Episode 280: It would be nice if calendaring were fixed

This week we offer advice to Zoom on why they should build a calendar and what companies they should acquire. Plus, Matt explains why you want to mount your browser tabs as files.

Rundown

• Zoom to build a calendar
  • Buoyed by Video Success, Zoom Explores Email, Calendar Services
  • Zoom may launch an email service and calendar app to compete with Google and Microsoft
• Mount your browser tabs as a filesystem

Relevant to your interests

• A round-up of our favourite charts of 2020
• Google, Alphabet employees unionize
• How Google workers secretly built a union
• Warren Ellis Returns For 2021
• AWS IAM Talk
• Stripe’s Developer Coefficient
• VMware files suit against former exec for moving to rival company
• VMware Issues Statement Regarding Litigation Against Rajiv Ramaswami
• Wondery to join Amazon Music
• SECURITY: New maintainer is probably malicious
• Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan healthcare joint venture to shut business next month
• Haven will shut down, ending joint healthcare bid by Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan
• WSJ News Exclusive | Roku Nears Deal to Buy Rights to Quibi’s Content
• When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?
• Ticketmaster admits it hacked rival company before it went out of business
• Ticketmaster Will Pay $10 Million Fine to Settle Federal Charges It Hacked Rival’s System
• DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
• Quest Software Acquires Data Governance Company Erwin - ChannelE2E
• The FAA just moved drone deliveries one step closer to your front door
• CNCF Annual Report 2020 | Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• Introduction to WebAssembly
• Computer Fraud And Abuse Act Reform
• Georgia’s runoff may have saved net neutrality
• Reproducible builds and docker
• Statement on the story from The New York Times regarding JetBrains and SolarWinds
• Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry Point for Huge U.S. Hacking
• Storageless storage is the 'answer' to Kubernetes data challenges – Blocks and Files
• An open source, drop-in replacement for CentOS is on its way

Nonsense

• KFC launches 4K, 240FPS gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer
• In China, McDonald’s serving Spam burger topped with Oreo crumbs: ‘When you hate someone but have to invite him to dinner.
• Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail

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Recommendations

• Matt:
  • Uncivil podcast
  • MF DOOM Will Never Really Die
• Brandon:
  • Listen to the recent interviews with Sebastien on Serverless and Squire on Security.
  • Listen to Brandon’s guest appearance on The Cloudcast talking hybrid cloud
  • Soul
• Coté: Coconut Rice. Raised by Wolves.

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