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Keanu Reeves doesn’t get the NFT hype either

The Verge

Keanu Reeves doesn’t get the NFT hype either. However, he is all about HODLing and isn’t actively trading any of it yet. Keanu Reeves owns crypto, but thinks the concept of NFTs is just funny | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Watch our full interview here: [link] pic.twitter.com/UuUNFMtfmf — The Verge (@verge) December 11, 2021.

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Nonprofits in the Metaverse: Pros and Cons

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofit organizations may be feeling the need to take a stance on the metaverse and make decisions on meta-related activities, like accepting crypto donations. While the metaverse is still being built — and is so new that it’s hard to define exactly what it means — there’s a lot of marketing hype (and money) being wrapped up into it.

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Cybersecurity firm says social media bots hyped GameStop during trading frenzy

The Verge

PiiQ did not analyze Reddit traffic, and Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in a hearing before the House Financial Services in February that the platform had not detected any significant bot-driven activity or foreign actors on the subreddit as part of the GME trading hype.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m a fairly active user of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and some other social networking sites, and have been for years now. I’ve been using social media to actively promote my new science fiction books. It’s hype designed to sell things. And I use hashtags in blog entries!

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Starfield players cannot actively pilot their ships to a planet's surface

TechSpot

One gameplay pillar that Todd Howard tried to hype up was the game's emphasis on planet exploration. Bethesda finally revealed some gameplay for Starfield over the weekend. There are over 1,000 fully explorable planets, which is nice, but with one caveat.

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Twitter for Activism Tool VS Strategy Debate and A New Twitter Activism Guide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while quite, different from the "mainstream" use of Twitter by nonprofits , Ivan warns against tool-driven decisions for activism campaigns: It's certainly exciting to see technology being used in ways that amplify and extend the impact of movement organizing. What are some of the best examples of digital activism that use Twitter?

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BeReal: Hype or hit? What to know about the Gen Z photo-sharing app climbing the charts

TechCrunch

Poparazzi — an app that turned Instagram’s tagging feature into its entire premise — hyped itself to the top of the App Store using a series of growth hacks not too long ago. BeReal is so far finding success with this model: Apptopia says daily active users have reached 2.93 It found that BeReal has seen 7.67

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