🪵 Off the charts

Off the charts

Notion launched their highly anticipated new feature: Charts.

Notion users can now turn any database into a beautiful chart (line, pie, donut, bar; they’ve got ‘em all).

Jobs-to-be-done. Notion share some of the use cases for their fancy new charts feature. Turn a database into:

• An ORK dashboard.

• A breakdown of your content library by category.

• A progress chart tracker.

Notion’s library already lists 70+ templates using charts.

Mixed feelings. Notion has famously gained a lot of traction thanks to its community-led approach to growth — and its extensive free plan. Both took a bit of a hit when the community realised Notion would only allow one chart per Workspace for free users.

The community giveth and the community taketh away.

Google breaks up?

Google is under the microscope following a ruling last week that deemed the tech giant has illegally abused its search monopoly.

It is perhaps the most followed will-they-won’t-they story since Ross and Rachel. Will the court order a break-up? (insert “we were on a break” joke)

What’s going on? In 2020, the Department of Justice started investigating Google’s enormous yearly $26 billion payment to Apple which secures Google as the default search engine of all Apple devices.

The DoJ deemed this behaviour not cool (or as a violation of antitrust laws, we can’t remember) as it may prevent consumers from choosing a different engine and potential alternative search engines from ever competing (unless they got $27 billion in their back pocket).

Four years later and here we are: a federal judge ruled the behaviour as “illegal abuse of monopoly” and is considering the next move.

What now? Google is so massive, it’s unclear what a break-up would actually mean. There are four realistic products Google could split out:

1. Search

2. YouTube

3. Advertising

4. Android

At this point, no one knows how any of this would work.

A court-ordered break-up would be the most significant antitrust move in US history since Microsoft in 2001.

From the woodshed

• Threads introduced new features: rearranging columns (okay?), storing drafts (noice I guess), and audience insights (NICE). The dashboard helps you measure your performance through metrics like views, interactions, and replies. You also learn about your audience with demographics including age, gender, and location.

• Snapchat launched a series of significant updates to their advertising product. The company tells us these changes have had a significant impact on advertisers: 69% reduction in cost-per-lead, 62% increase in form submission rate, and 21% increase in click-through rate.

• Twitch is following the footsteps of Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, et al., introducing video stories. The 60-second creator clips are available for 48 hours. Twitch hope to ramp up engagement, and they need it. CEO Dan Clancy recently announced Twitch is losing money.

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A time-old classic

Written by: Product nerds. What did you expect?

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