The end of websites?
@kevinpowell asking important questions here:
https://youtu.be/Xpk7soxvOMY?is=PEXcsjf9Dnwo5-8f
Oh! Listening to my favorite podcast @shoptalkshow reminded me that I forgot to connect the dots to another, probably totally unrelated detail: that Chrome just shipped with the Prompt API and a 4GB Gemini Nano model, despite pushback from other browser makers.
https://matthiasott.com/notes/lazy-and-prompt
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by cumulative layout shift.
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✍️ New post: Ad Infinitum
Google announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years at #GoogleIO. But where are the ads…? 🤔
Of course, there will still be ads. And auctions as well. And not only will that determine which ads show up, but how many words the LLM is writing about a product. They call it “prominence allocation”. The ad is in the generated content.
(Thanks @sijmen for the hint!) https://blog.reachsumit.com/posts/2024/08/ads-llm/
So Google is basically killing their main product? The ingenious money machine that made them billions? Or am I missing something … I mean: where are the ads? 🤔
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/
Setting type so big Figma loses track of where the text boxes end. That’s the way. ☺️
@NaN “Server go boinks!” 😂👏
(g💀💀d luck! 🤞🖤)
The second episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:
In Episode 2, I chat with Alexandra, the author of xandra.cc, a founder and barista at the 32-Bit Cafe. We talk about, among other things, building indie web communities, communicating the possibilities of having a personal website to new audiences, and more.
I hope you enjoy the episode!
Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
@webrocker Gutes Spiel! 🤝🤗
