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Web 3.0 is a lane, not a highway

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Mark Mulligan
Facebook was not the first web 2.0 company, but it was the one that took it mainstream to a global audience. Consumers’ digital lives would never be the same again. Whereas web 1.0 had enabled them to visit and read websites, much like a digital evolution of newspapers and magazines, Facebook enabled consumers to participate, to comment, upload photos, converse, etc.
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If Web3 is so forward-thinking, why is it so male dominated?

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Tatiana Cirisano
Strike up a five-minute conversation with someone in the Web3 space, and any combination of the words “forward-thinking”, “revolutionary”, and “equitable” is bound to come up. Many proponents of NFTs, DAOs, the metaverse, and other Web3 concepts seek to use decentralisation to dismantle old systems and bring power to the people — and their intentions are, for the most part, good.
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MIDiA at Midem 2017

Zach Fuller
MIDiA Research were one of thousands of delegates who arrived in Cannes this week to attend Midem; the annual conference addressing the latest developments in the music industry. Across 4 days of panels, here are three points we found most insightful: Still no consensus on streaming : Perhaps predictably, many of the event’s panels with regard to the recorded music business were geared towards streaming.
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