Issue #11 - Future of Journalism, Cartel TikTok, Atlanta the Capital of Culture, Blockchain Youtube, Electric Classics, Royalty Marketplace, Kid Cudi, Jim-E Stack, & Channel Tres
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December 18, 2020
📰 News
✍️ Interview w/ Chirs Best, co-founder and CEO of Substack (what this newsletter is built on), on how they aim to redefine journalism
🔫 Cartel TikTok is poppin'
🍑 Atlanta is the culture capital
🤳 Understanding TikTok & Bytedance
🌐 A look inside the world of selling and trading domains
🇲🇲 What it's like building tech in Myanmar
🔞 Pornhub recently purged millions of videos from its database, but can it prevent the exploitation of children?
🚜 2-acre vertical farms > 720-acre flat farm
🎮 Genshin Impact made $400 million in just the last 2 months
🌞 These solar panels hit different
👁️ What comes after smartphones? by Ben Evans
🔍 What we've all been waiting for, Google's Year in Search
📚 How to simplify books into formulas
🪖 "A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military."
🍎 An example of when BigCo gives in: Apple reducing its App Store cut to 15%
🇲🇽 The Mexican super app you probably didn't know about
📈 Thanks to Lil Nas X, Roblox will IPO to the moon
🎤 Parler, the free speech social network, gets cosign from prominent conservatives
🖼️ The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities by Kelsey Ables (Artsy)
🪙 Interoperability and composability within Ethereum
📺 Anime's role in the streaming war
🕹️ Products
Odysee - Youtube built on top of a blockchain protocol
Radio Garden - Listen to stations from across the world
Zero Labs - Turn any classic into an electric vehicle
Royalty Exchange - Buy and sell royalties
WikiFactory - Collaborative CAD platform
Startupy - Community-powered database for startup knowledge, organized associatively
Stripe Climate - Carbon removal with each transaction
Stripe Treasury - Banking-as-a-service
Monet Dating - Gen-Z dating app centered on drawing
Zoox - Amazon's latest self-driving acquisition, billed as mobility-as-a-service
PoolTogether - Play a lottery you never lose
Roboclaus - Run a virtual Secret Santa
OnlyFams - Private community-as-a-service
User Leap - Continuous user research platform
Relativity - Redefining how rockets are built
Vowel - Video conferencing tool for better meetings
🎧 Music
Kid Cudi - The Void
Jim-E Stack - Can We feat. Kacy Hill
morray - quicksand
Channel Tres - Skate Depot
KAYTRANADA - Look Easy (The Short) ft. Lucky Daye
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