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Ahmed Al Omran

@ahmed
38 posts
2021-11-19
“The reason that Netflix had to build a CDN is because America's ISPs are garbage...” https://www.theverge.com/...
2021-11-19 View on X
The Verge

A look at Open Connect, Netflix's in-house CDN that launched a decade ago and spans 17,000 servers across 158 countries

As hundreds of thousands of households worldwide tapped into Netflix's Squid Game last month, viewers may have taken something fairly extraordinary for granted.

2021-07-26
“It's either Qatar or BDS or both” << NSO Group chief on the source behind the Pegasus leaks story https://www.vice.com/...
2021-07-26 View on X
The Guardian

WhatsApp CEO says they had recorded an attack against 1,400 users over a two-week period in 2019, casting doubts on NSO's defense against Pegasus project claims

2021-05-10
Clubhouse for Android will start rolling out for users in the US today, followed by other English-speaking countries and then the rest of the world https://www.joinclubhouse.com/ ...
2021-05-10 View on X
The Verge

Clubhouse launches in beta on Android in the US, after more than a year of iOS exclusivity, but will remain invite-only

The Verge :

2021-04-15
“This isn't a dramatic story about unrelenting harassment that ruined a life. But it's noteworthy precisely because it's so familiar: a perfect example of our broken social media dynamics, which feel ever-increasingly designed to dehumanize us...” https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
2021-04-15 View on X
Galaxy Brain

Twitter's Trending Topics, designed to surface significant news, invariably leads to context collapse, where disparate audiences are lecturing past each other

2021-03-26
Medium's original journalism was not converting free readers to paid subscribers. Surprisingly, what seemed to convert readers most reliably were random stories on the digital content farm that had sprung up around its high-gloss publications https://www.platformer.news/ ...
2021-03-26 View on X
The Verge

Interviews with 14 current and former Medium employees portray a dysfunctional company; sources say Medium has 700K paid subs, suggesting $35M+ in revenue

Casey Newton / The Verge :

2021-03-25
The internet is constantly disappearing. It's a world of broken links and missing files—often because the people in charge cast things off on a whim https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
2021-03-25 View on X
The Atlantic

A look at Remember the Internet, a series of pocket-sized books dedicated to immortalizing subcultures and combating the ephemerality of being online

often because the people in charge cast things off on a whim https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... Adrienne LaFrance / @adriennelaf : “We really thought we were doing something revoluti...

2021-02-04
“While the Internet is unquestionably a critical component of what makes Amazon Amazon, what makes the company so valuable and seemingly impregnable is the way it has integrated backwards into the world of atoms.” https://stratechery.com/...
2021-02-04 View on X
Stratechery

Jeff Bezos departs as perhaps the best CEO in tech history, having created three huge businesses: Amazon.com, AWS, and Amazon's marketplace/fulfillment services

irreversible decisions — and two-way doors, @bradstone writes. His exit today will test the theory. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Marty Cagan / @cagan : terrific product-perspectiv...

2021-01-15
Paying $10,000+ to use Axios's gimmicky writing style for your corp comms strikes me as an odd choice but what do i know 🤷🏻‍♂ ️ https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-01-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Axios says it will launch AxiosHQ, which lets companies write internal memos styled like Axios newsletters, next month, starting at $10K a year

2020-12-31
When we look back at 2020 in the business world, we'll remember it as the year online shopping stopped being the future of retail and catapulted firmly into the present https://www.vox.com/...
2020-12-31 View on X
Vox

eMarketer: US e-commerce sales, up 12%-16% in recent years, will have grown by 30%+ in 2020 and Amazon's US retail business grew an estimated 39% YoY in 2020

2020-12-30
When we look back at 2020 in the business world, we'll remember it as the year online shopping stopped being the future of retail and catapulted firmly into the present https://www.vox.com/...
2020-12-30 View on X
Vox

eMarketer: US e-commerce sales, up 12%-16% in recent years, will have grown by 30%+ in 2020 and Amazon's US retail business grew an estimated 39% YoY in 2020

When we look back at 2020 in the business world, we'll remember it as the year online shopping stopped being the future of retail and became the present.

