The secret to Zoom’s popularity lies in the platform’s ease of use.

(British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made history by holding the first ever cabinet meeting via Zoom, though he was promptly chastized for posting a screenshot of the meeting on Twitter with the meeting ID clearly displayed.) Boris Johnson / Twitterīritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson held the first-ever cabinet meeting using Zoom he wound up in trouble for inadvertently posting the meeting ID. As the app’s popularity grew, Zoom showed up in surprising places: it became, for instance, the platform of choice for the UK government. When work-from-home orders swept the globe in March, Yuan said his company would work to support those affected by the outbreak. The platform provides video services for enterprise, consumer and educational customers, and its relatively simple setup (compared to competitors) took it to Unicorn status in 2017 and an IPO in 2019. What is Zoom? The basicsįounded by former Webex executive Eric Yuan in 2011 and officially launched in 2013, Zoom’s aim is to make videoconferencing easy and accessible. Here’s a look at what Zoom is, does and how it works. Zoom for Home marked a sharp pivot by the company into hardware.ĭespite some missteps, the company appears poised to continue to grow and evolve, making it an important tool for companies looking to ride out the pandemic with workers distributed far and wide. (Zoom is apparently so sure that’s the case that in July it launched Zoom for Home, an ill-conceived piece of hardware that assumed everyone participating on a video call wants as much of their home in view as possible.) Zoom for Home With most countries still in at least a partial lockdown and coronavirus spikes continuing, videoconferencing is here to stay. (This is when “Zoom-bombing” became a common phrase.)ĭespite the furore, the company that same month announced it had 300 million daily meeting participants. In April - after a slew of security and privacy issues arose - Zoom CEO Eric Yuan announced that the company would stop developing new features for 90 days to address the problems. įew companies have seen the kind of growth - and boosted name recognition - as quickly as the San Jose, Calif.-based videoconferencing platform. Within a month, as the pandemic spread, office workers suddenly found themselves jumping on daily Zoom calls from the comfort of home in a desperate attempt to keep in touch with colleagues.įast forward another few months, and many of those same workers are officially suffering from Zoom fatigue.

26, Zoom announced it had already added more new users in the first two months of 2020 than it had in all of 2019. Then the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, first in China, then around the world. See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.In some ways, the Zoom videoconferencing app seemed to come from nowhere this year - even though it’s been around since 2013 and has long been highly regarded for its ease of use. Keep up to date with new developments by following The Gays Are Revolting on Twitter at Facebook at The Gays Are Revolting & Instagram Gays Are Revolting is produced by Dan Gregg at Lipp Media ( ). The Gays Are Revolting went on an indefinite hiatus in August 2020. Jo reflects on how the political right demonised her work, her childhood in a household without strict gender roles, and the importance of transgender children seeing themselves represented in literature (first published October 19, 2019). Inspired by her own experiences as a mother to a transgender child, Jo Hirst wrote The Gender Fairy in 2015, a children's book that was ultimately used as political fodder both during the Safe Schools debate and the marriage equality postal survey in Australia. In this week's After Show we discuss heteronormative sex on the first date standards, or in Tom’s case, sex before the first date (first published September 14, 2019).

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