Category: Tech Ramblings

Ramblings Random juu ya teknolojia.

On “social” media, weak ties, and Snapchat stories

How social media is designed to help you build relationships with acquaintances, and why Snapchat (ndiyo, that Snapchat) is the most effective social media platform

It was late enough that I’d stopped thinking for the night, so I proudly proclaimed to my nearby friends that I was getting a Snapchat account. It had always struck me as a bit vapid and narcissistic – you’re swapping carefully-chosen selfies with others to try and win favor – but I figured I’d give it a go.

But I quickly learned that Snapchat, like any other social media platform, gives rise to a number of use cases that the creators probably never intended. (Kwa mfano, Twitter probably never foresaw that it would contribute to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.) What I saw was this: Snapchat and other social media platforms are surprisingly effective ways to grow and maintain your network of weak ties (acquaintances) by reducing the costs of communication and increasing the number of “hooks,” or chances to strike up conversation, you have. All social media can do this, but Snapchat, by its very nature, is the king of this.

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Kwa nini huduma ya juu ya maendeleo ya mtandao?

Sema unataka kuandika kuhusu jinsi ya ajabu mnyama wako ni kibaniko na kuchapisha kwa kila mtu kuona. Sema unataka kufanya programu ambapo watumiaji unaweza kuingiliana na mwenyewe toasters yao virtual pet. Sema unataka kuanza kuuza toasters pet online mara moja wewe wameweza kila mtu aliyemshinda jinsi ya ajabu wao ni.

Katika kesi hii, Ningependa pengine kuwa kidogo wasiwasi kuhusu sanity yako. Lakini, muhimu zaidi, you’d want to kujifunza baadhi ya maendeleo ya mtandao – kwamba ni, sanaa ya kujenga kurasa za mtandao kama moja wewe ni kuangalia sasa hivi.

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Inaweza chanzo kuwa na wewe: intro wazi chanzo programu

Funny open-source cartoon with Tux
Wazi chanzo programu: mtu yeyote anaweza kuhariri na kufanya hivyo hata zaidi ya kutisha. Hapa ni mnyonge kwa nini.

Wazi chanzo programu. Inaonekana kama buzzword mwingine tech kama maendeleo agile, Mifumo MVC, mifano maporomoko ya maji, na kadhalika.

Lakini kwa kweli, ni sana zaidi baridi kuliko wale wote.

Kuweka tu, wazi chanzo programu ni programu ambayo mtu yeyote anaweza kuhariri. Na kwa sababu ya, ni ya kutisha. Kusoma na kuona ni jinsi gani yako favorite wazi chanzo programu (Firefox na Android, kwa mfano) kazi.

Jinsi kazi

Nadhani ni rahisi kueleza wazi chanzo programu na hadithi kidogo. Kupata baadhi ya popcorn – hii ina hatua, mchezo wa kuigiza, na ukiukwaji wa haki miliki.

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kuanzishwa kwa maendeleo ya mtandao

HTML 5 logo on an iPhone smartphone with app icons around it in a cloud
Karibu kwa mtandao.

Nyuma katika siku yangu (OK, kabla ya siku yangu), taaluma ya mtandao developer mara moja chini. Ni nafasi ya chini puppy hater lakini juu ya Yankees shabiki juu ya kiwango cha heshima mtaalamu. Kwa sababu ya yote vitambulisho na uwazi spacer images tulikuwa, sisi walikuwa kuonekana kama walaghai ghafi na hakuna maana ya aesthetics.

Vizuri, sisi bado ni kukosa akili aesthetic, lakini kama Mtandao wa maendeleo hivyo ina kazi ya mtandao developer. Siku hizi kuna zana isitoshe tunaweza kutumia kufanya kuandikwa vizuri, viwango vya kufanana, na nzuri (OK, labda si mtu wa mwisho) kurasa za mtandao. Zaidi ya Nje ya kubwa ya kutumia leo (shameless kuziba: pamoja na hii moja) ni kujengwa kwa kutumia zana hizo.

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HTML5, CSS3, na JavaScript: mustakabali wa mtandao

Kabla ya mimi kuanza, safari mfupi kwa njia ya historia…

Ni 1999. Internet Explorer 5 ni mambo ya moto, Bubble tech ni kuongezeka. Na Mariano Rivera ni World Series MVP. Na vijana (achama.)

developer mtandao aketiye katika kompyuta yake, kunywa kahawa na kuandika baadhi ya kanuni. Yeye anataka kufanya mchezo browser makao. njia tu anaweza kufanya hivyo ni kutumia Adobe Flash jukwaa kufanya movie maingiliano na embed kwamba katika tovuti yake.

Yeye anataka kuweka video kwenye tovuti yake pia. YouTube sounds like the name of a cheesy subway line, nothing more. Our developer has to make a Flash movie for that, pia.

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Bing: the little engine that… couldn’t?

If you’ve bought an electronic device in the last year, you’ll notice that Microsoft is hawking its search engine Bing more than I hawk my products. (On a totally unrelated note, download Mbuzi, my free and open-source flashcard program.)

That’s all well and good, since you’re allowed to advertise, but Microsoft really goes to the extreme:

  1. Microsoft signed a deal with Blackberry so that Bing would be the only search engine available on Blackberrys.
  2. My sister bought a new computer and was offered a free song download if she searched with Bing.
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The quest for a decent home page

I’m not sure why home pages were even invented in the first place. I mean, sure, you need a page to open when you boot up your browser, but they just make things, vizuri, awkward. Plus they’re not very useful: most of them just serve as a landing page; you don’t really use them except to read news about how kids can’t bring bagged lunch to school (*cough* Yahoo *cough*.) And when you do that kind of stuff, you just get distracted from what you were originally meaning to do all along.

I want to know why that is and how I can help fix it.

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