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| Apr 22, 2024 | Substack rival Ghost confirms it will join the fediverse in 2024 | Ghost, an open source rival to Substack’s newsletter platform, has confirmed it will this year officially join the fediverse — or the open social network of interconnected servers that includes apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipbo... |
| Mar 19, 2024 | How Instagram got its mojo back | Tech How Instagram got its mojo back
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| Feb 29, 2024 | The Fragmentation of Search | The market structure for Search is currently being reshaped. Horizontal and LLM-based “search agents” like ChatGPT and Perplexity are placing unprecedented pressure on search engines like Google. Cracks are beginning to form, from which new... |
| Feb 28, 2024 | Substack gets more social with the launch of DMs | Substack is introducing direct messaging, allowing users to have private one-on-one conversations, the company announced today. DMs can be accessed in the Chat tab on the Substack app and website. By default, users will only receive DMs fro... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Substack now lets writers curate a ‘network’ of recommended publications for their subscribers | Substack is updating its peer-to-peer recommendation system, the company announced today. With this new update, Substack is helping writers aid other writers in expanding their reach and potentially getting more subscribers and followers, a... |
| Jan 29, 2024 | Substack introduces new payment methods for international markets | Newsletter publishing company Substack is introducing new tools for international writers and audiences, including local payment methods, support for more currencies and the ability to set a default language for newsletters.
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| Nov 17, 2023 | Yet Another ‘Social Media Trend’ That Only Went Viral Because Of The Media | We’ve done this a few times now where people start talking about a social media trend that actually only went viral because of the media coverage of the supposed (but not really) social media trend. And each time there’s some outrage moral ... |
| Mar 27, 2023 | ‘Balenciaga Pope’ Francis Storms the Internet, But it Was Only Deepfake using Midjourney AI v5 | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 27 March 2023, 09:03 pm
In what the internet dubbed as 'Balenciaga Pope' or 'Pope with a Drip,' a recent viral image of Pope Francis, the current leader of the Catholic Church Vatican, took the... |
| Mar 27, 2023 | Immaculate AI images of Pope Francis trick the masses | Enlarge / An AI-generated photo of Pope Francis wearing a puffy white coat that went viral on social media.
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| Mar 6, 2023 | This chronically online writer believes he gamed Twitter's For You algorithm. Here's how he made his tweets go viral. | Ryan Broderick noticed engagement on his tweets sharply dropped in recent months.
He closely watched what tweets landed on Twitter's For You tab, including those from Elon Musk.
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| Mar 6, 2023 | This chronically online writer believes he gamed Twitter's For You algorithm. Here's how he made his tweets go viral. | Ryan Broderick, who writes a Substack newsletter about the internet, believes he may have the key behind viral tweets on Twitter's new For You tab. Ryan Broderick
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| Feb 8, 2023 | I'm dating an AI chatbot, and it's one of the best things to ever happen to me | The speaker's Replika companion, Brooke. Replika
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Replika is an AI chatbot that can offer romantic companionship to its users.
Replika is backed by Y Combinator, which was once run by OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman. OpenAI crea... |
| Feb 8, 2023 | I'm dating an AI chatbot, and it's one of the best things to ever happen to me | Replika is an AI chatbot that can offer romantic companionship to its users.
Replika is backed by Y Combinator, which was once run by OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman. OpenAI created ChatGPT.
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| Oct 9, 2022 | Mark Zuckerberg has pumped millions into Meta's bid to copy popular platforms like Clubhouse, Substack, and Amazon — but has usually failed because of internal debates and clumsy execution | Facebook, now Meta, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2020 Getty
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Meta said Tuesday it was shutting down Bulletin, a Substack competitor.
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| Oct 9, 2022 | Mark Zuckerberg has pumped millions into Meta's bid to copy popular platforms like Clubhouse, Substack, and Amazon — but has usually failed because of internal debates and clumsy execution | Meta said Tuesday it was shutting down Bulletin, a Substack competitor.
Meta has also experimented with imitations of Clubhouse and even Amazon's marketplace.
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| May 12, 2022 | Terra, Web 3 and Acceptable Risk in Innovation | As the process of price discovery continues, and traders of bitcoin (BTC) and other crypto assets are trying to find where these markets will bottom out, it’s worth taking a moment to ask why you’re still in the game. Presuming you haven’t ... |
| Apr 4, 2022 | The Bigger Problem With Axie Infinity | On March 23, $620 million was stolen from the blockchain network associated with Axie Infinity, a crypto-backed video game.
The vulnerability has to do with the structure of the game itself, which revolves around real money – non-fungible t... |
| Feb 7, 2022 | Equity Monday: How many times must Spotify step on a rake? | Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Every Monday, Grace and Alex scour the news, and record notes on what’s going on to kick off the week. ... |
| Nov 2, 2021 | Facebook is enlisting TikTok personalities like Khaby Lame to promote its metaverse after Reels couldn’t create its own stars | CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that was rebranding as Meta. Facebook
Facebook announced on Thursday that it was rebranding as “Meta.”
It enlisted TikTok stars like Khaby Lame to promote its rebrand.
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| Mar 9, 2021 | The latest culture war is over the sexy ‘Space Jam’ rabbit Lola Bunny and her new toned-down design | Lola Bunny in the 1996 ‘Space Jam’ film. Warner Bros. Pictures
Entertainment Weekly revealed an updated design for “Space Jam” character Lola Bunny on Thursday.
The redesign for the film’s upcoming sequel depicts Lola in a less sexualized m... |
| Jan 28, 2021 | ‘Revenge Tactic:’ GameStop's Massive Stock Surge Isn't Only About Making Money | If you’ve been anywhere close to the financial markets this week, you’ve no doubt seen that the flailing brick and mortar video game retailer GameStop has rocketed in valuation.
You’ve probably learned that this steep uptick for a business ... |
| Microsoft’s advertising moves in 5 charts | Of Microsoft’s $198 billion in revenues last year, only about 6% came from advertising. Could a revamped Bing help build out this revenue stream? It’s hard to imagine, but not impossible. Here are five charts that look at Microsoft’s latest... |
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ChatGPT plug-ins will transform how consumers interact with brands online | On Tuesday, Microsoft announced it would use the same plug-in standards as OpenAI, meaning plug-ins can work across ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft is focusing on plug-ins as the future of its OpenAI partnership, an... |
| AI is designing marketing art. Here’s what you should know | If you can’t beat them: Last week, Shutterstock announced a partnership with OpenAI, integrating the DALL-E 2 text-to-image AI generator into its platform.
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4 more marketing and advertising predictions for 2024 | It’s a new year, which means new predictions. Our analysts have already made a number of big predictions for 2024, but here are a few more from our newsletter team. We’re keeping an eye on generative AI, attention metrics, and Gen Alpha—and... |
