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Rick Klau

@rklau
29 posts
2023-02-17
Truly the end of an era. Grateful for all @SusanWojcicki did at Google, and at YouTube. Congrats, Susan - and best of luck with what comes next! Your leadership set an example that made everyone around you better. https://www.vox.com/...
2023-02-17 View on X
Vox

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki plans to step down after nine years, to be replaced by Neal Mohan as SVP and head of YouTube; Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee

One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company.

2022-11-14
You don't have to treat people this way, and more to the point, you shouldn't treat people this way https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-14 View on X
@caseynewton

Sources: Twitter cut ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract staff on November 12, which is expected to significantly impact content moderation and core infrastructure

Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and t...

2022-11-13
You don't have to treat people this way, and more to the point, you shouldn't treat people this way https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-13 View on X
Axios

Sources: Twitter starts cutting an unspecified number of contractors in various fields, including content moderation, real estate, marketing, and others

After laying off half its staff earlier this month, Twitter on Saturday started culling its vast ranks of contract staff, sources confirmed to Axios.

2022-02-12
“here is your periodic reminder that Ethereum is the slowest, and most expensive, and hardest to use computer in the world” - @CaseyNewton https://www.platformer.news/ ...
2022-02-12 View on X
Platformer

A look at Ethereum Name Service DAO token holders' vote to remove Brantly Millegan over his bigoted views by re-delegating their tokens away from him

2022-02-11
“here is your periodic reminder that Ethereum is the slowest, and most expensive, and hardest to use computer in the world” - @CaseyNewton https://www.platformer.news/ ...
2022-02-11 View on X
Techdirt

Senator Blumenthal admits the EARN IT Act won't “offer a blanket exemption to using encryption as evidence”, after denying for two years it targets encryption

Senator Richard Blumenthal has now admitted that EARN IT is targeting encryption, something he denied for two years, and then just out and said it.

2022-02-10
“In a sense, turning stolen Bitcoins into physical gold is a money-laundering success. In another sense, giving your driver's license to a regulated financial institution so that it can ship the gold to your home address is, in hindsight, not.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-02-10 View on X
Bloomberg

How the feds caught Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein as they allegedly attempted, rather sloppily, to launder bitcoin from the Bitfinex hack

Bitfinex laundry  —  In her public life, Heather Morgan seems to have been the cringiest imaginable sort of crypto-adjacent hustle-bro.

2022-01-17
ICYMI: “The fact that the system exists in any form is a triumph for a loose coalition of technologists, nonprofit groups and mostly Democratic states that championed the development of a digital vaccine card.” https://www.nbcnews.com/...
2022-01-17 View on X
NBC News

A look at the SMART Health Card, a minimal verification system that uses QR codes to check COVID-19 vaccine status, available to ~200M people in the US

2021-09-30
I think my favorite part of last week's Ted Lasso episode was how Apple TV froze every 5 minutes for 10 seconds at a pop (<1 year-old Sony TV on a wired connection w/a rock-solid 1 gbps connection, and Apple TV is consistently the only service that has this issue)
2021-09-30 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple has quietly begun allowing users to rate and review its built-in iPhone and iPad apps in the App Store with iOS 15

For the longest time, the App Store did not allow users to rate or review Apple's built-in iPhone and iPad apps, like Mail, Music, News, Stocks and Calculator.

me, every week: - maybe the Apple TV app will work - no? ok, I'll try airplay from my phone - still no? maybe chromecast from my laptop? and somewhere, an APMM at Apple waits, knowing that this ends in Rick buying an Apple TV 4K because that's the one thing he hasn't yet bought
2021-09-30 View on X
9to5Mac

Apple has quietly begun allowing users to rate and review its built-in iPhone and iPad apps in the App Store with iOS 15

For the longest time, the App Store did not allow users to rate or review Apple's built-in iPhone and iPad apps, like Mail, Music, News, Stocks and Calculator.

2021-09-22
“And in an upcoming software update, they can also choose to add verifiable COVID-19 vaccination records as a vaccination card in Apple Wallet to present to businesses, venues, and more.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-22 View on X
MacRumors

iOS 15.1 beta lets users store their verifiable health records, including COVID-19 vaccination cards and test results, in the Health app

Juli Clover / MacRumors :

2021-06-19
1/ Today, California became the first state in the country to launch an open source, standards-based digital vaccination record. Using the SMART Health Card framework, any resident who wants a digital copy of their vaccination record can get one at https://myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov/.
2021-06-19 View on X
Mercury News

California launches a digital vaccine verification system built using the open-source SMART Health Card Framework, with QR codes to show COVID-19 vaccine status

Vaccinated Californians now have a new way to show they are inoculated against the coronavirus without carrying around a flimsy paper card. Source: State of California and State of...

