Linked List: March 27, 2015

Friday, 27 March 2015

Amazon to Remove Non-Compete Clause From Contracts for Hourly Workers ★

Kudos to The Verge for their reporting on this.

SupportKit: Beautifully Simple In-App Messaging ★

My thanks to SupportKit for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. SupportKit is a brilliant idea: in-app messaging for iOS apps. You add SupportKit to your app, and boom, your users will be able to message you as easily as texting with a friend. Users compose messages in a beautiful interface — without leaving your app — and their messages arrive in your inbox, Slack, or your favorite CRM. Your replies are instantly delivered back to the user in your app.

SupportKit also allows you to start conversations. You can send targeted and timely messages to your users that feel friendly, not spammy. Visit SupportKit.io to learn more and get started for free in under 10 minutes.

My Interview With ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ Authors Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli ★

The SoHo Apple Store hosted a “Meet the Author” event last night with Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, and I had the pleasure of playing the host for the interview. Apple recorded it, and it’s now available as both video and audio. I thought it was fun and fascinating. And I’m kind of proud that it got flagged as “explicit” — but that was Bill Gates’s fault.

Slack Hacked ★

This sucks, but I like the way they’re handling this.