Web Payments update: new payment apps on their way

Samsung Pay news.

Google and HTTP

The web is an open platform, not a corporate platform.

A new Twitter experience on Windows

Better, faster and with a more consistent look and feel.

Stories are about to surpass feed sharing. Now what?

The phenomenal rise of the Stories format in social media.

Keeping your account secure

Twitter has found a bug that stored passwords unmasked.

Your Google Analytics Advanced Segments Are Going Away This Month

Unless you do this.

Emojityper

Find emojis, just type some words.

New Data Retention Policies in Google Analytics

What it means and why it’s important.

Microsoft launches new audience network, ‘Audience Ads’ at Bing Partner Summit

What it means for marketers.

Are you really Facebook’s product?

We have the power to demand change.

GDPR made searchable

Chapters, articles and recitals of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Android P

A first look at Google’s most ambitious update in years.

Google Duplex

An AI system for accomplishing real world tasks over the phone.

“We seem to have a surplus of people with ideas for tearing things down and a deficit of people with ideas for making things more resilient.”

Write emails faster with Smart Compose in Gmail

Faster email drafts, assisted by artificial intelligence.

The GDPR Checklist

Achieving GDPR Compliance shouldn’t feel like a struggle.

Sunsetting Klout

The once popular measures for social influence are soon gone.

Alternative analytics

Who said that there are no other web analytics tools?

The Tarot Cards Of Tech

Unintended consequences of technology: ask the right questions.

“Your resumé shouldn’t be a listing of everything you’ve done. It should tell a story about your passions and experience.”

The 10 SEO ranking factors we know to be true

How important each factor is and the evidence we have for it.

Attention PGP Users: New Vulnerabilities Require You To Take Action Now

Why you should disable PGP/GPG and S/MIME for now.

How to Earn Google Featured Snippets for Mobile

Findings of a large-scale study.

Tweetbot for Mac

The popular Twitter app with a lot of new features, including a dark theme.

Google Search Console: The Definitive Guide

Tips, tactics, and strategies to get higher rankings.

howdoesitlookonsocial?

Check how your web page looks like when it is posted on social media.

User Deletion API

An overview of the Google Analytics User Deletion API.

No one’s ready for GDPR

Not the companies and not even the regulators.

Most GDPR emails unnecessary and some illegal, say experts

GDPR-related emails are flooding inboxes across Europe.

Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

Stream releases an open source podcast and RSS reader.

A Tactical Guide to Effective Public Speaking for Marketing, Content and Tech Events

Yes, you can.

GDPR Tracker

Keep track of the GDPR compliance of cloud services and subprocessors.

Google Analytics Training: How to Turn Insights Into Action

10 mistakes you may be making and how to fix them.

GDPR: A Guide for Ecommerce

How EU’s regulation maps to your business and responsibilities.

So long, StumbleUpon

The web discovery platform is moving to Mix.

GDPR mayhem: Programmatic ad buying plummets in Europe

The impact of the General Data Protection Regulation.

I’m Not (Overly) Concerned About Smart Speaker Security

You shouldn’t be either.

“Too often people don’t realize how talented they are. When someone dismisses something they did as easy, I like to remind them that it’s only easy because they’ve become an expert.”

Announcing SparkToro ‘Trending’

A front page for the web marketing world.

Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report

All the slides, plus analysis.

Are Smart Glasses Ready To Succeed In 2018?

Where we are and where we are going.

1Password 7 for Windows: The Best Ever

The popular password manager has landed on Windows.

91% of Content Gets No Traffic From Google

And how to be in the other 9%.

Removing Trending From Facebook

Facebook removes trending to focus on better news experiences.

How Instagram’s algorithm works

The factors that determine what you see in your feed.

How to create catchy, effective subject lines for link outreach

Write subject lines with a new mindset.

Find Out What Google and Facebook Know About You

How to do a data detox, in a zillion easy steps.

How Much Data Is Missing from Analytics?

And other analytics black holes.

2018 Logo Trends

From clean, modern aesthetics towards curvy, retro designs.

“Ask a lot of people for feedback, get stuck. Ask a few people for feedback, get moving.”

100+ Google SEO Success Factors, Ranked

Leverage factors that improve your traffic and rankings.

