Blog Posts written in English by Cagri Sarigoz
After 8 years of salaried on-site work, and after 4 years of interest in remote work, I’m starting my own remote freelance business. I’ll be helping companies of all sizes grow online and discover ways to best serve their users. I’ve worked at companies with different sizes and from different industries: government agencies from agriculture … Read More
In August 2016, I finished reading Matt Ridley’s Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. It’s a great popular science book with lots of interesting facts about genetics of humans and other livings. I especially liked the stories behind the discoveries of new genes and their relationships with functionality of different parts of our … Read More
Social media is the new, personalized TV, and feed/timeline algorithms are the new tv ratings. I’ve first read that idea on this article: Iran’s blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
There is a simple cool website for creating social media share links: Share Link Generator. I ended up using it for creating Facebook and Twitter share links in my Medium posts. You can find a detailed post about how to use Share Link Generator here. The website does it work, gives you your links. But I like … Read More
Bold Words In his famous article from the 2003 HBR Issue, Nicholas G. Carr has written some bold words. The article was titled IT Doesn’t Matter, and I had the chance to digest the article as it was a case study for “Introduction to Information Systems” course at METU Informatics Institute. The main argument of the article was … Read More
Since I jumped into Internet industry in August 2013, I’ve been online all the time I am working, and most of the time this behavior spread into all my life. I disciplined myself to use the Internet in a smart way to some level, but I always have the feeling that it’s too difficult to use … Read More
I started writing with my own words in high school, with my life-long friend Naci. We were in a boarding school, it was not a Hogwarts but it was OK. We had plenty of time to talk about things from girls in the school to poetry, science, meaning of life. You name it. As we started … Read More
After #mobilegeddon it’s been harsh for us SEO guys to check each landing page’s mobile friendliness. So I’ve made a Google Sheet for getting Pagespeed and Mobile Usability Data. It includes a custom function that gets the URL on a cell and writes the scores from the Google Pagespeed API.
