Month: February 2016
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Free, Public Domain videos for you site’s background
Looping video background on the front page is quickly becoming popular. With top sites like Airbnb, PayPal following the trend; demand for looped and time-lapse video are high in demand. One question we get asked quite often by our users is, Where can I find free, good quality videos to use on my website?
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SPDY is dead, get ready for HTTP/2
“The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the protocol that governs the connection between your server and the browsers of your website’s visitors. For the first time since 1999, we have a new version of this protocol, and it promises far faster websites for everyone.” View complete article
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Milliseconds matter, tips on web loading times optimization
Fluidui’s Dave Kearney writes about how site loading times are important and how to optimize your own. So, milliseconds matter? Google compared loading fewer results on a page in 0.4 seconds to more results in 0.9 seconds. Traffic and ad revenue decreased by 20%. Yahoo found that between 5% and 9% of its users would…
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Public Datasets
Available at Xiaming’s Github, Awesome Public Datasets are (mostly) free. Subjects include Agriculture, Biology, Climate/Weather, Complex Networks, Computer Networks, Contextual Data, Data Challenges, Economics, Energy, Finance, Geology, GeoSpace/GIS, Government, Healthcare, Image Processing, Machine Learning, Museums, Natural Language, Physics, Psychology/Cognition, Public Domains, Search Engines, Social Networks, Social Sciences, Sports, Time Series and Transportation.