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Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) latest security report on data privacy is out and it ranks some of the most used services the lowest in rankings. Dubbed as “Who has your back?”, the annual report rates companies on factors that allow personal data to be revealed to other parties. EFF report grants ‘stars’ based on the following five factors: Telling users about government data requests Following industry-accepted best practices Disclosure of policies on data retention Disclosure of government content removal requests Pro-user public policies of opposing backdoors WhatApp was included for the first time in the report and received only 1-star…

For those who just graduated college with a computer science degree, landing a job at a startup shouldn’t be too difficult. For non-technical graduates, however, it’s not so simple — nearly half of all recent college grads are underemployed. Planted, formerly known as Lynxsy, is launching its iOS app today to help non-technical Millennials find jobs with startups. It pairs a data-driven algorithm with a layer of human curation to ensure that candidates are matched with the right job prospects. “We monitor over 100 different data signals from both the employer and the candidate, ranging from background, to preferences, to which positions people opt…

Think the hiring process is tedious and a waste of time? You are not alone. Lately, there has been growing concern among policymakers and journalists about the increasing time gap between the posting of a job listing and the actual hiring of a worker. The most popular explanation for this trend among economists is that labor quality is dwindling – that there is a “skills mismatch” between job seekers and employers. Another theory advanced by Vox’s Matthew Yglesias argues that there are too many applicants per position, complicating the process of finding the right employee. These theories and others miss…

In years past, some SEO providers encouraged keyword stuffing as a way to improve Google search rankings. They cared less about creating useful, well-written content and more about doing anything that would increase a page’s ranking. Starting in 2012, Google began reworking its search algorithms to penalize poorly written, spammy copy. The quality of the writing matters just as much presence of specific keywords. Even with a bigger emphasis on high-quality content, keywords still play a vital role in improving your website’s search rankings. As a designer, you can offer SEO copywriting as a value-added service when building websites for…

Your website’s opening page should be an invitation to the visitors. The page should grab the attention of the visitor, and should be appealing, too. The web traffic can be the goal of your site, but until the conversion does not happen as required, the very aim of your business is at stake. To put it precise, your website should be good enough to make the visitors turn into customers. Your principal aim should be designing an eye catching site. An ancillary aim which is of no less importance is ensuring you have the bandwidth and disk space, can be…

The following is a list of article ideas that show up repeatedly in Articles for deletion (AfD). Please think twice before creating an article about any of the following: Yourself or your organization – including a band of which you are a member or employee, even if either is notable! (See: Conflict of interest, Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause, and An article about yourself is nothing to be proud of.) A topic on which no published, reliable, third-party sources exist – see Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything An unrealistic animal,…

“Keywords don’t matter much anymore.” You find it written everywhere lately. I asked a friend who eats analytics for breakfast and snacks on SEO all day long, “Whatcha’ think about that man?” He smirked. Then he turned toward his massive monitor, typed “g-o-o-g-l-e-(.)-c-o-m” on his keyboard. The ubiquitous page with the crude, but familiar multi-color logo and single blank field popped right up. He turned back to me and said, “What do I do now Barry?” His point was pretty clear. However all-powerful the search engine that changed the world may be, it can’t yet read your mind. Whether you…

So much for terse denials. Former world number one mobile maker Nokia, which sold its device making unit to Microsoft last year, is indeed intending to get back into the mobile game next year — when a Microsoft contract clause that currently prevents it from putting its brand name on handsets lapses. Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri told Germany’s Manager Magazin the company intends to design and license handsets next year, and will “look for suitable partners” (via Reuters). “We would simply design them and then make the brand name available to license,” he added. This is not in the least surprising. Even as it looks to slough off its Here maps business, Nokia has been…

Every business is turning to data analysis for important decisions. In fact they’re usually swimming in data, wondering what to make out of it. With the advent of big-data, good old spreadsheets and charts just don’t cut it anymore. Businesses have been asking for better ways to visualize data, ways that are preferably interactive and allow them multiple perspectives. After all, all that data is only as good as the insights you can extract from it. JavaScript charting libraries have emerged as the most powerful tools for visualizing data in the form of beautiful, easy to understand, interactive charts. They…

Upcoming version of the server-side JavaScript platform will feature capabilities from ECMAScript 6 specification already found in io.js Now that the reunion of Node.js and io.js factions is a done deal, Node.js users can look forward to an upcoming version that converges the two variants of the server-side JavaScript platform. The release will feature capabilities from the ECMAScript 6 specification underlying JavaScript, which are already in io.js, said Mikeal Rogers, who has been a spokesman for the fork. "We're working on a next major release that is a convergence of what happened in Node 0.12 and what's happened in io.js,"…