@CAPublicHealth @CADeptTech @R_Thaler @GavinNewsom @calonghurst @Walmart @Clear 12/ At #WWDC21, Apple recently announced users' upcoming ability in iOS 15 to download verifiable vaccination or test result records from an online browser or QR code, using the SMART Health Cards framework.
2021-06-19 View on X
Mercury News

California launches a digital vaccine verification system built using the open-source SMART Health Card Framework, with QR codes to show COVID-19 vaccine status

Vaccinated Californians now have a new way to show they are inoculated against the coronavirus without carrying around a flimsy paper card. Source: State of California and State of...

@citylifejc Apple has announced support for SMART Health Cards already; when it ships, this will work out of the box. As other platforms develop similar capabilities, benefit of us going w/the open standard is that it will also just work :)
2021-06-19 View on X
Mercury News

California launches a digital vaccine verification system built using the open-source SMART Health Card Framework, with QR codes to show COVID-19 vaccine status

Vaccinated Californians now have a new way to show they are inoculated against the coronavirus without carrying around a flimsy paper card. Source: State of California and State of...

@rstephens we're following the SMART Health Card spec, which iOS 15 will support natively
2021-06-19 View on X
Mercury News

California launches a digital vaccine verification system built using the open-source SMART Health Card Framework, with QR codes to show COVID-19 vaccine status

Vaccinated Californians now have a new way to show they are inoculated against the coronavirus without carrying around a flimsy paper card. Source: State of California and State of...

2021-06-15
“The key idea is that users can more easily switch between ‘modalities’ of communication.” Because if there's one thing your average user has been begging for, it's *checks notes* modality switching. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-15 View on X
The Verge

Google makes Workspace and Chat available to all and adds client-side encryption for data on Workspace

nicely, this time—what a disservice Google's blog posts were to the products it was trying to launch today. This is not an effective way to communicate. https://blog.google/... htt...

2021-06-07
You're going to want to set aside some time to digest this fantastic account of growth @ scale from @shishirmehrotra about his time at YouTube. https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-07 View on X
Coda

An insider's look at how YouTube tackled its 2008 to 2014 hypergrowth years with a set of rituals for everything from strategic planning to effective meetings

A peek inside how YouTube tackled the 2008 to 2014 hypergrowth years with a unique set of rituals for everything from strategic planning to effective meetings.

2021-05-19
I'd heard about folks who got early demos of Project Starline when I was still on campus, kept meaning to get a peek before I left. Everyone who did it talked about how magical it felt. Easy to see why: https://blog.google/...
2021-05-19 View on X
Wired

Early look at Google's Project Starline, a video booth with a 65" display and several sensors and cameras allowing for 3D representations of video call subjects

Our reporter tests out a “video booth” to glimpse of the future of telepresence.  —  OVER THE PAST several years … Tweets: @claybavor , @laurengoode , @mgsiegler , @delk , @paulm ,...

2021-05-17
Really enjoyed talking with @bizcarson about why I'm so fired up about my new job at @CADeptTech. If this sounds like a mission you want to be a part of, I really want to hear from you. DMs are open. https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-17 View on X
Protocol

Q&A with Rick Klau, an ex-Google product manager and California's new CTIO responsible for building apps and services for various departments across the state

Biz Carson / Protocol : Tweets: @bizcarson , @protocol , @bwjones , @rsquared , @rklau , and @protocol Tweets: Biz Carson / @bizcarson : I asked @rklau what shocked him about join...

2021-03-10
Fantastic news that Clare Martorana is stepping up to be President Biden's Federal CIO: https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
2021-03-10 View on X
Fast Company

Biden appoints Clare Martorana as US CIO; she was formerly OPM's CIO and is a veteran of the USDS and formerly an executive at WebMD and Everyday Health

no, I mean REALLY — good. https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... @erie : WOW. @ClareMartorana is one of the smartest, most thoughtful, focused people I've ever had the pleasure of workin...

2020-12-17
3/ HOWEVER, I now have close to 200 emails welcoming me to their newsletter. This is... not great. https://twitter.com/...
2020-12-17 View on X
The Verge

Substack launches Substack Reader, an RSS reader for tracking newsletter subscriptions and other feeds, in beta

Substack Reader is now available in beta  —  If you're worried about all your newsletter subscriptions getting lost in your inbox, Substack may have a solution.