Chain Reactions: How Creators, Web3, and the Metaverse Intersect (digitalnative.substack.com)
Putting the Pieces Together
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Deepfakes: Two sides of a Yin and Yang (maried.substack.com)
With a 900% YoY growth for deepfake videos online, the trend is set to gain steam and reshape the society in innumerable ways – Are you ready for some chaos?
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The Raiders, Social Media Managers And The Vortex of The Interne (ez.substack.com)
Yesterday, the Las Vegas Raiders’ owner insisted that his social media team post “I can breathe” on their Twitter account, in an awkward and misguided attempt to echo the statements made by Floyd’s brother Philonise. To quote The Athletic’s Tashan Reed, Davis
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3 Reasons I'm Joining The Digital Gold Rush (scuttlebutt.substack.com)
What Is Cryptocurrency And Why It May Be Worth Owning
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Lessons In Entrepreneurship (scuttlebutt.substack.com)
Five Things I’ve Learned Writing A Newsletter
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Digital Kinship: How the Internet Is Reacting to the Loneliness (digitalnative.substack.com)
The Shift from Individualistic to Communal
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The Most Ill-Timed Website in History – The History of the Web (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
There are a near infinite number of sites that have launched that you’ve never heard about. This is likely one of them. But if not for poor timing, it may have been primed for success.
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Unpacking The David Dobrik Controversy (every.to)
Also: OnlyFans is launching a creative fund for musicians, #BookTok is leading to a resurgence in book sales, and more.
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The Links for March 23, 2021 (mailchi.mp)
The Links is the weekly overview of the week’s most interesting stories in design, UX, tech and marketing from the good people at Rebellion Design Co. We think there’s a lot of talk in the web design business, and it is hard to separate the inspiration from the bullshit. The Links is here to help.
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On restraint and humanness (waitjustlisten.substack.com)
A short-form essay on restraint, humanness and minimalism in a chaotic digital world. It features a novelist who wrote an entire book without the vowel ‘e’!
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How Groupon became the “fastest growing company ever” in 2011 by (thegrowthplaybook.substack.com)
Exploring the clever pre-IPO growth tactics used to grow 228% in one year
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The bento box is our digital future (waitjustlisten.substack.com)
An understanding of how value works in life and in the digital world.
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In retrospect, the creator economy was inevitable (medialyte.substack.com)
“Money, uh, finds a way.”
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Reddit: Organized Lightning (latecheckout.substack.com)
One of social media’s oldest companies is also its most undervalued
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The first Industrial Revolution from home (wfh.substack.com)
You can start your dream job from your kitchen table
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It is all about Community Engagement (connectdots.substack.com)
One more episode of the ConnectDots Podcast, this time with the winner of the CMX Community Industry Awards, Andreia Tulcidás from OutSystems
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Owned Community Matrix for Creators (creatoreconomy.so)
The go-to owned community platform for creators will play a major role in the creator economy. To understand why let’s explore the owned community matrix.
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The Decade of Internet Communities (digitalnative.substack.com)
Five Characteristics of New Online Communities
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Is The Future Promising for Clubhouse? (mindmeld.substack.com)
The drop-in audio chat app has seen explosive growth in the social audio movement – but will the hype last for Clubhouse?
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Build in Public (thediscourse.substack.com)
What is the big deal, who is it for, and how to get started
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Fresh Squeezed 002: Inspiration – Orange Star Design (orangestar.com)
Rumor has it that I get all my ideas from other people. It’s true. Inspiration is all around us. To keep your tank filled, surround yourself with interesting, positive, smart, inspiring people. Similarly, if you consume and surround yourself with good art, music, fiction, prose, or film, etc., I can’t imagine you’d ever run out…
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Fresh Squeezed 006: When things don't go as planned (orangestar.com)
Sometimes, despite all our efforts, things don’t go as planned. Shocking, I know! Using the questions from last week’s Fresh Squeezed as my guide, here are my 2020 highlights (good and bad), and some insights gained that will influence my 2021 planning…
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We’re All Social Distancing on the Internet Too (digitalnative.substack.com)
The Fragmentation of Culture
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Capturing the Zeitgeist (maried.substack.com)
Derived from German philosophy, “Zeitgeist” mixes the words zeit, meaning “time,” and geist, meaning “spirit,” literally, “the spirit of the time.” It thus expresses the way in which ideas and concepts are absorbed and transcribed into culture as a reflection of a moment, an era. In this sense, the Zeitgeist nourishes the work of trend forecasting. While it can be easily defined a posteriori, until recently, it was difficult to capture it at a given moment without calling on experienced thinkers and trend spotters. But things are changing and the Zeitgeist is being turned into a product. Let’s dive in.
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Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy (li.substack.com)
The American Dream exists, but what is the reality?
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A leveling playing field (medialyte.substack.com)
Antitrust measures for the platforms and mergers for the publishers leave the 2021 media landscape looking a lot more competitive.
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And The Award for Best Game Goes To… (pausebutton.substack.com)
A look at the Oscars of Video Games, our upcoming Panel Event, and India’s growing games presence
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The Opportunity in Social Audio (digitalnative.substack.com)
Content Publishers vs. User-Generated Content Platforms
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Lessons about the Creator Economy from Twitch and Substack (peteryang.substack.com)
Live streaming and newsletter publishing might seem like two different fields, but I see many parallels between the creator economies on both platforms. Here are 8 observations:
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The Significance of Bitcoin in exactly 500 words (www.complexitycondensed.com)
If democracy and free-market capitalism had a child, they’d call it Bitcoin.
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The rise of community-curated knowledge networks (sariazout.substack.com)
The rise of community-curated knowledge networks
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Contrarian Letter #5 (contrarianliving.substack.com)
Philanthropy, Death, Industry Secrets, WhatsApp, Books, & The Slice
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Going deeper on influencer marketing (profecia.substack.com)
An interview with Mark Dandy of Captivate Influence
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The tools we shape and the tools that shape us (sariazout.substack.com)
the tools we shape and the tools that shape us
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Adyen And The Virtual Economy Boom 💸 (getbenchmark.substack.com)
Your Easy Briefing on Under-Hyped Stocks
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The Mind Of a Brilliant Trend Seeker – Rob Sullivan (maried.substack.com)
The world keeps revolving and evolving, and that’s why we keep having trends all year, decade, and century round. With the trends happening here and there, we love to see people who can actually spot trends before they happen. So, In the same way I love digging for trends and what could turn out to be the next big thing, I love exploring for curious, passionate, and the finest minds with foresight in the trend industry.
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Substack Rhymes With Medium (napkinmath.substack.com)
Substack Is Dead! Long Live Substack!
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Learn to code from nothing? Who says I can't! (polymathing.substack.com)
A little more info on this project
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👉 TikTok & The Future of Music (socialstudies.substack.com)
How new music distribution and creation tools are killing the 3 minute song
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