Dropbox IPO?

Yup. atlassian. I have used their products since 2007-8.

Office 365 sucks. It only allows the most basic functions without checking out the doc. Once you checkout the doc, then others can’t edit it.

Salesforce has a new product called quip. It’s supposed to eliminate email attachments and support collaboration in docs. I haven’t tried it yet.

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For all the technical strengths Google has, I gotta remind you that Google also had Orkut pre-FB and Google chat pre-Whatsapp!

Google has always underestimated the power of good marketing. Kinda ironic for a company that sells ads for a living :wink:

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There’s a difference: Orkut - we acquired. Google plus, we goofed up, but i think plenty of successful things came out of it: Photos, Single-Sign-on, Hangouts integration.

You make fun of google chat, but i use it over whatsapp. Even before working for google that was my way. Whatsapp webclient didn’t exist, and even now that it exists, i still find it useless. Hangout is how i talked to my wife when we were long distance darlings, and it is how i talk to my parents and sister today. Can’t do that over whatsapp.

Office 365 may suck but it has the huge advantage of being the default. Most work sharing are on one of the Office documents: Word, Excel or PowerPoint. External competitors need to be a lot better to convince companies to switch.

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Hangout needs a facelift. I don’t use it because I never notice when people are pinging me unless I have audio on or if I squint my eyes real hard to notice the notification on the tab. Unless I am missing something but it needs something more eye popping.

enable notifications :slight_smile:

Too late. I mainly use Facebook messenger and Whatsapp now :stuck_out_tongue:

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i uninstalled facebook. one of the very good decisions i made.

Why? I think it’s a great way to know what’s happening to the people you know, even though they mostly only post positives and not the negatives.

Sheeeesh… The phrase that sunk 1000 ships… Steve Jobs’ can singlehandedly kill an IPO from the grave…

I agree with sfdragonboy… don’t care if it’s a feature or not if it’s profitable.

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The answer is - it’s not.

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Try not using it for a week - just uninstall it. you can install it back again. I realized how little i care what’s happening to the people i know. The ones i care, i already talk to them through less disruptive channels.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing that.

It was in the beginning of this thread :exploding_head:

Or the middle?

I don’t think it has to do with whether you care for them or not but how nosy you are :ghost: Some people don’t like Facebook because they don’t want to see others showing off their lavish vacations while they are eating cup noodles at home. For some reason that doesn’t bother me at all so I still go on there at least once a day. Hey if you can afford to go on vacation once a month kudos to you!

Hah, for me not at all. I don’t care about what people do with their time. I can go on a vacation, but i figured vacation is more boring than working - call me workaholic - i cannot turn that brain off. People posting their vacations and so on just tells me ā€œpeople’s need to share they did a lavish vacationā€ - never had that myself.

Again, try uninstalling it for a week or two. And install it back if you want.

I find Facebook a depressing waste of my time.

People ranting over silly things.

People posting what they ate.

People posting cat and dog memes.

And I really should be doing better things that reading about what someone I knew 20 years ago’s kid is doing in the living room. Even if I still care about their family, I should be spending time with mine.