TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

I believe that agriculture can be a leading climate solution while feeding a growing population. At the same time, I want to temper the hype, refocus the conversation, and use the example of agriculture to forge a productive template for all business sectors with carbon habits to fight climate change.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 5, 2021

Is there too much hype about AI or too much doomsaying? In 2019, Utah struck a deal with Banjo, a threat detection firm selling AI services to process live traffic feeds, dispatch logs, and other data. Are AI sales and marketing teams contributing to AI hype? Selling AI.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Flush with hype, the company hired science fiction luminaries, designed a product from scratch, and beat Apple and Facebook to market. Launched in 2018, the Magic Leap One headset should have been mixed reality’s moment to shine — but it couldn’t match the hype the company had created. Now, Magic Leap seems barely afloat.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

AI is riding high on a curve of hype, which means some of the practical questions that might grow louder over time — the many costs (financial and social), the business models — may not be the most front of mind right now. Today a startup called Fetch.ai is announcing $40 million in funding in anticipation of when that shifts.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

There is some ROI, but there is also a lot hype about Facebook. Facebook doesn’t want a bunch of free agents out there cluttering up the News Feed, so Pages must now be authenticated/authorized. They should have an “Official&# Facebook Page. After the Page is set-up it takes very little time to manage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

But as my colleague, Steven MacLaughlin points out, “We should keep in mind that AI is a “how” and not a “why” or “what” — but that gets lost in a lot of the hype.” Artificial Intelligence presents a lot of benefits for the social good sector. ” Here’s some recent links that look at the why and what. .

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

“The anxiety and uncertainty feeds a lot of the skepticism and doubt or non-willingness to even try AI,” he says. “We’ve seen the hype cycles around massively open online courses that were going to transform education,” Waltzer says. For Lee, successful AI literacy requires seeing through the magic.“The

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Greater Giving

JULY 30, 2021

If you choose to use a live auction in a hybrid or purely virtual event, hype it up. Curate an atmosphere where donors feed on one another’s charitable energy and throw in a little competition, and raise big money. Make sure to announce bids placed by remote guests to keep the competitive energy going. TIP: Make it a destination!

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One part definition, one part aspiration, one part hype In recent months you may have heard about something called the metaverse. Will you start checking your Facebook feed in Fortnite with a pair of augmented reality glasses? Didn’t we have a whole metaverse hype cycle around Second Life in the ‘00s? So, the metaverse.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

though is more hype than useful. Sure, I’d love to see more nonprofits move from sending their newsletters out by email, to getting them into an RSS feed, which I can choose to look at, or not. I think that a lot of Web 2.0, particularly RSS and folksonomies, are aspects of Web 2.0 Some of Web 2.0,

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In fact, Spotify’s press release about the Higher Ground deal said the partnership would “produce podcasts exclusive to the platform,” so it’s odd to see Spotify make this first show widely available after all the exclusive hype. An episode hasn’t published on his feed since September 19th.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

After their use, Gobs earplugs biodegrade fully back into nutrients that feed the soil, wherever theyre left. Gob makes the first single-use pair from mycelium, the rootlike structure of fungus, rethinking hearing protection from the ground up.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

MIT professor wants to overhaul ‘The Hype Machine’ that powers social media. “I The $6 million seed round will build on $600,000 that Beacons raised in an angel round, allowing the team to hire more engineers and designers to grow its small four-person team of first-time founders. Image Credits: Beacons.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

At this point, there are no advertisements on Somewhere Good, no user profiles, no friending, no following and no feed. MIT professor wants to overhaul ‘The Hype Machine’ that powers social media. Notably, this differentiation is also one of Somewhere Good’s biggest challenges.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Humanity has also been playing out the invite-only strategy famously employed by startups like Clubhouse to keep the hype building and users beta-testing the app, reaching over 10K users, with, they say, a “waiting list of tens of thousands” This strategy seems to have paid off.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

But the plant-based meat category has been deflating somewhat of late after earlier heavy hype. Which means that if you feed plant proteins direct to humans and you’re cutting out one very costly step. Which may explain why Heura is banging the pan about this bridging round and teasing bigger bucks to come next year.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Normally I’d protest at delayed monetization, but given that Party Round intends to sit atop an artery of capital, it should be able to tap the vein to feed itself when it chooses to. The startup will monetize later on, with Hays saying that there are a number of ways for it to do so. In theory, at least.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. Is Jumo Worth The Hype?

