🔗 Skype is dead. What happened? - On my Om

🔗 Daring Fireball

Microsoft now talks about Teams being their focus, showing that even today they haven’t realized what made Skype a cultural, consumer force. Microsoft Teams is a terrible product – and I dread using it. In simplest terms, Teams is a perfect encapsulation of a bureaucratic, archaic, and outdated 50-year-old company that is trying to reinvent itself as an AI leader.

💬 Om Malik

It single-handedly destroyed the long-distance calling business. Most young people today don’t remember, but long-distance calls used to cost a lot of money. Especially for immigrants, calling home used to cost a fortune. Skype made it free.

💬 Om Malik

In the early days of podcasting, seemingly every show used Skype because it was so much better than anything else. And it was free! It felt like the future. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that if not for Skype, podcasting would’ve been set back several years.

💬 John Gruber

Sharing these - and Om nailed it in that second quote.

Especially for immigrants, calling home used to cost a fortune. Skype made it free.

I was one of those immigrants calling home.

SAD.

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// @numericcitizen

🔗 No second state visit for Trump

OR 🔗 here - AT ‘STOP TRUMP DOT ORG’

SIGNED

It had to happen:

🔗 Storm The Capital - The Game

Full Disclosure - not (yet) bought it.

🔗 📼 A Minecraft Movie | Official Trailer

No plans to see it - but was reminded that around 15 months ago we were looking for a place to live in Auckland and everywhere we tried was gone before we got there - apparently three movies were in town filming (end of 2023) - but the biggest ‘secret’ was a ‘Moma film about a video game’. And here we are 18 months later …

[🔗📼 Searing Pie - don’t watch if offended by bad language.]youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_…)

🔗 Anti-Elon Musk Poster “Don’t Buy a Swasticar” in London Goes Viral. (Hollywood Reporter on Apple News)

The photo is taken from the moment Musk, also the founder of SpaceX, made what looked like a Nazi salute at Trump’s January inauguration rally, drawing criticisms from all over the globe. The poster dubs Tesla “The Swasticar.”

My edit because it’s important to get the facts right.

In August 2024 he was ‘considering’ a complete and permanent move to New Zealand. Read More

As of yesterday he’s outta here - Kiwi passport in hand - and still hanging on to a large chunk of property in the South Island.

• Other than that what exactly was that all about?
• How much of that wealth trickled into New Zealand?
• How did it benefit any Kiwi?

It was a publicity stunt. The Kiwis were played. And they are going to be played again because National have just brought that idea back …

New Zealand changes ‘golden visa’ to lure wealthy migrants

To Remind Real Thiel’ emerged in his attack on Gawker.

But his Palantir investment is tanking …. but am sure that it will all be ok once his old Paypal mates ‘sort out America’

And please don’t cry too much. After dropping 30% in the past 5 days, the Palantir price is still UP 150% just since August last year.

Love The Waterboys and today discovered these two tracks via The Rockenteurs in a conversation with Mike Scott.

🔗🎵 Hopper’s On Top (Genius) by The Waterboys

🔗🎵 Andy (A Guy Like You) by The Waterboys

If these two are any example of the other 23 tracks - it is going to ROCK.