Tech giants Apple and Google announced they had committed to passwordless sign in across all platforms they control over the next year. This means that passwordless authentication is coming to all major platforms within the next year: Android and iOS mobile operating system; Chrome, Edge and Safari browsers; Windows and macOS desktop environments. Google published...
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How to Get Started with Ethereum
If you're still not sure what Ethereum is or what it could hold for the future, this blog post is for you. We go over a brief history of Ethereum and some of its key features, as well as how to go about getting started with it. No matter who you are and where you...
What are Micro Frontends?
Micro frontends are an architectural concept, based on the principle of breaking down your app into smaller apps with their own repositories that focus on one feature. This architecture can be used in many ways and allows for a great degree of flexibility. For example each app can be implemented using different frameworks. Or, it...
Web3 – Current State of Affairs
Web3 is a blockchain-based attempt to technically and socially improve and decentralize the World Wide Web.
Proof of Stake – Will this make Ethereum Eco-Friendly?
NFTs, so called non fungible tokens that can represent digital art, music and videos, saw a huge increase in demand last year, reaching $44 billion. The blockchain network that most NFTs are traded on is Ethereum. The massive media coverage, however, drew attention to another issue: the huge energy wastefulness involved in cryptocurrency mining. This...
What is Passwordless Authentification and why is it important?
Fernando Corbato was a MIT professor in the 1960s. When he was creating a new type of shared computer system, he wanted people to be able protect their files. A password was his solution. Corbato's solution was the most popular and widely used method of authenticating users for decades. But there's a catch: Passwords are...
The quick Guide to Matomo Analytics
Matomo Analytics is a free and open source web analytics solution. It's a powerful alternative for Google Analytics, and has a strong focus on data protection.
A killer app for the metaverse? Fill it with AI avatars of ourselves – so we don’t need to go there
Big numbers coming. Microsoft’s US$75 billion (£55 billion) acquisition of Activision Blizzard has landed – true to Call of Duty vernacular – “like a bomb” on the US$200 billion revenue video games industry. It heavily arms the Xbox giant for its vision of the metaverse, in which gaming is the marketing adrenaline of this much-touted...
How to analyse Heatmaps
If you want to analyse heatmaps, be sure to answer at least five questions. This makes sure that your analysis helps you optimizing your website. Let’s start with the list of five essential questions that you can answer with heatmaps: Are people seeing important content? Are people clicking on page elements such as buttons, links,...
Google kills FLoC and announces the Topcis API
With FLoC ("Federated Learning of Cohorts"), Google wanted to get rid of third-party cookies used for advertising tracking. But after wide opposition from other Internet users Google has ended its "FLoC” plans.
