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Episode 378: Email is not broken

This week we discuss Amazon’s “Builder Experience” Unit, Adobe buying Figma, Slack’s Status and Zoom gets into email. Plus, Coté embraces the defaults Notes lifestyle.

Runner-up Titles

Freed from Intel
It works!
Coteisms are, in fact, incompatible with defaulteisms
It will be fun
The Apple Chip
A Demi Kettle
Pay for your own Flu
Free to interrupt me
Feet on the desk in business suit emoji.
None of us can master the intranet.
The network is the calendar.

Rundown

Amazon Built a New Unit to Fix Its Crumbling Engineering Culture
Adobe

Adobe buying design startup Figma for $20 billion
Adobe Is Said to Near Deal to Buy Online Design Startup Figma
Adobe-Figma deal likely to attract antitrust scrutiny
What Adobe’s Really Paying For Figma: $20 Billion

Could Slack Finally Fix the 'Away' Status?

Slack gets a new Canvas, thanks to Salesforce
Slack’s new Canvas feature puts a document editor in your chat window

Zoom Readies Email and Calendar Products to Defend Itself Against Microsoft, Google

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Conferences

Sydney Cloud FinOps Meetup, online, Oct 13, 2022 Matt’s presenting
KubeCon North America, Detroit, Oct 24 – 28, 2022
SpringOne Platform, SF, December 6–8, 2022
THAT Conference Texas Call For Counselors Jan 16-19, 2023

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Email is not broken

Episode 378

September 23rd, 2022

1 hr 14 mins

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About this Episode

This week we discuss Amazon’s “Builder Experience” Unit, Adobe buying Figma, Slack’s Status and Zoom gets into email. Plus, Coté embraces the defaults Notes lifestyle.