NetWits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Maybe you just won a prestigious award and issued a press release. And Jane McGonigal has argued that the energy put into games can be collectively harnessed to solve the world’s biggest issues. As gamification evolves beyond badges and avatars, nonprofits can institute game play to tell their story in a moving and convincing way.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Digital marketplace OpenSea has banned the PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club (or PAYC) collections, both of which are based on the same gimmick: selling NFTs with mirrored but otherwise identical versions of high-priced Bored Ape Yacht Club avatars. Like other avatars, though, anybody can technically copy or modify the associated ape picture.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2021

The updated icon looks to avoid the issue entirely, swapping out the mustache-style adhesive for a two-toned folded piece of tape that alludes to the (presumed) joy of tearing open an Amazon package instead of one of the most brutal dictators in modern history.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people. Real-time 3D computer graphics and personalized avatars. Is using one avatar or item across different worlds as simple as it sounds?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. We will start to train someone in Mensajeros de la Paz who's gonna be responsible for the avatar if the action works.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Another honoree, HeyGen , launched a streaming avatar that enhances real-time interactions, creating more useful chatbots and tutors. automates the entire debugging process, from identifying bugs to specifying the precise line of code creating the issue.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

There’s a powerful synergy that begins to occur when your nonprofit has a presence on multiple on social networks and unfortunately most nonprofits never get to experience it due to capacity issues. You need a good avatar. A good social media manager has experience with online communications and fundraising.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Whether it’s on listservs, forums, blogs, facebook, twitter or anywhere else – there are so many people looking to foster open dialogue on issues important to and impacting the work of changemakers, activists and innovators around the world. Dress up your avatar with some Epic Thanks love at [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. All nonprofits should also experiment with Twitter. writing does not permit.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 2, 2023

AVATAR ), which investigates the contribution of entire visual frames, and not just the mouth region. To mitigate this issue, we introduced a two-phase curriculum learning strategy that decouples these two factors — domain adaptation and visual feature integration — and trains the network in a sequential manner.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Cinder players will use the Solana blockchain to purchase their “playable NFTs” — the Cinder Fae which will include 11,111 exclusive avatars designed by the WildWorks team. The minting is planned for early January.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

A former scientist at IT government services firm SAIC and the creator of PopSlate, a smartphone case with a built-in E Ink display, Behzadi founded Synthesis in AI in 2019 with the goal of — in his words — “solving the data issue in AI and transform[ing] the computer vision paradigm.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 15, 2020

Some things you should consider when elevating your virtual trade show experience: Custom Avatars: Allow attendees to build their own avatar that can be used to navigate the virtual environment. Personalization: Beyond the avatar, the virtual trade show experience should be personalized as much as possible.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A Y Combinator-backed startup that is helping major companies efficiently listen to how happy — or unhappy — their employees are and resolve their issues on time to retain talent just raised a new financing round from several high-profile executives. million in its Series A funding round.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

Microsoft is also rolling out a new “Together Mode” that attempts to turn co-workers into virtual avatars to improve meetings. Microsoft’s main Teams video calling competitor, Zoom, has also seen huge growth, but it’s had to spend recent months rectifying controversial privacy and security issues rather than rolling out new features.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Powered by OpenSecrets.org , nonprofits that work on issues related to corporate accountability and democracy could use this app as part of their mobile strategy to build awareness about campaign finance reform. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Twibbon :: twibbon.com.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

They can then place the images into gallery spaces like virtual paintings, letting guests mill around and talk to each other with avatars or live videos that float above the avatars’ heads. It may simply be harder for a small company to compete head-to-head with a product from Meta, which isn’t a new issue for VR developers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

based nonprofits and nonprofit staff that regularly participate in e-advocacy should monitor what issues/petitions are most important to U.S. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Although its terms of service specify that only individuals can create and sign petitions, U.S.-based

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TechNode

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The avatar tutor currently covers 68 topics spanning eight dialog scenarios, allowing users to talk about careers, social issues, food, and travel-related topics with Echo, the company said on its official WeChat account. NetEase Youdao, in Chinese ]