AI at Google: our principles

Google’s social objectives for AI applications.

We are all trapped in the ‘Feed’

“Advertising is the only accepted currency of the web.”

Your Phone Is Listening and it's Not Paranoia

How it happens and what it means to us.

Next year, people will spend more time online than they will watching TV

It’s happening faster than expected.

IF Data Permissions Catalogue

An evolving collection of design patterns for sharing data.

Transitions: The easiest way to improve your tech talk

Great impact with little effort.

Link Building Strategies That Scale in 2018

Options that still exist and will work in the near future.

The Ultimate Guide to SEO Crawlers

An introduction to the most popular crawlers.

An 8-Point Checklist for Debugging Strange Technical SEO Problems

What you can look for.

Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened?

Where we are and where we are going.

The Impact of AnonymizeIP in Google Analytics

A detailed study of 1 million sessions.

Instagram announces IGTV, a standalone app for longer videos

Going after YouTube, with vertical video.

How Twitter Made The Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback

A bird emerges from the ashes.

Young people still love Twitter: as screenshots on Instagram

Remixed Twitter or Tumblr content on Instagram.

25 Negative Google SEO Success Factors

What may condemn you to the bottom of Google search results.

Ways to think about machine learning

What it is, and what it isn’t.

How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs?

The myth of the Silicon Valley wunderkind.

Introducing Google Marketing Platform

Google combines Ads and Google Analytics in one platform.

The Growth Handbook

Lessons and tested frameworks from growth experts.

Keyword Snooze: A New Way to Help Control Your News Feed

Now you can temporarily hide posts by keywords.

The unseen value of brand design

Key aspects in making a brand successful.

Brave Introduces Beta of Private Tabs with Tor for Enhanced Privacy while Browsing

Anonymous communication in the browser.

A New Level of Transparency for Ads and Pages

Facebook gives users more information about advertisers.

How we fought webspam

Google’s combat against abuse and spam on Search.

“Be grateful for every chance to do something right.”

Reclaiming RSS

Everything old is new again: it’s time to re-decentralise the web.

Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

The company is rolling out more detailed maps.

Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable

The cold blue light of modern screens poses health problems.

3 unforgettable lessons I learned from 100 boring conferences

Take PowerPoint design seriously.

Tech’s ‘Dirty Secret’: The App Developers Sifting Through Your Gmail

Software developers scan hundreds of millions of emails.

Latest Text Of EU Copyright Directive Shows It's Even Worse Than Expected

Analysis of the proposal.

EU sends controversial internet copyright reforms back to the drawing board

The battle continues.

Honest Work

Real jobs, real salaries, real transparency.

Release: Google Tag Manager Debugging Extension

Say hello to GTM Debug.

AB+ Test Calculator

Answer all your pre and post test analysis questions.

Reddit is trying to cash in through advertising

The popular website is about to become a place for marketing too.

‘Everyone is breaking the law right now’

GDPR compliance efforts are falling short.

SparkScore

A more reliable way to measure your Twitter influence.

Don't Feed the Trolls, and Other Hideous Lies

Let’s care more about the people trolls hurt.

“There are 4 types of wealth: 1. Financial wealth (money), 2. Social wealth (status), 3. Time wealth (freedom), 4. Physical wealth (health). Be wary of jobs that lure you in with 1 and 2, but rob you of 3 and 4.”

Instapaper is going independent

The popular tool for saving web pages is going indie again.

“Staying small allows you both, be fast and slow. You can ship and act fast when needed, but you can also slow down while remaining operative without the pressure of overhead.”

Content Consumption: Go Beyond Pageviews

A way to measure if people are actually reading your content.

An update to referral source URLs for Google Images

What you need to know.

The Ultimate Influencer Marketing Playbook of 2018

Insights from industry thought leaders and practitioners.

Dark UX Patterns in Advertising

A few tricks the bad guys are using.

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project

Collaboration for ‘the future of portability’.

How heavy use of social media is linked to mental illness

Youngsters report problems with anxiety, depression, sleep and ‘FoMO’.

Webmentions: Enabling Better Communication on the Internet

The web standard smashes the walls between the web’s social silos.