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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