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> However, Google will still allow its advertising customers to target users across its range of services — from YouTube, to Gmail, and Search — if users are logged into their Google accounts, Digiday reported. The announcement also doesn't affect mobile apps and mobile-app trackers. Similarly, the announcement also doesn't prevent publishers from selling ads based on information about how a user behaved on their specific site.

Looks like Google can still target users who are signed in. From this article: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-to-stop-tracking-indi...

> I think Tiktok gets it right here. No matter who the creator is, if the content is good enough it will get hundreds of thousands of views. That system feels fairer to than Twitter.

How hard would it be to create a TikTok version of Twitter? (that is, a Twitter feed that generated without following anyone)?

Is this simply a matter of nobody having tried this? Or are the signals for text posts insufficient (vs. short form videos)?

Is there a Dyson-equivalent cordless vacuum that goes for less than $200?

This is like saying why move from a dictatorship to democracy.

We're just trading one leadership figure for another.

OP, thanks for sharing your article.

On the balance, you aren't doing anything wrong. The only real takeaway is entrepreneurship is hard. VERY HARD.

You will make plenty of mistakes. Technical mistakes. Business mistakes. Mistakes that cost years, maybe even decades. Mistakes that will cost you thousands (hopefully not millions).

Don't obsess about "we should have done this" or "I should have done that." You'll beat yourself up unnecessarily.

If you want to do entrepreneurship, keep at it. Find problems. And fix them fast.

If you don't have the bankroll to do it (or just fall out of love), then you can quit too. That's ok.

Have you tried removing the free trial?

Slack has a $135B market cap.

At that price, it'll be a merger, not an acquisition.

It feels like Heroku has lost its market leadership. These days seems like Netlify is the winner.

In hindsight, I think MS dodged a bullet. Buying Slack would have been another Skype-like failed acquisition.

Teams is a solid piece of software, and Microsoft has done a good job making it unique in a crowded marketplace.

Slack is getting eaten by both the top and bottom.

From the top, Teams has been effective in beating Slack, especially with Office 365 subscribers.

From the bottom, Discord is doing a pretty decent job.

Slack is increasingly stuck in the messy middle.

Much of the narrative compares Teams w/ Slack.

While that's true, the better narrative compares Teams w/ Zoom. And Teams has done a good job making video seamless and easy to initiate.

MS, in hindsight, was fortunate to not buy Slack.

They've built a compelling competitor in Teams that is more capable of competing with Zoom than Slack can.

Stratechery surfaces some interesting insights from time-to-time. But yes, the author's writing style consistently comes across as overly pedantic.

I used WebEx and Google Meet the last 5 days.

They're alternatives, but they are far from being usable alternatives.

There aren't too many Windows Phone owners Microsoft needs to apologize too

Most of them were Microsoft employees

And MS paid for their phones

Zoom is a must have during the pandemic

Slack has many alternatives including using email

These days I have more confidence using Microsoft products than Google

Google's erratic roadmap, less than stellar enterprise support, and shady privacy practices from their ad tech side just drive me away

"Reading reviews" hit the nail on the head for me.

I miss the days where I can just make purchases without having to "read the reviews."

I'm so time-constrained as it is; making customers responsible for ensuring that they've contracted with a quality host / Uber driver / seller on Amazon -- is one of the things I hate about new age "marketplaces."

Would the bounties be large enough to cover the work involved? I'm doubtful.

That seems to be the case with most corporations: one executive glance or quip -- and thousands of employees scramble.

There are so many fake or manipulated reviews across all sites -- Yelp, Amazon, Uber, eBay -- that I just don't trust them anymore.

Unfortunately, we are addicted to having someone filter products and services for us, even if they are manipulated.

I'm dying for an alternative to the 5-star review, but seems like there's no end in sight.

There's a lot of outdated thinking that Teams < Slack.

I use both multiple times a day. Teams is far from a carbon copy of Slack.

If anything, Slack needs to pay attention to Teams. They've already out-innovated Slack on several fronts. For example, Teams is a slick hybrid of industry-std channels (Slack) and industry-std video (Zoom). Slack doesn't offer that.

Maybe more proof that there's nothing new under the sun. I remember looking at this space and how so much was inspired by 80s tools like FileMaker and Hypercard.

I hope companies step up and create surgical masks. It's such a basic item, but we don't have enough. Forget about guns, it's like asking troops to fight without shoes.

It's odd to see so many commenters insist that there's money to be made in flight search, despite not having industry experience.

This comment nail it dead-on. Flights are a loss leader. It's the gateway to more profitable travel services like booking hotels, which ironically have shrinking margins over the last few years.

There's no need for an OTA middleman when a hotel can build a direct relationship with the customer (via loyalty programs).

The biggest problem with performance reviews: managers are too scared to give feedback throughout the year, so when the feedback does come during the performance review - the employee is in utter shock.

Generally, there's no perfect time to give others' feedback. Most people hate criticizing others. But as a manager, I find that it's necessary; otherwise the performance review experience is less than desirable.

I have been using some performance feedback generators, and it's been helpful in helping me figure out how to phrase feedback so it's specific and mentioned in a way that's not careless or thoughtless.

Why?

One thing to add is that most of us are terrible at giving feedback; most feedback is typically wrong, vague, or insensitive.

The trouble is that those who are less practiced at giving feedback are usually the worst at giving it, which leads to a downward spiral of not giving feedback.

Looks like there are four board members: Korey, Rubio, and two VCs. If they held equal votes, it's possible the two VCs wanted to oust Korey but Rubio did not.

As a result, the VCs probably waged a backchannel PR war to pressure Rubio to support Korey's firing.

John Legere is stepping down from T-Mobile.

Perhaps he might be asked to step in for Sundar if Sundar can't turn it around in the next 18 months.