Google alternative
https://www.forbes.com/sites/martyswant/2021/03/08/after-building-googles-advertising-business-this-founder-is-creating-an-ad-free-alternative/
- Forbes has a good profile on Srid-har Ramaswamy, a former Googler who is now CEO of search engine start up, Neeva
- Neeva users will pay between $5 and $10 a month to get the search results without ads
- Ironically, Ramaswamy used to be head of Google’s ad division
- The company has just 45 employees, over a dozen from Google
- Still a long way from being a competitor, but worth keeping an eye on
Esafety
- The esafety bill is moving it’s way through parliament, and commissioner Julie Inman Grant has made it clear that she won’t be going after nudity or sexual content on sites for sex workers
- Sex Industry groups were worried they would become swept up in the new esafety laws - but Inman Grant has said there will be exceptions for sex workers
- In the US, when a simialr law made advertising sexual services illegal, many sex workers complained this made the industry far more dangerous.
- Meanwhile, Gizmodo has asked is this the return of the porn face scanner by stealth,,?
Sex industry ‘not my concern’: eSafety Commissioner defends proposed new powers
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/03/the-online-safety-act-could-bring-in-the-porn-face-scan-by-stealth/
https://www.afr.com/technology/tech-sector-warns-of-dangers-in-rushed-online-safety-laws-20210305-p5788h
Another streaming service is coming to Oz
- Paramount+ will launch in Australia later this year
- Owned by US media conglomerate ViacomCBS, the streaming service launched in the US and parts of Latin America last week.
- It’s not totally new - Paramount+ replaces/supersedes CBS All Access which currently operates as 10 All Access here in Australia (because remember that CBS bought 10 a few years back for super cheap)
- The service will also have shows from MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and VH1, as well as some original series.
Q. What do you think a streaming service needs to succeed in Australia?
Q. How many streaming services will people subscribe to? Is there such a thing as coming too late to the market?
Wtf is discord?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-social-network-without-ads-discord-defies-convention-11615199401
