Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-31

I take full credit for Audible’s success. I just hope Amazon thinks so. #
My first Tweet from the OLPC. Typing is unbearably slow. Guess its Javascript is bogged down? A first world problem I guess. #

Trump to block downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday 18 September 2020

The department’s move is an enforcement of Trump’s original executive order from Aug. 6 that gave TikTok 45 days to sell its U.S. business to an American company or face a ban in this country. The end of the 45-day period is Sunday. WeChat, one of the world’s most popular social messaging apps, is owned by the Chinese […]

TikTok Accepts Deal Revisions as Trump Prepares to Review Proposal - The New York Times 18 September 2020

Social Gaming Startup Bunch Snags $20 Million Series A, Backing From Major Game Studios 17 September 2020

The grandest dream for Bunch is that it ends up like Discord, a chat app that’s also a social network. “There hasn’t been a social network created yet for casual gamers,” Bonatsos says. “For that kind of person, there is no real community.”

Mozilla wants your help to fix terrible YouTube recommendations - The Verge 17 September 2020

Mozilla will introduce a new browser extension, RegretsReporter, that aims to crowdsource research about users’ “regrettable recommendations,” to let users better understand how YouTube’s recommendation algorithm works and provide details about patterns it discovers.

Facebook's Infinite Office is a virtual office space for the WFH crowd | Engadget 17 September 2020

With Infinite Office, you can put on the headset and be transported to a virtual office space that you can make as big or small as you wish. You can also add multiple customizable screens, which mimics a multiple monitor setup. The company has already begun experiments that incorporates Infinite Office with Spatial, a collaborative […]

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