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30,788 matchesPERPLEXITY WAS PLANNING REVENUE-SHARING DEALS WITH PUBLISHERS WHEN IT CAME UNDER MEDIA FIRE
Perplexity is planning revenue-sharing deals with high-quality publishers for a recurring income stream.
2024.06.13
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$14M* IN NEXO TOKENS — JOIN THE HUNT NOW!
The Nexo Hunt [4] is a points-based airdrop — and the more points you have, the larger your share of the rewards.
2024.06.13
TERRAFORM AGREES TO PAY $4.47 BILLION IN PROPOSED JUDGMENT WITH THE SEC
Terraform Labs, the company behind the infamous Terra blockchain and UST stablecoin, has agreed to pay the SEC nearly $4.5 billion in fines. In a court filing, the SEC said this money would go towards a “meaningful and speedy recovery for investor victims” who lost billions of dollars when the algorithmic stablecoin collapsed in 2022. Terraform and founder Do Kwon were found liable for civil fraud, violating securities laws, and offering unregistered securities.
2024.06.13
US FED MAINTAINS CURRENT RATES AND REVISES EXPECTATIONS TO ONE POTENTIAL CUT THIS YEAR
The Federal Reserve revised its expectations to one rate cut this year (from previously anticipated three) after a slight improvement towards its 2% inflation target. This hawkish adjustment in monetary policy led to Bitcoin and other financial markets ceding earlier gains.
2024.06.13
INTRODUCING CYCLOID: ETHEREUM TRANSACTIONS OVER RADIO
Cycloid is a hardware wallet capable of direct message signing, running applications, and sending transactions over radio. It was created by FOAM, which creates proof of location technology for applications requiring location services. Cycloid enables the communication of transactions to gateways that broadcast them to the network.
2024.06.13
ENTROPY: THE AUTONOMOUS AGENT NETWORK
Entropy has released its first testnet with support for a decentralized signing solution, paving the way for autonomous agents to interact with blockchain. Entropy unlocks secure ways for agents to facilitate various onchain activities by innovating on complex and error-prone traditional crypto key management.
2024.06.13
BOND: SOLANA LABS' LOYALTY PROGRAM
Bond uses blockchain to create transparent, personalized digital experiences, facilitating stronger customer connections and loyalty. Current loyalty programs face issues with tracking purchases across many different channels and preventing counterfeits, two problems solved via blockchain verification. Bond's four areas of focus are digital collectibles, luxury goods authenticity, digital product passports + identities, and collaborative campaigns.
2024.06.13
DEPIN: TRACTION IN SUPPLY & EARLY SIGNS OF INCREASING DEMAND
DePIN shows potential to quickly crowd-source network infrastructure by offering third-party participants token rewards. Hivemapper used dashcams to map 21% of the world's roads with over 60,000 participants in 31 months but has yet to see demand for its maps. Helium, the largest decentralized wireless network, has shown early signs of product market fit with over 90,000 signups for its 5G unlimited phone plan. Both projects reward far more tokens than are being burned, which is expected for their current high-growth plans.
2024.06.13
10 TRUISMS FROM CRYPTO STARTUP ACCELERATOR
a16z's crypto startup accelerator discusses ten key principles for crypto entrepreneurs. Some of them include creating decentralized protocols with tokens, actively promoting one's startup, setting strict deadlines, continuously hiring, and aggressively seeking more engagement for one's projects.
2024.06.13
PRECONFIRMATIONS: CREDIBLE PROMISE OF FUTURE EXECUTION
Preconfirmations are credible promises validators give to users in exchange for an economic incentive. Research suggests they could be used by L2s to guarantee transaction inclusion in Ethereum blocks while still preserving decentralization and good UX. This analysis breaks down different types of preconfirmations and various proposed approaches.
2024.06.13
THE RESTAKING WARS: EIGENLAYER VS SYMBIOTIC
This article covers the rapid rise of Symbiotic, a new restaking protocol that quickly reached $200 million in deposits, challenging Eigenlayer with its flexible and modular design. It also introduces Mellow Protocol's LRT deployment on Symbiotic, highlighting new high-yield farming opportunities and significant developments in the competitive DeFi landscape.
2024.06.13
$140M CRV NEARING LIQUIDATION
Curve founder Michael Egorov is borrowing nearly $100M in stablecoins against $141M in CRV. If CRV drops by 10%, these positions may begin to get liquidated.
