This week we offer advice to Zoom on why they should build a calendar and what companies they should acquire. Plus, Matt explains why you want to mount your browser tabs as files.
Rundown
Zoom to build a calendar
Buoyed by Video Success, Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Services (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/buoyed-by-video-success-zoom-explores-email-calendar-services)
Zoom may launch an email service and calendar app to compete with Google and Microsoft (https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/23/22197057/zoom-email-service-calendar-app-microsoft-google-competition)
Mount your browser tabs as a filesystem (https://twitter.com/rsnous/status/1344837715976572929)
Relevant to your interests
A round-up of our favourite charts of 2020 (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/12/24/a-round-up-of-our-favourite-charts-of-2020)
Google, Alphabet employees unionize (https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/04/google-alphabet-employees-union/)
How Google workers secretly built a union (https://www.protocol.com/google-union-awu)
Warren Ellis Returns For 2021 (https://bleedingcool.com/comics/warren-ellis/)
AWS IAM Talk (https://twitter.com/rothgar/status/1343642150605520896?s=21)
Stripe’s Developer Coefficient (https://stripe.com/files/reports/the-developer-coefficient.pdf)
VMware files suit against former exec for moving to rival company (https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/29/vmware-files-suit-against-former-exec-for-moving-to-rival-company/)
VMware Issues Statement Regarding Litigation Against Rajiv Ramaswami (https://www.vmware.com/company/news/updates/2020/vmware-statement-litigation-rajiv-ramaswami.html)
Wondery to join Amazon Music (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/wondery-to-join-amazon-music)
SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious (https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1263)
Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan healthcare joint venture to shut business next month (https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN29922L)
Haven will shut down, ending joint healthcare bid by Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan (https://www.geekwire.com/2021/haven-will-shut-ending-joint-healthcare-bid-amazon-berkshire-jp-morgan/)
WSJ News Exclusive | Roku Nears Deal to Buy Rights to Quibi’s Content (https://www.wsj.com/articles/roku-nears-deal-to-buy-rights-to-quibis-content-11609725389)
When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why? (https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-big-brands-stopped-spending-on-digital-ads-nothing-happened-why/?sh=5abd13031166)
Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/ticketmaster-pays-10-million-criminal-fine-for-hacking-a-rival-company/)
Ticketmaster Will Pay $10 Million Fine to Settle Federal Charges It Hacked Rival’s System (https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/ticketmaster-10-million-fine-hack-songkick-competitor-1234877108/)
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/)
Quest Software Acquires Data Governance Company Erwin - ChannelE2E (https://www.channele2e.com/investors/private-equity/quest-software-acquires-data-governance-company-erwin/)
The FAA just moved drone deliveries one step closer to your front door (https://thehustle.co/01062021-Amazon-drone-delivery/)
CNCF Annual Report 2020 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation (https://www.cncf.io/cncf-annual-report-2020/)
Introduction to WebAssembly (https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-to-webassembly-runtime)
Computer Fraud And Abuse Act Reform (https://www.eff.org/issues/cfaa)
Georgia’s runoff may have saved net neutrality (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22216843/georgia-runoff-net-neutrality-fcc-jon-ossoff-raphael-warnock-democrats-senate)
Reproducible builds and docker (https://twitter.com/lorenc_dan/status/1343921451792003073?s=21)
Statement on the story from The New York Times regarding JetBrains and SolarWinds (https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/01/06/statement-on-the-story-from-the-new-york-times-regarding-jetbrains-and-solarwinds/)
Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-hack.html)
Storageless storage is the 'answer' to Kubernetes data challenges – Blocks and Files (https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/12/22/the-storageless-storage-paradox/)
An open source, drop-in replacement for CentOS is on its way (https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/CloudLinux-Commits-Over-1-Million-Dollars-to-CentOS-Replacement)
Nonsense
KFC launches 4K, 240FPS gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer (https://www.gamesradar.com/kfc-launches-4k-240fps-gaming-console-with-a-built-in-chicken-warmer/)
In China, McDonald’s serving Spam burger topped with Oreo crumbs: ‘When you hate someone but have to invite him to dinner. (https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-mcdonalds-spam-burger-oreo-china-20201221-sjiyjndirzdudahsgo6ftw7az4-story.html)
Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-55475433)
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Recommendations
Matt:
Uncivil (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/uncivil) podcast
MF DOOM Will Never Really Die (https://slate.com/culture/2021/01/mf-doom-dead-rapper-producer-madvillain.html)
Brandon:
Listen to the recent interviews with Sebasti (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/278)e (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/278)n on Serverless (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/278) and Squire on Security (https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/279).
Listen to Brandon’s guest appearance on The Cloudcast talking hybrid cloud (https://www.thecloudcast.net/2021/01/a-hybrid-cloud-look-ahead-for-2021.html)
Soul (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/soul_2020)
Coté: Coconut Rice (https://youtu.be/i9EmC0pM1YE). Raised by Wolves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_by_Wolves_(American_TV_series)).
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