{"id":5893,"date":"2015-06-01T07:28:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T07:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/passkit.com\/blog\/?p=5893"},"modified":"2015-06-01T07:28:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T07:28:33","slug":"the-weekend-in-tech-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/passkit.com\/blog\/the-weekend-in-tech-3\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WEEKEND IN TECH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MAY 30-31:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo words dominated tech news this weekend: Android Pay. And while\u00a0the world is still wondering exactly what this\u00a0Google I\/O announcement\u00a0means (we\u2019ll post our understanding shortly),\u00a0we&#8217;ve listed out some of the other tech topics you might have missed in this week&#8217;s Monday review.<br \/>\n<strong>1 \u2013\u00a0GOOGLE\u00a0WANTS YOU TO TOUCH YOURSELF<\/strong><br \/>\nPossibly the coolest piece of tech content\u00a0to come out of Google I\/O last week was<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/atap\/project-jacquard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Jacquard<\/a>. Put simply, it&#8217;s going to revolutionize wearable devices by integrating touch-screen technology seamlessly into your clothing.<br \/>\nRather than\u00a0spoil too much of this\u00a0story, you can watch the Project Jacquard video below for more details:<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qObSFfdfe7I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>2 \u2013\u00a0FACEBOOK&#8217;S GETTING ANIMATED<\/strong><br \/>\nCongratulations Internet, you\u00a0did it. You finally got Facebook to allow GIFs. The social network&#8217;s longstanding angst against allowing these animated shorts on your Feed has finally come to an end. <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/05\/29\/facebook-confirms-it-will-officially-support-gifs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A spokesperson from Facebook told Tech Crunch<\/a>,\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">&#8220;this is so you\u00a0can share more fun, expressive things with your friends on Facebook&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>And the fun doesn&#8217;t\u00a0stop\u00a0on desktop.<br \/>\nFacebook plans to support GIFs on the web and in its mobile app. That said, they confirmed there is a current\u00a0restriction for brands,\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">&#8220;while Pages cannot currently post GIFs, we are exploring ways to enable this in the future&#8221;.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5899\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dxjl3qy52c1o9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/01050343\/fb-animal-gif.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5899\" src=\"https:\/\/dxjl3qy52c1o9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/01050343\/fb-animal-gif.gif\" alt=\"fb-animal-gif\" width=\"465\" height=\"262\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GIF courtesy of TechCrunch.com<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>3 \u2013 &#8216;SLACK&#8217; CONTINUES TO\u00a0DO THE\u00a0<\/strong><b>OPPOSITE<\/b><br \/>\nThe snappy business communications start-up &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slack<\/a>&#8216; might only have been around for less than 2 years, but it has already received <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2015\/04\/16\/why-slack-just-raised-160-million-at-a-2-8-billion-valuation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a valuation of USD 2.8 Billion<\/a>. And it&#8217;s clear to see why, when the CEO Stewart Butterfield announced at the Re\/code Code Conference,\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">&#8220;we&#8217;ve been growing 5% a week for 70 straight weeks &#8211; 98.5% of all people who have ever paid\u00a0for Slack are still using\u00a0it&#8221;.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\nDespite that, Stewart continues to turn down acquisition offers &#8211; 8-10 confirmed offers to be precise. Sounds silly. But as the co-founder of Flickr &#8211;<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/slack-has-turned-down-8-to-10-acquisition-offers-2015-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which sold for USD 35 Million to Yahoo back in 2005<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s safe to say Stewart knows what he&#8217;s doing. Either way, it&#8217;s one B2B tool that&#8217;s worth watching.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5897\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5897\" src=\"https:\/\/dxjl3qy52c1o9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/01044235\/slack-logo_large-1024x403.png\" alt=\"slack-logo_large\" width=\"485\" height=\"191\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to visit their site<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>4 \u2013 WOMAN TOSSES USD 200,000 APPLE 1 AWAY<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you thought the <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/hk\/buy-watch\/apple-watch-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Watch Edition<\/a> was expensive, it&#8217;s got nothing on the market value of the company&#8217;s first product. Which is a price a lady from Silicon Valley won&#8217;t ever forget, as a recycling plant\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/shareables\/2015\/05\/31\/21st-century-cinderella\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently sold her left goods (an Apple 1) for USD 200,000<\/a>. The nice\u00a0guy recycling plant in the Clean Bay Area isn&#8217;t just helping\u00a0to save the planet, they&#8217;re also looking to split the reward with the woman in question. They just need to find her first. So be sure to share\u00a0this post, because you never know who might see it.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5901\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dxjl3qy52c1o9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/01051656\/Apple1_Pascal.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5901\" src=\"https:\/\/dxjl3qy52c1o9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/01051656\/Apple1_Pascal-1024x473.jpg\" alt=\"Apple1_Pascal\" width=\"585\" height=\"270\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Apple 1 &#8211; Credit to http:\/\/www.breker.com\/Press_Release\/From_Pascal_to_Apple.html<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>5 \u2013\u00a0UBER IS NOW FOLLOWING YOU, BUT IT&#8217;S NO\u00a0&#8216;GOD&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nIn busy cities\u00a0like New York and Hong Kong, hailing a cab is a rather clumsy affair. Which is why you use Uber. And now the company has implemented a service that should make a\u00a0smooth ride with them even speedier. All you have to do is<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/05\/31\/uber-privacy-policy-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allow them to access your location<\/a>.\u00a0Doing so will let drivers track where you are, and ultimately find you a lot faster.<br \/>\nThankfully, this isn&#8217;t the same as<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/11\/19\/uber-godview-tracking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;GOD VIEW&#8217;<\/a>,\u00a0that let drivers track down reporters and venture capitalists in\u00a0a PR catastrophe, last year. Mainly because you now have to allow them access. It&#8217;s part of a<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.uber.com\/2015\/01\/protecting-privacy-our-commitment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rewrite to the Uber\u00a0Privacy Policy,<\/a>\u00a0due to said\u00a0catastrophe. And thankfully, you don&#8217;t need to have\u00a0it on. It won&#8217;t affect your app or Uber experience too much if you choose to stay anonymous.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5904\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dxjl3qy52c1o9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/01053443\/uber-germany_injunction.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5904\" src=\"https:\/\/dxjl3qy52c1o9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/01053443\/uber-germany_injunction-1024x686.jpg\" alt=\"File illustration picture showing the logo of car-sharing service app Uber on a smartphone next to the picture of an official German taxi sign\" width=\"518\" height=\"347\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UBER &#8211; Everyone&#8217;s Private Driver<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 30-31:\u00a0 Two words dominated tech news this weekend: Android Pay. And while\u00a0the world is still wondering exactly what this\u00a0Google I\/O announcement\u00a0means (we\u2019ll post our understanding shortly),\u00a0we&#8217;ve listed out some of the other tech topics you might have missed in this week&#8217;s Monday review. 1 \u2013\u00a0GOOGLE\u00a0WANTS YOU TO TOUCH YOURSELF Possibly the coolest piece of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/passkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/passkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/passkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/passkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/passkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/passkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/passkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/passkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/passkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/passkit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}