2024.06.13
TURKISH LIRA REPRESENTS 19% OF BINANCE TRADES
Kaiko has reported that the Turkish Lira represents ~19% of crypto volume trades since GBP and AUD pairs have been delisted.
2024.06.13
CRYPTO HACKS NET $19B SINCE 2011
Since 2011, ~$19 billion in crypto has been stolen (785 incidents), highlighting a trend of blockchain-related crimes despite advancements in security and monitoring.
2024.06.13
EIGEN LABS ACQUIRES RIO NETWORK
EigenLayer has acquired the liquid restaking network Rio's team as it plans to expand from research into product growth.
2024.06.13
UPDATED DESIGN FOR MEETING CONTROLS IN GOOGLE MEET
The Google Workspace team updated the design of meeting controls in Google Meet with refreshed colors and dynamic shapes for in-call controls and picture-in-picture. While there are visual changes, there are no functional changes. The update will roll out gradually to the web. More updates are expected over the next year.
2024.06.13
WWDC24 DESIGN GUIDE
This collection of WWDC24 videos discusses best practices for elevating your user experience within Apple's ecosystem. From visionOS apps to immersive games and SF symbols, you will learn how to leverage Apple's latest innovations. The videos teach how to write better UX, add personality to your writing, use new design tools, and more.
2024.06.13
ZEPLIN'S SUMMER BREEZE RELEASE IS HERE — A BRIGHT NEW LOOK AND EXPERIENCE FOR YOU
Zeplin's latest update features a modernized UI for a faster and lighter app experience, discoverable workflow features, and a Dark Mode for its web version. Improvements to project dashboards and screen details optimize collaboration and efficiency, while version indicators and Figma prototype integration enhance productivity.
2024.06.13
THE ROLE OF SYSTEMS IN DECISION MAKING
Designers should consider the role of external and internal systems in shaping human behavior and decision-making, as these systems significantly impact user experience. Outcomes are determined by the system. Design and improve systems rather than blaming or incentivizing individuals.
2024.06.13
TRUMP'S ‘NEVER SURRENDER' LOGO BRANDS A NEW ERA OF GRIEVANCE POLITICS
Former President Donald Trump's campaign has a new secondary logo that replaces the logo's red, white, and blue colors with black and white and swaps the "Make America Great Again!" slogan for "Never Surrender!". This logo, which is a response to his legal issues, reflects his defiant stance. It appeared in a fundraising email and is featured on merchandise like hats and T-shirts. The logo emphasizes opposition to his criminal cases. Trump continues to use the standard logo on his campaign website.
2024.06.13
RETHINKING CREATIVE HIRING: ANDY COOKE ON WHY 'UNLIKE MINDS' MEAN BETTER WORK
Creative director Andy Cooke advocates hiring "unlike minds" to foster innovation and avoid echo chambers. Diversity in thinking, storytelling, and human connection are important. Embracing contrasting viewpoints and life experiences creates a more robust creative culture, making it a strategic imperative for staying relevant and connecting with diverse audiences.
2024.06.13
VECTOR TO 3D (FIGMA PLUGIN)
Easily convert text and vector nodes into 3D models with features such as GPU ray-tracing, configurable lighting, and various viewing angles.
2024.06.13
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Learn how to design personal AIs that empower users with thoughtful design to align AI with diverse human values and needs.
2024.06.13
TRACK YOUR FIGMA CONTRIBUTIONS
Figgy lets you seamlessly track your daily design contributions, monitor your productivity, and gain insights into your work patterns.
2024.06.13
HERE'S A LOOK AT THE REVAMPED SETTINGS APP IN IOS 18
iOS 18 introduces a redesigned Settings app with a simplified user experience that features account information, top-used features, and a new "Apps" section for third-party app settings. The update includes large headers with detailed descriptions, improved Search accuracy, and cleaner layouts for easier navigation.
2024.06.13
WOLFF OLINS USES RAW MATERIALS AND ANCIENT CRAFTS TO BUILD A NEW IDENTITY FOR UBISOFT'S FLAGSHIP GAME, ANNO
In partnership with Wieden+Kennedy, Wolff Olins has rebranded Ubisoft's flagship game, Anno, with a new design ethos inspired by ancient civilizations and modernized 3D elements: 'crafted with care'. The rebrand, which included a handcrafted brand mark and the strategy for Anno: 117 Pax Romana's launch campaign, focused on themes of legacy, creation, and community. Its purpose was to cultivate the joy of building.
