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EXCLUSIVE: Shared channels that allow two businesses to share a workspace in Slack was made available for the first time Tuesday, bringing businesses that collaborate closer together — but that could just be the start. In an interview with VentureBeat, Slack VP of product April Underwood said shared channels could be a precursor to a […]
GUEST: Conversational interfaces have become increasingly common in daily life, from consumer bots on Facebook to Alexa and Google helping us at home to Slack bots that make our working lives easier and more productive. To understand more about the products helping shepherd conversational UI into the enterprise, I interviewed four companies that are preparing […]
While tech giants such as Google and Facebook have been transparent about sharing their diversity statistics and efforts to increase minority representation, the low numbers of women and minorities at work in Silicon Valley’s thriving tech industry have, in the words of a recent Atlantic cover story, “barely budged” over the past few years. According […]
(Reuters) — Slack Technologies on Wednesday showcased new tools designed to make it easier for developers to build apps for the company’s workplace collaboration software. The developer conference was part of a major push by Slack to lure software developers into building special purpose applications, or apps, that plug into its system. “We are doubling […]
Slack’s team chat can be extremely helpful for coordinating with your coworkers, but it can also be supremely distracting. Do you really need a constant stream of alerts and unrelated funny GIFs when you’re trying to get work done… or avoiding work on vacation? Doist (the team behind Todoist) doesn’t believe so. Its newly launched […]
Bloomberg/Getty Images Thomson Reuters, one of the largest providers of financial data, announced on Tuesday a partnership with a Silicon Valley messaging startup. Users of Eikon, Thomson Reuters’ software platform of financial data, news, and analysis, will now have the option to send messages via Symphony, a message application for financial services professionals, akin to […]
There’s no denying that Google’s search engine is pretty great. Ask a question, get an answer. But Google has created an expectation that all search features should be easy to use and just as accurate. That’s why it’s really frustrating when you use the search function on a random website or in an app and you can’t find […]
Slack recently shared insights into how it plans to compete with new entrants to the enterprise chat landscape that include Microsoft Teams, Google’s Hangout Chats, and Workplace by Facebook. Near-, mid-, and long-term plans for the future of the Slack platform for bots were updated Friday in this publicly visible Trello project management board. In the near […]
Dating app Feeld released a Slack plug-in enabling coworkers to express mutual affection for each other, and a few days later, Slack has revealed it doesn’t make the cut. Feeld founder Dimo Trifonov told The Atlantic he’s been informed the app will not be listed in Slack’s directory because of its developer policy, which says […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Something strange happened at work the other day: internecine warfare broke out over emoji use on Slack. The psycho-nerdism level was at 11, and it happened among a geeky staff that included someone who had recently merged a toy teddy bear with Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service. The things you can do with that […]
