Codam Is A New Way To Train Tech Professionals (video)

Codam: a new way to train much-needed tech professionals

No teachers. No fees, and no qualifications needed. Codam is an unorthodox coding college designed to address educational inequality, and a shortage of tech professionals. The FT’s Harriet Agnew goes to Amsterdam to meet Codam’s founder and funder, one of the brains behind TomTom, Corinne Vigreux, and discover a new way of learning. Financial Times (ft.com) video above published Jan 15, 2019.

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Amazon $AMZN Playbook's Strategy for Alexa & Alexa Skills (video)

Amazon Playbook: Strategy for Alexa

L2inc.com video above published Jan 10, 2019: There are almost 25 million US households with an Amazon Alexa device. Here's how your brand can take advantage of Amazon's voice platform.

Amazon's Alexa is the voice-activated, interactive AI bot, or personal assistant, that lets people speak with their Amazon Echo, Echo Dot and other Amazon smart home devices. ... But Alexa Skills are apps that give Alexa even more abilities, letting her speak to more devices even websites--gearbrain.com.

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Google I/O 2018, May 8-10, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View

A look back: Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s I/O 2017 keynote

Video above published May 17, 2017: Google CEO Sundar Pichai hosted his second Google I/O as the company’s CEO. He and other Googlers announced several new “AI first” products and features, including Google Lens, Smart Reply for Gmail and Google Assistant for iPhone.

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Google I/O 2018, May 8-10, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California

Website: Google I/O 2018 | google.com

Google Keynote at #io18 on Tuesday, May 8: 10-11:30 am PDT: Learn about the latest product and platform innovations at Google in a Keynote led by Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Developer Keynote on Tuesday, May 8: 12:45PM - 1:45PM PDT: Learn about the latest updates to developer products and platforms at Google in a Keynote led by Jason Titus, Vice President for the Developer Product Group at Google.

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Tech Review: Ransomware Attacks Just The Tip of the Iceberg (video)

Tech Review (TR 2017-07-01)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news:

Features • 1)  Ransomware Attacks Just The Tip of the Iceberg, 2) Google faces years of EU oversight, 3) Uber's Valuation?, 4) Baidu AI Developers Conference, 5) Censorship: Germany, 6) Global Top 100 Brands 2017, 7) ICYMI Tech News.

1) McAfee CEO Says Ransomware Attacks Are Just Beginning

Video above published Jun 27, 2017: Chris Young, McAfee.com's chief executive officer, discusses the spread of ransomware attacks across the globe with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology." See New ransomware outbreak reported all over world | TheHill.com.

  Source: Statista.com

According to data provided by IT-security institute AV-Test, ransomware (such as "WannaCry" and "Petya") is only a very small share of all malware detected worldwide.--Statista.com.

See also on cybersecurity: 

• A new ransomware attack is infecting airlines, banks, and utilities across Europe | TheVerge.com and Ransomware: More and smarter scams coming soon | ZDNet.com

• Global Phishing Survey, New gTLD Domain Names, Malicious Registrations | DomainMondo.com

• If You See This Email From Amazon, Do Not Click | americanow.com and Ransomware Is a Real Threat, but Don’t Forget the Botnets | MIT TechnologyReview.com

Other Tech News:

2)  Google faces years of EU oversight on top of record antitrust fine | Reuters.com and EVIL GOOGLE: European Commission €2.42B (US$2.73B) Antitrust Fine | DomainMondo.com. Alphabet ($GOOGL and $GOOG) generated $90.3 billion in revenue in 2016. Google's share of that revenue was $89.5 billion. 

3)  Unicorns: With rising competition and no real moat, Uber may not be really worth its $68B Silicon Valley valuation, even if it overhauls its corporate culture--Uber’s Biggest Problem: Its Business Model | WSJ.com.

4) 2017 百度AI开发者大会 | Baidu AI Developers Conference | baidu.com:

"Baidu is inviting developers from all around the world to participate in this festival of AI technology." July 5, 2017, Beijing.

5)  Censorship: Germany enacts law with fines of up to $57 million for social media websites failing to delete illegal, racist, or slanderous content within 24 hours--NYTimes.com.

