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VOICE ARCHIVE

Alastair Coote

@_alastair
11 posts
2024-11-04
Today I'm supposed to be in the NYT newsroom putting the finishing touches on a system pushing live election updates to your phone. But NYT management refuses to give us the same just cause protection our NewsGuild peers have so @NYTGuildTech is on strike https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2024-11-04 View on X
New York Times

The Times Tech Guild, representing 600+ NYT devs, data analysts, and more, goes on strike ahead of the US election; management offered a 2.5% annual wage rise

The Times Tech Guild represents more than 600 software developers and others who run the back-end systems behind The Times's digital operation.

2022-11-06
“we'll make your ads twice as relevant” is a weird statement. They have the ability to serve more relevant ads but don't? Surely that's worse for absolutely everyone involved? https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-06 View on X
9to5Mac

Twitter appears to roll out its new Blue subscription, offering a blue checkmark for $8/month, on iOS in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and UK

Twitter is officially rolling out its new Twitter Blue subscription service, which offers “blue check” verification to everyone for $8/month.

2022-10-12
“Biggest partnership since Windows Phone” has just the right level of dread running underneath it https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-12 View on X
The Verge

Meta partners with Microsoft to bring Teams, Office, Windows 365, and Xbox Cloud Gaming to Quest VR headsets in the coming months; Teams will use Meta's avatars

Good morning!  Meta took the wraps off its Quest Pro VR headset … Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Meta partners with Microsoft to bring Teams, Windows apps and games to Quest devices S...

2022-10-01
This is surely going to bloat out the FB Android app even more. And because it's Facebook, can't help but wonder what tracking end up embedding when they control the entire browser engine https://engineering.fb.com/...
2022-10-01 View on X
9to5Google

Meta says Facebook for Android will soon use its own Chromium-based in-app browser engine, citing security and stability as reasons for its WebView alternative

When you open a link while in another app, it usually launches in your browser (e.g., Chrome) or a Custom Tab.

2022-05-19
One thing that hadn't occurred to me before: maybe sinking billions of dollars into subsidising people's rides *does* make sense... if you're Saudi Arabia and want to preserve car culture. The long term payoff could yet be well worth it https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-19 View on X
Slate

As Uber begins to rein in costs, having lost ~$30B in five-odd years, a look at the impact of cheap rides on city transit and the opportunities that were lost

Recently I was talking with an executive who used to work in car-sharing—the wave of companies, led by Zipcar and car2go … Tweets: @henrygrabar , @dlknowles , @carnage4life , @alex...

2022-01-13
Back in 2014 I worked on a webapp for NYT's 7 Minute Workout. Very rewarding project, but who knows how many people ended up using one of the many crappy rip off App Store apps instead (some even directly ripped the NYT illustrations!) https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity

Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.

2022-01-12
Back in 2014 I worked on a webapp for NYT's 7 Minute Workout. Very rewarding project, but who knows how many people ended up using one of the many crappy rip off App Store apps instead (some even directly ripped the NYT illustrations!) https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-12 View on X
The Verge

Wordle clones are starting to disappear from Apple's App Store, after reports surfaced about many capitalizing on the guessing game's popularity

It seems Apple has taken action  —  Has Apple taken action against apps that cloned the popular web game Wordle?

2021-09-08
Begging, pleading our Silicon Valley tech overlords to please come up with an original idea https://www.theverge.com/...
2021-09-08 View on X
The Verge

Twitter says it is testing edge-to-edge pictures and videos in tweets on iOS to better support visual and text-based conversations

An Instagram-like focus on visuals  —  Twitter has announced that it's testing edge-to-edge media in tweets on iOS, creating a more full-screen …

2021-03-05
I'm glad Turntable is back but man do I wish we had it all through the pandemic https://www.theverge.com/...
2021-03-05 View on X
The Verge

Turntable.fm has relaunched with involvement from its founder and a separate site, Turntable.org, is expected to launch in beta in April with a subscription fee

A tale of two turntables  —  It's rare that apps come back from the dead, but it seems like that may be what's happening with Turntable.fm …

2020-04-30
I don't quite get the “I don't trust them” angle, unless you're someone who doesn't own a smartphone. If you don't trust Google/Apple I have some bad news about the things they could easily already be doing with your Android/iPhone! https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-30 View on X
New York Times

Dozens of tracking apps for smartphones are being used or developed to help contain the pandemic, despite concerns about security, privacy, and effectiveness

literally dozens gathering info on people's location or contacts to curb the virus. Can they help? What are the pitfalls? Will people use them? @natashanyt @Aaron_Krolik & I take a...

2019-08-06
An aside: if you can, find a restaurant's own web site and order through it. I've had a lot of luck with my regular places and been able to cut out Grubhub etc entirely https://twitter.com/...
2019-08-06 View on X
VICE

Late last year, Yelp's app quietly started routing restaurant customers' take out and delivery phone calls through Grubhub for tracking and marketing purposes

The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee.