Chirag Desai

All I can see is poison… #musings

We chat about Google I/O & our reactions to the Duplex call. Plus a follow up to the #askt3chtree question on smartphone batteries.

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Steve Straza:

The pricing for Twitter’s new account activity API is ridiculous and doesn’t address how Twitter clients have used the streaming APIs until now. Streaming is effectively dead as of August.

Predictable, but still sad.

I attempted a storytelling format on my latest episode on the Wildpeeta brothers & their journey from startup to shut down, and how the lessons they learnt have led to them coming back in partnership with Freedom Pizza.

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Taking monitoring to a whole new level.

Micro Monday shoutout to @hartlco, not just a community member but also actively growing the ecosystem with Icro. Excited that the app is now approved!

Natasha Turak, reporting for CNBC

UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) Director General Hamad Obaid Al Mansouri confirmed the talks this week, according to local news reports, citing Microsoft and Apple’s growing investment plans in the UAE and the desire to forge closer relationships with tech companies as primary reasons.

Let’s hope.

We chat about ride-sharing platform Careem’s security breach notification & some password management tips. Plus, my first @microdotblog outro :)

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Was told today I look like I’m 28. Either I’m doing something right or this person is doing something wrong, but regardless, a happy Saturday :)

Picked up my @instagram archive, will look into importing it to the current blog hopefully. Not planning to quit the platform just yet but glad I have a copy. If you didn’t know, you can pick it up here.