6)  brandZ.com | Global Top 100 Brands 2017: #1 Google; #2 Apple; #3 Microsoft; #4 Amazon; #5 Facebook; ... #8 Tencent; #9 IBM; ... #14 Alibaba; ... #17 China Mobile .... #21 SAP (highest rank of all non-US & non-China brands)  ...."

7) ICYMI Tech News Quick Takes:

• Despite hacking charges, U.S. tech industry fought to keep ties to Russia spy service FSB | Reuters.com
• China intending to take lead with national AI plan | Chinadaily.com.cn: "Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang said the country will soon release a national strategy to detail how to boost the development of AI through 2030."
• Facebook hits 2 billion-user mark, doubling in size since 2012 | Reuters.com
• Can You Hear Me Now? Verizon Is Under Attack (NYSE:VZ) | SeekingAlpha.com
• Consortium of European banks pick IBM for trade finance blockchain platform | Reuters.com
• Top 10 global smartphone suppliers | Chinadaily.com.cn
• Social media giants Facebook, Google's YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft, step up joint fight against extremist content | Reuters.com
• Whole Foods Could Be The Next YouTube (NASDAQ:AMZN) | SeekingAlpha.com
• Apple CEO touts India impact in push for deeper market access | Reuters.com
• Apple: Buy Dollars For Less Than 70 Cents (NASDAQ:AAPL) | SeekingAlpha.com
• RadioShack creditors' lawsuit says Sprint killed 6,000 jobs | Reuters.com
• Bootstrapping your e-commerce business? Here are 9 best practices to consider | e27.co

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Google I/O 2017, May 17-19, LIVE Video Stream from Mountain View

Google I/O'17: Google Keynote

May 17, 2017 10am-11:30am PDT (US) Google Keynote: Sundar Pichai, Google Inc. CEO

Google I/O'17: Amphitheatre

Developer Keynote - Technical sessions and deep dives into Google's latest developer products and platforms.

LIVE from Google I/O 2017
Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, California (map)

• Google I/O 2017: May 17-19, 2017

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Google I/O 2016 LIVE, May 18-20, from Mountain View

Google I/O 2016, 3 full days of developer content, May 18-20, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California. Schedule: https://events.google.com/io2016/schedule
Keynote May 18, 10:00 AM PDT / Amphitheatre - Product and platform innovation at Google, live kickoff from Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Google I/O 2016 LIVE from Mountain View, California:

Google Developers: https://developers.google.com/
See also: Google IO: Positioning Android To Disrupt The PC Industry | SeekingAlpha.com: "This year's Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) IO developer conference, which starts in a week, could be a watershed event for Android. I expect it to provide confirmation of Google's intentions for Android as a converged mobile personal computing platform that will disrupt the traditional PC platforms of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)."

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Google I/O LIVE from San Francisco Moscone Center, Day One

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Google I/O 2015 brings together developers for an immersive, two-day experience focused on exploring the next generation of technology, mobile and beyond. UPDATE: Day 2 here

Google I/O LIVE from San Francisco Moscone Center, May 28-29: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM PDT (US) both days- Sessions and Sandbox. Current date/time in San Francisco:

Google I/O is for developers—the creative coders who are building what's next. Explore the latest in tech, mobile, and beyond. Check the schedule below or here. I/O 2015 is streamed LIVE. Watch below the keynote and select sessions in real time from your laptop or mobile device, or here. Twitter feeds further below. 

