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Friday 3rd September

September 02, 2021

Things you may have missed🏖

Things You Should Know 👀

Hooooly crap, it’s here (if here is Poland)! Netflix gaming has started testing android games, and colour me confused…Just me, or have they just created more mobile games?

The game appears in-feed like a TV show slate, then you have to download the game via the app store and log in with Netflix credentials. Doesn’t feel very innovative, yet.

“What do you mean no one wants to sponsor season 13 of The Bachelor anymore? It’s prime-time viewing!.”I’m being facetious obviously, everyone watches it🤥. How about that digital surge though ay? Whack out the dinner mint CPMs.

CPMs up 40% on Facebook and CPCs up 48% according to some industries. Kinda begs the question, why are we all targeting boomers? Apart from wishing happy birthday to someone you went to Uni with, they’re the only users, right?

Cool Stuff😎

Shazam for the visual world? Making everything around you shoppable?Snap has quietly built a very powerful camera, with the ‘Scan’ feature able to read the world around you

What dog breed is that? What plant is that? What brand is that T-shirt? A very cool feature that looks far advanced than Google & Pinterest.

What we’ve learned📚

🎵Come with me, and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination🎵 Want to take a journey into the murky world of NFTs? This feel-good story starts with a media-baked preconception and ends with me being utterly wrong.

If you missed my journey into NFTs earlier this week, no fear, catch up here. Read how seemingly one-dimensional JPEGs are built upon frenzied communities, all whilst supporting artists & owning awesome pieces of art.

‘I believe Mark Zuckerberg’s passion for the metaverse stems from a desire to exit this one.’ Prof Galloway does it again with this excellent piece on the Metaverse and Facebook’s refusal to face reality.

An excellent article that makes a very hot topic palatable and more of an insight into what Zuck is focusing on and why.

The Nerd Corner🤓

MUUUUUM. Or Multitask Unified Model, is Google’s new language model that will soon fuel their search engine and could act as a virtual research assistant answering complex queries

Kinda scary how advanced AI has become in recent years. This new language model can look at words in context and in the future could understand video, audio, images, and text.