Technology

When it comes to managing our time, many of us would agree there’s room for improvement. Jeremiah Dillon, Head of Product Marketing at Google Apps for Work, has shared his insights on how to get things done in an email to colleagues that was later published online. In the email, Dillon explains that there are two types of schedulers: the manager and the maker. The manager’s day is divided into 30-minute slots. “They change what they’re doing every half hour. Sorta like Tetris – shifting blocks around and filling spaces,” he writes. The maker’s day, on the other hand, is different.…

When Facebook bought WhatsApp after signing a multi-billion deal, many people compared it with Facebook’s own IM service Messenger. But, Facebook has constantly worked to draw a differentiating line between the two. Last year at its F8 conference, Facebook announced that it’ll be developing Messenger as a platform while WhatsApp will be a simple app that’ll continue to focus on make texting and calling a better experience. In 2015, Facebook made significant changes in Messenger that included video calling, ability to customize conversations with emojis and stickers, updated location sharing, money sharing and a lot more. In his Facebook post, Zuckerberg…

E-mail is old and complex. It's the oldest still-recognizable component of the Internet, with its modern incarnation having coalesced out of several different decades-old messaging technologies including ARPANET node-to-node messaging in the early 1970s. And though it remains a cornerstone of the Internet—the original killer app, really—it's also extraordinarily hard to do right. We most often interact with e-mail servers through friendly Web-based front-ends or applications, but a tremendous amount of work goes into hiding the complexity that allows the whole system to work. E-mail functions in a poisoned and hostile environment, flooded by viruses and spam. The seemingly simple…