[Link] High Performance Images - Beautiful Shouldn’t Mean Slow

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The web is becoming increasingly image rich. Between high-resolution mobile screens, Pinterest-style design and big background graphics, the average image payload has more than doubled in the last three years. While visually appealing, these images carry a substantial performance cost, and — if not optimized correctly — can make a web experience slow and painful, no matter how beautiful it is.
In this prelude webinar to the upcoming "High Performance Images" book, we'll discuss the ways you can provide the eye-pleasing experience you want without sacrificing your sites performance.
You'll learn about the three primary aspects of image optimization:

• Image Compression: How to best encode your images, delivering the same picture with the fewest bytes.
• Image Loading: Once your files are as small as they can be, we'll cover the best ways to make them show up quickly in the browser.
• Operationalizing Image Optimization: Different tools and techniques for integrating image optimization on your site.

Click below (or here) to access this interesting webcast.

[Infographic] The Future of the Internet of Things

The excitement (and reality) of the Internet of Things (IoT) is growing by the day. Well, yes, there's hype, but companies like Google are also gearing up for this to make way for a ubiquitously connected planet.

So, if you've understood what the Internet of Things (IoT) is, then it can also be helpful to start thinking of what the future of IoT will entail. The infographic below depicts that.

[Infographic] Understanding the Internet of Things (IoT)

Continuing our series on the buzzing topic of Internet of Things (IoT), here's a deeper look into what and how this trend is expected to manifest itself in our lives, and the areas that will see it applied to provide a smarter and more interconnected experience to users in the entire process chain.

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[Infographic] The Internet of Things - The Past, The Present and the Future

The explosion of devices that are getting smarter, is taking us into a never before imagined future. According to wikipedia,
"The Internet of Things (IoT)" is the interconnection of uniquely identifiable embedded computing devices within the existing internet infrastructure..." (read more).

This is enabling a newer and smarter world, where any device can communicate with any other, anyone can connect to anyone else (possibly, not just humans), and all this is expected to make the world better in some way.

While the tech-world is abuzz with this and a lot is happening in this space, it's probably best to first get some basics in mind, and the infographic below helps us to grasp the evolution of these things over the years.

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[Infographic] 8 Emerging Tech Trends You Can't Ignore

The world today is flush with new trends, many of them technologically centered. Mobiles and the cloud are now ubiquitous, having (or almost) reached many hitherto remote corners in the civilized regions. These disruptive trends are - and will continue to - affect the lives of the human populace increasingly. What is mind boggling is the rate of change and adoption in these.

So, whether you are a tech-savvy person or not, it would help to know the tech trends that are on the horizon, coming at you at breakneck speed.

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