How to add GIFs to Slack
Make your coworker’s day, say good morning, or let your employee know they did a great job. Here’s how to add GIFs to Slack for a fun way to communicate......»»
Slack went down today, but work wasn"t canceled
Slack went down for many users Tuesday morning, throwing off companies that rely on the popular workplace communication platform just as workers returned from the extended holiday weekend......»»
Slack welcomes users back to work with an outage
Slack went down for many users Tuesday morning, throwing off companies that rely on the popular workplace communication platform just as workers returned from the extended holiday weekend......»»
The end of a wild pandemic ride: What it was like for Peloton employees who lost their jobs this week
Late Monday night, some Peloton staffers noticed they were unable to access work productivity apps like Slack and Okta, which they used regularly on the job. Peloton's employees had been told about a scheduled maintenance window that might cause serv.....»»
Box expands Slack integration to increase security and improve productivity
Box released an enhanced Box for Slack integration that enables customers to use Box as the single file storage system in the Slack environment. With this new enhancement, Box’s enterprise-grade security, compliance, and governance features are app.....»»
Huddle is Slack"s messiest feature
Nothing puts the "mess" in "messaging platform" like Slack Huddles.The popular workplace communication platform released "Huddles" in 2021 as part of a collection of tools designed to improve remote work. The feature lets people quickly and easily st.....»»
Gmail"s Next Big Redesign Starts Rolling Out Next Week
Google will finally start rolling out the Gmail redesign it first showed off last year. The company is calling the interface in the update the "integrated view" because the goal is to integrate Google's latest messaging service, Google Chat (a Slack.....»»
Vice Mocks GIFs as "For Boomers Now, Sorry". (And For Low-Effort Millennials)
"GIF folders were used by ancient civilisations as a way to store and catalogue animated pictures that were once employed to convey emotion," Vice writes: Okay, you probably know what a GIF folder is — but the concept of a special folder neede.....»»
How to Download Twitter Videos
Twitter community posts some of the best images, GIFs, and videos one can find. If you follow lots of topics on Twitter, you will come across all the more video-related content on your feed every day. But isn’t it a shame that you can’t save vide.....»»
Product showcase: Adaptive Shield SaaS Security Posture Management
Whether it’s Office 365, Salesforce, Slack, GitHub or Zoom, all SaaS apps include a host of security features designed to protect the business and its data. The job of ensuring that these apps’ security settings are properly configured falls on t.....»»
4 Slack features that Microsoft Teams desperately needs
Slack and Microsoft Teams are two of the most popular communication apps, but Slack has some features that Teams desperately needs......»»
Why Slack isn’t afraid of Microsoft Teams or any other competitor
Slack’s newest executive says the company’s collaboration platform exists in a whole different category......»»
Amazon"s AWS Logs Its Third Outage this Month, Affecting Slack, Epic Games Store, Asana and More
Amazon's crucial web services business AWS is experiencing problems today, with issues affecting services like Slack, Imgur, and the Epic Games store for some users. From a report: It's not looking good if you're working from home, with some Slack us.....»»
AWS suffers third outage of the month
Failure in northern Virginia data center affects Slack, Epic Games among others. Enlarge (credit: Chesnot | Getty Images) December has been a rough month for Amazon—at least for Amazon Web Services. The massively popular clo.....»»
Microsoft Teams is reportedly under investigation for its free NHS gift
The UK government is on the case as pressure mounts from Slack and other Microsoft Teams competitors......»»
Twitter Acquires, Shuts Down Would-Be Slack Rival Quill
Twitter announced it has acquired Quill, a business-focused messaging service meant to compete against the likes of Slack. According to TechCrunch, "Quill is not making the cut in the acquisition: it will be winding down as an app" as Twitter works t.....»»
Twitter just bought Quill, and is shutting it down this weekend
Quill launched back in February for most major platforms as an alternative to Slack, the enterprise communication and collaboration app Salesforce acquired in December 2020 for $27.7 billion. In short, Quill’s creators felt existing platforms were.....»»
Twitter might be taking on Slack by introducing business DMs
Twitter's acquisition of Quill gives the company everything it needs to launch a business messaging service......»»
How to make your own emoji
When you can't quite get your meaning across with a standard Unicode emoji, here's how to create an emoji to use on Slack, Discord, or other chat services......»»
Those Cute Cats Online? They Help Spread Misinformation
"Videos and GIFs of cute animals — usually cats — have gone viral online for almost as long as the internet has been around..." writes the New York Times. "Now, it is becoming increasingly clear how widely the old-school internet trick.....»»
Meta’s failed Giphy deal could end Big Tech’s spending spree
Not so long ago, Meta’s big-money deal to acquire Giphy would have been waved through. Enlarge (credit: Daniel Grizelj | Getty Images) Instagram? Sure! WhatsApp? Go nuts. But don’t mess with GIFs. That’s the strange posi.....»»