At their spring developer conferences, both Google and Apple announced initiatives and tools to improve our digital wellness, to help ease the addictions to our…
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Last Thursday, comScore released their 2017 U.S. Mobile App Report, which tracks the amount of digital media consumption on mobile devices, who is consuming that…
Warning: This 4cast posting is going to get technical. But hang with us a minute, with a little bit of introductory information, we can probably…
OPLIN 4cast #425: Deep links
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One of the fundamental building blocks of the World Wide Web has always been the hyperlink, the code that allows you to jump from web…
OPLIN 4cast #377: Reading speed
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Several months ago, the 4cast looked at the possibility that shorter lines of text delivered on digital devices could be easier to read, especially for…
OPLIN 4cast #374: Getting the message
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Much of the tech news last week was about Facebook’s huge deal to buy the WhatsApp messaging service. (One economist pointed out that the $19…
We seem to have a posting about smartphones once every six weeks or so, which is probably a good indication of how much that topic…
Memorial Day is behind us and summer lies ahead, and that means the library shelves that usually hold travel guides are probably looking a little…
OPLIN 4Cast #282: Social readers fail?
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Before you start worrying, we’re not talking about people who read together in “social” book clubs; today we’re talking about social reader apps on Facebook.…