‘Channel’ing the Energy | JOMO for 8th June
In today’s JOMO: Google asks employees to mark attendance, WhatsApp copies Telegram and the amazing UX of Apple Vision Pro’s keyboard
🗞In the news
Google Gets Stricter About Employees’ Time in Office
Google will consider office attendance records in performance reviews and send reminders to employees with frequent absences, becoming the latest company to urge a return to in-person collaboration following an embrace of remote work during the pandemic.
WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-gets-stricter-about-employees-time-in-office-9a20f2e
Is this really Google we are talking about? Part of performance reviews??
🤩New products, features, launches
WhatsApp’s new Channels feature brings social media to your messaging app
Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23753404/whatsapp-channels-broadcasts-app
An obvious question to ask is, why so late WhatsApp. Hope they given an option to discover channels from users too. For now a limited trial where Channel creation is restricted to businesses
Adobe brings Firefly to the enterprise
Maybe the most interesting of these use cases here is that Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Journey Optimized now get a generative AI-based marketing copy generator (currently in beta). This will allow brands to edit, rephrase and summarize their marketing copy by selecting their preferred tone of voice, for example.
TC: https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/08/adobe-brings-firefly-to-the-enterprise/
Possible game changer: unlike Microsoft which isn’t at the centre of a creative team, Adobe is. So generative copy has a LOT of meaning for creative teams.
🤔Interesting read
A closer look at Apple’s Vision Pro keyboard and other controls
So let’s talk about the Vision Pro’s virtual keyboard. Apple designer Eugene Krivoruchko explains that it’s important to offer plenty of visual and audio feedback while using it, to make up for the “missing tactile information” involved with touching a read peripheral.
Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23753618/apple-vision-pro-virtual-keyboard-controls-wwdc-2023
That demo is sick cool. Do check it out. Surreal because it feels like sci fi: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10073/?time=741
Rahul Yadav's house of cards
You see, in 2017, in an interview with Quartz, he specifically said that one of the problems he faced at Housing.com was that investors wanted revenue. But, he wanted scale. Both of these things apparently don’t go hand in hand in the early years of a startup.
Finshots: https://finshots.in/archive/rahul-yadavs-house-of-cards/
A masala read if ever there was one. Burnt away Rs 280cr like pooof. Good read
📊Poll for the day
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