Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, April 19th, 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Facebook has probably just outlined its plans to go big on audio via a digital audio room as you hear me

say these words. Clubhouse has officially announced that big new rays probably

in reaction to what we just talked about to some degree a 16 z did indeed triple down

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invidia and what to expect from tomorrow's Apple event.

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It's not going to work out in terms of covering it today because of our production schedule,

but the word going around right now this morning is that of our production schedule.

But the word going around right now this morning is that Facebook is just about

to announce a suite of audio products including a clubhouse like clone, a Podcast Discovery Product connected to Spotify and more.

This is all supposed to come from the mouth of Mark Zuckerberg himself, who's supposedly

going to show up on Casey Newton's new discord channel related to his

platformer newsletter. It's actually an interesting thing this new channel. It's

called Side Channel and if you're a subscriber to Casey's newsletter or six other

popular newsletters who have

joined forces you get access to this one unified discord channel I've been on it

all morning and it's pretty cool. Anywho we expect to hear this announcement, quoting Peter Kafka.

Facebook's audio plans include an audio-only version of rooms, a video conferencing

product it launched a year ago when the pandemic spurred massive adoption of Zoom, a clubhouse

like product that will let groups of people listen to and interact with speakers on a virtual

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