Fri. 11/08 - Twitter Is Weirdly Awake All Of The Sudden

Tech Brew Ride Home

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Technology, News, Tech News

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🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Disney Plus will be on Amazon’s Fire TV when it launches next week, Andreessen Horowitz launches a completely free crypto school, Twitter seems to have woken up all of the sudden, T-Mobile really wants that merger with Sprint to happen, and, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: Metalab.co Netgear.com/bestwifi SVB.com/next Links: Disney stock rises after beating on top and bottom lines (CNBC) Andreessen Horowitz launches free crypto startup school (TechCrunch) Twitter Is Trying To Fix The Dunk And Ratio (BuzzFeed) T-Mobile dangles $15 plan, 5G gains, big freebies to get Sprint deal done (CNET) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Pessimists Archive Podcast The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising (The Correspondent) THE BIG BITCOIN HEIST (Vanity Fair) We are living in Hideo Kojima’s dystopian nightmare. Can he save us? (Washington Post) A critical analysis of scroll bars throughout history (The Verge) The Making of the World’s Greatest Investor (WSJ) How Cheap Robots Are Transforming Ocean Exploration (Outside) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Tech Meme Right Home is sponsored by Metallab. I think it's been a while since I told you about their work for Slack.
0:07.0	Slack has taken off and it has become known for its gorgeous bubbly interface with tons of delightful little interactions
0:15.2	throughout the app. Metalab was there with Slack from the very beginning.
0:19.8	Stuart Butterfield and his team came to Metalab when Slack was a rough, unstyled prototype
0:24.8	and Metallab worked with them to design the app from the ground up.
0:29.0	The brand, the web app, the mobile app, and even the marketing site, the whole works.
0:34.9	All those fun little interactions, MetaLab worked hard to get those sprinkled throughout
0:39.6	the entire product.
0:41.3	The design and features Slack is now known for have propelled it to become the
0:45.3	fastest growing business application ever at a current valuation of over $7 billion.
0:50.7	MetaLab wants to bring that same level of delightfulness and hopefully success
0:56.0	to your project.
0:57.3	They want to take your idea and turn it into the next billion dollar company.
1:01.5	Have a great new product idea and nobody to start building it. Well,
1:04.6	Metalab is your team. Visit metalab. CO. That's Metalab. CO and when you get in
1:11.4	touch tell them Brian sent you. Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, November 8th, 2019.
1:24.2	I'm Brian McCullough today.
1:26.4	Disney Plus will be on Amazon's Fire TV when it launches next week.
1:30.4	And Reese and Horowitz launches a completely free crypto school.
1:34.0	Twitter really seems to have woken up all of the sudden.
1:37.0	T-Mobile really wants that merger with Sprint to happen,
1:40.0	and of course the weekend long read suggestions.
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