• How This Massive Structure in the Oregon Desert Keeps Facebook Running Best general overview of a server farm I've seen in a while, plus some really nice bits about how it's not one, but part of the chain. You know I love it when they say resilience! Also the the iPhone trays. If you don't understand what they are doing, or why you dream of being able to do that at work, ask me to explain more.

• Why do most startups fail? the answer is UX, no not UX as in UI/UX, real UX

• http://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/the-genetics-of-motion-sickness-2/ Buried the lede there. I'll help: Motion sickness effects about 1/3 of the population. One third! A genome-wide study identifies the exact 35 genetic variations and gave us that number. Big damned deal here. Motion effects and AR/VR cannot be used (may even be disabling) to around 1/3rd of the total population!!!! WILL ADD TO A11Y DECK

• Accessibility Guidelines Sadly, a bit messy and not consolidated enough. Just a menu of options from various (referenced) sources. But, it's a checklist and there are sources so that is sometimes useful. WILL ALSO ADD to a11y deck!

• http://fr.slideshare.net/PersonaeUserLab/smartphone-street-observer-1er-baromtre-dobservation-des-usages-mobiles-saison-3 Waiting for english one, but should be more good data to add to the touch stuff.

• http://blog.invisionapp.com/mobile-first-mobile-only/

• articles/2016-07-25/smartphones-overtake-computers-as-top-e-commerce-traffic-source?utm_campaign=Enterprise%20Mobility&utm_content=33665278&utm_medium=socia segue to this... mobile only, for many people. Why are you building desktop first!

• The Most Popular Product of All Time You may have heard that with the iPhone selling their billionth device, someone did some math and decided it is the most popular thing ever. Naturally, fanboi alert: That's only true for certain values of popular, thing, and ever. Lest you still be impressed by the number, there are 1.4 billion active Android devices. And that count is by visits to the Play store in some period. A lot of devices (esp in China) never visit for complex reasons, so it's more than that.

• https://arc.applause.com/2016/07/27/the-future-of-ios-and-android/#.V5vDLYOZyxg.twitter I need to read this, pull the nuggets, etc.

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