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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace

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The Los Angeles-based company partnered with NBA Top Shot NFT creator Dapper Labs to develop the storefront on Dapper’s Flow blockchain and debuted it to a group of invite-only beta users in December last year, TechCrunch reported at the time.

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Through crowdsourcing, Cerberus Interactive wants to take location based gaming to the masses

TechCrunch LA

Now the marketer who helped grow that business to a nearly $1 billion valuation is turning his attention to location based gaming in the hopes that he can take on leading contender, Niantic , with a faster, more flexible, and fan driven approach to game development with his new startup, Cerberus Interactive.

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China Roundup: Tencent’s new US gaming studio and WeChat’s new paywall

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in 2020, the studio told TechCrunch this week, though it refused to reveal the exact size of its North American office. ” Breaking the wave, on the other hand, entails TiMi applying new development tools to building high-budget, high-quality AAA mobile games. WeChat erects a paywall – with Apple tax.

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In Los Angeles, the Women’s March embraces technology to organize and inspire

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Mark, a joint venture between the Danish game development firm Sybo and the Chinese mobile game publisher iDreamSky, uses augmented reality to permanent installations of digital street art. Higher Ground Labs is betting tech can help sway the 2020 elections for Democrats.

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Interview with Jo Webber, Pod.io

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Today's interview is with Jo Webber , the CEO and founder of Pod.io , a startup which has developed an app to help people connect with others over shared interests. Jo told us why, in a world full of social networking apps, why Pod.io Jo Webber: We've done a seed round of $5M, which we raised earlier in 2020.

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