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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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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace

TechCrunch LA

Genies has made forays into fashion before — the startup partnered with Gucci back in 2020 to give the retailer’s customers access to try on new virtual designs and to buy curated digital goods. Eventually, Nigam sees the company expanding into a full-fledged social network, which he said Gen Z is “starving for.”

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

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Together the two worked to create a social network that would combine political engagement and social activities to develop communities built around shared ideologies and purpose. Higher Ground Labs is betting tech can help sway the 2020 elections for Democrats.

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

TechCrunch LA

Strategic investor MobilityWare has signed on to back the company along with individual investors like Steve Huffman, the co-founder and chief executive of Reddit, and Blake Chandler, the chief business officer of the runaway social network hit, TikTok.

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Six ways to make your site-app-product go viral.

Berkonomics

Not every new game-related site is a Steam, and surely not every social network is a Facebook. From its start in 2015, the number of registered users has “suddenly” climbed from 45 million in 2017 to a reported 300 million by the end of 2020. It doesn’t happen by accident. And not every texting application is a Twitter.

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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. Gao believes the model will gain further traction in 2020 as it attracts old-school game developers, which were accustomed to pay-to-play, to follow suit. . ‘Honor of Kings’ creator hiring for U.S.

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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.