Tag: technology
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Moving a website without breaking its links
Old links are the memory of a website. Here is how I moved my homepage to a new host while keeping every old URL working.
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How I used AI to rebuild my website, and where it needed a human
A plain account of using AI assistants to redesign, move and tidy this site: what worked, what went wrong, and what I would check next time.
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Short explainer: What will the world of social media look like in 30 years?
It is difficult to predict exactly what social media will look like in 30 years, but in this short explainer I try.
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Innovation via desperation: Twitter Fleets
Twitter Fleets are not necessary, nobody on the network was calling for them, and their implementation shows that Twitter has more interest in following the crowd than genuinely innovating. Instead, what we now have is social networks innovating from a position of desperation, focused on ‘keeping up with the Joneses’.
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Facebook risks starting a war on knowledge
Facebook is closing its doors to researchers in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The latest casualty is the app Netvizz, a research tool used by hundreds of academics to gather public Facebook data, that the social network has recently banned. The app has gathered more than 300 academic citations and has been used to produce studies on everything…
