It's Not The Ink, It's The Think: 6 Effective Data Visualization Strategies

Ways to present the output of your analytical efforts.

Video SEO: The Definitive Guide

How to rank your videos on YouTube and Google.

“I used to work and take a break with social media. It’s gotten to the point where work is the reprieve.”

An Update on Safety

Twitter takes more steps to fight online harassment.

7 ways a great copywriter crafts compelling web copy

Why good copy is critical to your businesses success.

The Bad Product Fallacy

Don’t confuse ‘I don’t like it’ with ‘That’s a bad product and it’ll fail’.

OpenNews Ascent Stage Initiated

Relaunch of the journalism-tech network.

130+ Experts Reveal Upcoming Social Media Trends of 2017

Forecasts of social media experts.

2017 State of Global Tech Salaries

Insights into technology workers’ salaries.

How to go freelance and stay freelance

It may not be an easy ride but it can make you happy.

Now sites can fingerprint you online even when you use multiple browsers

Online tracking gets harder to evade.

How long does it take to rank in Google?

Results of a study by Ahrefs.

Google’s not-so-secret new OS

The state of Google’s upcoming operating system.

The Hard Truth About A/B Testing I Had to Swallow

“A/B testing is actually very hard to do right.”

Twitter Is Now Temporarily Throttling Reach Of Abusive Accounts

Twitter time-out.

10 mistakes that are ruining the success of your digital projects

“The nature of digital requires a unique approach to managing projects.”

Etsy Studio

Introducing a market for making.

“Reward the right behaviors and you will get the right results. Reward only the results and you will get all sorts of behaviors.”

The 2017 Digital Marketing Industry Pricing Survey Results

How marketing agencies and consultants price themselves.

How We Make a Remote Team Work

Lessons learned, pro-tips, and tools.

How to Drive Product Growth with Behavioral Personas

Current users are a window into the best ways to raise your retention rates.

Google and Mozilla's message to AV and security firms: Stop trashing HTTPS

Anti-virus products can make devices less secure.

Mozilla is buying Pocket and its more than 10 million users

The read-it-later service will continue operating.

RIP Dmoz: The Open Directory Project is closing

The end of a time when humans tried to organize the web.

We Analyzed 1.3 Million YouTube Videos

Here’s what we learned about YouTube SEO.

Mastering Google Search Operators in 67 Easy Steps

A journey in 67 parts, split into five functional stories.

This site is 'taking the edge off rant mode' by making readers pass a quiz before commenting

A way to improve the commenting experience.

Focus on Value

The real contribution of a designer and an engineer to a product.

A visual history of Google ad labeling in search results

The major updates to the treatment of Google text ads.

Downtime vs slowtime: Which hurts more?

Either way, you end up stranded on the side of the road.

How Data-Driven Marketers Are Using Psychographics

Knowing your customer better makes your marketing better.

There is a bot for that

Search engine for bots.

Tim Berners-Lee: I invented the web

Three things we need to change to save it.

Google Tackles Fake News, Inaccurate Content & Hate Sites in Rater Guidelines Update

What Google now designates as low quality content.

LiquidText Inking

An intuitive way to annotate documents and to make excerpts.

The State of Searcher Behavior Revealed Through 23 Remarkable Statistics

What marketers need to know.

Should Google Penalize Sites With Auto-Play Video Ads?

Short answer: yes.

Sideways Dictionary

Helpful analogies to explain tech jargon to everyone.

Clips

A new iOS app for making and sharing videos.

What we learned about 'Long Tail' by analyzing 1.4 Billion keywords

Takeaways for marketers.

Apple Acquires Workflow

The popular iOS automation app and its team is going to Apple.

A new calendar approach for 2017

Inspired by the ideas from the book ‘Unsubscribe’.

Twitter might build a paid subscription service for power users

What the premium version could look like.

The end of smartphone innovation

Expect a lot more ‘innovation is dead’ stories.

Apple is upgrading millions of iOS devices to a new modern file system today

Designed for modern devices.

Congress just cleared the way for internet providers to sell your web browsing history

Resolution is now off to the U.S. president’s desk.

The Ultimate Google Analytics Glossary - 2017 Edition

Your Google Analytics dictionary.

