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@oyl · 1 year ago

MidJourney and the Advent of "Text to Museum Quality Art"?

No doubt you've seen them. The odd cultural mashups. The current pop stars rendered in Renaissance style. The not-quite-deep-fake, but what are these images? The past few months have seen AI image ge...

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@oyl · 2 years ago

Is ApeCoin The Coin of The Metaverse?

When a new cryptocurrency is introduced, the reactions are always volatile. I remember early talk of Bitcoin in 2010, when the only sites you could access it on looked like shady, ad-ridden, back wor...

2 likes · 1 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

Spotify to Integrate NFTs

How do you onboard a billion users into web3? That's the question every NFT startup is asking themselves every minute of the day. And sure, perhaps one of those startups will crack the code or come...

3 likes · 0 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

ApeCoin Marks The Start of NFT Execution Season

Roadmap season has officially ended. With the launch of the Bored Apes Yacht Club affiliated coin token, ApeCoin, we are officially moving into the next phase of our shared NFT journey. Trading on th...

1 likes · 0 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

Branding 3.0

In my career in advertising, I remember encouraging brands to take a look at YouTube when it just launched. They laughed at me. I didn't understand media, they said. It was small time, they chided. TV...

3 likes · 0 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

Limewire: From mp3 Piracy to NFT Marketplace

Millennial music pirating darling Limewire sprang back into headlines this week after decades of dust and silence. The once foundational music piracy service, was buried in lawsuits and eventually out...

2 likes · 0 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi Trailer Reaction

Star Wars always gets you with the music. I remember when I saw the trailer for Episode 1 back in the day. It came after a lengthy dry spell for the franchise, when there was no guarantee that Star...

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@oyl · 2 years ago

NFT Branding: 101

The cat is out of the bag on the technical side of NFTs (or should I say Crypto-Kitty?) Every day, new services pop up that make it easy to drag, drop and mint your own NFTs. The barrier to entry to c...

4 likes · 0 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

Azuki NFT Releases First Fractionalized NFT

We have hit a wall with NFTs. The word is out. You either love or hate them. But whichever side you fall on, you feel like you know what they are about. And it's either for you or not. Of course those...

1 likes · 0 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

Shibuya NFT Creates Web3 Native Film Platform

Hollywood has long been looking for new ways to fund and market films. With the emergence of NFTs and web3, filmmakers and film producers have actively been searching for ways to harness the exponenti...

2 likes · 0 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

Michael Jordan Enters the Metaverse

Quickly and quietly, things are picking up with basketball legend Michael Jordan's involvement in the web3 space. There have been reports of the hoops icon meeting with multiple web3 and NFT companies...

4 likes · 0 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

Boba Fett Chapter 7 Review

Well, The Book of Boba Fett has come to an end. While the lasting reactions and memories of the show will take some time to settle in, I can give a glimpse of what I was feeling in real time. The b...

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@oyl · 2 years ago

A DAO is Trying to Buy the Denver Broncos

As we rocket through 2022, the web3 and NFT space continues to evolve at warp speed. Grabbing headlines today, is the latest DAO with an ambitious moon shot set out before it. The aptly titled, BuyTh...

1 likes · 0 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

Why NFTs? Feb 2022 Edition

NFTs are a trend. Every brand is panicking and coming up with a reactionary NFT strategy. Some are even rushing projects out just so they don’t miss the moment. But spoiler alert, this moment is goin...

1 likes · 0 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

Boba Fett Chapter 6: Well-Funded Fan Fiction

Star Wars is a franchise like no other in the history of entertainment. It's existed for over 50 years, which is basically over half of the lifespan of modern Hollywood. It's not just another franch...

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@oyl · 2 years ago

YouTube Embraces NFTs

Good morning. With media monolith YouTube acknowledging that NFTs will play a role in their platform in the future, we are preparing to enter a seismic shift in the space. With mainstream adoption...

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@oyl · 2 years ago

The Book of Boba Fett: Chapter 5 Review

This is the episode where the Mandalorian fully crosses over with The Book of Boba Fett. And the entire episode delivered gripping, visually stunning Star Wars content that will delight the hell o...

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@oyl · 2 years ago

The State of NFTs: January 2022

I think my ah-ha moment with NFTs came when I realized that they weren't just one thing. After I dug a little behind the splashy headlines, I started to see a world of potential. After a number of mo...

1 likes · 0 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

Boba Fett: Chapter 4 Review

This is the episode Star Wars fans have been looking for. In Chapter 4 of The Book of Boba Fett , we start to see a lot of the loose threads of the series starting to come together. It answers questi...

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@oyl · 2 years ago

The Book of Boba Fett: Chapter 3 Review

The ongoing adventures of Boba Fett are drawing the ire of some vocal Star Wars superfans. In what has now become typical, every new entry to the Star Wars universe is subjected to the very intense pe...

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@oyl · 2 years ago

Street Fashion in the Metaverse

Street fashion might not sound like a perfect analog for the NFT space, yet early on it's seeming like a match made in metaverse heaven. Lately, Bobby Hundreds, owner of the street brand, The Hundred...

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@oyl · 2 years ago

Australian Open Mixes Metaverse with Reality

OK this is interesting. Most brands aping into the NFT space do so with the most basic of strategies. They take their existing IP, freeze it into a static JPEG and hope their "fans" will want to take...

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@oyl · 2 years ago

LooksRare Rises as a Challenger to OpenSea

Once upon a time, AOL was king of onboarding people to the "internet." Then up rose a host of other services and you could take your pick how you wanted to surf the worldwide web. As the internet matu...

2 likes · 2 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

Worldwide WEBB and the Interoperable Future of the Metaverse

In the past year, we've seen metaverse projects step into the spotlight. Early blue chip projects include The Sandbox and Decentraland , which feel almost like blockchain versions of open worlds li...

3 likes · 2 comments · NFT Games (c7a1)

@oyl · 2 years ago

Recycle Your Worthless NFTs with IlliquidDAO

With the NFT market continuing its meteoric rise, wallets are being flooded with JPEGs as owners hope to ape in to a potential winner. However, the rule of speculative investing is at work, and 99% of...

2 likes · 2 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

The Book of Boba Fett: Episode 2 Review

The second episode of Star Wars' The Book of Boba Fett , finds us crawling deeper into the sands of Tatooine. We knew we were getting a Western genre Star Wars with this series, just like it's foreru...

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@oyl · 2 years ago

Hollywood Hears the Siren Song of NFTs

It's only a matter of time before Hollywood jumps into the NFT game. Sure there have been little rumbles here and there, like when Quentin Tarantino offered up his original Pulp Fiction screenplay as...

5 likes · 2 comments · Movies + TV (ba80)

@oyl · 2 years ago

DAOs: Country Clubs for Millennials

Our grandparents joined country clubs to signal their social status. Now, thanks to the blockchain, a new type of social club is taking shape. The DAO or "decentralized autonomous organization." DAOs...

2 likes · 0 comments · Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (7b7f)

@oyl · 2 years ago

The NFT Revolution Will Not Be Gamified, Yet...

When game studio Ubisoft announced that they would be incorporating NFTs into their titles, the backlash from gamers was immediate and fierce. They did not want the latest tech trend of the day to inv...

6 likes · 3 comments · NFT Games (c7a1)

@oyl · 2 years ago

How Steph Curry Changed Basketball Forever

Sports fans and the media love to stir up the GOAT debate. Every generation has their handful of players who get thrown into the discussion. It gets debated from all sides. The stats. The championship...

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