If there’s one thing Twitch CEO Dan Clancy wants people to know about what makes Twitch special, it’s that the live streaming site is all about community. “Social media, interestingly, has become anti-social,” Clancy said during a fireside chat titled, Why Live is the Future of Connection: From Passive Scrolling to Real Connection at VidCon…
Bruce Clay, one of the first generation of search engine optimization experts, has passed away. Much of the terminology that he coined and many of the concepts that he pioneered continue to be used today. Thirty Years Of SEO Clay was among the cohort of SEOs who were learning and applying the art of optimization…
The FIFA World Cup has plenty of ways to make a country famous when they succeed: a goal for the ages, a goalkeeping masterclass, or a star player turning into a meme. But in 2026, with the world the way it is, even losing teams can go viral simply by being nice — cleaning up…
AI agents do not read your website the way you do. They do not see your layout, your hero image, or your brand color. They prefer reading the accessibility tree: a stripped-down structural model of the page, the same one that has powered screen readers for two decades. Today, that matters more because the audience…
A CFO asked her AI assistant to research cloud infrastructure vendors for a major investment. The assistant came back with a careful comparison. It had weighed options, named trade-offs, and confidently recommended one vendor. It was the kind of answer you forward to the team and act on. But she’d forgotten a moment from six…
Google is expanding its Limited Ad Serving policy to cover additional scenarios on Google Search. According to an email sent to advertisers, implementation will begin gradually in June 2026 and continue through 2028. The update introduces new guidance around advertiser qualification, user reports, and advertiser identity. It also includes a recommendation for advertisers to pin…
Since it began in 1930, the World Cup’s most memorable moments are rarely the ones that end with a team lifting a trophy. And the 2026 FIFA World Cup is no exception. So far, this tournament has been defined by its underdog celebrations: Curaçao fans erupting after their team walked away with a draw, Cape…
Days before his 39th birthday, legendary striker Lionel Messi gave Argentina fans an unbeatable gift — by becoming the top goalscorer in World Cup history. Just one goal in Argentina’s game against Austria would have put Messi on top of the all-time goalscorer list, at 17 goals. Messi managed two, scoring his second in the…
Everyone is using AI now. And almost everyone is using it the same way. You log into Google Ads, export a report, paste the CSV into ChatGPT or Claude, get an analysis, then repeat the whole process for Meta, Google Analytics 4, and whatever else is on your plate that week. Same painful process, every…
Y Combinator’s motto, “Make something people want,” was never about the product. It was about distribution. Build the thing that finds product-market fit, and the people come. For 20 years, that distribution ran through search engines, social algorithms, paid ads, and word of mouth. All human-mediated channels. That changed. In the past six months, Cloudflare,…