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to a survey from Dimensional Research sponsored by HP, 53% of app users who responded said they’ve uninstalled a mobile app with issues like lag, while 37% said that they hold an app responsible for performance problems. The performance of a mobile app can impact how customers perceive a brand.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Very Real Help is using some of the same techniques as gaming and other entertainment-based platforms to give users a space to manage mental health issues and connect with a community. Users can log on as anonymous avatars using their phones, computers or VR headsets to attend group sessions and learn tools for coping.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

It created the 530-billion parameter Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model ( MT-NLG ) that powers TJ, the Toy Jensen avatar that gave part of the keynote at NVIDIA GTC last year. These are issues were working on as a research community, said Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning research at NVIDIA.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2014

In 2013, Jason led Pathways to Education to became the first national Canadian charity to issue tax receipts for Bitcoin donations. Jason also serves as an instructor in Digital Media Marketing at George Brown College, has held positions on several governing boards is also a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

EST, they will discuss immigration-related issues and answer questions about layoffs, work visas and being a visa worker in tech. Avatars are everywhere : Speaking of things in the news a lot lately, WhatsApp is rolling out 3D avatars, Jagmeet reports. Beginning at 9 a.m. PST/ 12 p.m. Now onward with the news!

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2021

How much is Facebook Reality Labs’ work limited by internet connectivity issues? Avatars require a lot less bits. Avatars require a lot less bits to express the richness of facial expression than [Zoom] does. Moving toward avatars could actually help us connect even through limited or low-bandwidth connections.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It’s relatively bare bones at present — Habib says that more personalization options will arrive in January — but QuickVid can cobble together the components that make up a typical informational YouTube Short or TikTok video, including captions and even avatars. ” Copyright issues. It’s easy to use.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Example: Al Gore asked, "What do you think it wil take to reverse the effects of climate change?" • Flickr , "Show how rewarding it is to volunteer, to highlight issues that need extra attention, or to show pride in your cause." Discuss issues and events. Yahoo Messenger Avatars , "Your Yahoo!

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But while the chip company is bullish on the possibilities of the metaverse in abstract, Intel raises a key issue with realizing any metaverse ambitions: there’s not nearly enough processing power to go around. As Koduri notes in his editorial, we can’t even put two people in a truly detailed virtual environment with today’s technology.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The “aging up issue is real,” the researcher wrote in an internal memo. The “aging up issue is real”. These 3D worlds with custom avatars appeal to young people who are looking to be online without the pressure of people judging their appearance or surroundings. It’s an entire generation.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Powered by OpenSecrets.org , nonprofits that work on issues related to corporate accountability and democracy could use this app as part of their mobile strategy to build awareness about campaign finance reform. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Upworthy :: upworthy.com.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The implementation of virtual worlds has brought with it a myriad of issues already, such as racism, sexism, cyberbullying, and online assault, and even outside of the screen, environmental and human rights issues have been called into question. . The Metaverse requires advocacy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organizations, are undergoing a similar issue regarding precision. It’s also the name of a startup that is building a “digitally native human workplace where employees can customize an avatar in the workplace.” And, just as often, the term gets diluted down to meaninglessness in rapid fashion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

Users, meanwhile, can join a tape by tapping the “collab” button that appears next to the carousel displaying avatars of collaborators on the tape. The idea for Along occurred to Jackson after having an issue with a YouTube video upload that couldn’t be addressed without losing the comments and views.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

There were some technical issues, but that didn't prevent me from having an extremely engaging conversation in Second Life while listening to a fascinating panel on how technology should be integrated into the law curriculum and how professors can incorporate it effectively in their pedagogy to engage student learning.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

While Paramount Plus’ library is what stands out, there are issues. Considering so many of these series are on other streamers — I can watch Avatar: The Last Airbender and iCarly either on Paramount Plus or Netflix — it’s hard to think of anyone beyond nostalgic 20- and 30-somethings signing up to scratch an itch.

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