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Making NFTs as easy as shopping in a store

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One of the difficulties with NFTs for most people is understanding precisely what they are and what they mean to a purchaser. Even the name from which the initialism is derived – ‘non-fungible token‘ – sounds like so much techno-babble. […]

Posted on January 21, 2022January 21, 2022 Web 3

Pivoting the FIR podcast

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When Shel and I started the For Immediate Release podcast, usually abbreviated to ‘FIR,’ in January 2005, we had a big vision for it. We wanted to have a conversation about topics that interested us at that intersection of business, […]

Posted on January 11, 2022January 10, 2022 For Immediate ReleaseMarketingPodcasting

Is Web 3 decentralization a pipe dream?

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Matthew Rosenfeld, known as Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of the Signal encrypted messaging service, writes a comprehensive analysis of Web 3, centralization and decentralization, NFT, cryptocurrencies, and a great deal more. His starting point: web3 is a somewhat ambiguous term, […]

Posted on January 9, 2022January 10, 2022 Web 3

Pay attention to metaverse experiments

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The metaverse isn’t what you think it is because we don’t know what it is, says CNET. It’s a good starting point to think about a topic that I believe is one of three elements – metaverse, Web 3 and […]

Posted on January 5, 2022January 9, 2022 Metaverse

Mailbird is a good tool for email and calendar management

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For more than twenty years, Microsoft Outlook has been the primary software tool I use for email and calendars on Windows PCs, for both business and personal uses. On New Year’s Day, I switched my personal email accounts to Mailbird, […]

Posted on January 4, 2022January 4, 2022 BusinessCommunicationExperimentingReviewsSoftware

The Metaverse, Web 3 and Internet 2: the conversation (and hype) continues

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Two things happened recently that reminded me of the saying “what goes around, comes around” but in a good way. Both things concern the metaverse, Web 3 and Internet 2. These are terms that everyone is talking about online and […]

Posted on January 1, 2022January 9, 2022 MetaverseTechnologyWeb 3

The usefulness of single-journey data in a hybrid car

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This week I drove into and out of central London, into the congestion charging zone, in my self-charging hybrid car for the first time this year. It’s about a 60-mile trip each way for me on the A4 and M4 […]

Posted on December 17, 2021December 17, 2021 AutomotiveExperiencesSoftwareTechnologyTravel

15 years and 100,000 tweets later: 3 tips for Twitter you can learn from

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Twitter reminded me the other day that it was fifteen years ago when I signed up for a Twitter account. December 7, 2006, was that day and the message I posted was like many you saw at the time when […]

Posted on December 12, 2021January 9, 2022 Twitter

Lush shows it’s time for an anti social media policy

All We Need Is More Likes
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At the dawn of the social media age fifteen and more years ago, everything was about blogs. This was the time just before Facebook, before Twitter, even before YouTube, when blogs started to gain momentum from the early-to-mid 2000s when […]

Posted on November 28, 2021January 9, 2022 Social MediaSocial Networks

Metaverse: how Facebook rebrand reflects a dangerous trend in growing power of tech monopolies

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Facebook’s rebranding as Meta has been seen by many as the company’s latest attempt at corporate crisis control. The social media giant has been publicly attacked for creating an environment that fosters far-right extremism and violating individuals’ data privacy. Yet […]

Posted on November 6, 2021January 9, 2022 MetaverseSocial NetworksTechnologyTrends

Windows 11 makes its glorious public debut

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Today, October 5, Microsoft makes Windows 11, a new version of Windows, publicly available. Over the coming nine months or so, it will be available as a free update in Windows Update on computers everywhere running Windows 10. Unlike previous […]

Posted on October 5, 2021January 9, 2022 ReviewsSoftwareTechnology

September 11 remembered

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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the infamous terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. Today, people around the world will pause to remember 9/11 – that terrible day twenty years ago. Almost 3,000 people from 90 […]

Posted on September 11, 2021September 10, 2021 CommunicationExperiencesMainstream MediaSocietyTelevision

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