From The Next Web: “Following up on its promise from December, Facebook has begun to flag fake news stories on news feeds in the US. Questionable stories may now show a “disputed” tag underneath, with a link to a source countering the article’s claims. Facebook said it works with ABC News, Politifact, FactCheck, Snopes,... View Article
January 19, 2017 10:03 am
Categorised in: Design, UX Reading Time: 3minutes
So, got an email from an account handler regarding a piece of web design I’m working on. One component of the page has a proposed dynamically animated graphic. This widget would pull back data from an API and display available collection locations on a total-per-country basis and look a little like... View Article
Marketing on the web is so different from marketing online. Not just in terms of how you work with the formats, but also how you talk to a user. Offline, the leaning is to tend towards the brand TOV and messaging may amble, take a left turn or otherwise just... View Article
From 4 badass ways digital media can beat ad blockers (The Next Web): Browsing the Web without advertisements is nice. No obnoxious popups stealing your screen. No autoplaying videos slowing down page load times. And no creepy invasion of privacy. In fact, 89 percent of people who install adblocks do it to improve... View Article
December 26, 2016 6:00 pm
Categorised in: Swift Reading Time: < 1
I keep getting this message in Xcode 8.2 with a project with SceneKit assets in a .scnassets folder. I have no idea if this is occuring elsewhere, I just know it’s when I update the images in my .scnassets folder. There is, for me, a simple fix. Simply navigate via... View Article
November 25, 2016 4:30 pm
Categorised in: dev Reading Time: 2minutes
If you use the FlashTalking Ad Builder platform, this snippet might be useful to you. This snippet allows you to have an instant ad variable which can be completed by your PPC monsters. This will allow any video to be used in a banner creative as opposed to using FlashTalking’s... View Article
November 21, 2016 12:01 pm
Categorised in: dev Reading Time: 2minutes
I made a thing! This time I made a javascript thing. Wow, right? Tell me more! Well, I made some stoppable & HTML5/JS shoppable videos. Watch a video, like a product in the video, click the video and an overlay becomes visible allowing the user to select from products available... View Article
Would I use this? Would other people use this? Would I and most other people use it more than once? Ask yourself those three questions with every project. If you can honestly answer yes to all three you could be onto a real winner. If you can honestly answer yes to... View Article
This posts discusses the process I used on a recent app build project I was working on. My hope is by laying out this journey, it will help someone, somewhere, at some point with their planning and delivery of an app. As this article is quite long, you may want to... View Article
October 26, 2016 11:43 am
Categorised in: dev Reading Time: 2minutes
Hash symbols in the href attribute of an anchor breaks in-page Analytics tracking. It always has done. I have no idea why this is still common practice. Especially when there is a far easier solution that my man John Hickling clued me up on many moons ago and if I... View Article