Facebook’s full-page ad campaign claims that Apple’s new policy, which will ask users to opt-in for tracking, will hurt small businesses. While it cannot be denied that small businesses depend on advertising, Facebook’s monopoly on social media and it’s popularity means that many small businesses depend on Facebook. For example, take a look at the...
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VR Meetings Are Weird, but They Beat Our Current Reality | WIRED
Spatial’s app, which is available on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets, allows users to create virtual meeting spaces, called Spatial Rooms, and invite others to join. The app is free to use, but users can pay for premium features, like the ability to record meetings. “We’re not trying to sell you...
Move Over, Zoom—Voice Memos Are the Real Way to Stay in Touch | WIRED
The ongoing Covid pandemic stretches us to our limits. During the last months, many of us have been quarantining or (self-)isolating and working from home. The Aspen Institute has studied the effects and published several reports with the telling titles: “Lessons in Loneliness” and “Artificial Intimacy.” Bascially, there is no one size fits all technical...
Prepare for Artificial Intelligence to Produce Less Wizardry | WIRED
It has become very expensive to train modern networks; in fact it has become so expensive, that some companies are choosing not to use AI methods at all. A new research paper by Neil Thompson et. al. argues that it is, or will soon be, impossible to keep increasing computational power at rate needed to...
PWAs are the new responsive
Web technology is constantly evolving and the latest bar for a good online customer experience is a Progressive Web App (PWA). A PWA is a set of web technologies that creates fast, app-like experiences for users. This results in higher conversion rates and also gives a SEO boost. For example, Lancôme saw a 36% boost...
Fallacies and Pitfalls in building (hybrid) Progressive Web Apps
We’ve rolled out our first wave of (hybrid) Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to our customers during the last couple of weeks. Using a PWA based approach speeds up the development process for sure, however building hybrid PWAs which run a native web container had some challenges. Design Considerations Before we started to implement the hybrid...
