-meta-q4-2022-earnings-223814979.html
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TechCrunch:
Twitter will end free access to the Twitter API starting February 9, ending support for both v1.1 and v2, and make a paid version available — Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version, the Elon Musk-owned microblogging website …
Twitter to end free access to its API in Elon Musk’s latest monetization push
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/twitter-to-end-free-access-to-its-api/
Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version, the Elon Musk-owned microblogging website said as it looks for more avenues to monetize the platform.
In a series of tweets, the Twitter Developer account said the firm will be ending support for both legacy v1.1 and the new v2 of its Twitter APIs. The company hasn’t provided any information about what it plans to charge for API usage.
The move follows Twitter abruptly changed the terms of its API in recent weeks that was used by many popular Twitter clients such as Tweetbot and Twitterrific. Most third-party Twitter apps have shut down their mobile apps.
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Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Pakistan “degrades” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” and warns of a full block if the nonprofit fails to comply
Pakistan ‘degrades’ Wikipedia, warns of complete block over ‘sacrilegious’ content
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/pakistan-degrades-wikipedia-warns-of-complete-block-over-sacrilegious-content/
Pakistan has “degraded” Wikipedia in the country for 48 hours for not removing “sacrilegious contents” and warned of fully blocking the site if the online encyclopedia fails to comply with the directions.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the nation’s telecom regulator, said Wednesday afternoon that it had approached Wikipedia to block or remove certain “blasphemous” content by issuing court orders, but said the online encyclopedia neither complied nor appeared before the authority.
If the “intentional failure” on Wikipedia’s part persists, the regulator will move to block the online encyclopedia within the country, it warned.
“The restoration of the services of Wikipedia will be reconsidered subject to blocking / removal of the reported unlawful contents. PTA is committed to ensuring a safe online experience for all Pakistani citizens according to local laws,” the regulator said.
It’s not the first time that Pakistan has raised concerns over content it sees on popular platforms and sought to control the flow. The South Asian market briefly blocked TikTok in 2021 over “immoral and objectionable content.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Netlify, a cloud service for automating web development projects, acquires its competitor Gatsby, which had raised $46.8M to date, for an undisclosed price
Netlify acquires front-end platform Gatsby
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/netlify-acquires-frontend-platform-gatsby/
Web development platform Netlify today announced that it has acquired its competitor Gatsby, the company behind the opensource GatsbyJS framework. Gatsby, which had raised a total of $46.8 million, including a $28 million Series B led by Index Ventures in 2020, never quite got the traction that competitors like Netlify itself or Vercel saw in recent years, despite seeing solid growth of its commercial cloud platform. Meanwhile, Netlify now has customers like Twilio, Mattel and Verizon and hosts more than 3 million developers on its platform, according to its own data. The two companies did not disclose the purchase price.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Some former CNET employees describe Red Ventures breaking down traditional barriers between editorial and advertising and pressuring them to change stories — CNET built a trusted brand for tech reporting over two decades. After being acquired by Red Ventures, staff say editorial firewalls have been repeatedly breached.
CNET pushed reporters to be more favorable to advertisers, staffers say
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582046/cnet-red-ventures-ai-seo-advertisers-changed-reviews-editorial-independence-affiliate-marketing
CNET built a trusted brand for tech reporting over two decades. After being acquired by Red Ventures, staff say editorial firewalls have been repeatedly breached.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Thomas Maxwell / Insider:
YouTube Shorts has surpassed 50B daily views, up from 30B in April 2022; YouTube began sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators starting February 1 — – YouTube Shorts now sees more than 50 billion daily views, up from 30 billion the year prior. — The short-form video format was launched in 2021 as a response to TikTok.
YouTube Shorts surpassed 50 billion daily views, a bright spot for Alphabet as it faces fierce competition from TikTok and declining ad revenue
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-earnings-youtube-shorts-50-billion-daily-views-2023-2?op=1&r=US&IR=T
YouTube Shorts now sees more than 50 billion daily views, up from 30 billion the year prior.
The short-form video format was launched in 2021 as a response to TikTok.
