Web and WordPress News Roundup for April 2014
Hello spring, farewell winter. Time to get out of the house, grab a comfy chair, watch the snow melt and catch up on the most interesting news on the web today. Here are some of the most interesting posts and articles buzzing right now in the big www.
- Big data: are we making a big mistake? – By Tim Harford
- How Gmail Happened – by Harry McCracken for Time.com
- Support for Windows XP will end on April 8, 2014 – via Microsoft.com
- Dave Jesch: Optimizing PHP Code and MySQL Queries – via WordPress.tv
- Shut Down or Sleep: How Should You Leave Your Windows Computer? – by David Pogue
- WordPress’ Matt Mullenweg on Calm, Childish Gambino, and Giving Up His iPhone for Lent – Q&A by Benjamin Solomon for Vanity Fair
- Major shakeup to domain names will affect millions – By Benjie Moss
- How Not To Market WordPress Products (or “Why Customers Don’t Care”) – by Tom McFarlin
- Distraction Free Writing Mode Will Be Responsive in WordPress 3.9 – by Sarah Gooding
- How does Google separate popularity from authority? – by Matt Cutts (via Youtube)
- How Slow Pages Hurt the Entire User Experience [SLIDES] – by Tammy Everts
- What’s New in April for Open Source CMS – By Noreen Seebacher
- Swarmify’s New Approach to Content Delivery Uses Site Visitors to Accelerate Content – by David Hamilton
- Secrets Of Successful Enterprise SEO Part III: Build A Business Case – by Mitul Gandhi
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