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Snapchat will let developers put their apps inside its TikTok copycat Spotlight

The Verge

Snapchat is making it easier for developers to use viral content to directly promote their apps. It’s a win-win for both parties: Snapchat gains more content on its platform while developers are rewarded with additional downloads if an effect or tool they launch goes viral.

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Wordle copycat creator apologizes for ripping off the popular free word game

The Verge

Shakked’s clone (called “Wordle – The App”) was one of the more high-profile copies, thanks to the developer’s celebratory tweets about the project and the eyebrow-raising price tag — an optional $30-per-year annual subscription that would allow players to play an unlimited number of puzzles, instead of Wordle’s one-per-day system.

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A-Alpha Bio wins $620,000 grant to work on ‘molecular glue’ for treating disease

GeekWire

The E3 protein serves as a chemical tag that basically tells the cell, “Get rid of the protein that I’m connected to.” Could the right kind of glue gum up viral infections like COVID-19? Such molecules are designed to “glue” a target protein onto another type of protein known as an E3 ubiquitin ligase.

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Effectively Using Videos for Search Marketing

Galido

While providing traffic, they also give your business the opportunity to “go viral” with target audiences that appeal to your content. Pick out good titles, specify tags, provide clear and relevant descriptions, provide transcripts, add links, and more. Social media and Youtube provides you the opportunity to go viral.

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How a Seattle investor, Univ. of Washington student and Amazon are linked by new documentary film

GeekWire

One report put Amazon’s price tag for “Wildcat” around $20 million. PREVIOUSLY: Seattle investor who worked — and rocked — with Paul Allen goes viral with his cover of a grunge hit. The doc-series focuses on an effort to locate the stamps and return the property to the rightful heir.

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‘May be an image’: what it’s like browsing Instagram while blind

The Verge

Facebook had an image outage in 2019 that showed all of its users the photo tags that are usually hidden, displaying machine-assigned descriptors like “Image may contain: people standing.” Viral videos are reposted and shared without any kind of description, through audio or text, of what’s happening on-screen. “Oh,

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Contact tracing apps promised big and didn’t deliver

The Verge

Nine months after Apple and Google first announced their partnership, contact tracing apps’ role in reducing viral transmission is still difficult to measure. New York’s cost $700,000 , for example, while Virginia’s had a $229,000 price tag. Using the app will be easy. Measuring whether the app can deliver will be harder.

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