Day 1 Schedule Information: (also see listings under video Channels 1,2, and 3 below):
May 28 (All times PDT):9:30 AM Keynote
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Google Cloud Messaging 3.0
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM What's new in Android
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Smarter monetization with AdMob and Analytics
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM What’s New in Android Development Tools
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM The next generation mobile web
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM What's new in Google Play services
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Growing games with Google
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Making apps context aware: Opportunities, tools, lessons and the future
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Material Now


Google I/O 2015 - Day 1 - Channel 1
Full Schedule - May 28 - Channel 1:
1PM PDT: What's new in Android
2PM PDT: What's New in Android Development Tools
3PM PDT: What's new in Google Play services
4PM PDT: Material Now


Google I/O 2015 - Day 1 - Channel 2
Full Schedule - May 28 - Channel 2:
3PM PDT: The next generation mobile web
4PM PDT: Growing games with Google


Google I/O 2015 - Day 1 - Channel 3
Full Schedule - May 28 - Channel 3:
1PM PDT: Google Cloud Messaging 3.0
2PM PDT: Smarter monetization with AdMob and Analytics
3PM PDT: Android Pay: The next generation of payments on Android
4PM PDT: Making apps context aware: Opportunities, tools, lessons and the future

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Streamed live on May 28, 2015 - Learn about the latest product and platform innovations at Google

• Find the complete I/O Live Day 1 schedule at: https://goo.gl/sQdut9.
• Watch all Google I/O 2015 videos at: g.co/dev/io15videos.

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Google, Chrome, Physical Web Project, The Future App-less Mobile Web

2nd UPDATE: Microsoft Predicts 1 Billion Windows 10 Devices in 3 Years - Bloomberg Business: "... The company also said it will make it easier to turn websites into Windows applications, as well as older apps that use Microsoft’s .Net and Win32. For websites, users will be prompted for a short download, which will then let the website send notifications and e-commerce services. The site also can take advantage of Microsoft’s Cortana voice-activated digital assistant..."

UPDATE: Google Inc.’s Chrome Update Could Be a Game Changer for Android Devices (GOOG, GOOGL) (Motley Fool analysis): "... With the update, any company with a mobile website -- not just those with apps -- can deliver push notifications to mobile devices. That strategy tethers users to Google's ecosystem while blurring the lines between Android, mobile websites, and mobile apps. This complements Google's recent "mobile friendly" update, which downgrades sites not optimized for smaller smartphone screens. A recent TechCrunch study found that the update would impact over 40% of Fortune 500 company websites. On PCs, the update complements Google's plans to take over Windows systems remotely via Chrome. The Chrome browser can already be used to remotely access PCs via the Chrome Remote Desktop app for Android and iOS devices. Since Chrome bookmarks are automatically synchronized between PCs and Android devices, the update can allow websites to push notifications to both...." (read more at link above, emphasis added)

Background: The decline of the mobile web:"... Mobile is the future. What wins mobile, wins the Internet. Right now, apps are winning and the web is losing... The likely end state is the web becomes a niche product... Apps are heavily controlled by the dominant app stores owners, Apple and Google. Google and Apple control what apps are allowed to exist, how apps are built, what apps get promoted, and charge a 30% tax on revenues..."--Chris Dixon (April, 2014)

The early triumph of native apps over the mobile web may soon be reversed. In the past week Domain Mondo commented on Google's recent search changes rolling out in mobile: a) search algorithm preference for mobile-friendly web pages; and b) title only of websites in search results--deleting the domain name and TLD--the coup de grâce ("death blow") for new gTLD domain names.

Now comes some good news for website publishers, developers, even domain name investors: Google has, finally, fully engaged and joined battle on the side of the free and open internet, a/k/a the mobile web on mobile devices, in the "good fight" against native apps. So, what's the problem with native apps?--

"From day one Google has hated apps. It grudgingly built them because the iPhone and the culture of smartphones forced the company to. Now with Chrome notifications
it has taken a very self-conscious step toward making apps less “essential.”... what we have today is a situation where users spend 60 percent of their digital media time with mobile devices (mostly smartphones) and almost 90 percent of that in apps. The mobile web has greater reach than most apps; but in terms of time spent it’s marginal ... This is where Google’s “Physical Web” and Chrome notifications come in. The Physical Web project has declared war on apps..."--Marketing Land (emphasis added)

To compound the problem with native apps, not only do they currently dominate mobile users' digital media time, but users spend most of that time with only a handful of apps--Top 25 Mobile Apps Dominated By The Largest Digital Media Brands - comScore, Inc: "The ranking of top apps is dominated by app constellations of some of the largest digital media brands; specifically, Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Amazon and eBay. These six brands account for 9 of the top 10 most used apps, 16 of the top 25, and 24 of the top 50." A survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project found of all smartphone owners, 68% open only five or fewer apps at least once a week. In addition, studies show that most users do not  prefer apps--what they really want are fast, mobile-friendly websites!