Now on Twitter: 140 characters for your replies

User names won’t count anymore.

The DECK

The well-known ad network time is shutting down after 11 years.

Your Analytics is Lying to You

Flawed site speed data and phantom bounces.

Rethinking our default profile photo

Twitter has changed the default pictures from eggs to humans.

The Non-Technical Guide to Launching Products & Side Projects

Process and tools to get a launch out there.

Google quietly expands rich cards worldwide

Rich cards are now available globally.

Android overtakes Windows for first time

Google’s Android topped the worldwide OS internet usage market share.

The full stack design system

Let’s extend the methodology to every product aspect.

“Writing comes easier when you’re learning.”

A deep look at Google’s biggest-ever search quality crisis

Google’s search reputation challenge.

The web looks like shit

Using the internet shouldn’t be this hard.

Google expands fact-checking effort to all searches worldwide

How Google Search counters fake news.

“That feeling when all of your hard work starts to pay off.”

“The single most consistent thing I’ve noticed about successful people is this: they are eternally, often delusionally, optimistic.”

What’s new in Microsoft Edge in the Windows 10 Creators Update

A faster, leaner, and more capable browser.

The Unbounce Conversion Benchmark Report

Average conversion rates by industry and expert recommendations.

Rise of Subscriptions and the Fall of Advertising

Consumer habits are about to change.

Think you know the top web browsers?

There may be more browsers out there.

Need a free logo?

Customize a logo kit and make it your own.

Chrome and Firefox Phishing Attack Uses Domains Identical to Known Safe Sites

What you can do about it.

A Proven Method For Showing The Value Of Good UX

How to convince business people to take user experience seriously.

Instant recall

“The future of Facebook’s Instant Articles is less certain than ever.”

Your Preview of Microsoft To-Do

The evolution of Wunderlist, the popular todo app.

Why performance is the best way to improve the user experience

How to convince your clients to take performance seriously.

Instagram is Eating… Everything?

The growing number of use cases for Instagram.

Google Plans Ad-Blocking Feature in Popular Chrome Browser

Google declined to comment.

9 Lessons Learned from Running a CRO Agency

Running a conversion optimization agency is hard, but rewarding.

Complete Guide to Calculated Metrics

Ways to evolve your use of Google Analytics.

Our latest quality improvements for Search

Google’s next steps.

The Impact of Color on Conversion Rates

How to find the ‘right’ color?

Freelance.tv

A collection of stories and interviews on freelancing.

Desktop and Mobile Ad Revenue Surpasses TV for the First Time

Takeaways from IAB’s report.

People Don’t Want Something Truly New

They want the familiar done differently.

How the Like Button Ruined the Internet

How ‘engagement’ made the web a less engaging place.

All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be successful in any job

The compounding benefits of investing in yourself.

Facebook Pixel with Google Tag Manager

How to set up the Facebook Pixel using Google Tag Manager.

How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

Ways to respond to market changes.

YouTube’s redesign is official, and there’s a dark mode

Google promises ‘quicker feature development’.

How Do You Measure UX Maturity?

Building a tool to assess and benchmark UX maturity.

Opera is Reborn

“It’s time to rethink the browser.”

How many keywords can you rank for with one page?

Ahrefs’ study of 3 million searches.

The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online

Lessons from last week’s cyberattack.

Ludus

A new way to make presentations.

The Future of Free Speech, Trolls, Anonymity and Fake News Online

Experts about the online social climate.

Can Google properly crawl and index JavaScript frameworks?

A JavaScript SEO experiment.

'MP3 is dead' missed the real, much better story

The audio format is supported everywhere, and is now patent-free.

Google Analytics is Enhancing Support for AMP

Better support for customers who have adopted Accelerated Mobile Pages.

How To Make Personas More Scientific

Techniques to identify the right personas.

Hey E-commerce Managers

Amazon loses their 1-Click patent this year.

Local digital marketing is more important than ever

Where every local business needs to look to in order to survive.

Long Term CSS Javascript Hidden Text Experiment

It clearly demonstrates Google’s preference for visible text.

Google’s Proprietary Fork of HTML Is Taking Over the Open Web

“The world wide web is slowly becoming a Google product.”

‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It

What Evan Williams wants to fix with Medium.