2024.06.13
AN APPROACH DEFINED BY LOGIC, APPLIED ACROSS VARIOUS FIELDS OF DESIGN
Peter Otto Vosding, an innovative industrial designer, emphasizes the importance of functionality and aesthetic appeal in his work. His designs reflect a deep commitment to practicality and beauty, from intricate furniture and lighting solutions to technical devices. His philosophy, inspired by everyday life, art, and nature, is rooted in logic and feasibility. Vosding ensures that each product aligns with production processes, manufacturer capabilities, and client goals.
2024.06.13
IS CONTENT DESIGN DEAD?
Content design is often overlooked until the last minute.
2024.06.13
HOW TO SPOT AI IMAGES: DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE FAKES
While AI image generators have advanced to the point where it's hard to distinguish real from AI-generated, certain signs such as weird anatomies, strange artifacts, and garbled text still help us identify fakes.
2024.06.13
WHY ARE WATCH DESIGNERS SO DRAWN TO BRUTALISM?
The success of the B/1 watch by Toledano & Chan highlights a trend towards sculpturally daring case shapes inspired by brutalist architecture and vintage aesthetics.
2024.06.13
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HERE'S AN IDEA TO REACH OVER 4 MILLION TECH PROFESSIONALS
If you're struggling to scale paid search and social, it might be time to test other channels. Consider advertising with TLDR [4] - we'll help you reach 4+ million tech professionals including developers, product managers, marketers and founders.
2024.06.13
META COULD THREATEN GOOGLE'S SEARCH CROWN
Meta, with its extensive reach through WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook, poses a credible threat to Google's search dominance by potentially redirecting searches to its own results. Unlike ChatGPT and other AI competitors, Meta's existing ad network and user base allow it to capitalize on search traffic and disrupt Google's market share. It is still early, but marketers should be prepared for potential shifts in search behaviors driven by emerging competitors.
2024.06.13
TIKTOK COMES FOR GOOGLE AS IT QUIETLY ROLLS OUT IMAGE SEARCH CAPABILITIES IN TIKTOK SHOP
TikTok is testing a new image search feature for TikTok Shop that allows users to find similar products by taking or uploading photos. The feature directly challenges Google's and Amazon's visual search capabilities. It aims to increase user engagement and e-commerce transactions on TikTok by simplifying the shopping process.
2024.06.13
HOW TO BRING INSIGHTS AND EXPERIMENTS INTO AN OPTIMIZED CUSTOMER JOURNEY
Hipcamp, an RV and camping booking site, shares how its company used user insights to achieve a 142% YoY growth in bookings from lifecycle campaigns. It conducted surveys and discovered that 55% of users were 60+ and preferred offline access to information. Hipcamp tested new messaging strategies and timing, finding that tailored offline-specific messages sent 1 day prior to trips significantly improved click-to-install conversion rates. Other experiments, like dog-specific re-engagement campaigns and image-based abandoned checkout reminders, also saw improved engagement and conversions.
2024.06.13
YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T POST JUST ONE PHOTO ON INSTAGRAM
Single-image posts on Instagram are becoming ineffective compared to Carousels and Reels. Marketers should convert single-image posts into Carousels. These offer multiple engagement opportunities since Instagram can show different images from the same post. They also generate more engagement, as swiping counts as interaction.
2024.06.13
7 EXAMPLES OF WELL DONE PRIDE MONTH POSTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Effective Pride Month posts balance support and authenticity by highlighting LGBTQ+ voices, sharing company initiatives, and engaging with audiences through interactive content. Infosys' "Embrace with Love" video, Accenture's factual "Pride at Accenture," and Amazon's year-round "Glamazon" events exemplify this approach. By focusing on genuine stories and inclusive practices, these posts avoid the pitfalls of over-commercialization and demonstrate a true commitment to the LGBTQ+ community.
2024.06.13
THE MKT1 GUIDE TO POSITIONING
Many positioning exercises are overly complex and fail to communicate the product's value. It's important to distinguish between detailed product marketing research and the simpler task of writing a clear positioning statement. Positioning focuses on identifying the target audience, defining the product, and explaining why it is better than alternatives. Effective positioning avoids broad and vague descriptions, instead providing a concise and specific message. Focus on a primary audience and avoid making a laundry list of features and benefits.
