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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Covid-19 accelerated the adoption of entertainment tech, gaming and commerce. The move to remote work forced quick adoption of cloud technology and tools that were once having difficulties selling to large corporates, saw explosive growth – from Zoom to Hopin, new unicorns were born in record time. Gaming is the new social.

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[Review] Startup Rising

YoungUpstarts

Schroeder, looks at how a wave of entrepreneurial activity – especially tech entrepreneurship – is sweeping across that part of the world. In fact, according to Schroeder, startup events in the Middle East regularly see more female participation than even those held in the United States – a staggering revelation.

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Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks

Both Sides of the Table

They “don’t care what people ate for lunch.&# They’re fine on their existing social networks, which these days mostly means they’re happy with Facebook. Traditional social networks are more restricted to people whom I already know and information and updates are less discoverable.

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[Review] Hatching Twitter

YoungUpstarts

Twitter, which originated as an accidental side project of a failing Internet startup, first launched into prominence in 2007 when it landed best start-up in the blog category of the technology portion of annual festival SxSW that year.

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[Review] Things A Little Bird Told Me

YoungUpstarts

Since its founding in 2006, online social network and microblogging service Twitter has pretty much become a permanent part of the Internet as we know it. For aspiring startup technology entrepreneurs, “ Things a Little Bird Told Me ” provides a great insight into what it is like to live and breathe a startup. .

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[Review] Likeable Social Media

YoungUpstarts

With close to 900 million users and an upcoming IPO , Facebook is ruling the web as the social network of choice. Collectively, these social technologies and platforms rule a disproportionate part of our lives as consumers. Integrate Social Media into the Entire Customer Experience. Don’t Sell!

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Visions of Web 3

Version One Ventures

While it’s unclear exactly how identity shakes out, one likely outcome is that entry to various networks will be intermediated by holding a specific digital bearer asset / NFT / private key. This shift from Big Tech to NFT as an authenticator will have all kinds of interesting consequences for user experiences. Maskbook , Uniswap ).

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