Beginning February 1, YouTube enabled creators to generate ad revenue from their Shorts videos.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/03/end-of-an-automation-era-as-twitter-closes-its-doors-to-free-api-access/
Tomi Engdahl says:
As content creators change words to work around content moderation algorithms some words get lost in translation.
‘Mascara,’ ‘Unalive,’ ‘Corn’: What Common Social Media Algospeak Words Actually Mean
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonytellez/2023/01/31/mascara-unalive-corn-what-common-social-media-algospeak-words-actually-mean/?sh=4105a0c52a08&utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainFB&utm_medium=social&utm_source=ForbesMainFacebook
Last weekend, actress and influencer Julia Fox apologized after she misread a TikToker’s reference to “mascara,” not knowing it was “algospeak” for sexual assault, the latest misunderstanding caused by code words used on social media devised to avoid algorithmic censors.
Social media users are commonly using algospeak, code words used to avoid AI content moderation tools that flag user content for violating a social media apps rules, or which might be sensitive in nature.
Algospeak is mostly used on TikTok as their content moderation is more aggressive than other social media apps, and will restrict users from posting for a longer amount of time than other platforms for violating its community guidelines.
Not only are words altered but the use of emojis to infer different meanings has grown, and almost one-third of Americans who use social media have said they use emojis and altered phrases to communicate banned terms, according to data from Telus International, a Canadian company that provides AI content moderation services.
There are no laws in place that serve as a guideline for social media companies on how to navigate AI content moderation in a transparent manner, leaving them to their own devices on how to use AI for content moderation.
The automated content moderators often cast a wide net when looking at videos it thinks displays hateful, racist and sexually explicit content, though words are not so clearly defined.
Content creators who make money have to carefully navigate what words can be used as their content could be removed and their accounts banned, though TikTok does provide a way for content creators to appeal removed videos.
COMMON ‘ALGOSPEAK’ WORDS
Panini/Panorama/Panoramic = Pandemic
Mascara = Boyfriend/Romantic partner or can refer to male genitals
Unalive = Suicide/Kill
Seggs/Shmex = Sex
Corn = Porn/Adult Industry
Cornucopia = Homophobia
Leg Booty = Member of LGBTQ Community
Le dollar bean = Lesbian
Accountant = Sex worker
S.A. = Sexual Assault
Camping = Abortion
Ninja = Derogatory terms and hate speech towards the Black community
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MIKÄ IHMEEN NANO-, MIKRO-, MAKRO- JA MEGAVAIKUTTAJA?
https://parcero.fi/blogi/mika-ihmeen-nano-mikro-makro-ja-megavaikuttaja/
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Sanket Jain / MIT Technology Review:
How 1M female health care workers in India are using WhatsApp to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat the country’s high maternal mortality rates
How Indian health-care workers use WhatsApp to save pregnant women
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/03/1067726/indian-healthcare-workers-ashas-whatsapp-misinformation-pregnancy/
Female volunteers are using messages, statuses, and hyperlocal groups to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat the country’s high maternal mortality rate.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Wall Street Journal:
A look at “de-influencers”, a rising cohort of TikTok users criticizing viral products and promoting thoughtful shopping; #deinfluencing videos passed 68M views
https://www.wsj.com/articles/de-influencers-tiktok-social-media-11675355490?mod=djemalertNEWS
Tomi Engdahl says:
Steven Levy / Wired:
A look at T2, a Twitter alternative co-founded by a former director at Google’s Area 120 to offer a “2007 Twitter” vibe that Elon Musk’s platform no longer does — Cofounder Gabor Cselle says his upstart social network can offer a “2007 Twitter” community vibe that Elon Musk’s platform no longer supplies.
