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Poparazzi hypes itself to the top of the App Store

TechCrunch

’ To its credit, the new app has perfectly executed on a series of choices designed to fuel day one growth — from its pre-launch TikTok hype cycle to drive App Store pre-orders to its post-launch social buzz, including favorable tweets by its backers. — Chase Stubblefield (@chasestubb) May 25, 2021.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

One part definition, one part aspiration, one part hype In recent months you may have heard about something called the metaverse. Maybe you’ve read that the metaverse is going to replace the internet. Will you start checking your Facebook feed in Fortnite with a pair of augmented reality glasses? But let’s get to the fun part.

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10 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Known for having higher engagement than other social media, Instagram is evolving and it is becoming increasingly more difficult for nonprofits to get exposure in the Instagram Feed. 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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Great reads from around the web on February 1st

Amy Sample Ward

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). Internet upstarts (eg Business Insider, Politico), corporate/owned platforms and social."

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a series of innovations in web technology that have come together in unexpected ways, to change the experiences that people have in using the internet, and has made it much more deeply a many-to-many experience, rather than the more one-to-many experience it had been before. But there is a lot of hype regarding Web 2.0,

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Blockchain startup Fetch.ai grabs $40M to provide monetization and other tooling for AI-generated information

TechCrunch

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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Catching up

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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