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Facebook is Meta, But Does It Really Matter?

Jon Loomer

The Facebook parent company has been re-branded as Meta to reflect its future focus on the “Metaverse” (primarily AR and VR experiences). The Facebook parent company is being replaced by Meta. Meta is the umbrella over Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Our lives move into the virtual world.

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6 Ways Emerging Technologies Are Set to Change the Use of Social Media

SocMed Sean

Maria writes for a variety of blogs and today she shares her thoughts on how a variety of emerging technologies could potentially impact our use of social media, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. That is why people often scoff at the idea of virtual reality (VR) being used in social media. Augmented Reality. –Sean.

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3 Key Announcements from Facebook F8 and What Social Media Marketers Need To Know

Ignite Social Media

Facebook held their F8 Conference last week which is a live broadcast of all the updates and innovations to their platform. One thing that is clear from the Facebook announcements at the F8 Conference – the platform is investing heavily in Augmented Reality advancements. 2) Social Virtual Reality with Facebook Spaces.

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Why Facebook Timeline Ads Suck

Waxing UnLyrical

I digress… This is NOT a Pinterest post, mostly because I’m preoccupied with my Timeline on Facebook, and not in a good lion cub hugging sort of way. I see ads “not by facebook.” The point is that these ads “not by facebook” have nothing to do with my timeline or me. I wish them ill.

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How to Successfully Digitize Events During COVID-19

Waxing UnLyrical

Yet when we are all going to have to live, and work, and live, in a virtual world for the foreseeable future, not doing this is also not an option. I manage a few different Facebook groups, one of which is a completely free + no catch Social PR community: The Social PR Posse. Virtual event best practices. What to do?!

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Real investments in virtual worlds continue

The Way of the Web

Don’t forget back in 2004, David Storey paid $26,500 in Entropia , then Jon Jacobs invested $100,000 in a virtual space station in Entropia in November 2005, and of course Anshe Chung became a millionaire via Second Life in 2006. If I had the money and time, I think I would try to make investments in this kind of virtual worlds.

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Automotive Companies in the Metaverse – NFTs and Saraswati

Laurel Papworth

Not sure where they are at now except Ferrari are showing up in virtual worlds like Roblox sans NFTs. 00:00:17.810] Let me just hop in the old Transit and let’s see what Silk Charm is up to in her Virtual World, I’ll list: the use cases for web3 and Metaverse from showrooms through to virtual 3D development labs and others.