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Arbitrum co-founders see opportunity for continued layer-2 growth through DeFi, gaming
The Ethereum layer-2 space is continuing to see strong demand as one of its largest scaling solutions, Arbitrum, is seeing renewed growth
Arbitrum co-founders see opportunity for continued layer-2 growth through DeFi, gaming by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
Meet Alistair Bryan and Jaie Genadt, Co-Founders at Metaverse Events Company: Flox
Flox is a revolutionary and intuitive metaverse event platform. It helps to drive more engagement in virtual and hybrid (physical…
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Instagram Co-Founders Launch Personalized News App ‘Artifact’
In time, Artifact’s goal is to provide tools that would allow readers to click a button to show more or less from a given topic to better control, personalize and diversify their feed. In the meantime, however, users can delve into settings to manage their interests by blocking or pausing publishers or selecting and unselecting general interest categories. Also new today is a feature that allows you to upload your contacts in order to see a signal that a particular article is popular in your network. This is slightly different from Twitter’s Top Articles feature, which shows you articles popular with the people you follow, because Artifact’s feature is more privacy-focused.
“It doesn’t tell you who read it. It doesn’t tell you how many of them read it, so it keeps privacy — and we clearly don’t do it with just one read. So you can’t have one contact and like figure out what that one contact is reading … it has to meet a certain minimum threshold,” notes [Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom]. This way, he adds, the app isn’t driven by what your friends are reading, but it can use that as a signal to highlight items that everyone was reading. In time, the broader goal is to expand the social experience to also include a way to discuss the news articles within Artifact itself. The beta version, limited to testers, offers a Discover feed where users can share articles and like and comment on those shared by others. There’s a bit of a News Feed or even Instagram-like quality to engaging with news in this way, we found.
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Instagram co-founders’ news app Artifact is now open to everyone
Artifact, the personalized news curation app from Instagram’s co-founders, no longer has a waitlist. The app is live in the Apple App Store in most English-speaking markets, as well as on Android. Starting today, you’ll no longer need a phone number to use Artifact unless you want to create an account and move to a different device.
In addition, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger’s team has added more features, including a social element. There’s now the option to upload your contacts to see if a certain article has gained traction with your friends. A badge will appear next to an article that’s popular enough among your contacts.
It’s not a launch without a little sizzle reel 🌶 Come join us in @ARTIFACT_News ! pic.twitter.com/QrdXctfNl1
— Kevin Systrom (@kevin) February 22, 2023
Systrom told TechCrunch that you can’t see which of your specific friends have read a story or how many. There’s a threshold before the badge appears too, so you won’t be able to just upload a single contact and use the feature to track what they’re reading. These, apparently, are privacy considerations, but they overlook the fact that you’ll need to upload your contacts’ details to use it.
In another time, Artifact might have tapped into Twitter to see what the people you’re following are reading (akin to the Top Articles feature for Blue subscribers). But with Elon Musk severely restricting Twitter’s APIs, that may no longer be viable.
Eventually, Artifact will have a way for users to share and comment on articles in the app. The beta version already has a Discover feed of things people are sharing. Naturally, users can like and comment on those shared articles.
The app now has a stats feature that visualizes the categories you’ve been reading most often, as well as the publishers you’ve been reading the most. Artifact is grouping articles into more narrowly defined topics as well. Meanwhile, you can now indicate when you don’t like an article or publisher and the app will show you less of that. It’s possible to block publishers too.
I’ve been using Artifact for a few weeks and I’m enjoying it so far. Unsurprisingly, the suggestions have become more attuned to my tastes the more I use it and tell it what I don’t want to see. It reminds me a bit of Facebook’s old Paper app, my favorite thing Meta has built to date. Artifact doesn’t have anything like the social graph of Facebook, but given that the Instagram guys are behind it, it’s hard to bet against their new app finding success.
Meet Zach Schleien and Brian Weinreich, Co-Founders at NYC-Based Dating App: Filteroff
Dating has changed drastically throughout history. But no generation has faced more obstacles to making true connections than ours. Yes,…
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Instagram Co-Founders Introduce Text-Based App
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are returning to the app game with a new innovative startup since leaving the ‘gram in 2018. Artifact is a new social media platform that will provide a feed of articles and facts aimed to create a dialogue between users to discuss things of interest.
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A Chat with Yaroslav Medvedev and Vladislav Dekhanov, Co-Founders at SaaS platform For IT Companies: not8
Hello Yaro, hello Vlad – thanks for agreeing for this interview! You have just closed a round of investment from…
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