2020-11-26
Twitter to relaunch its verification process early next year along with brand-new guidelines https://www.theverge.com/...
2020-11-26 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter says it will relaunch account verifications in early 2021 for six categories, including news, companies, and government officials, and asks for feedback

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :

2020-11-25
Twitter to relaunch its verification process early next year along with brand-new guidelines https://www.theverge.com/...
2020-11-25 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter says it will relaunch account verifications in early 2021 for six categories, including news, companies, and government officials, and asks for feedback

Twitter announced today it's planning to relaunch its verification system in 2021, and will now begin the process …

2020-11-23
It's confounding that, almost a year into the pandemic, the @COVID19Tracking project is doing what might be expected of the US government https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2020-11-23 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at Covid Tracking Project, a website run mostly by volunteers, which has become one of the most trusted sources on the spread of COVID-19 in the US

At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs.  Her mother had died about a year earlier, and she'd taken time off to help settle her affairs.

2020-11-22
It's confounding that, almost a year into the pandemic, the @COVID19Tracking project is doing what might be expected of the US government https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2020-11-22 View on X
Bloomberg

A look at Covid Tracking Project, a website run mostly by volunteers, which has become one of the most trusted sources on the spread of COVID-19 in the US

At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs.  Her mother had died about a year earlier, and she'd taken time off to help settle her affairs. Tweets: @alexismad...

2020-09-07
Some employees without children say that they feel underappreciated, and that they are being asked to shoulder a heavier workload. Parents are frustrated that their childless co-workers don't understand how hard it is to balance work and child care https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-09-07 View on X
New York Times

Nonparent staffers at companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Salesforce are increasingly voicing grievances over the extra benefits for parents working from home

Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don't have children.

2020-09-06
Some employees without children say that they feel underappreciated, and that they are being asked to shoulder a heavier workload. Parents are frustrated that their childless co-workers don't understand how hard it is to balance work and child care https://www.nytimes.com/...
2020-09-06 View on X
New York Times

Nonparent employees are increasingly voicing their grievances over the extra benefits companies like Facebook extend to parents working from home

Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don't have children.

2020-08-30
Meet Saudi Arabia's female gamers (feat. excellent photos by @tasneemalsultan) https://restofworld.org/...
2020-08-30 View on X
Rest of World

A look at how Saudi Arabia's gaming scene has dramatically evolved, especially for women, as the country loosens gender restrictions on esports

Mehr Nadeem / Rest of World : Tweets: @mehrnadeem3 , @ahmed , @mehrnadeem3 , @telliotter , @mehrnadeem3 , @moncherrriii , @mehrnadeem3 , @cengizyar , @mehrnadeem3 , and @mehrnadee...

2020-08-09
Bill Gates on Trump and the coming election (without mentioning Trump by name) https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-09 View on X
Wired

Interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19, Trump, recent House antitrust hearing, Mark Zuckerberg, misinformation, and the “poison chalice” of the TikTok deal

The techie-turned-philanthropist on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice.”

Tim Cook's first meeting with staff the day he arrived at Apple in 1998 lasted 11 hours https://www.wsj.com/...
2020-08-09 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How Tim Cook turned Apple into a corporate colossus and delivered one of the most lucrative business successions in history

The industrial engineer has turned Steve Jobs's creation into a corporate colossus, delivering one of the most lucrative business successions in history

2020-07-12
One of the key things that set Signal apart—that it collects almost no information about its users, appears to be changing https://www.vice.com/...
2020-07-12 View on X
VICE

Signal's new feature that allows users to store certain data on their servers for recovery purposes has some security experts threatening to stop using the app

The popular encrypted app is now going to store your contacts in the cloud.  Experts are worried this compromises users' privacy. Tweets: @4thanon , @ahmed , @abortu , @drfranksaue...