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thequestpod.substack.com 5y ago

Atrium It's time to be honest. justinkan

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techcrunch.com 6y ago

Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps

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www.wuhanvirus.sg 6y ago

Singapore Covid-19 Cases DashBoard

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searchengineland.com 6y ago

Google adding more news content to ‘top stories’ in search results

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www.vice.com 6y ago

America’s DIY Phone Farmers

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qz.com 8y ago

Everything we thought we knew about the gig economy is wrong

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thenextweb.com 8y ago

Binance users are suddenly having their coins converted to Bitcoin

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www.reuters.com 8y ago

China online quiz craze lures prize seekers, tech giants

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www.economist.com 8y ago

Global currency is not a new idea, but it may soon get a new lease of life(1998)

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www.theverge.com 8y ago

Instagram now lets you follow hashtags

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www.wsj.com 8y ago

Mark Karpelès could get hundreds of millions of dollars from the Mt. Gox bankrup

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www.wsj.com 8y ago

If there’s a price crash in the cryptocurrency, it could hit the tech sector

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

The history of ‘zero’ remains unsettled

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hbr.org 8y ago

Brainstorming, Tell an Embarrassing Story

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techcrunch.com 8y ago

Used goods marketplace LetGo quietly raised $100M more at a $1B+ valuation

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phdn.org 8y ago

The Jaeger Report: sheet of actions by Einsatzkommando 3

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www.adweek.com 8y ago

Brands Use Instagram Stories More Than Twice as Often as Snapchat

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www.bloomberg.com 9y ago

The low-cost satellites that are collecting unusual data

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firstround.com 9y ago

Pocket: 20M Users with only 20 People

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www.youtube.com 9y ago

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Testing Mattresses

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blog.kaspersky.com 9y ago

Kaspersky: Only 7% of users today not engaging in online sharing in some form

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www.columbia.edu 9y ago

The Experience of Secrecy [pdf]

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www.adweek.com 9y ago

Sweden Just Listed Itself on Airbnb

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venturebeat.com 9y ago

Medium now offers audio versions of its stories for members

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

“Trending: Upcoming Movies” IMDB

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allafrica.com 9y ago

Mobile Penetration in Africa Hits 80%, Internet penetration is at 18%

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twitter.com 9y ago

Material Components are now open source (Matías Duarte on Twitter)

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www.bloomberg.com 9y ago

The race is on to get the mineral out of Clayton Valley and into your iPhones

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medium.economist.com 9y ago

Why are The Economist’s writers anonymous?

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marketingland.com 9y ago

Chatbots have struggled to live up to the hype

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I "know" people who work on projects that provide data to train these models. When using photos and data, like google photos, you need to give a series of permissions. The pay is very low, anywhere from 3 dollars to 6 dollars per hour to answer some questions.

What I mean by that is that legally these companies get that date without having to run the risk of using data acquired from those who didn't authorize it.

Google cannot do as it pleases with your data. And they don't even need to. It's cheap to get permission from other people.

This salary is higher than the minimum in Brazil. Of course, without labor rights. They would probably also get thousands of employees in Brazil if they needed to, as well as in several other countries.

I myself do work with mediation of content for several social networks, getting a little more than that. The only problem is that the monthly hours are irregular, there are very few hours.

If someone has an offer of 4 dollars an hour for 200 hours a week without any benefits, I accept it immediately. And that's half the US salary, as I understand it.

Probably because they weren't platforms with the sole purpose of being a space for free speech. The problem with these new platforms and sites is that they are generally copies, worse than the originals, of larger platforms that have the only attraction of being free from moderation.

They only see this problem and try to solve it in the worst way. Accepting everything and everyone, offering a confusing experience, financially unattractive and often need to charge dearly for it.

In addition to everything he mentioned, there is still the possibility that immunity, acquired after infection, is only for a short period. Nothing makes sense. Everyone was already waiting for some kind of correction before Covid. And now, in addition to the covid, we have conflict tensions, unemployment and lack of income on a global scale.

Stock market became a casino.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/12/immunity-to-co...

I agree. But I was not discussing their business model. I believe that they will be successful, as I said, I believe that there is this market for paid emails. What I was talking about is the first attitude of protesting instead of negotiating.

And I wasn't wrong, that's what Phil Schiller suggested:

“One way that HEY could have gone...is to offer a free or paid version of the app with basic email reading features on the App Store, then separately offered an upgraded email service that worked with the Hey app on iOS on its own website.”

And that is exactly what they did to get approved.

"So now we offer this new free option, and the multi-user HEY for Work — all in the same iOS app. "

https://hey.com/apple/path/ https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/18/interview-apples-schiller-...

This is the potential market where all other paid email providers will compete. A reduced market. And yet, they chose Elon Musk's strategy. Create a premium product first to serve as a cash cow and financier, then perhaps offer other products with lower or even higher margins.

But my point is, they offer a premium service and have the possibility to get around this problem by negotiating since the mistake was theirs in not interpreting apple rules correctly.

[1]https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-j....

I've been following the tweets about hey.com from their founder for some time. The text about how they bought the domain is beautiful. I understand the proposal they offer about the service, and the reason for charging for a service that nobody has paid for a long time. It even seems obvious to me this trend of new opportunities to pay for email services. A trend, that this time, appears to be here to stay.

But it is a product that have a very aggressive marketing strategy. Arrogant.

The only thing I read from this episode is: The product is like this, the billing service is like that. We won't change anything and if you don't like it, you're wrong. Unfortunately, there is no chance that I will ever use this product. The price is stratospheric for me and probably for 98% of those who use gmail. Prontonmail, for example, offers several options, including a free one.

