The Wayback Machine: Fighting Digital Extinction in New Ways

What’s new at the Internet Archive.

Own Your Content on Social Media Using the IndieWeb

It’s not only possible but pretty approachable too.

“Top skill for entrepreneurs: Being great at ignoring what everyone else is doing.”

“The only way to know if someone will pay for something is to put a price on it and see if they buy it. Asking ‘Would you pay $25 for this?’ won’t get you an answer. Why? It costs nothing to say ‘yes’.”

“I saw a guy at Starbucks today. No iPhone. No tablet. No laptop. He just sat there. Drinking coffee. Like a Psychopath.”

Are You Excluding Your Client? It’s Time to Stop!

Designers cannot produce a good design in a vacuum.

“No one told me that running a company is just continuously snoozing emails until you die.”

Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center Letting You Track the Trackers

How Firefox’s reporting works for you.

Hello, Ghost 3.0

The CMS now enables subscription business models for independent creators.

The Psychology of Colour in CX & Branding

There’s more to using color in marketing than aesthetics alone.

7 Habits of Highly Effective Content Marketers

How to prioritise and structure your time.

The 5-Hour Workday Gets Put to the Test

Experiences of a tech consulting firm with 8 to 1 jobs.

Understanding searches better than ever before

How Google continues to improve the quality of its search.

Introducing Facebook News

Facebook tests a dedicated place for news in the US.

Remote Work Statistics

Every statistic about remote work you could ever need.

Moment Prisons, and How to Escape Them

The dangers of using metaphors in our professional lives.

“Writing direct, easy to read emails that cut right to the chase is an undervalued skill. It’s just like designing a website or writing copy: Don’t make me think.”

Goodbye, Flash

Google Search will stop supporting Flash later this year.

What Most Remote Companies Don’t Tell You About Remote Work

The mental health challenges of remote work.

As the internet turns 50, we must protect it as a force for good

Let’s fight for the web we want.

Political Advertising

Twitter decides to stop all political advertising on its platform.

“At our school, we don’t call them ‘soft skills’ because they are quite hard. Instead, we call them ‘power skills’ and they’re the most important skills we teach our students.”

E-Mail like a boss

Your words in your business e-mails matter.

Introducing Progressive Web Apps to Samsung Galaxy Store

How to add your web app to the Samsung Store.

Free Resources for Freelancers

A collection of templates and resources covering many topics.

UX and SEO

A new perspective on winning at SEO.

Helping more people with wearables: Google to acquire Fitbit

What changes for Fitbit users.

Previewmojo

Auto generate social media preview images.

Dekks

Create, share and view ideas in a new and powerful way.

Remember QR Codes?

They’re more powerful than you think.

Microsoft unveils new Edge browser logo that no longer looks like Internet Explorer

The new icon is a wave surfing the web.

The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable

A new way to check citations from books and the web.

Copycat Content

SEO tools got us here, humans will get us out.

Introducing Our New Company Brand

The Facebook app will keep its own branding.

Restricting Notification Permission Prompts in Firefox

No more prompts without user interactions.

“Careers are very long. People may get lucky early, but it is amazing to observe how the passage of time eventually favors the persistent and focused.”

Some Thoughts on Website Boundaries

Bing’s new penalty to address ‘inorganic site structure’ violations.

“Customers don’t churn. They leave.”

What Half of iPhone Users Don’t Know About Their Privacy

New poll.

KPI overload

The golden age of metrics.

A New Way to Earn Money on WordPress.com

WordPress introduces subscriptions with recurring payments.

Basecamp Personal

The free way to run Basecamp for personal projects.

The Best Productivity Apps for 2020

A list to build a complete productivity stack.

23 World Class Marketers Share Their Best Marketing Tips for 2020

Prepare yourself for the next year.

Private Equity company acquires .Org registry

ICANN removed all price controls on .org.

Where should you track image search traffic?

Google makes it easy for marketers to make bad decisions.

Firefox’s fight for the future of the web

Mozilla is staking a comeback on its dedication to privacy.

Windows will improve user privacy with DNS over HTTPS

What you can expect in the near future.

