Nocoder | JOMO for 28th Apr
In today’s JOMO: A selfie drone, dirt on Netflix and who wants to be a nocoder
🗞In the news
China's Weibo shows user locations to combat 'bad behaviour' - Reuters
Weibo , China's equivalent of Twitter, told users on Thursday it would start to publish their IP locations on their account pages and when they post comments, in a bid to combat "bad behaviour" online.
If it wants to Google could do this too: it kinda already knows your approx IP address, location. But it uses this info for better ad-targeting, for now
Startups shed flab amid slowdown in large funding rounds - ET
Over the past few weeks, more than 1,800 contractual and full-time employees have been fired from ed-tech firm Unacademy, social commerce startups Meesho and Trell, online learning platform Lido Learning and furniture rental startup Furlenco.
🤑🚀Startups, funding etc
Notice something? This space has been rather blank for quite a while now.
🤩New products, features, launches
Google may now remove search results that dox you - Verge
Google says it’s expanding the types of personal information that it’ll remove from search results to cover things like your physical address, phone number, and passwords. Before now, the feature mostly covered info that would let someone steal your identity or money — now, you can ask Google to stop showing certain URLs that point to info that could lead someone to your house or give them access to your accounts.
Snap’s first drone, Pixy, fully revealed in FCC photos - Verge
It’s small: rulers in the photos indicate the drone is roughly 130 millimeters wide and 120 millimeters tall, which translates to approximately 5.1 inches by 4.7 inches.
Your own selfie drone. Snap has made a number of new product and feature launches around AR lenses, shopping etc. Check them out here
🤔Interesting read
Autocorrect Explained: Why Your iPhone Adds Annoying Typos While Fixing Others - WSJ
Tpying truble? During the iPhone’s first 15 years, its keyboard software has evolved, but it still sometimes flubs your lines. Here’s how it works and what you can do about it.
Netflix’s Big Wake-Up Call: The Power Clash Behind the Crash - Hollywood Reporter
Several important Netflix creators voice a very consistent theory about what’s gone wrong with the streamer’s culture. They see a link between Netflix’s problems and the 2020 fall of Cindy Holland, who played a key role in launching the service’s originals — brilliantly and often expensively — with House of Cards, Orange Is the New Black and Stranger Things, among others.
Surprising how so much ‘dirt’ is unearthed *after* Netflix’s fall. Where were all these reports earlier?
😎Cool Products, websites and tools
Learn everything about no-code without spending 200+ hours
Yet to try it, but definitely should be helpful. Sadly it’s paid with no option to try. So back to Youtube, I guess. Btw, if you access this from India, do check the ‘Parity Deals’ up top
Zoom Meetings app to break the ice with fun, casual polls!
Are we still using zoom? Argh
📊Poll for the day
Would you like to learn no-code?
Yesa
Already know it, want to improve
Nope
Curated from:
Morning Brew, Verge, Techcrunch, Techmeme, CNBC, Hacker News, Product Hunt and more