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......»»
Yoobic raises $50M for its chat and communications app app aimed at frontline and service workers
Slack set the standard in many ways for what knowledge workers want and expect out of a workplace collaboration app these days, but a lot has been left on the table when it comes to frontline workers. Today, one of the software companies that has bui.....»»
TSMC dossier (10): Prepare for rainy days and never slack off
According to the ancient Chinese thinker Zhuangzi, persistence on building up competence over time is the only way to earn people's trust. Taiwan, with a small population of less than 24 million, has managed to gain advantages in the semiconductor an.....»»
Rootly nabs $3.2M seed to build SRE incident management solution inside Slack
As companies look for ways to respond to incidents in their complex microservices-driven software stacks, SREs — site reliability engineers — are left to deal with the issues involved in making everything work and keeping the application up and r.....»»
Google Chat review: Terrible as a Slack clone, good as a consumer chat app
Google's enterprise-first chat app is only occasionally awkward for consumers. Enlarge / Google Chat, in just some of its many form factors. (credit: Google) Google Chat officially launched for consumers recently, and that means the time has.....»»
Slack’s new voice, video tools should fit nicely on Salesforce platform after deal closes
It’s easy to forget, but Salesforce bought Slack at the end of last year for almost $28 billion, a deal that has yet to close. We don’t know exactly when that will happen, but Slack continues to develop its product roadmap adding new func.....»»
Slack’s new video and voice tools are nod to changing face of work
Slack started talking about a new set of communications tools to enhance the text-based channels at the end of last year. Today the company released a new audio tool called Slack Huddles and gave more details on a couple of other new tools including.....»»
Microsoft Will Bundle Its Rival To Slack Into Windows 11
Microsoft, which has unveiled a new version of Windows for the first time in six years, said it will integrate its Teams chat and videoconferencing software directly into the operating system. From a report: Teams has seen a huge surge in users durin.....»»
Hackers Explain How They Stole Wealth of Data From EA
The group of hackers that stole a wealth of data from game publishing giant Electronic Arts broke into the company in part by tricking an employee over Slack to provide a login token, Motherboard reported Friday. From the report: The group stole the.....»»
Microsoft launches new tools for Teams developers
At its (virtual) Build conference today, Microsoft launched a number of new features, tools and services for developers who want to integrate their services with Teams, the company’s Slack competitor. It’s no secret that Microsoft basical.....»»
Microsoft Teams with personal features is now available for everyone
The past year has seen the explosion of communication apps like Zoom, Slack, Skype, Teams, Discord and many others as people have had to keep physical interactions to a minimum......»»
Reface now lets users face-swap into pics and GIFs they upload
Buzzy face-swapping video app Reface is expanding its reality-shifting potential beyond selfies by letting users upload more of their own content for its AI to bring to life. Users of its iOS and Android apps still can’t upload their own user g.....»»
UK’s antitrust watchdog takes a closer look at Facebook-Giphy
Potential threats to the free flow of GIFs continue to trouble the UK’s competition watchdog. Facebook’s $400M purchase of Giphy, announced last year, is now facing an in-depth probe by the CMA after the regulator found the acquisition ra.....»»
Slack Creates Privacy Fuss, Abbyy Reaffirms Its Digital Transformation Cred & More News
Abby reaffirms its digital transformation credentials, Slack's DM release backfires, Microsoft brings workers back to the digital workplace and more news. Continue reading........»»
Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform
Last October as Slack was preparing for its virtual Frontiers conference, the company began thinking about different ways people could communicate on the platform. While it had built its name on being able to integrate a lot of services in a single p.....»»
Slack is Building a Clubhouse-like Feature
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said his company would soon adding a range of audio features for all users of its work chat app. From a report: Butterfield said that a feature for leaving audio messages, similar to a function available in messaging app.....»»
Daily Crunch: Don’t panic about Slack’s new Connect feature
Slack launches a new direct messaging feature, Amazon Web Services gets a new leader and we round up our favorite Y Combinator startups. This is your Daily Crunch for March 24, 2021. The big story: Don’t panic about Slack’s new Connect fe.....»»
Slack announced it would let you DM anyone. Then people pointed out that might be a really bad idea
Wednesday morning, Slack rolled out a feature to let its users message people at other companies. By Wednesday afternoon, it was walking the feature back and making changes to prevent harassment after people pointed out that it could be used to send.....»»
Slack pledges update to “Connect DM” after realizing harassment exists
Users immediately spotted the gaping loophole the company didn't notice. Enlarge / Shadowy Slack usage. (credit: Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images) Ubiquitous work-chat platform Slack this morning rolled out a new featu.....»»
WhatsApp for Work: Slack is Turning Into a Full-on Messaging App
Forget email. The final frontier for Slack, as it tries to reimagine the way millions of people communicate at work, is the text message. From a report: Email is a useful tool but a blunt one. It mixes business communication with receipts and confirm.....»»
Slack’s new DM feature Connect is, thankfully, opt-in
I’m sure I’m not the only one who had a minor meltdown on seeing that Slack had finally added the Connect feature it announced in October. I’m a firm believer that there are already entirely too many ways to get ahold of me. On top of the count.....»»