David ex Machina

Remember the early 2000s when the web re-emerged from the dot-com crash? When web sites no longer made you wait after each click, and were filled with snazzy animations and fast response times? When the blue link was replaced with thought-out design? That was Web 2.0 and everyone wanted to be a part of it. Restaurants, hair salons, and you-name-it were getting online and building their own web sites. The same thing is happening again, but now, it’s for mobile. Every web site, is now mobile-friendly, and every business wants to build an app. Any service that could be on-demand, needs to have an on-demand app. Banking, flower shops, food delivery, coffee shops, pharmacies, even airlines have their own apps. We’re officially in App 2.0! Here are some technical differences between App 1.0 and App 2.0 technologies: App 1.0 App 2.0 Minimal Connectivity Required Internet Connection Required Low Data Usage High Data Usage SMS Push Notifications Custo...

From fast food to t-shirts, most things in life come in three sizes. The internet is no exception… well at least for publishing platforms. Blogs are collections of long-form articles, direct transforms from their physical predecessors. At the other end of the spectrum, Twitter and other tweet-like services supply short-form messages that consist of a mere image, or a few words. And now there is Medium , a Goldilocks of a publishing platform. With the goal of quality content, Medium is attempting to blend the simplicity of a tweet with the customization of a blog, by focusing on the writing. I’m excited to see where it goes, and intrigued by the community Medium is trying to create. Having an independent publishing outlet is important to me, so I’ll continue to post to my blog . Being my first post on Medium, I look forward to its evolution, and we’ll have to wait and see if they get it just right. via: https://medium.com/on-publishing/4b0bcd7d2de