2019年6月19日
Here's what Facebook's new cryptocurrency Libra will look like and how it will work
Facebook新的加密货币天秤座将会是什么样子以及它将如何运作
It’s official, Facebook’s making its own currency. The social network on Tuesday unveiled Libra, the secretive cryptocurrency it’s been working on for more than a year. The currency is being backed by investment from big payment companies like Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal, as well as tech giants including Uber and Spotify.
It’s set up a subsidiary company called Calibra, a wallet to handle users’ cryptocurrency dealings, plus an independent not-for-profit “Libra Association,” made up of founding companies that have already thrown their weight behind Libra to the tune of $US10 million each.
- Libra will be accessible through Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and a standalone app: a Libra digital wallet, in which people can store the cryptocurrency, will be accessible through Messenger, WhatsApp, and an app called Calibra.
- You’ll need a government-issued ID to set it up: Once Libra launches in 2020, people will need to provide a government-issued ID to set up an account.
- How will users put money in their Calibra wallets? Users will be able to convert their local currency into Libra and then store that balance of Libra in their Calibra wallet. They will be able to do this electronically.
- What will you be able to pay for with Libra? So far, Facebook has shown off Libra for money transfer. Over time there will be many others including in-store payments, integrations into point-of-sale systems, and more.
- It won’t be fully controlled by Facebook. Facebook has set up an independent “Libra Association” to govern the currency. Mark Zuckerberg hopes to get 100 members onboard before the currency launches, and it is theoretically open to rivals like Google and Twitter.
A founder who sold his startup for $100 million within weeks of launching is back with a startup to make meetings suck less 一位创业者在启动后的几周内以1亿美元的价格出售了他的创业公司，但他的新创业公司却让会议变得更高效
Meetings are an overwhelming, and often dreaded, part of many jobs. Gentry Underwood, back in 2013, he sold his startup Mailbox, a mobile email app, to Dropbox for a reported $US100 million. The app was only 37 days old, and over half a million people were still waiting in line to try out the app, when it was acquired.
Navigator, a teamwork assistant powered by artificial intelligence. It’s supposed to help people work together and handle menial tasks like putting together agendas, suggesting questions to ask in a meeting, or gathering feedback. It was created by the same team behind Mailbox. His team had been working with over 50 teams and experimenting with various ways to make workplace collaboration more effective. Currently, Navigator is free while it’s in beta. It will roll out a paid version later this year.
With Navigator, the team plans to create an assistant that can facilitate team and 1-on-1 meetings by reaching out to attendees, gathering discussion topics, organising an agenda, taking notes, and following up with attendees after the meeting. Navigator is currently focusing on team and 1-on-1 meetings, it plans to eventually support other types of meetings and to incorporate advanced capabilities for making decisions, gathering feedback, and solving problems.
How to create and customise a Google Group to easily email and coordinate 如何创建和自定义Google网上论坛以轻松发送电子邮件和进行协调
Staying in touch with specific groups of people can be vital, whether you’re getting a project off the ground or just making sure you don’t lose touch with old friends. But sometimes email is just too cumbersome a tool for messaging multiple people – and that’s when a separate group contact can come in handy. GoogleGroups is one tool that you can use to meet that need.
1. Sign into Google Groups.
2. Click “Create group” (located near the top-left corner of the screen).
3. Fill out the necessary information, like Group name, email address, and primary language. You’ll also need to decide what particular type of group you want. The categories are: Email list, Web forum, Q&A forum and Collaborative inbox.
4. Click “Create” (the red button located at the top of the screen).
Add contacts to a Google Group
1. Click “My Groups” in the sidebar pictured above.
2. In the list that appears, find the group you want to add members to, and click “Manage members” under its name.
3. A page will open showing all the people currently in the group, and their roles. In the sidebar, under “Members,” click “Invite members.”
4. Enter all the email addresses that you want to invite, separated by commas.
If you already have an email list, select “My Groups” and then choose the right one. Next, click on “Manage group,” followed by “Information” and then “Advanced.”
Then, click the down arrow next to “Select a group type” and choose “Email list.” From that final screen, you can choose “Web forum,” “Q and A forum,” or “Collaborative inbox.”
Finally, click “Reset this group,” and then in the pop-up click “Reset this group.”
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