Startup T2 Wants to Terminate Twitter
https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-startup-t2-wants-to-terminate-twitter/
Cofounder Gabor Cselle says his upstart social network can offer a “2007 Twitter” community vibe that Elon Musk’s platform no longer supplies.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Twitter cuts off API access to Movetodon, a useful tool for finding and following one’s Twitter followers on Mastodon; it’s unclear if the tool broke any rule
Elon Musk Is Running Scared From Mastodon; Cuts Off The Best Tool For Finding Your Twitter Followers There
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/03/elon-musk-is-running-scared-from-mastodon-cuts-off-the-best-tool-for-finding-your-twitter-followers-there/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Elon Musk says Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with users who pay for Twitter Blue, starting on February 3, but doesn’t give details
Elon Musk will share Twitter ad revenue — but only with creators who pay for Twitter Blue
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/3/23584582/elon-musk-twitter-ad-revenue-share-creators-blue
/ Pay $8 a month to get… something.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Kelsey Weekman / BuzzFeed News:
After YouTuber MrBeast made a video about paying for 1,000 blind people’s eye surgery, critics raise questions about “stunt philanthropy” and “charity porn”
MrBeast Built A YouTube Empire On Being Mr. Nice Guy, But His Stunt Helping 1,000 Blind People Divided Viewers, Who Called It “Demonic”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kelseyweekman/mrbeast-helping-blind-people-youtube-stunt-philanthropy
Is it stunt philanthropy or self-funded charity in the YouTube age?
A YouTuber just helped treat 1,000 people with blindness and low vision. Why are people so upset about it?
MrBeast, a 24-year-old whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is the highest-earning creator on the platform with a record-breaking 131 million subscribers. His fame was a slow build at first. He started posting at age 13 and says he carefully studied other creators and his own stats to create the most watchable content possible. His repertoire now includes dramatic displays of charitable giving, with videos like “Planting 20,000,000 Trees, My Biggest Project Ever!” and “I Cleaned the World’s Dirtiest Beach #TeamSeas.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2023/02/06/surfing-the-web-like-its-1978-carbonyl/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Erin Woo / The Information:
Internal Twitter document: just ~180,000 US users paid for Blue and other subscriptions as of mid-January, implying ~$28M annual subscription revenue globally — Around 180,000 people in the U.S. were paying for subscriptions to Twitter, including Twitter Blue, as of mid-January …
Musk’s Twitter Has Just 180,000 U.S. Subscribers, Two Months After Launch
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-has-just-180-000-u-s-subscribers-two-months-after-launch
Around 180,000 people in the U.S. were paying for subscriptions to Twitter, including Twitter Blue, as of mid-January, or less than 0.2% of monthly active users, according to a document viewed by The Information. The tiny number signals the challenge Elon Musk faces in turning the subscription product into a major source of revenue.
The U.S. number is about 62% of Twitter’s global subscriber total, the document says, which implies Twitter has 290,000 global subscribers. Twitter is charging $8 a month for Blue Verified on the web and $11 a month for those who sign up via Apple’s iOS, although Apple keeps 30% of that fee.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Amanda Hoover / Wired:
Mastodon reports having ~1.4M MAUs, down from over 2.5M in November 2022, as some newcomers complain the service is hard to use and others return to Twitter
The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump
Active users have fallen by more than 1 million since the exodus from Elon Musk’s Twitter, suggesting the decentralized platform is not a direct replacement.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-mastodon-bump-is-now-a-slump/
Tomi Engdahl says:
The Best Dark Web Websites You Won’t Find on Google
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-dark-web-websites/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox-MUO&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1675508905
The dark web isn’t for everyone, but some of it is worth exploring. Here are the best dark web websites worth checking out.
Tomi Engdahl says:
These 8 Google Chrome extensions can help save time, boost your productivity
https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/8-google-chrome-extensions-to-boost-your-productivity-8423861/
These Google Chrome extensions allow users to stay focused, enhance their productivity and improve communication skills in the most fun way.
Tomi Engdahl says:
VERKKOSIVUSTO ON YRITYKSEN TÄRKEIN DIGITAALINEN KANAVA
Brändin mukainen ja käyttäjälähtöinen verkkosivusto on yrityksesi tärkein verkossa tapahtuvan myynnin, markkinoinnin ja asiakaspalvelun kanava.
https://www.blinkhelsinki.fi/palvelut/verkkosivuprojektit
Tomi Engdahl says:
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Perinteinen Google Analytics lopettaa toimintansa 1. heinäkuuta 2023.