2024.06.13
GOOGLE SEARCH NOW SUPPORTS RETURN POLICY MARKUP AT THE ORGANIZATION-LEVEL
Google Search has added support for return policies at the organization level, allowing sites to specify a general return policy for the business instead of having to define one for each individual product. This can help reduce the size of Product structured data markup and make it easier to manage return policy markup in one place. It can also make return policies eligible to show with additional search results, such as knowledge panels and brand profiles, in addition to product search results.
2024.06.13
FOGGY FIGURES: SEEING BEYOND MARKETING ATTRIBUTION'S MIRAGE
Marketers have to be realistic about what attribution technology can do and understand that there's no bulletproof method to know how or why someone interacted with your campaigns every time. Marketing attribution data should be used to understand trends and behavior over time. Realistically, you should aim to know roughly 80% of what drove participation in each digital campaign. Measuring cumulative initiatives, like branding, word of mouth, PR, and earned media, can (and should) be done through market research, customer surveys, web analytics, media metrics, advertising equivalency value (AVE), and share of voice.
2024.06.13
HOW CALENDLY OVERHAULED THEIR PRODUCT-LED SALES MOTION
Calendly revamped its sales process by implementing tools like Ada for chat, Clearbit for lead scoring, and 6sense for intent data to improve lead routing and qualification. It redesigned its website CTAs based on user intent, which increased lead generation by 50%. These changes led to a 40% rise in qualified meetings and a more efficient customer journey.
2024.06.13
13 SEO TAKEAWAYS FROM GOOGLE'S ELIZABETH TUCKER AT SMX ADVANCED
The March 2024 core update took 45 days due to significant system changes. There was some re-architecture work and new signals created to help Google do a better job showing helpful content. SEOs and content creators still play a vital role in creating valuable websites and providing feedback to Google. It's important to create helpful and satisfying content focusing on the big picture rather than technical details. The definition of low-quality content is detailed in the Search Quality Rater Guidelines.
2024.06.13
ECOMMERCE SEO TIP: SEARCH CONSOLE HAS A HIDDEN "MERCHANT LISTINGS" FILTER
The "Merchant Listings" filter allows you to quickly find conversion-driving queries, where your products are showing up in features like the "Popular Products" results.
2024.06.13
MARKETING LESSONS FROM THE 2024 INDIAN GENERAL ELECTION
Senior marketers weigh in on lessons learned from the marketing playbooks of the parties in the Indian general election.
2024.06.13
FREE: DIGITAL MARKETING GROWTH PROGRAMME
Girls in Marketing is offering a free growth program, targeted at junior to mid-level marketers, from July 8-18.
2024.06.13
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BOOST PRODUCTIVITY
Developers want to automate as much busywork as possible, but Jira doesn't always make it easy.
2024.06.13
HOW META TRAINS LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS AT SCALE
Meta is facing challenges in training large language models due to the amount of computational power required. This has led to the company rethinking its infrastructure in terms of hardware reliability, failure recovery, efficient training state preservation, and optimal GPU connectivity. Meta is innovating across the infrastructure stack by developing new training software and scheduling algorithms, modifying hardware like the Grand Teton platform, optimizing data center deployments, and exploring new fabrics for network infra.
2024.06.13
HOW TO HACK YOUR GOOGLE LIGHTHOUSE SCORES IN 2024
Perfect Lighthouse scores do not guarantee flawless website performance as the tool can be manipulated to yield artificially high results. For example, you can show the smallest amount of LCP-qualifying content on load to boost the FCP and LCP scores until the Lighthouse test has likely finished. Figuring out what the user experience is actually like needs a holistic overview of real-world performance, user field data, and more.
2024.06.13
WEAK MEMOIZATION IN JAVASCRIPT
Memoization in JavaScript involves storing the results of expensive function calls to improve efficiency. You can use global variables or granular factory functions for basic frontend caching. Advanced techniques include using `WeakMap` and cascading structures inspired by React's `cache` function, which allows for storing multiple results and has automatic garbage collection. WeakMaps can also be used to establish relations between objects, as seen in React's experimental API.
2024.06.13
DON'T REFACTOR LIKE UNCLE BOB. PLEASE
One of the refactoring examples in the book "Clean Code" is overly complex and less understandable than the original piece of code. There are issues like unnecessary class creation, unclear naming, and excessive function separation. Developers should prioritize code readability over just strictly adhering to arbitrary rules.
2024.06.13