Augmented reality is generally considered to be very hard to create. However, it’s possible to make visually impressive projects using just open source libraries. In this tutorial we’ll make use of OpenCV in Python to detect circle-shaped objects in a webcam stream and replace them with 3D Earth in Three.js in a browser window while…
Free icons are a great way to spice up your work with small effort. While some of them are plain useful, others give a project a fun twist. The following collection of free icon sets offers both — payment provider icons just like summer goodness to help you over a rainy day. All icons can…
Google’s new Autotrack library enables additional tracking of site visitor interactions Value: Recommended link: Google Analytics announcement about the Autorack plug-in If you’ve been involved with customising Google Analytics for different businesses, you will know there are some oddities which make it difficult to track some on-site user interactions which are helpful to know. For…
New announcement that Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are starting to appear in mobile news carousel Importance: (For Site Owners / Design and CX professionals ) Recommended source: Accelerated Mobile Pages project and latest announcement Update February 2016: Google has started rolling out Accelerated mobile pages to certain mobile search results. The changes have come a…
The potential to completely transform your digital marketing using any combination of these five emerging technologies is not to be underestimated Technology and marketing go hand in hand, and more so than you might think. If it were not for the technological advances in the 1980s and the emergence of databases then relationship marketing would…
Facebook rolls out instant articles to everyone on April 12th Importance: (For Publishers) Recommended source: Facebook Media Facebook’s Instant Articles is only nine months old. But, given its great success over that gestation period, Facebook has now deemed it developed enough to be unleashed on publishers of all stripes. What is Instant Articles? If you…
Noah was concerned. He was the “UX guy” for the corporate office of a regional Quick Service Restaurant (a fast food chain) that was in the process of creating a mobile app to allow patrons to customize their meals, place orders and earn rewards. Note: This is an experiment in a slightly different format for…
Going beyond opens and clicks to evaluate and improve subscriber engagement with your email programmes How engaging are your emails? It’s likely that you review open and clickthrough rates for individual email campaigns and newsletters, but can you measure and prove how engaging your email marketing is on a long-term basis across multiple emails starting…
Flexbox gives us a new kind of control over our layouts, making coding challenges that were hard or impossible to solve with CSS alone simple and intuitive. It provides us with the means to build grids that are flexible and aware of dynamic content, and thus, give us the freedom to focus on the creation…
Adwords bidding landscape has changed as Google confirm the right sidebar on desktop SERP is to be removed. Importance: (For PPC Managers & SEO managers) Recommended source: Search Engine Land Google have ended their six-year experiment with the Sidebar ads, instead opting for three above-the-fold text ads for queries on the desktop SERP and a…