Enter Google--

Chromium Blog: Reaching and re-engaging users on the mobile web: "One of the web’s superpowers is its low friction: a new site is always only a single tap away, allowing users to easily navigate through a rich diversity of experiences. The mobile web provides a great discovery experience for users and unparalleled reach for developers. Unfortunately, once users discover an experience they love, it is hard for them to build a meaningful relationship since websites lack the engaging capabilities developers have come to expect from mobile such as push notifications and home screen icons. As a result, developers have needed to decide between the engagement potential of a native app and the reach potential of a mobile website. Chrome 42 addresses this dilemma by allowing users to engage more deeply with the mobile web experiences that are important to them, by both opting in to receive push notifications directly from websites and easily adding regularly-visited high-quality sites to their home screen..."--Google (April 20, 2015, emphasis added)

The positive ramifications of Google's (as well as others) mobile web efforts, for domain name investors, website publishers, and developers, are self-evident. Native apps are dinosaurs and app stores for "downloading apps" will be defunct in just a few years. The idea of "downloading an app" will soon seem as quaint as the idea of downloading MP3 files instead of just listening to an online music stream. Yes, Google will lose its "cut" from app sales, but in turn, it sees much greater opportunity for serving ads on a fully functional app-less mobile web!

See also on Domain Mondo: HTML5, Mobile Web, Google, Apple, and Domain Names: "Is there any hope for the mobile web or are we doomed to a world of native apps on mobile devices? There is hope--the new OS is the browser ..."

and Audacity | Steve Jobs Looked Beyond Native Apps. And He Was Right.: "While a few years ahead of the technologies of the time, Jobs correctly touted the browser [i.e., the mobile web] as an important, if not the most important, application platform."

Interesting comment from 2014 Venture Beat article:

HTML5, jQuery, and CSS3? It's called "write once, run anywhere".... Writing a specific mobile app used to be the result of someone wanting to access device-specific hardware functions. But with the advent of things like navigator.geolocation the browser can access the native GPS hardware functions of a mobile device. Just as client-installed applications went by the way of the dodo bird for PCs, so shall they go for mobile. Nobody wants to support multiple versions of an application (ie. iOS app, Android app, mobile website, browser website). Devs will write once, and the application will render appropriately in the browser. Period. There is zero ROI justification to do anything else from a dev standpoint.

For further reference:
https://google.github.io/physical-web/
https://github.com/google/physical-web
http://blog.chromium.org/2015/03/chrome-42-beta-push-notifications_12.html
http://blog.chromium.org/2015/04/reaching-and-re-engaging-users-on.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/push-api/


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Chrome Dev Summit, Day 1 LIVE Video from Mountain View

Chrome Dev Summit - Day 1 LIVE video from Mountain View, California:

About Chrome Dev Summit: Connect with Chrome engineers and other leading developers for a two-day exploration of building beautiful and performant mobile experiences. This year the Summit presentations will mainly focus on performance, Polymer, Material Design, and building mobile web apps that work like apps with Service Worker and other technologies.

• Master the art of web performance.
• Collaborate with Chrome engineers and other attendees.
• Learn how to build for a multi-device world.
• Explore web APIs and their implementations in Chrome.
• Enhance your productivity with tested workflows.
• Guide the evolution of the web.

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Day 1 Schedule--All Times are Pacific Standard Time, Mountain View, CA, USA--

09:00 - 09:30 Darin Fisher introduces the Chrome Developer Summit.

Wicked Fast (Performance investments)
09:30 - 09:50, Ryan Schoen, Product Manager
Ryan gives an overview of some of the architectural improvements to Chrome to ensure that it's easy to make 60fps web applications across any device, as well as some features that help apps perform silky-smooth.

