February 2022
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🎥 Why creators should care about NFTs

NFTs have been a trending topic for a while now among many industries. And this technology will also be of great importance for content creators in the future. But why is that?

In this new video, João will explain to you in detail what NFTs are and why creators should not sleep on them 🤳

Grab your popcorn and prick up your ears 🍿

🤖 NFT tips for newcomers

New and exciting NFT projects pop up each day. Whether they are about beautiful art or community benefits 🎨

BUT on the other side, you find more and more new scammers, "rug pulls," and meaningless JPEGS too.

Here are a few tips and tricks that should help you avoid scams in this very new industry.

crypto & web3

🏈 The super Crypto-Bowl

Let's face it. There are 3 kinds of people out there. Either you don't watch the Super-Bowl at all, you watch it because you love football or you only want to see the halftime show and commercials 🏈

This year's commercial breaks were PACKED with Crypto advertisements, which is why the event was also called the Crypto-Bowl in certain circles.

The Verge did a nice rundown on the different ads and explained why they only sold FOMO and not the vision of Blockchains, and Crypto in general, to the viewers 👇

🤖 Everything you need to know about Play-to-Earn

Play-to-Earn is a term that you will come across more and more often in the not-so-distant future.

It is becoming a big trend even in today's online job market. In general, Play-to-Earn is an offshoot of the micro-jobbing phenomenon. It essentially involves performing simple tasks in exchange for small payments.

Here is a quick rundown of what Play-to-Earn actually means 🎮

     social media news

👍 Instagram enables Story likes

Instagram introduced a new "like button" that lets you engage with Stories more directly and efficiently. Until now, you had to show your appreciation by sending direct messages to the creators.

Getting rid of those direct messages and cleaning up the user's inboxes was one of the core reasons for this step, according to the Head of Instagram 🧹

⛔ LinkedIn adds new feature to switch off political content

Political ads and content are one of the big reasons for many people to stop consuming traditional Social Media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Co. ✋

So it is perhaps not all that surprising that LinkedIn has decided to develop a switch that allows you to hide political content 🤔

The company said the feature is the result of user feedback about how increased political posts were hampering the overall experience for visitors of the platform.

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