Ota Google Analytics 4 käyttöön viimeistään nyt!
https://www.mediashake.fi/google-analytics-4?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paidsocial&utm_campaign=Digimainonnan+palvelut+I+Liikenne&utm_term=LLA+1%E2%80%935+%25+I+Sivuk%C3%A4vij%C3%A4t+%26+uutiskirjetilaajat+180+pv&utm_content=Universal+Analytics+lopettaa+toimintansa+%E2%80%93+Video+%E2%80%93+30.1.2023&fbclid=IwAR16XhJFn0mErfDGbl3F8KzfKTR_V1UFpt2O8nB8ydOawCTlZ_9jxMgefM4a
Tomi Engdahl says:
Is the ‘exodus’ over? Here’s how Twitter alternatives have fared since Elon Musk’s acquisition
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/15/is-the-exodus-over-heres-how-twitter-alternatives-have-fared-since-elon-musks-acquisition/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9sbS5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAA2ZdcLOwLC9SijbJ7loBIQXHmC1whSnJA_eoN1Ch4jCzVgo7OaPGbvQlYrQytl8yD7FcSujVFsDvm9cDMGbugHTmjnIwoiHaz4_31v-YurgnvnMyCGf9TPxp0waxmeCige72DwW1Iwulf1MaBghm8_TWN_yrRihRAbpyga-JpC8
Was there a Twitter exodus or just a Twitter pause? Did it even matter? New data takes a look at how a range of “Twitter alternatives” have fared in the months following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the popular microblogging network, now that the burst of new installs driven by his takeover has tapered off. The data indicates that many apps continue to grow to a lesser degree while other apps have seen growth decline. But it also shows that Twitter itself was never significantly impacted, at least in terms of new app installs.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Useilla kansanedustajaehdokkailla ongelmia Facebookissa mainostamisessa – Oras Tynkkynen kuvaa kokemusta ”kafkamaiseksi virtuaalivirastoksi”
Tutkijan mukaan sosiaalisen median palveluiden läpinäkymättömyys on ongelmallista demokratian kannalta, sillä niillä on jatkuvasti keskeisempi rooli vaalikampanjoinnissa.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20018616
Tomi Engdahl says:
Stop the peer-review treadmill. I want to get off
Faced with a deluge of papers, journal editors are struggling to find willing peer reviewers.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00403-8#Echobox=1676557404
Tomi Engdahl says:
Twitter shut off its internal Slack, and now ‘everyone is barely working’
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23613288/twitter-slack-jira-outages-performance-degradation
/ Jira went down, Slack’s gone, and site performance is degraded. What’s next?
Today, let’s check in on Elon Musk’s Twitter, where sudden software outages and another dubious transparency effort have left the company’s remaining workers more beleaguered than usual.
On Wednesday, Twitter employees had the tech equivalent of a snow day: the company’s Slack instance was down for “routine maintenance,” they were told, and the company was implementing a deployment freeze as a result.
That same day, Jira — a tool Twitter uses to track everything from progress on feature updates to regulatory compliance — also stopped working. With no way to chat and no code to ship, most engineers took the day off.
Jira access was restored on Thursday. But Platformer can now confirm that Slack wasn’t down for “routine maintenance.” “There is no such thing as ‘routine maintenance.’ That’s bullshit,” a current Slack employee told us.
In this as in so many other things, Twitter hasn’t paid its Slack bill. But that’s not why Slack went down: someone at Twitter manually shut off access, we’re told.
Tomi Engdahl says:
2022 was the year social media stopped being social.
Why Your Friends Are Disappearing From Your Social Feeds
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-12-29/why-are-friends-not-in-my-instagram-feed-2022-marked-a-shift?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid=socialflow-facebook-business&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=business
This was the year social media stopped being social.
This year, social media mostly stopped offering a window into the lives of our loved ones. It turns out that the social part of social media, which helped shape human behavior online and off for more than a decade, is proving to be something of a fad. It’s withering in the sad, slow way that internet habits do; eventually, the people who send public birthday messages on Facebook will be as rare as the ones who still have AOL email addresses.
In 2022, even the social media companies gave up on salvaging friend-related content. The networks rely on having enough in people’s feeds to keep them entertained during a scroll, so they can slot in ads between every few posts and make money. And there just isn’t much of that personal posting happening anymore.