The Featured Snippets Cheat Sheet and Interactive Q&A

Everything you need to know.

New reporting for Products Results in Search Console

Insights into the search performance for product rich results.

Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance poses an unprecedented danger to human rights

Amnesty questions the tech giants’ core business model.

“You need to be able to say what your startup does in 2-4 words. No one has the time or attention span for an elevator pitch anymore.”

Introducing our experiment with Web Monetization

What online content monetization could look like.

Bad news: ‘Unblockable’ web trackers emerge

Good news: Firefox with uBlock Origin can stop it. Chrome, not so much.

Google search results eye candy

How users navigate search features and what it means for SEO.

Contract for the Web

Let’s make our online world safe and empowering for everyone.

Platforms and Publishers: The End of an Era

Publishers reclaim control of earning potential.

Twitter will remove inactive accounts and free up usernames in December

No exact date for when usernames will be available.

Cocoon

A private space for the most important people in your life.

It’s not enough to ‘write content’

You have to publish resources.

What are outcome-based roadmaps?

Let’s go through their four foundation development stages.

If You Haven’t Optimized our Website for Voice Search Yet, You’re OK

Why there is no revolution on the way.

It’s time to stop designing 'minimum viable products'

From MVPs to MVLPs.

Exploding Topics

Discover rapidly growing content topics before they take off.

Improving Tracking Prevention in Microsoft Edge

Better privacy protections by default without breaking sites.

“You do not go farther by tearing others down. It just doesn’t work like that. Build each other up. We get further together.”

Google Photos launches private messaging for quickly sharing photos

A better, faster way to share from your Photos library.

Hear me out. Just because we’re about to start a new decade doesn’t mean you need to set goals for the next 10 years. Small goals are great.

Reddit’s monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019

The social news aggregator continues to grow.

Long-Distance Relationship

Working with clients you’ve never met face-to-face.

The North Star Playbook

Managing products by identifying a single, crucial metric.

2019 Firefox Flashback

Mozilla makes a point of knowing less about you.

Better password protections in Chrome

Chrome will now warn if your password has been stolen.

What’s new in App + Web properties

Google Analytics now aggregates metrics across multiple web streams.

10 Important 2020 SEO Trends You Need to Know

What’s ahead for SEO professionals.

Decentralized Standard for Social Media

Twitter is funding a team to develop an open standard.

Ship outcomes, not just features, with the Product Impact Framework

Feature-driven vs. outcome-driven projects.

It’s Time to Get Personal

Why a community and culture of personal sites matters.

'Link In Bio' is a slow knife

The power of links in the age of closed systems.

“It’s okay for your side project to be you and your health.”

Back to the Future?

90 content marketing predictions for 2020.

Website Carbon Calculator

How is your website impacting the planet?

Everything I Know About Remote Work

A guide to fostering a successful remote work culture.

Finding your first remote job

Strategies to discover and land your first gig.

Facebook is working on its own operating system

A custom OS could allow Facebook to move away from Android.

“People who work 60 hours a week for themselves should not tell other people to work 60 hours a week for someone else.”

The People's Web

What the web once was, and what it can be again.

This Page is Designed to Last

A manifesto for preserving content on the web.

Font Generator

Fancy text styles for use on social networks.

Guide To Using Reverse Image Search For Investigations

Comparison of platforms that offer search by images.

“Don’t ask for feedback if what you want is praise.”

Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen

New ways to shape your conversations on the platform.

Introducing quieter permission UI for notifications

Google Chrome reduces notification interruptions.

15 experts reveal the trends for Technical SEO in 2020

What makes technical SEO really exciting.

Why Medium Lost Half of its Visibility

What’s behind the huge drop that could affect other publishers.

Instagram starts bringing DMs to the web

As Facebook increases its focus on messaging.

The Search Console Training video series is rolling out

Search engine optimization with Search Console.

New year, new browser

Microsoft Edge/Chromium is now ready for all your devices.

The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It

A startup with a groundbreaking facial recognition app.

Your online activity is now effectively a social ‘credit score’

Platforms may rate what you are doing online.