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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.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2021

The hype was easy to understand: the biggest name in podcast apps legitimizing subscriptions could usher in a new podcasting era, one in which ad revenue plays a less essential role and more people could potentially support themselves off their work. Bugs and design flaws In April, Apple Podcasts was poised to revolutionize the industry.

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TechNode

JULY 9, 2024

A video featuring Rong momo, a character from My Fair Princess who has become a well-known internet meme in China, feeding Princess Ziwei a chicken drumstick has gone viral on social platforms these days. A screenshot of AI-generated video shows Rong momo feeding Princess Ziwei a chicken drumstick.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I had my Ring doorbell camera feed running on my phone as the meeting started because I was afraid that someone would come to my porch and steal my unattended package. Taylor Lyles: I got an Xbox Series X and PS5 at launch, but how I got my PS5 was quite hilarious. Mama Tay was not gonna let a porch pirate steal her newborn baby.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Start a live feed with a video that talks about the opportunities at your event, ask the audience specific questions, and encourages them to respond in the comments. These meetups will show people just how easy it is to connect in this format and eliminate any concerns they may have in that regard. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

My belief (no facts, just opinion ) is that there is a lot of hype about relatively small-scale nonprofit commercial initiatives. " discussion in "Nonprofit Nation" The dollars change over the decades, but the percentages really don't. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

“We’re at a tremendously exciting moment in the world of AI, but the lesson is to calm down and remain pragmatic in the face of extraordinary hype. Two off the top of my head: WellSaid was getting into synthetic voice as a service quite early, and Blue Canoe uses ML to help folks work on their accents in foreign languages.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 22, 2014

When they join the event, it’ll show up in their friends’ news feeds. You’ve hyped it up and congrats are in order, because the big day is finally here. And now that you have a registration page, make sure to create an event on Facebook. That way, people that are already signed up can say they’re coming on the social media site.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Last week, I reported on issues podcasters were having with the RadioPublic app — their RSS feeds weren’t updating; they couldn’t get in touch with anyone from the company; and new shows couldn’t be added to the catalog. What happens to this feed when the trial ends?) Despite the hype, I’m unconvinced this is a monumental moment.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

These systems primarily work as autocomplete tools: feed them a snippet of text, whether an email or a poem, and the AI will do its best to continue what’s been written. It is concerning to me that Microsoft is leaning in to this kind of AI hype in order to sell this product,” said Bender.

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Candid

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Then, reshare them to your feed with some slight changes to the text, so they’re not exact duplicates. Reach out directly to the individual and ask if you can share an image of them or their photo on your organization’s social media feed. Find the posts from the last year that had the most likes and comments.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 22, 2023

All game publishers will be prohibited from promoting or allowing high-priced transactions of virtual items through hype or auction. In future, online games will not be allowed to provide rewards for daily logins, or first-time and consecutive in-game purchasing. NPPA, in Chinese ]

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Given the hype around generative AI, it’s easy to forget that IBM Watson competed on “Jeopardy” in 2011 — and won a $1 million first-place prize. For years, enterprise software companies have baked this tech into their offerings , such as Salesforce’s Einstein and Microsoft Cortana.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Kevin Gamble who reads more feeds than I do tweeted about this blog post by Stow Boyd. Technology providers also try to avoid getting seduced by the hype cycles. How short was the hype cycle of MySpace? Now, this post comes bubbling up from my network and it is exactly what I want to chew on. tool after Web 2.0 Of YouTube?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. Deliver, don’t just hype - of course, marketing is important, but when the rubber really has to meet the road, be there with more than vaporware. What’s to lose?

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CauseVox

MARCH 9, 2021

You create hype around them. One clear way to do that is to include information about impact in your donation tiers. There are so many ways to describe impact. It’s up to you to show that recurring donations hold a special place in your fundraising strategy. How do you tell your donors that recurring donations are important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions. It has been hyped. (See the recent article by Ali Levine " Talking with Young People, Not At Them " I was able to attend the event, but through the New Media Consortium campus because adults are not allowed in the Teen Grid. I think that???s

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