Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

As the team kept winning, W+K kept hyping the connectionacross social media and IRL by turning the Empire State Building purple, and sending Grimace on the 7 train ahead of a playoff game. For longtime client Nike, W+K effectively tapped into the incredible waves of hype surrounding Caitlin Clarks final season of NCAA basketball.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Show them how to develop their avatar, fill out their profile, or use the text and video chat features. Viewers may start interacting with one another in this format but at the very least, it gives you the opportunity to put minds at ease and start hyping the networking capabilities in advance. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Users create a profile, upload an avatar picture, write a short biography and can then scream into the ether to other users on behalf of their digitally sculpted selves. MIT professor wants to overhaul ‘The Hype Machine’ that powers social media.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The hype so far has largely centered on chatbots and avatars, but “ AI’s emergence will cut through material use cases in real estate tech ,” says Kunal Lunawat, co-founder and managing partner of Agya Ventures.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A lot of the metaverse hype has been built around what you’ll do there, be it virtual reality meetings, digital concerts , and of course, blockchain and NFT-based integrations. It’s easy to ride the hype and start pitching fantastical ideas of selling NFTs that will follow you from place to place in different games and virtual settings.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Show them how to develop their avatar, fill out their profile, or use the text and video chat features. Viewers may start interacting with one another in this format but at the very least, it gives you the opportunity to put minds at ease and start hyping the networking capabilities in advance. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

leans on OpenAI’s GPT , tailoring the much-hyped language model on high-profile open source projects and StackOverflow articles to help it derive scores on code quality, for example. . “All together, we are processing about 1 billion commits on GitHub per year to get a very accurate profile of the skills of every engineer.”

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. What's this all about"?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Jonathan Fanton, above next to my Second Life avatar, engaged in a discussion with Philip Rosedale (Linden) of Linden labs about the role of civil society in virtual worlds and answered questions from the more than 200 avatars that packed the space. For context, see the event announcement and today's New York Times article.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

This week, TC’s Sarah Perez spotted the rise of AI art apps all over the App Store , seemingly jumping off the success of Lensa AI’s viral avatar generators. The impact of hype with Clubhouse’s Paul Davison. it’s a mistake to be relying on it for anything important right now.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

And then there is London-based Synthesia , backed by a swathe of high-profile investors , which is more about creating digital avatars from text for use in training and how-to videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn. Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. web geeks and cardboard cutout avatars. There is an egalitarian equalizing effect when your avatar IMs with another ??? Gary Hayes points to one of his older posts about this issue with a visual.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. But that’s already sounding like the grandiose hype you read about Second Life or virtual worlds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The first showed off its life-like Codex avatars and an environment for them to exist in, which the company says was rendered in real-time and reacted to real-world objects. According to Meta, this is both a virtual avatar and a virtual environment. According to Meta, this was rendered in real-time.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

Last year, we got all hyped up for a big PlayStation 5 announce which turned out to be. So it goes at CES, where any kind of breakthrough tech is hyped up to infinity. CES is rarely a place for console gaming — that’s more the purview of E3.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

What was so compelling about the members of the de facto club that had formed among the owners of the exorbitantly priced avatars? Hype drives value. It was more like a real-life version of those Twitter spam bots that promise that a certain cryptocurrency is “going to the moon” because NFTs are fundamentally about hype.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When we think of the metaverse, popularly depicted as a game-like virtual environment where humans use avatars to live, work, and play, we’re often the main characters. As we wade into more metaverse hype, it’s clear that companies like Soul Machines will be filling in customer service gaps across every industry, from games to healthcare.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

And while the recent drama between Hype House and Sway House seems like a natural fit for TV, it’s unclear whether the industry will bite. It’s designed to create virtual live avatars of you and your colleagues to help people better engage with meetings. Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed ). Industry. ? Pizzi said. Tom Warren / The Verge ).

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