Mar 31st 2021
This Week in Google 605
Sausage Fingers
Clubhouse clones, Google data collection, Substack alternatives, Google Stack
Records live every Wednesday at 5:00pm Eastern / 2:00pm Pacific / 21:00 UTC.
Guests:
Mike Elgan
- How a full moon and a ‘huge lever’ helped free Ever Given from Suez canal
- Substack is raising $65 million amid newsletter boom
- LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too
- Spotify enters live social audio with acquisition of Locker Room
- The Unofficial Twitter Spaces FAQ
- Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now
- Cameo Aims to Connect Celebrities With Fans and It’s Now Valued at $1 Billion
- Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
- Google testing Memory as add-on to assistant: combination of to-do list, notes app, reading list, Pinterest
- Google Stack, to organize your (paper) documents
- Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files
- Don't shun Dr. Google — researching mysterious symptoms online is actually a good idea, study finds
- T-Mobile is betting big on Google’s Android services: RCS, YouTube TV, Pixel, and more
- HoloLens for 120,000 Army personnel: Microsoft inks $21.9 billion deal
- Google canceling April Fools’ Day jokes for the second year in a row
- Voltswagen: A new name for a new era of e-Mobility
- Amazing Icelandic volcano drone footage
- Twitter’s ‘unofficial mayor’ Chrissy Teigen quits platform after years of harassment
- You and the Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango
- Facebook sets reopening date for S.F., Bay Area offices, with no free food and no transit
- Google: Some workers are likely to return to U.S. offices in April
- Periscope shuts down today
- Socially distanced dance troupe
- Sources: Google’s next wireless earbuds are the ‘Pixel Buds A’
- Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps
- Google Meet extending ‘unlimited’ video calls for free Gmail accounts to June
- Google TV rolling out ‘Kids Profiles’ to Chromecast now
- Say "Hey Google..." to the new Fiat 500 Family
- YouTube tests hiding dislike counts in response to targeted campaigns, improve wellbeing
- Verizon will shut down its 3G network in 2022
- I Like That The Boat Is Stuck
Picks:
- Mike - Hey World
- Mike - AeroPress Go
- Mike - ImprovedTube
- Jeff - SHARGE: World Smallest 65W 3-Port Laptop & USB Wall Charger
- Ant - I Created Some Lightroom and Capture One Presets
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Links
- Best explainer I've seen for how they freed the Ever Given
- Substack raising $65m
- LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too
- Spotify buys Lockeroom
- The Unofficial Twitter Spaces FAQ
- Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now
- Cameo Aims to Connect Celebrities With Fans and It’s Now Valued at $1 Billion - WSJ
- Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS
- Google testing Memory as add-on to assistant: combination of to-do list, notes app, reading list, Pinterest
- New: Google Stack, to organize your (paper) documents
- Dr. Google is good for you: searching leads to more accurate diagnoses, not more anxiety
- T-Mobile is betting big on Google’s Android services: RCS, YouTube TV, Pixel, and more
- HoloLens for 120,000 Army personnel: Microsoft inks $21.9 billion deal
- Google canceling April Fools’ Day jokes for the second year in a row
- Voltswagen: A new name for a new era of e-Mobility - Volkswagen US Media Site
- Amazing Icelandic volcano drone footage
- Twitter’s ‘unofficial mayor’ Chrissy Teigen quits platform after years of harassment
- 21-minute read from Nick Clegg on FB's algorithms
- Facebook sets reopening date for S.F., Bay Area offices, with no free food and no transit
- Periscope shuts down today
- Socially distanced dance troupe
- Pixel Buds-A. But will they work?
- Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps - The Verge
- Google Meet extending ‘unlimited’ video calls for free Gmail accounts to June
- Google TV rolling out ‘Kids Profiles’ to Chromecast now — here’s how to set it up
- Hey-Google-branded Fiats!
- YouTube tests hiding dislike counts in response to targeted campaigns, improve wellbeing
- RIP 3G CDMA
- I Like That The Boat Is Stuck
- Hey World
- AeroPress Go
- ImprovedTube
- SHARGE: World Smallest 65W 3-Port Laptop & USB Wall Charger
- I Created Some Lightroom and Capture One Presets