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Mangling JSON numbers

TechEmpower

If we have a long (64-bit integer) that we serialize into JSON, we might be in trouble if JavaScript consumes that JSON. JavaScript has the equivalent of double (64-bit floating point) for its numbers, and double cannot represent the same set of numbers as long. The output of x.toString() in JavaScript is suspicious.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. Perhaps one of the reasons it took 20 years for the commercial web to monetize images is because matching images with content is a very difficult. How does it work?

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

socalTECH

But, what frustrated me, is even with the democratization of the web as an information source, no one had paid attention on how to rate people. All of that information that accompanies them, and all of those opinions, appear at the bottom of every article that mentions them, in an interactive feed. No one knows about that article.

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What to Expect from Trending Web Design in 2016

Tech Zulu Event

Cinemagraphs has visual effects which bonds well with the social media, content producers and advertisers have started to recognise its power and should start to actively harness it. This will also have an impact to any translating website since they deal with a large chunk of information similar to a story form.

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Interview with William Chow, Mobophiles

socalTECH

But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites. We're actually application agnostic, and we actually support things like authenticated content, protected by logins very easily. People want information to be available all the time to them.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

Colony’s presentation is intriguing (and worth a watch if you have a few minutes) because I love to see when informed people make arguments that are different than you ordinarily hear (and different from my own views). He’s right about this. But only temporarily in my view. I will cover this in my post.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

PIM offers comprehensive coverage in 500+ cities in the US, Canada, and Europe by providing rates, hours, entrance points, and occupancy information. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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