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Epic Games shuts down Houseparty app to focus on metaverse

CTOvision

Houseparty, the social video app that launched in 2016 and soared in popularity during the pandemic, will be shutting down in October, the company announced Thursday.

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Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth

GeekWire

On a video call from the hospital where he and his wife welcomed a baby boy over the weekend, CEO and co-founder Nick Fajt was excited about the 5-year-old startup he’s been raising into a unicorn in Seattle, where a majority of top tech companies operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. Gaming company or social company?

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Why schools around the country are locking up kids’ cellphones

Vox

In Akron, for example, students were coordinating fights to post on social media, Shipe said. But the move to keep phones out of schools also comes in the midst of a bigger debate about whether the devices, and social media in general, are having dire effects on childhood development and the lives of teenagers.

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Futurist proved correct! …and today describes the extraordinary social technologies of 2016 (release)

Trends in the Living Networks

and today describes the extraordinary social technologies of 2016. Ross’s second book, Living Networks , published in 2002, opens with a description of corporate blogging, and discusses the idea of social networks years before MySpace or Facebook existed , as well as the rise of “micro-messages,” anticipating the Twitter phenomenon.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Social Media

ForAllSecure

With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. In this episode, LiveOverflow talks about his six years of producing engaging YouTube content and what the rise of social media influencers might mean for traditional conferences like Black Hat.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Social Media

ForAllSecure

With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. In this episode, LiveOverflow talks about his six years of producing engaging YouTube content and what the rise of social media influencers might mean for traditional conferences like Black Hat.

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Music-licensing startup Audiosocket hits play on effort to get more digital creators using its products

GeekWire

Audiosocket Photo) TikTok videos posted by Charli D’Amelio , Miss Universe , and the Philadelphia Eagles are quite different from one another, but they share something in common thanks to a Seattle startup. On TikTok, the video-sharing social giant, Audiosocket’s artists are trending, amassing more than 300 million views this year.

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