The Weekly Squeak — Grafana, Brave, WeWork, and Football manager
In this issue I speak with Raj Dutt of Grafana. I also cover the rise of the Brave browser, keep an eye on Softbank, question Apple’s design, look at the new tabletop game, Tapestry, investigate the issues with coworking, and much more!
xx Chinch
Podcast version
You can listen to the audio version of this newsletter, and the full interview with Raj Dutt below:
Google Chrome experiment crashes browser tabs, impacts companies worldwide — www.zdnet.com
In what looks to be the Chrome team’s biggest misstep, companies report massive outages caused by unannounced Chrome experiment.
Google Searches for the Crypto-Powered Brave Browser Surge After Its 1.0 Release — www.cryptoglobe.com
Had enough of Chrome? The cryptocurrency-powered Brave browser came out of beta this week and as soon as it did mainstream media coverage helped interest in it grow, so much so Google searches for it surged.
Apple built its $1 trillion empire on two metaphors. One is breaking — www.fastcompany.com
Technology that once seemed so easy now seems like it’s making us do its bidding, writes Cliff Kuang in his new book, ‘User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play.’
SoftBank and Line to form $30B company — www.mobileworldlive.com
I keep telling you, keep a close eye on Softbank 🧐
The WeWork problem people aren’t talking about that is spreading across the co-working world — www.cnbc.com
The number of co-working spaces worldwide is projected to soon cross 20,000 and reach 25,968 by 2022, an increase of 42% from 2019, according to CoworkingResources in its recently released Global Coworking Growth Study 2019.
What if the Soviet Union never collapsed? Meet the Football Manager fans rewriting history — www.wired.co.uk
Its data-driven realism has led to Brexit presentations in front of parliament — yet many use Football Manager to create their own footy science-fiction
Tapestry: Has the mythical “2-hour civ-building board game” arrived? — arstechnica.com
One of the year’s most anticipated board games is a 2-hour civ-builder.
