Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Google accused of working to prevent Trump return in 2020
Twitter’s underrated Lists feature finally gets some attention
Twitter Lists have never gotten the attention they deserve. A feature largely adopted by Twitter power users, lists allow you to create custom timelines by adding only those users whose tweets you want to track. And this can be done without having to also follow those Twitter accounts, which keeps your main timeline clutter-free. But the Twitter Lists feature has always been somewhat buried in Twitter’s interface — at least until now. The company today announced it’s testing a way to make lists easier to access, by relocating them only a swipe away from your home screen.
According to a tweet shared today, Twitter has been thinking about how to make lists easier to get to.
“One idea we had is for you to be able to swipe to your lists from home,” the company explained, followed by a request for feedback.
If you’ve been added to the test, your home timeline will now show dashed lines across the top for each list — a familiar design for anyone who’s ever used Snapchat or Instagram Stories, for example.
From the main timeline, you simply swipe left to move through all your custom timelines, much like you’d advance through Stories.
Lists are especially useful for things you want to track only sometimes — like tweets about a favorite sports team, TV show, or hashtag, perhaps. Or you could make a list of Twitter accounts that tweet cute animal photos, for when the rest of Twitter gets you down. You can also use lists for tracking notable accounts in a given industry, for research purposes, or for following accounts around any other particular interest. You can even use lists as a way to follow someone’s tweets without actually following them.
Lists can also be both public and private, depending on whether you’re looking to share your Twitter curation with the wider world or not.
Twitter didn’t say how many people would be added to the test.
Nor does a test mean the feature is definitely going to launch to the public. But a better interface for accessing lists is something those who use the Lists feature have wanted for some time.
The test is available in Twitter’s mobile app for those who have been opted in.
Researchers have discovered OSX/Linker malware exploiting an unpatched macOS flaw that would allow a malicious binary to bypass the Gatekeeper scanning process (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
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Forerunner just led a $3.5 million round for Homeroom, a software platform for after-school enrichment programs
San Francisco-based Forerunner Ventures is best known for its long string of bets on successful and fast-growing consumer companies. Now, its newest partner, Brian O’Malley, who has a knack for finding startups that straddle both the consumer and enterprise worlds, has written his first check on behalf of the firm, and it’s largely in that same vein.
The company: Homeroom, a two-year-old, 12-person, San Francisco-based marketplace business focused around after-school enrichment programs. In the simplest terms, the company makes free software for program organizers that provides them with a clearer way to schedule classes; organize sign-ups; and accept, process, and track payment.
It makes money from the growing number of class vendors that want to extend their reach into new school districts and which provide Homeroom with a cut every time a parent signs up his or her child for one of their after-school programs.
It’s easy to see Homeroom’s appeal. Program organizers are often parent-volunteers who are trying to keep tabs on after-school programs through email and Excel spreadsheets. Sometimes these organizers’ view into what’s what is so specific to them that they get stuck in the role — even after their own children have moved on to other schools. A startup like Homerun can also serve as kind a recommendation engine, pointing out robotics of ceramics or Spanish language class offerings that these parents or other organizers might not know about.
From a market standpoint, the opportunity that Homeroom is chasing is sizable, too. Founded by former Stanford classmates Cassandra Espinoza Stewart, who previously worked as an analyst with Greylock, and Christina Walker, a former teacher in Greenwich, Ct., where she designed after-school programs for some of its youngest students, Homeroom is basically targeting the 5.7 million elementary school children enrolled in enrichment programs after school in the U.S..
These programs cost parents from the low thousands of dollars to more than $10,000 per kid per year and, according to one estimate, are part of what had become a $23 billion industry as of last year.
Stewart and Walker think it would be far larger if more children had access to a broader selection of affordable programming. (Currently, they point out, more than 40 percent of U.S. children are not enrolled in after-school programs, despite that many come from households where both parents work.)
Indeed, down the road, says Stewart, the company might even offer a way for parents to make smaller payments over a longer period of time for enrichment programs (presumably charging them some interest for the service).
One could see such financing becoming a key part of Homeroom’s reach and generating revenue, in fact. In the meantime, its first funding round of $3.5 million in seed capital should also help.
In addition to Forerunner, other investors to participate in the newly financing includes Felicis Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Kapor Capital, and numerous angel investors. Among these are Deborah Quazzo, a partner at GSV; Tyler Bomeny, who is the CEO of the classroom software company Clever; and HotelTonight CEO Jared Simon.
LG W-Series Phones to Be Launched in India Today, LG W30 Expected
Asus 6Z Set to Go on Sale in India Today via Flipkart
Google Play Store has over 2,000 fake apps
NY-based Button, which links apps to other apps for smoother mobile shopping, raises $30M Series C led by Icon Ventures; source: deal values company at $200M+ (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
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Airbnb launches Airbnb Luxe, a new luxury tier of 2,000 listings with an average price of $14K a week to as high as $1M a week for a private atoll (Bloomberg)
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Desi content helps Indian apps get downloads from foreign countries
Tatas may soon join queue for drone clearance from DGCA
Executives at seven of Facebook's Libra partners say the companies have only signed nonbinding agreements and have not yet paid to join the Libra Association (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)
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FCC broadband committee ex-chair sentenced to five years in prison for fraud; as a telecom CEO, she forged contracts to raise $270M+ for a fiber network (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
FCC broadband committee ex-chair sentenced to five years in prison for fraud; as a telecom CEO, she forged contracts to raise $270M+ for a fiber network — Telecom CEO forged contracts in order to raise $270 million from investors. — The former head of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Broadband …
Monday, June 24, 2019
Huawei's US Research Arm Said to Be Building a Separate Identity
Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice caused panic and pushback from investors (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg : Anthropic cuts its list of unauthorized secondary market sellers from eight to four after the initial notice cau...
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; ...
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