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Mon. 11/04 - Everyone Got a New Logo

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Technology, News, Tech News

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Your smart speakers aren’t secure in a wild new way, crazy product announcement day from Microsoft and Adobe, crazy new logo design day from everyone but especially Facebook, and Wikipedia makes a big change to citations. Sponsors: Metalab.co go.conga.com/techmeme SoFi.com/ride Links: Hackers Can Use Lasers to ‘Speak’ to Your Amazon Echo or Google Home (Wired) Microsoft’s new Office app for iOS and Android combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (The Verge) Microsoft's Chromium Edge browser arrives January 15th (Engadget) Microsoft Teams is getting Outlook integration, tasks support, and more (The Verge) Microsoft Ignite 2019: Meet Project Cortex, Office 365 knowledge-management service (ZDNet) Microsoft is bringing Cortana to Outlook for iOS and Android with a new ‘masculine’ voice (The Verge) Introducing Our New Company Brand (Facebook Newsroom) Photoshop for iPad is now available in the App Store (WCCFTech) The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable (Wired) 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.

1:13.0

Welcome to the tech meme right home for Monday, November 4th, 2019.

1:20.0

I'm Brian McCullough. Today, your smart speakers aren't secure in a wild new way.

1:29.0

Crazy product announcement day from Microsoft and Adobe.

1:33.6

Crazy new logo design day from everyone, but especially Facebook, and Wikipedia makes a big change

1:38.6

to citations.

1:40.1

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. This one comes completely out of left field.

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