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UK music platform for creators Uppbeat raises $6.15 million Series A

TechCrunch

It does so by offering an alternative to expensive music licensing platforms as well as free music options like YouTube’s Audio Library or Creative Commons ‘ music. Uppbeat artists, meanwhile, keep total ownership of their music and are paid on a rev share basis. The Premium subscription ($6.99/mo) Image Credits: Uppbeat.

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Loot is a viral social network that looks like nothing you’ve ever seen

The Verge

When I wrote in March about non-fungible tokens , or NFTs, I tried to dazzle you by rattling off some of the more impressive sales numbers from the time: $600,000 for the Nyan Cat meme, $5.8 There is more than a little of the mania that fueled this winter’s meme stock enthusiasm to be found on the crypto Discords.

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How Bunny the dog is pushing scientists’ buttons

The Verge

Most of the memes are really funny, I got a good laugh out of them,” she says. Along with Bunny’s demands for scritches, Devine, an artist and self-identified nonexpert in dog science, fields hundreds of questions from humans every day. There are parody videos on TikTok and existential jokes on Twitter about Bunny’s sentience.

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Doing shots with true believers at Ethereum’s biggest party

The Verge

People are urged to BUIDL, pronounced “biddle,” a play on Bitcoin’s HODL meme. He gave an enthusiastic performance, opening with an old meme by singing “hey, hey, hey” to the crowd and getting the crowd to sing it back. The conference’s sponsored booth section was called the Shill Zone. He was hyped about public goods, he explained.

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Is the music industry’s future on the blockchain?

The Verge

Today let’s talk about another of them: a startup called Royal that hopes to upend the traditional relationship between music labels and artists, with potentially significant implications for the kind of culture that gets created. Occasionally, an alternative artist would strike out on their own and start an independent label.

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How Apple is making the antitrust case against it stronger

The Verge

Meanwhile, Apple offers a mediocre Spotify alternative, Apple Music, which it advertises throughout the operating system. Inside the group, they’re posting hateful memes and misinformation, while commenters share support for neo-Nazis. I’ve received several push notification advertisements inviting me to subscribe). Knight Foundation).

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Using Cartoons To Make Sense of Your Data

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Countless online meme-generating sites can let you whip up a sharable text-on-photo image in seconds; a mobile photo captioning app like Over for iOS lets you do it yourself right on your own device. By the way, at least one of these artists actually can draw very, very well. Online charting and data visualization tools like Easel.ly

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