Well, apple also offers a service. What they are asking is for them to make a concession. But they don't seem willing to concede anything to that negotiation.

I imagine that this could be circumvented with other exclusive plans to subscribe using apple pay, or a free and very reduced version. It doesn't seem like a radical position from apple, which was the impression I got from reading the tweets alone.

Xerox Holdings Corporation (XRX) =Market Cap 8.071B HP Inc. (HPQ) = Market Cap 26.638B Xerox ended Fujifilm joint venture today and is already trying a new multibillion-dollar business. I had no idea they still had some relevant product in the global market. But it is very likely that these advances are more about a financial game of activist investors than a long-term plan.

Bitcoin is traceable, but you don't need to use any kind of document to have an address / wallet. It was not created to be anonymous or for use in illegal transactions. It was created to be the most reliable way to conduct an online transaction.

Although it can be traced. No one has the power to block or return a transaction. Once sent, it was gone.

With any other traditional means of payment, money can be withdrawn or blocked with a court order. With Bitcoin, if there is no collaboration from the wallet owner, this is impossible.

Those who use Bitcoin for illegal activities are at various risk of being tracked, not just by ledger. A good investigator and the criminal system need much more evidence.

Now one risk he does not want to make is selling the goods and not receiving the money. It is this reliability that Bitcoin offers that compensates for the risk of being tracked eventually.

Car-sharing apps will eventually prove to be a better solution than Uber and its peers. Having a private driver at your disposal, even for a short time, is expensive and always will be. And right now, thanks to subsidies, Uber can compete with mass transit in many cities.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/about-aol-announceme...

She said that after the announcement of a partnership with AOL. But I believe it to be very, very unlikely that she was the main force to avoid this change. Since it was a characteristic that had come from the creation of the site. But maybe make the other products have a similarity. Or rather, always remember the central page of google was her responsibility.

Reddit is quite unknown in Brazil, India and several other countries where social media are used by millions of people.

This represents an opportunity, but also a risk. Opportunity to grow in these countries, or see another company offering similar service arise and gain momentum.

If @spez give me 10 horses with food for 20 days walk I could come back with more than 30 million users from Brazil alone.

Good to add that they were having some liquidity problems before his death.

The trip to India was supposed to open an orphanage. This orphanage was built by an organization that accepts large donations for specific buildings such as orphanages or water wells. For an orphanage, it costs $ 50,000.

It did not seem to me, when visiting this organization's website, that they have full transparency about these negotiations and these expenses.

And so far they have not released addresses for cold wallets. Okay, he had the private key. But public keys would have to be known by the system.

I do not know if SnapChat would succeed just by copying some functionality. Snap grew by offering an opportunity to share small, stupid day-to-day moments.

We are curious about what others do. That's why reality shows and gossip magazines were so successful.

But the point is that by introducing Stories, Instagram provided this opportunity to spy on the lives of others. But also the opportunity to build a profile. This is important for anyone who has the ability to entertain others for longer, the influencers. And make others believe they could be that too.

Just saving a snap would not be enough. Snap would have to provide a landing page for each user that could be attractive enough for others to start following it. And some small clips is not so attractive, because you have to wait without doing nothing. In Instagram, in a few second rolling someone feed you would like it or not.

In addition, Instagram's search system improved greatly during this time of competition. While on snapchat is non-existent.

All of your points are problems that can, and will eventually be, solved by engineering.

The main problem is to believe that Bitcoin will be the solution for markets that have their banking system and governments functioning perfectly.

The reality is that most of the world does not have this efficiency found in the US and Europe. Opening a bank account is not a trivial task in every corner of the world. Acquiring a loan, importing or exporting a product, sending values to a person, organization or company in another country. All these activities are extremely difficult to do for more than 80% of the world's population.

Not being centralized is an advantage that entails enormous difficulties. But none of them kills the initial purpose.

I think I'm one of the few who liked the site. It loaded extremely fast on my horrible internet. I was able to get the information I needed, including which questions I should answer if I wanted to sign up.

No excessive photos, videos, and other nonsense. I found the font chosen to be adequate and easy to be read.

About the program, it seems to me that they saw a limit point on the content that people are creating on their platform. It is clear that they want more quality productions that serve as an anchor for users.

I've never been a heavy Snap user, but I always visit to see how it works when someone reports a change. It seemed to me that the new design was meant to divide my friends from the artists or the content produced by companies.

You in the middle, being able to choose, your friends on your left and content to spend time on your right. Few people debate this, but other social networks want the exact opposite. They have always gone in the direction of merging the two.

Thus, this incubator could facilitate the creation of content to its right. But she could also demonstrate better ways to consume this content and how to interact with your friends, who would always be on your left.

For me it's not a matter of taste or choice, I just could not use the new model. It's slow and it looked like my laptop had turned into a toaster. The same goes for facebook. And that's why I use it in the mobile version, even when on the laptop.

I have the same problem with Netflix, Uber and other sites. They simply do not check the email. It's an absurd. And the biggest problem is that the person who mistakenly uses my email asks a hundred times to reset MY password. Gmail and these sites need to take this issue more seriously.

It makes me unhappy to know that Reddit is choosing to make written rules rather than choosing changes and improvements in its code. Having opportunities to market and discuss products could be a great source of income if well done. real opinion, honest and who is not a paid advertising on a product and humanize the business relationship are very difficult questions to find on the internet.Especially about artisans products and local productions. Craft beers is a market that depends on suggestions and evaluations of people. Facebook has been trying to provide a marketplace opportunity that makes it easier for local and more human businesses. But is horrible. Reddit could offer something in this vacuum. But they preferred to walk away.