Facebook has been worried about this inevitability for years. In 2017, for instance, the company started pushing people to join Facebook groups to expand their friend networks and the potential content they could be shown in their feeds. It worked for a while, but this year, as advertisers’ budgets shrank and as Apple Inc. limited ad effectiveness, the parent company Meta Platforms Inc. decided more drastic steps were necessary. It let professional content creators take over.
The kind of service Facebook and Instagram will provide going forward is different, focused more on users’ interests than their friends. They’re copying TikTok, the addictive short-form video app that’s all about keeping people entertained with the aid of artificial intelligence and requiring minimal effort by the user to decide what’s worth watching. The people who post most will be the “creators” — those trying to make a career out of using social media.
Meta, despite the algorithm change and a mass layoff of 13% of its workforce, is the most stable company in the bunch. Snap Inc., the owner of Snapchat, cut 20% of its staff along with investments in experimental businesses. Even the richest person on earth is nervous: “How do you make a small fortune in social media?” Musk wrote a few weeks after taking ownership of Twitter. “Start out with a large one.”
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Tomi Engdahl says:
OPPAAT MARKKINOINNIN TYÖKALUIKSI
https://parcero.fi/ladattavat-sisallot/
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Tomi Engdahl says:
cURL, the omnipresent data tool, is getting a 25th birthday party this month https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/curl-the-omnipresent-data-tool-is-getting-a-25th-birthday-party-this-month/
When you first start messing with the command line, it can feel like there’s an impermeable wall between the local space you’re messing around in and the greater Internet. On your side, you’ve got your commands and files, and beyond the wall, there are servers, images, APIs, webpages, and more bits of useful, ever-changing data. One of the most popular ways through that wall has been cURL, or “client URL,” which turns 25 this month. The cURL tool started as a way for programmer Daniel Stenberg to let Internet Chat Relay users quickly fetch currency exchange rates while still inside their chat window. As detailed in an archived history of the project, it was originally built off an existing command-line tool, httpget, built by Rafael Sagula. A 1.0 version was released in 1997, then changed names to urlget by 2.0, as it had added in GOPHER, FTP, and other protocols. By 1998, the tool could upload as well as download, and so version 4.0 was named cURL
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Leaked Messages Show How CNET’s Parent Company Really Sees AI-Generated Content
They’re happy to spoonfeed you unlabeled AI garbage — but they’re terrified Google will take notice.
https://futurism.com/leaked-messages-cnet-red-ventures-ai
When prominent tech news site CNET was caught last month using AI to quietly publish dozens of articles, it produced widespread alarm. News readers learned in real time that the explosive new capabilities of software like OpenAI’s GPT-3 meant they could no longer trust CNET’s journalism to be produced by a human. It didn’t help when we discovered that the AI-generated articles were riddled with errors and substantially plagiarized, with CNET eventually issuing corrections on more than half the bot’s published pieces.
Now, leaked internal messages reveal that the negative headlines also kicked off deep concern inside CNET’s parent company, Red Ventures.
But the consternation wasn’t about the ethics of providing readers with shoddy AI-generated misinformation. Instead, directors at the company expressed a profoundly cynical anxiety: that Google would notice the dismal quality of the AI’s work — and cut off the precious supply of search results that Red Ventures depends on for revenue.
Tomi Engdahl says:
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT instantly turns a napkin sketch into a website
OpenAI has demonstrated that its newly upgraded GPT-4 technology can take a sketch on a napkin and turn it into a functioning website.
Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/90725/openais-new-chatgpt-instantly-turns-napkin-sketch-into-website/index.html
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Tekijänoikeuslaki muuttuu 3. huhtikuuta 2023
https://www.edilex.fi/uutiset/82708
Lainmuutoksilla EU:n tekijänoikeusdirektiivin ja verkkolähetysdirektiivin säännökset sisällytetään Suomen lainsäädäntöön. Direktiivien toimeenpano on merkittävin tekijänoikeuslainsäädännön uudistus 20 vuoteen. Uudet säännökset tulevat voimaan 3.4.2023.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.zone.fi/blogi/2022/01/28/mika-on-domaini-ja-miksi-se-on-yritykselle-tarkea/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Inside Higher Ed:
A group of librarians argue the Internet Archive is a library, saying that the four major publishers’ lawsuit threatens the development of digital collections — A lawsuit against the Internet Archive threatens the most significant specialized library to emerge in decades, say a group of current and former university librarians.
