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  • Clubhouse gets a text chat feature for live audio rooms

    Clubhouse gets a text chat feature for live audio rooms

    Clubhouse, an audio chat app that debuted back in 2020 as an exclusive social network, is now adding a feature that seems to be contrary to its initial live audio chat purpose. 9to5Mac reports that there is a major change to the app coming, and will let users interact in voice rooms with text chat.

    Clubhouse’s live audio chat was an idea that was quickly followed by competitors such as Twitter and Reddit. Now, the app is going to add a text chat option for people who don’t feel like they want to talk in the live audio chat rooms.

    The app has announced in its official blog that there is a new feature that would allow everyone to be able to join live conversations, whether by voice or text. The new addition to Clubhouse’s feature set is dubbed “In-Room Chat”, and it works in a similar manner to Zoom or Skype. Basically, you will be able to chat within a live audio room.

    The blog post reads that the feature will be useful to share jokes, request songs, or send emojis as reactions to what’s being talked about.

    On top of that, voice room moderators will be able to delete chat messages. Basically, creators can appoint mods to keep an eye on the chat and delete messages if found inappropriate.

    Understandably though, if the room has hundreds or thousands of people, the task of moderating chat comments will indeed prove to be quite difficult.

    As a creator, you will also be able to delete chat messages at any moment, and even after the live session has ended. Additionally, you will be able to turn off the In-Room chat at any moment as well, if it proves to be unproductive or annoying.

    Creators can choose to disable text chat when starting a new audio room if they don’t feel like having the feature. Additionally, the audience will also be able to report comments in the chat and provide feedback to moderators, so that the text chat is safe from trolls.

    Another useful feature of the In-Room chat option is that you will be able to delete your comment during the live room or after the live room has ended.

    Audio rooms that have chat enabled will appear with a dedicated icon at the bottom left of the screen. When the live audio ends, all messages sent during the session will be available for reading to anyone listening to the Replay of the session.

    But that’s not all the new feature is expected to bring. The social network says that the text chat will give creators an option to make quick polls or ask questions in a live chat with multiple people.

    The new In-Room Chat feature is currently rolling out with the latest version of the Clubhouse app from the App Store.

    As you may probably know, initially, the Clubhouse app was available only on iOS and Android devices. In January though, Clubhouse expanded its platform to the web, and with this, anyone could listen to a live chat. However, it is still not possible to join from the web as a speaker during live audio sessions.

    The option to listen to a live audio chat on Clubhouse from your desktop doesn’t require you to be logged in, so basically creators can share live audio chats with multiple people (only for listening on the web though, as we said, it is not possible to join to talk from your PC or Mac).

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  • HCMC real estate business group wants Airbnb-like services legalized

    HCMC real estate business group wants Airbnb-like services legalized

    The Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Association has called for regulating accommodation-sharing services like Airbnb for better management and taxation.

    Such services have become popular in Vietnam in recent years as they help meet the large demand for low-cost accommodation from tourists and fetch homeowners an income from spare apartments and rooms, it said in a report

    HoREA pointed out that since this kind of business is still not regulated authorities are losing an opportunity to collect taxes and having difficulty managing it.

    There have even been cases of people using accommodation provided by such websites for criminal activities, it said.

    It called for modifying the law to allow homeowners to rent them as long as they register the business and pay taxes.

    There were 40,000 Airbnb listings in the country in January this year compared to 1,000 in 2015, according to tourism development consulting firm Outbox Consulting.

    HoREA also wanted restrictions on the number of days homeowners could rent out in a year and apartment management fees to be increased since it increases management work.

    The number of Airbnb units in Ho Chi Minh City as of the last quarter was 13,200, down 37 percent year-on-year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to data from market research firm AirDNA.

    In Hanoi, the figure was down 27 percent to 10,600.

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  • Chinese mall opens ‘nursery’ room for husbands

    Chinese mall opens ‘nursery’ room for husbands

    A new mall in Shanghai has set aside a space for what it is calling a ‘husbands nursery’, where it hopes bored spouses will hang out while their wives are shopping in the mall, China Central Television (CCTV) reported.

    This ‘husbands nursery’, on the third floor of a shopping mall in Shanghai which opened on October 30, “is equipped with multiple leisure facilities, including magazines in its reading area, and a television,” supposedly for men to relax, CCTV said. But what those running the mall may not know is that Chinese men – the mainland’s biggest online shoppers – will likely be racking up credit card debt sitting in the ‘husbands nursery’ and splurging on themselves.

    “Mainland men are more likely to splurge on themselves when making purchases over the internet than women – who focus more on buying daily necessities,” according to a May 2016 survey.

    The survey was conducted by Ant Financial Services, an affiliate of the Alibaba Group that owns the South China Morning Post. Its findings are contrary to popular perception that it is women who go on shopping sprees, buying cosmetics and clothes. And, the study also found that women are buying more daily household necessities, while men are splurging on personal-care products and leisure goods.

    “Male online shoppers prove to be more hedonistic and the level of online spending by men is higher than women,” Ant Financial said in its report published in May.

    The survey said that women still bought a greater number of goods and services on the internet, but that they were buying more daily necessities for household use. Men’s online spending on entertainment, sports, dining and travel was 26 percent higher than the spending of women, and that women’s online purchases were aimed at running more efficient households.

    Ant Financial conducted the survey in partnership with the China Academy of New Supply Side Economics. The survey was based on data collected by Alipay, China’s online payment giant operated by Ant Financial, which has 450 million users.

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