Oh Snap! We Overtook Twitter!

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Oh Snap! We Overtook Twitter!
Number 2775
Broadcast Date JUNE 2, 2016
Episode Length 42:41
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Justin Robert Young

Can Snapchat avoid becoming Twitter? Can Twitter avoid becoming Yahoo? Justin Young and Tom Merritt discuss Snapchat passing Twitter in daily active users.

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Headlines

Pebble announced today that Amazon Alexa voice services will be integrated with its upcoming Pebble Core wearable. The Core is the one that has noo screen but streams spotify, has GPS and 3G, fitness tracking and a programmable button. The Pebble Core will ship early 2017 at a retail price of $99, although you can get it for $79 through the Kickstarter project that runs for the next 27 days.
Apple stores are running out of the $999 Thunderbolt display and sources tell 9to5 Mac a new display is coming featuring a 5120 x 2880 display and an integrated GPU to keep it compatible with future Macs. Older Macs could use the display but probably not take advantage of the GPU or the 5K resolution. However Rene Ritchie from iMore asked around and says, "it's not happening at the keynote or any time in the immediate future."
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund has given $3.5 billion to Uber valuing the ride-hailing company at $62.5 billion. One of the fund’s managing directors, Yasir al-Rumayyan will get a seat on Uber’s board as well. Saudi'sPrincess Reema bint Bandar al-Saud is already on Uber’s public policy advisory board. This comes on the heels of the EC warning member states against restrictions on sharing economy services such as Uber and Airbnb.
Yahoo made three FBI National Security Letters public Wednesday, marking the first publication under a process set up under the USA Freedom Act last June. Users were notified privately though their names were redacted from publication. The letter subpoenaed metadata, addresses, telephone numbers and screen names.
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Facebook announced it has developed a deep learning engine called Deep Text which it claims can understand written text in more than 20 languages with near human accuracy. Facebook hopes to use the AI to make better recommendations of related posts and services and fight spam and harassment. To start it can only understand the context of a post so it is being tested in Facebook messenger when people need a ride or on Facebook when people want to sell something.
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Xiaomi announced the Mi Band 2 with a heartbeat monitor and OLED display for $22.65. Xiaomi promises 20-day battery life with a display that turns on at a tap to show step count, heart rate and time. Mi Band 2 goes on sale in mainland China June 7.
Micromax, India’s largest phone maker, said Thursday at the Rise conference in Hong Kong, that the company is looking to issue an IPO in 2018. Co-founder Vikas Jain said the company wants to raise money to develop Web services to offer on its phones. Micromax has not decided whether to IPO in the US or India. Vikas also said Micromax plans to enter the Chinese market next year.
Uber announced a new service in Amsterdam called UberBike. It is not people carting you around on bikes but rather a way to hail a car with a bike rack on it. The rates are the same as UberX with a €4 charge. UberBike previously launched in São Paulo last July. Uber also launched car service in Kampala, Uganda. Rides will be free in Kampala until midnight Sunday June 5th.

Discussion

Pick of the Day

After the numerous comments regarding handling notifications and communications off hours I wanted to throw in my Pick, Google Voice!

Here's my usecase:
At work they have tried to push a "company phone" on me several times, my solution was to give them my Google Voice phone number and put all of my work contacts into one group in contacts. That group rings my cell/work phones. This also gives me the ability to setup a special work greeting. Then I put my cell phone number in my signature line and tell everyone if they really need to contact me to call/text me.
Another advantage is that when people leave messages I get to read Google's voice-to-text of the voice mail which is always entertaining.

As an aside, Google Voice also allows me to prank folks by setting up a special voice mail greeting just for a single person. When my sister calls the greeting is:
"Hey sis! How's it going? Sis? Sis??! I can't hear you!! Oh, that's right you got my voice mail, Just leave a message sis and I will get back to you."
Submitted by Victor

Messages

Tom,

I loved the conversation with you & Scott 'Poop Jokes & Brian' Johnson about talking to devices, but I found it interesting that you two were focusing on needing to word things correctly or annunciation every syllable I feel like those are (mostly) solved, at least by the "I don't notice me doing it" metric!

Rather I always trip up on not being able to pause and think about where I am in the command for half a second without Google assuming I'm done and trying to work with 30% of what I intended to say...

Your points all still stand, just that I stumble over a different aspect

Insert clever rhyme to "Love the show though"
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Sent by Mink


Good day Team DTNS,

Re: Bezos's statement about not wanting to sell platforms that can't support Prime Video on 'acceptable business terms' I only have this to say: they still sell iPhones and still have a very nice video app on iOS. I'm with Scott on this...I don't care if I have to use a browser to order stuff I just want it on my Apple TV! As a result I've just stopped buying video from Amazon at all.

As always love the show!
Sent by John, Boss from the Montana office

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