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Josh Constine
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My thought piece on WWDC: Forcing developers to use Sign In With Apple makes privacy a product not just a philosophy techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/the…
Apple is building privacy-centric alternatives to Facebook's key products:
-Photo sharing suggestions via iMessage/Mail not social networks
-Memoji in iMessage as a virtual identity platform
-Video editing tools that don't force you to share like Instagram
techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/the…
Apple will meet speed bumps on the privacy high road, though. Sign In With Apple that hides your email hurts developers' marketing ability, so they'll try to bury the mandatory feature techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/the…
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Top takeaways from my video+gaming panel at #AllThingsRTC:
-Video chat can 4X usage & 2X retention for games
-Streaming is evolving from Twitch to narrowcasting to friends & live synchronous play
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Video chat massively ups risk of abuse in games, including bullying of ‘default’ users who haven’t bought/earned fancy skins. Developers should look to safety-as-a-service providers like @TwoHatHQ & @AntiToxinTech
The social+gaming industry loves the validation of Epic/Fortnite acquiring Houseparty, even if it wasn’t a big financial win. It’ll make it easy to squad up before play. Thx to our panelists & attendees!
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Josh Constine
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This startup is crazy. Helium's IoT network has 200X range of Wifi at 1/1000th cost of cellular...but relies on $495 P2P routers it wants people to buy to earn its crypto token... tcrn.ch/2IG2LDb
Helium just raised a $15M Series C bringing it to $51M, and it's signed up Lime & InvisaLeash to use its cheap trackers. But will enough people buy the Helium Hotspot? tcrn.ch/2IG2LDb
What wild luck to spend 6yrs building a wireless protocol startup and then to have the perfect use case -- rental bike/scooter tracking -- emerge the year you launch.
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Josh Constine
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We’d heard rumors that Houseparty was considering acquisition after challenges fundraising. Fortnite’s owner seems like a good home medium.com/@houseparty/ho…
Houseparty gets to survive as part of Epic, while an acquirer like Fb or Twitter might have shut it down & reassigned the team. This is a win for Houseparty’s users
Fortnite-owner Epic emerging as a social app acquirer could encourage early stage social funding, while giving Fb another competitor to point to amidst anti-trust scrutiny
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Aaron Parecki
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Let's clarify some of the misunderstandings around Apple's new "Sign In with Apple" feature announced at #WWDC19, a thread:
tl;dr This is a good move for users in the iOS ecosystem, and is primarily designed as an alternative for apps that currently use "Sign in with [Facebook/Twitter/Google]" to avoid leaking sensitive user info.
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Morning campers! I’ll be live-tweeting from the European Court of Justice today about @Google’s “Right to be Forgotten” hearing.

What’s the main point? Should Europe (or France’s #privacy regulator) be able to apply its rules over the internet worldwide.

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Here's someone who's highly engaged in politics, news and society but didn't know about #MyHROptOut until this morning.

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1/ “Lite” product variants. Everyone says they want lite, but they so rarely get built. Product mgrs, what’s up? techcrunch.com/2017/10/02/fac…
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