Five reasons why visitors will abandon your website
As clickbait becomes a common marketing tactic, some extremely frustrating user experiences are being used to convince visitors to stay on a website or sign-up to an email list.
What I’m Reading
Shareworthy articles and content syndicated from other sites. These aren’t things I’ve written or necessarily endorse, for the record.
Safe Harbor is dead. What does that mean for your customer insights & analytics practices?
Yesterday morning, many of us in the United States awoke to some troubling news: the European Court of Justice (ECJ) had ruled that the Safe Harbor agreement is no longer valid. Security & risk (S&R) and data management folks kicked into high gear. Customer insights and digital marketing teams…? Well, the news slipped past mostly unnoticed. That's a mistake.
Let's start with a primer on Safe Harbor. If you're a multinational company doing business in Europe, Safe Harbor is the agreement under which you've been allowed to bring European customers' data back into your servers in the US for purposes of targeting, analytics, campaign management, etc. If you work with a US-based database MSP, digital or CRM agency to manage customer data, they've likely been relying on the same agreement. It's a nearly 20-year old agreement that was put in place to bridge the gap between Europe's strict data protection laws and America's relative dearth of them.
Now, that agreement has been deemed invalid, which means that every company serving European customers needs to reexamine its data practices. Of course, this is primarily the purview of our technology management peers. But customer insights professionals need to partner closely with them on two fronts:
Categories:
Smoothslides Responsive jQuery Slideshow with Animations
With so many options for jQuery slideshows it can be tough to know where to start. But since there are so many options, there really is no right or wrong answer. Each project comes with its own set of requirements and that are best complimented with certain plugins.
Smoothslides is a brand new slider on the market & 100% free open source. It was created by Kevin Thornbloom and has since garnered plenty of attention from developers.
Much like other similar jQuery plugins, Smoothslides is really easy to setup. Documentation is super easy to understand with plenty of room for additional functions.
Optional parameters include image captions, auto-play settings, pagination buttons & custom easing effects. Smoothslides offers knowledgeable developers a chance to get under the hood and really write their own unique custom settings – but it also functions very well straight out of the box.
To see it in action take a peek at the live demo page. This also includes code snippets to help you get this setup & running on your own website.
If you’d want to contribute or pull down a copy of Smoothslides you can visit the official GitHub repo. Also be sure to check out the Smoothslides demo page for a setup guide & advanced custom options.
Read More at Smoothslides Responsive jQuery Slideshow with Animations
Line Logos
Minimalist Line logo series of famous brands by Nick Barclay.
More Minimalist Line Logos on thaeger.com
Livecoding.tv lets you Hire & Watch Developers in Real-Time
Some of you may not be familiar with the Twitch-style video streaming site LiveCoding.tv. Much like Twitch.tv is made for video games, LiveCoding.tv is made for developers who write code.
Most people sign up and do livestreams either for fun or educational value. And it’s easy to find any language from PHP to Rails, Objective-C to Java and so much more.
Very recently LiveCoding.tv released a new service where streamers can be hired by the hour to write code in real-time. This can be handy for new developers who wish to learn a specific task, or even for agencies who want to hire remote programmers and monitor their progress.
But writing code isn’t the only task that’s open for business. Anyone can hire a coder to also perform a code review, build modules, solve technical issues, or literally even do your Computer Science homework.
Not everyone is available for hire. But this site behaves much like Dribbble where if they are open for work, you’ll see a little “hire me” button on their profile.
Since this is still a new system there are likely to be issues that need to still be ironed out. But I do think this is a very cool idea – certainly something that’s new to the world of coding and may offer an interesting marketplace for developers to earn extra cash on the side.
If you want to learn more check out the official blog post for release details.
Read More at Livecoding.tv lets you Hire & Watch Developers in Real-Time
You must be logged in to post a comment.