The Internet Archive Is a Library
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2023/03/17/librarians-should-stand-internet-archive-opinion
A lawsuit against the Internet Archive threatens the most significant specialized library to emerge in decades, say a group of current and former university librarians.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Maria Bustillos / The Nation:
A look at four publishers’ lawsuit against the Internet Archive, which hinges on defining the legal ownership of ebooks, ahead of oral arguments on March 20
Just Because ChatBots Can’t Think Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Lie
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/internet-archive-publishers-lawsuit-chatbot/
Or that they haven’t already started to pollute Google searches. And if publishers win their lawsuit against the Internet Archive, verifying facts and quotes will get a lot harder.
On March 20, oral arguments will be heard in the publishers’ lawsuit against the Internet Archive, which was filed nearly three years ago. A lot has changed since then in the world of libraries. One surprising development is that the Internet Archive and its Open Library have suddenly become exponentially more valuable repositories of verifiable information.
In late February, Tyler Cowen, a libertarian economics professor at George Mason University, published a blog post titled, “Who was the most important critic of the printing press in the 17th century?” Cowen’s post contended that the polymath and statesman Francis Bacon was an “important” critic of the printing press; unfortunately, the post contains long, fake quotes attributed to Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning (1605), complete with false chapter and section numbers.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jennie Rose Halperin, the director of Library Futures, a digital library policy and advocacy organization, told me: “If libraries do not maintain the right to purchase and lend materials digitally as well as physically on terms that are equitable and fair to the public, we risk further exacerbating divides in our democracy and society, as well as the continued privatization of information access. Just because a book is digital does not make it licensed software—a book is a book, in whatever form it takes.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/file-sharing-site-zippyshare-shutting-down-after-17-years/
Tomi Engdahl says:
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Tomi Engdahl says:
CNET Was Treating Staff Like Robots Long Before Publishing AI-Generated Articles
https://futurism.com/cnet-ai-journalist-essay
Tomi Engdahl says:
Elon Musk Says Twitter Worth $20 Billion, or Less Than Half What He Bought it For
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Elon Musk has revealed that he believes Twitter is currently worth $20 billion, or less than half the $44 billion he purchased it for just five months ago.
In a companywide email Friday obtained by the New York Times about employee stock grants, Musk admitted that the company’s value since going private, in his estimation, is roughly $20 billion; in the aftermath of Musk’s acquisition, many advertisers — the social network’s main source of income — fled the service, and as Vox reported earlier this week, haven’t returned.
Elsewhere in the email, Musk said that at one point Twitter was four months away from running out of money, which sparked the need for mass layoffs and other cuts. However, an optimistic Chief Twit also told the employees that still remain there that “I see a clear, but difficult, path to a >$250B valuation,” and that he now views Twitter as an “inverse start-up.”
According to the New York Times, Twitter’s $20 billion valuation puts them in similar company to what Snapchat is worth now, even as that app is struggling to retain users thanks to the emergence of TikTok; even with that comparison, Snapchat averages over 100 million more daily users than Twitter.
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Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Hollywood and music industry insiders, actors, and others say a TikTok ban could seriously hurt their businesses and are scrambling to create contingency plans
Hollywood, music industry brace for a TikTok ban
The entertainment industry has become so reliant on TikTok that banning the app could hurt business, industry insiders say
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/25/tiktok-ban-hollywood-music/
LOS ANGELES — David Ma, a film director in Brooklyn, never had the money to go to film school. And though he loved shooting films, he was largely shut out of the types of opportunities reserved for big-time directors with Hollywood connections. Then came TikTok.
Ma joined the app in 2020 and immediately amassed a following for his unique directorial style. Studio executives and Hollywood bigwigs noticed, and suddenly, Ma was landing directing jobs. The entire trajectory of his career changed.
“I was never on the radar in places like Netflix or HBO Max or Paramount,” he said. “Since I’ve been able to create work on the platform, my work has reached studio executives and marketing departments. TikTok allowed me to build that network without having the roster or résumé.”