The livestreaming boom is driving a significant uptick in the creator economy, as a new forecast estimates consumers will spend $6.78 billion in social apps in 2021. That figure will grow to $17.2 billion annually by 2025, according to data from mobile data firm App Annie, which notes the upward trend represents a five-year compound […]
War Stories: How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original PlayStation
Naughty Dog’s Andy Gavin reveals mid-’90s memory management and 3D animation tricks.
Flip bags $28M to turn beauty, wellness social commerce on its head
Flip mixes a live commerce mobile app with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy.
Gillmor Gang: Half a Loaf
When Salesforce announced its streaming platform Salesforce+, the CRM Playaz’ Paul Greenberg and Brent Leary interviewed Colin Fleming, SVP of Global Brand Experiences at the CRM company (disclosure: I work at Salesforce). Later, I asked Brent about his show on this episode of the Gang. Brent: With all the things going on with data privacy […]
Popcorn’s new app brings short-form video to the workplace
A new startup called Popcorn wants to make work communication more fun and personal by offering a way for users to record short video messages, or “pops,” that can be used for any number of purposes in place of longer emails, texts, Slack messages, or Zoom calls. While there are plenty of other places to […]
Gillmor Gang: Cryptonomics
Twitter seems on an aggressive path to putting pedal to the metal. From its earliest days as a failwhale generator and a ransacker of third party successes, the company under Jack Dorsey’s stewardship has become an acquirer of tools to support the creators it hosts. Twitter Spaces, its Clubhouse clone, has steadily improved its UI […]
Everybody knows her by the nickname of la Chona
The catchy 1995 Norteño/pop hit song
“La Chona”
by Los Tucanes de Tijuana has been
covered
hundreds
of
times
by
both
professional
and
amateur
musicians.
There are
also
remixes
and
parodies.
Of course, one can also
just
dance
to
i…
Adobe buying Frame.io in $1.28B deal
Adobe announced today it is acquiring Frame.io, a video review and collaboration platform used by over a million customers, for $1.275 billion in cash. Founded in 2014 by post-production company owner Emery Wells and technologist John Traver, New York-based Frame.io was created to solve the workflows challenges filmmakers faced in their daily lives. Today, the […]
indie game dev burnout glitchless any% WR speedrun
Quintin Smith takes a look at how Roblox works.
Permutation.City
An experiment in AI assisted video composition, starring the Storror parkour team. [via The Awesomer]