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Capsule gets $1.5M to build ‘super simple’ decentralized social media

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” Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social media. Given the intent with TIC is to hosts all sorts of decentralized apps it’s possible — indeed, likely — that a bunch of decentralized social media plays will emerge. Polychain Capital outted its Beacon Fund last September.

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Why so many SaaS companies are launching their own media operations

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Around 2003, as blogs began to take hold in the internet psyche , it became clear that these writing tools could be more than an outlet for an individual’s ruminations — they also had vast potential for business and marketing. It turns out that writing a corporate blog was just the first step in a longer, broader media journey.

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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

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WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Automattic focused on media at a time when that industry was being demolished by the internet. The role also gave him an inside view of the internal systems of a large media organization.

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The internet moments that defined 2023

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Sometimes, the internet’s most viral memes may seem entirely incomprehensible (like when Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne), but the things that captivate our attention online matter. Can you believe that it was only this summer when Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne?

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Daily Crunch: Kanye West reaches agreement to acquire social media platform Parler

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That, that, that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger ” : Two of our top stories for today centered on the same topic — Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, surprising us all by announcing he was going to buy the conservative social media site Parler. The TechCrunch Top 3. Manish has the basics on the deal.

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New media venture in India helping readers discern signal from noise

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The Signal, whose most other founding members including Venkat Ananth and Patanjali Pahwa are also journalists, is the latest independent media venture in the South Asian nation, which is the one of the world’s largest news markets. and the UK, where several media venture founders have made successful exits, India is yet to demonstrate any.

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Oxford study says internet use doesn’t harm mental health, but its research has limits

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In one of the largest studies ever on mental health and internet use, the Oxford Internet Institute has declared that there is no “smoking gun” linking the internet with psychological harm.

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