Clubhouse: What is it and how do you get invited?
The new social-media app has already attracted huge names - and been banned in several countries......»»
Daily Crunch: Investors back away from Dispo
Dispo is in the midst of a sexual assault controversy, Zoom introduces an SDK and Android owners will have to continue waiting for Clubhouse access. This is your Daily Crunch for March 22, 2021. The big story: Investors back away from Dispo After a r.....»»
Clubhouse says its Android launch will take ‘a couple of months’
Social audio app Clubhouse has now promised a time frame of sorts for the launch of its anticipated Android version, following its recent hire of an Android software developer last month. In its weekly Townhall event on Sunday, Clubhouse co-founder P.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Clubhouse Style
Let’s stipulate the storm of user media (social audio, newsletters, live streaming) is evidence of something real and lasting. When this citizen media migrates to small business and the enterprise, we see that as confirmation, validation. Most.....»»
Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program
Clubhouse promises its accelerator participants either brand deals or $5K per month during the program.....»»
Swell launches its app for asynchronous voice conversations
You might think that Clubhouse is the final word on audio-centric social networks, but a San Francisco startup called Swell is launching its own iOS and Android app focused on voice conversations. The big difference: While conversations on Clubhouse.....»»
Everyone’s Invited: Children recount "rape culture" experiences
More than 4,000 people have submitted their experiences to an online platform......»»
Apple Podcasts To Stop Using "Subscribe"
A small change with a big impact: no more "subscribe: as podcasting moves to "follow." From a report: Apple Podcasts will no longer use the word "subscribe" in a few weeks. Listeners will be invited to "follow" their favourite podcasts instead. The n.....»»
How a year of living almost exclusively online made the internet weird again
On the audio-based app Clubhouse, people are gathering in virtual rooms to make whale moaning noises or to participate in silent meditation together. Hundreds of people on the popular gaming platform Discord started a server where they just send each.....»»
A Japanese clubhouse features in today"s Dezeen Weekly newsletter
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes a clubhouse and activity centre for a hotel in rural Japan. Read more The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter includes a clubhouse and activity centre for a hotel in rura.....»»
Twitter Spaces to launch publicly next month, may include Spaces-only tweets
Twitter Spaces, the social network’s Clubhouse rival, is working towards a public launch in April, the company announced in comments made in a public Twitter Space audio room on Wednesday. According to the Space’s host, Alex aka @akkhosh.....»»
New metrics could reduce gender gap in STEM fields
Hiring, promotion and tenure within universities are based on objective metrics of performance, something that is often evaluated using metrics that disproportionately favor men over women, such as citations and invited lectureships......»»
SIP Global Partners announces first close of its $150M fund to bring U.S. startups into Japan
Japan is under discussed as an expansion target for American startups, but in the past few years it has become a top market for companies like Slack, Salesforce, Twitter and, more recently, Clubhouse. Today SIP Global Partners is announcing a new fun.....»»
In a first for Europe, Passion Capital will crowd-fund part of its new $62M fund from retail investors
Passion Capital, one of the UK’s first early-stage VCs, is to crowd-fund the final stage of its latest £45 million fund ($62.5m), Passion Capital Fund III. TechCrunch understands this is the first time retail investors have been invited to become.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Win Win
Just finished a Twitter Spaces session. It is an engaging platform, somewhat clunky in feature set but easily a tie overall with Clubhouse. I don’t see this as a horse race, however, more as cooperating teams fleshing out a platform where both.....»»
Klein Dytham Architecture creates "fairytale building" for Japanese hotel
Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture has designed PokoPoko as a clubhouse and activity centre surrounded by forest for the Risonare Nasu hotel in rural Japan. Read more Tokyo-based Klein Dytham Architecture has designed PokoPoko as a club.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Off The Record
Of all the gin joints etc. etc. Clubhouse continues to confound those who don’t believe in the restorative powers of the Next Big Thing. It doesn’t make sense, they say, that an audio service based on live podcasts will change the course.....»»
Will audio-only apps change our use of social networks?
From Clubhouse to Twitter's Spaces, LJ Rich looks at the rise of a new type of social network......»»
Twitter Spaces arrives on Android ahead of Clubhouse
Twitter announced today it’s opening up its live audio chat rooms, known as Twitter Spaces, to users on Android. Previously, the experience was only open to select users on iOS following the product’s private beta launch in late December.....»»
Bill Gates reveals why he prefers Android over iOS
Speaking to CNBC and NY Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin on the invite-only Clubhouse app (via Android Central), Gates confirmed that his long preference for the Android mobile operating system hasn't changed—but he doesn't avoid Apple handsets.....»»
Wondering About the Invite-Only Clubhouse App? Here Is What All the Fuss Is About
Wondering why all the fuss regarding the new Clubhouse app? We uncover the good, the bad and what it means for the future of online discussion. Continue reading........»»