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How I Taught Myself Coding Just About in Eight Weeks
To a lot of non-developers, learning to code seems like an impossibly daunting task. However, thanks to a number of great resources that have recently been put online for free— teaching yourself to code has never been easier. I started learning to code earlier this year and can say from experience that learning enough to build…
Read MoreGoogle To Make Case That Gmail Practices Do Not Violate Privacy Laws
Google is embarking today on what will likely be a long and arduous process to throw out a class-action lawsuit against it. The lawsuit concerns whether Gmail is violating federal and California state privacy laws by having an automated processor scan emails sent from non-Gmail accounts. Google’s argument is publicly available for download. One of the…
Read MoreHashtags on Facebook Do Nothing To Help Additional Exposure
Significant time has passed since Facebook fully rolled out their hashtag implementation. We decided to dig into the data to see the impact of hashtags on the news feed. To our surprise, the answer was…nothing. Wow, we didn’t expect to find that! The assumption is that if people see an object in the news feed with…
Read MoreSeptember 4th Google Update Reports About a Major Update
I am seeing some early signs of a possible major Google update currently underway. The chatter has definitely spiked in the early morning hours of today, September 4th. This comes shortly after an unconfirmed August 21st update. In fact, that update post has well over 250 comments and a bunch of recent ones this morning reporting the update…
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