Making Web Apps Appy
09:50 - 10:40 Alex Russell, Software Engineer
Alex gives an overview of why web apps don’t feel “appy” today, and shows how Service Worker is enabling a whole new world of appiness - beyond the simple goal of making web apps work offline, to building truly engaging web applications.

Asking for superpowers: Chrome's permission model
10:40 - 11:00 Adrienne Porter Felt, Software Engineer
Adrienne explains how we can enable more powerful web applications while keeping a user focus on security and privacy, and how you should structure your own apps to take best advantage.

Material Design Deconstructed
11:30 - 12:00 Roma Shah, UI Designer
Roma explores the philosophy of Material Design, and provides practical guidance for building apps according to Material Design principles.

The Applied Science of Runtime Performance
12:00 - 12:30 Paul Lewis, Developer Advocate
Building a 60fps, cross-browser website can be tricky. It requires knowledge, experience and judgment calls on trade-offs and what to prioritize. In this session Paul will take you through his recent experience of building the Chrome Dev Summit site, and in particular the challenges of achieving good runtime performance, performance tooling, and a couple of new and useful APIs.

All the Things! - Security with Performance
12:30 - 13:00 Chris Palmer, Software Engineer
TLS underlies all security and privacy on the web. Chris explains how to do TLS right: not only to deploy TLS and remain performant at scale, but also demonstrating how TLS is the basis of new performance improvements.

Easy Composition and Reuse with Web Components
14:30 - 15:00 Dmitri Glazkov, Uber Compositor
Dimitri explores the set of enabling technologies that make up Web Components, and describes how these pieces make it easy and fast to build composable components, and make HTML finally earn its keep.

Polymer: State of the Union
15:00 - 15:30 Matt McNulty, Software Engineer
Polymer started as an experiment in pushing the web platform. In the two and a half years since, Google helped ship a lot of standards, a developer preview of Polymer, and learned a lot and heard a lot of feedback from developers. Matt will share what was learned, the state of the art of Polymer today, and most importantly what’s next.

Let's build some apps with Polymer!
15:30 - 16:00 Rob Dodson, Developer Advocate
This talk will cover what it takes to build a single page app in Polymer. Rob will demonstrate how to quickly scaffold the structure of an application by leveraging Material Design elements, explore best practices around lazy loading elements to keep our app speedy, and also touch upon the tools we can use to debug and test our app.

Fundamentals of Mobile Web Development
16:30 - 17:00 Matt Gaunt, Developer Advocate
Matt gives a whirlwind tour of getting started on Web, from the Web Fundamentals guide to jump-starting with the Web Starter Kit, and also cover some of the stunning advancements in DevTools.

Closing Keynote
17:00 - 17:15 Closing remarks on Day 1.


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Verisign Ad Campaign, Lame, Creepy Videos

Make Your Idea Official | Cake in a Club - YouTube:

"It's official: Internet domain-name company Verisign has launched one crazy (and at times creepy) campaign. Which of the four videos [playlist of videos above] from FCB Chicago is the most self-consciously bizarre? You've got the giant yellow smiley-fish tormenting a late-night bus rider; a cabbage in a convertible chasing a dude in an alley; a leggy frosted cake that dumps her date for a dance-floor suitor; and an oversize flirty bee in a bar with, um, pollination on hizzz mind. The wacky work, themed "Make your idea official" and using the #InternetOfficial hashtag, touts Verisign's .com and .net registration service. (What else, after all, could an anthropomorphized disco dancin' dessert treat be advertising?)..." source: Adweek

When I see the above, I wonder who at Verisign approved these ads? Really! These are supposed to motivate serious people to spend their hard-earned money (hopefully after doing the necessary "due diligence") and register .COM and .NET domain names? Sorry, but domain name registration is not a trivial process, as these ads suggest, nor are domain name registrants trivial people.

Verisign would have been a lot better off producing ads by having film crews on-site at last week's TRAFFIC Conference in Miami Beach interviewing real domain name registrants, investors and developers, who are the lifeblood of the domain name industry and are its (including ICANN's) raison d'être. These ads trivialize the domain name industry, registrants, and Verisign's brands.

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo

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