Medium is launching a set of tools to help publications publish and make money on the web. Dubbed Medium for Publishers, the WordPress competitor will offer publishers a free content management system, a standalone URL, and the ability to participate in two beta experiments—one to host promoted posts, the other to offer paid memberships. A dozen...Read More
One thing sustains startups and existing businesses. With business, sustainability is everything. Massive sales are awesome, but they have to be sustainable. New growth is great, but it has to be sustainable. Come up with another business/startup maxim and you can couple the word sustainable to it as well. If you want long term success,...Read More
Despite implementing a stricter app review process last year, Google still has some work to do when it comes to its developer policies. The company removed an app created by the Taliban from its Play Store Saturday. The app was reportedly published to Google Play on April 1, 2016. SEE ALSO: New bill asks Twitter...Read More
Automattic, the company behind the popular WordPress.com blogging platform, receives thousands of takedown requests from rightsholders every year. A substantial percentage of these notices contain inaccuracies and several are clearly fraudulent or abusive. The company highlights some of the worst offenders in its “Hall of Shame†and has also sued takedown abusers in the past....Read More
What would you do if your web pages could load four times faster with six simple steps? You would login to your site and start walking through these steps, of course. That’s exactly what I did. On February 23, 2016, Google introduced AMP listings into its mobile search results. So, what is Google’s AMP, anyway? According...Read More
Google appeared to troll Gmail users yesterday, by adding a childish GIF to their sent email and making their replies disappear. If that sounds stupid and asinine to you, then you’d be right. Your humble blogwatcher tries to avoid April Fool’s Day stories, but this one is completely ridiculous. Not only did Google screw up...Read More
THE Sunshine Coast will host one of the most significant events of the year for a quarter of the nation’s internet users. WordCamp Sunshine Coast on May 7-8, will be the premier gathering of the year for Australia’s WordPress community. WordPress is a content management system popular with businesses and individuals with an online presence....Read More
A study released this week reveals the amount of inbound marketing jobs are expected to drop for the first time in 4 years. This news comes courtesy of Conductor, who also performed the study. Have the salaries for SEO jobs and salaries hit a tipping point? Between 2012 and 2015 they soared; should we be...Read More
With the release of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, it’s a very serious few weeks for virtual reality. So it’s the perfect time to lighten up with Google’s latest April Fools’ Day product: an all-new VR headset that truly lives up to the medium’s promise. That’s Google Cardboard Plastic, “the world’s first actual reality headset.” Designed with...Read More
You’ve just hit publish on your shiny new blog post. It’s packed with information that you know your readers will love. Wouldn’t it be even better if you could click one button and share your new post with your entire online network? With Jetpack’s Publicize feature, you can instantly share posts on social media networks....Read More
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