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Facebook's strategy is clear: own every aspect of your life. Last week the social network launched a Craigslist competitor and a new standalone Events app, while Zuckerberg gave us a preview of your future life in VR (watch this demo from Oculus Connect). 

Now Facebook wants to own your work life with the release of Workplace, the long awaited “Slack competitor”. None of this would have been possible if Justin Timberlake hadn't suggested dropping the The. 😎

Happy Monday! The week is just beginning. Start by exploring this Productivity Hacks list and by the end of this email you will become a productivity machine. 💪 

💻 Toby organizes all your browser tabs into searchable visual lists
💌 Boomerang is your AI assistant for writing perfect emails
🌐 AccessURL lets you share login access without sending passwords
🎵 Background Music is your audio control for individual Mac apps
🏃 Escape tracks the unnecessary time you spend on distracting sites

For more, follow the Productivity Topic on Product Hunt.

Rumors are swirling about Twitter's future as its said to be preparing for a sale. It's reported that Disney and Google are no longer in the running, which leaves Salesforce a potential (unexpected) acquirer.

Meanwhile, an open-source Twitter alternative is making a headlines. Mastodon will feel familiar to fellow Tweetdeck fans. Reserve your first name handle just in case this takes off. 😉

Yesterday, Google announced a suite of new products to compete with Amazon, Oculus, Apple, and even our wifi-loving friends at eero. To recap, here’s what Google announced:

📱Google Pixel: iPhone competitor with 3mm headphone jack technology
🙇Daydream View: A virtual reality headset made out of fabric (clever)
🌐Google WiFi: A new kind of WiFi system (because wifi > everything)
🏠Google Home: A competitor to Alexa (P.S. soon you'll be able to talk to Product Hunt via Google Home) 😺

Now all you need to know is the best 150 Google Now commands to make all that new hardware extra intelligent.

Remember Tay, Microsoft’s Twitter bot that went cray? It was fun while it lasted, but there are some very practical, non-offensive Twitter Bots today:

🏕 OOOTwitter sends an out-of-office reply to your @mentions
⚡️PowerPack is an entire auto-reply toolkit you can personalize
🤔 #AskJelly is all you need to tweet to get your questions answered
🤖 Botmoji from Emojipedia will help you become an emoji master
🌟 Unfavinator deletes all (or some) of your twitter likes (a recent trend)

Check out the full collection of Twitter Bots on Product Hunt.

There’s a lot on the line this Presidential election: human decency, the cyber, and 🌮🚐 at every corner just to name a few.

Your vote matters. We’re working with our friends at VotePlz to make it super easy to register. Register right now in 60 seconds. Oh, and VotePlz is giving away $1 million in college scholarships and student debt forgiveness as prizes.

Thanks for voting! The results are in. We have data on the most internet animal there is (and Harambe is not pleased). Puppies and kittens were close, but they were no match to Goats—the ultimate winner.

Let's goat ahead and give it up to goats for all the happiness they spread across internet. Get 🐐 your 🐐 goat 🐐 on 🐐 this weekend with:

🐐 You Goat Mail (literally the greatest gift)
🐐🐐 GOAT (the best way to buy and sell sneakers)
🐐🐐🐐 Goat Attack (for your friends and enemies)
🐐🐐🐐🐐 Goat Simulator (one can dream)

For more, check out the fantastic Goats in Google Calendar addition and have Chelsea Handler's Goatta Go ready when meeting new people!

We have a special relationship with our web browser. Some of us are faithful to one and can't even think of living without it, while others experiment with multiple browsers for different use cases.

Chrome may be the most popular bae, but there are plenty of complimentary options and solid alternatives:

• Helium is a floating browser window for your Mac
• Blisk is a Chromium-based browser designed for web developers
• Tor Browser lets you browse the internet anonymously
• Aloha is a private mobile browser with free unlimited VPN
• Vivaldi is a new browser from the original co-founder of Opera

Check out the full collection of Rad Browsers on Product Hunt and browse through these 7 Google Chrome Alternatives.