Clubhouse

Image: Instagram via ETX Daily Up Instagram has launched two new functions in its application, letting users take a breather right in the middle of a Live broadcast. Whether muting the audio or the video, users can now cut the mic or the camera during a livestream, functions that echo the options in Clubhouse. Could audio-only livestreams be the next big thing for Instagram influencers? Instagram unveiled two new user functions, April 29. Via channels including its official Twitter account, the Facebook-owned social network said it hoped to “normalize not always being ‘on'” by allowing users to mute their mic or camera during live broadcasts. These new functions will give users the option of switching off their mic or camera, even if they’re already streaming live on the platform. If a user no longer wants to share their image with followers, then their profile photo is displayed instead, a handy function for dealing with the unexpected while broadcasting live. “We want to build on our Live product and offer even more ways for our creator community to drive serendipitous,  » Read More

Nairobi — The Mohamed Amin Foundation is excited to announce the genesis drop of NFTs from their archive. After years of frame-by-frame cataloging and digitization, the Mohamed Amin Collection is opening its doors for exploration and exhibition to the public through the power of NFTs. The archive includes over 5,000 hours of video content and 2.5 million still photographs gathered between 1955-1996, representing one of the world’s greatest unexplored historical artifacts. It includes unique, high quality documentation of the events surrounding post-colonial Africa, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Our mission is to share this body of work with the global public as a way to stimulate dialogue about Africa and Africans, as well as leverage the new monetization models, introduced by Web3, to create funding for African artists. The impact of this NFT drop will go beyond serving as an example for how cultural organisations can utilise their archive. We also aim to change the way African history is taught and appreciated across the world. “We’re excited to leverage this new Web3 technology in a way that can catalyze global conversations about Africa’s rich and cultured history”,  » Read More

Earlier this year, Adam Broomberg, a Johannesburg-born artist living in Berlin, phoned Matthew Krouse, a former actor turned writer and editor, with a request. It didn’t involve Yiddish translation work.  “People seem to think I am Isaac Bashevis Singer, which I’m not,” says Krouse, who was born into a Jewish family from Germiston in 1961. He grew up speaking Yiddish with his mother and has previously helped Broomberg with translations. “I won’t ever win a Nobel prize for writing in Yiddish,” he insists in reference to the Polish-American writer’s 1978 accolade.  Broomberg revealed his reason for calling Krouse in increments. He started out by asking if he knew about Clubhouse, the social-media app used to host audio chats. Krouse, a man of uncommon creative accomplishments in performance and publishing, responded no. Nonplussed, Broomberg recruited him into a chat about nonfungible tokens (NFTs), cryptographic units of data used to verify the uniqueness of ephemeral digital and video art. Krouse uses piquant language to describe this new-fangled technology.  » Read More

If this insane outbreak of Covid-19 hasn’t taken our lives or those of our loved ones as yet, it certainly has got us addicted to technology. Our offices and schools are run on Zoom, OTT platforms entertain us, Twitter has been allowing us to hold our leaders accountable or amplify our emergencies, while Instagram offers us a reminder of times when we dressed up and hung out. Clubhouse, launched in the USA in March 2020, only arrived in India in 2021. It’s an invite-only platform for iPhone users where you get to attend rooms of people speaking on a spectrum of subjects or follow clubs on topics you prefer. The rooms are intimate, with as few as two people in them and as many as 5,000. You can listen and speak to celebrities such as Elon Musk and Kanye West, share ideas and ask questions. You can also host your own room on issues you choose.Clubhouse has already been valued at US $4 billion and has 10 million downloads. In another three weeks, they will open to Android users,  » Read More

Visual artist Drue Kataoka prefers getting in on the ground floor of any new social media endeavor.“I love getting involved with emerging platforms, because I feel like when they’re new, they still have a lot of creative malleability and spark in them,” she tells The Japan Times from her studio in California’s Silicon Valley.Born in Tokyo, Kataoka was an early user of Facebook, Twitter and, most recently, the audio app Clubhouse, where she says she was among the first 1,000 people onboard after it launched in the spring of 2020. In the year since, she has amassed over 705,000 followers, established The Art Club space and has spearheaded various social justice-oriented causes on the app, including a #StopAsianHate campaign and fundraiser that raised more than $88,000 in the wake of increased violence against Asian Americans in the United States. Striking up a conversation: The Clubhouse app uses portraits of its members for its icon. Now appearing on your phones is Tokyo-born artist Drue Kataoka.  » Read More

The extroverts love to jump on the app to just shoot the schmooze with whoever's online. The introverts are more directed, and will join a room or speak ...  » Read More

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On Sunday, audio social app Clubhouse announced they will be partnering with the National Football League to broadcast a variety of exclusive content during 2021 NFL Draft week.When the draft begins Thursday, April 29 in Cleveland, fans can sign in to Clubhouse to hear live draft picks and reactions from athletes, coaches and media personalities. The league and audio chatting app’s collaboration is in an effort to bring together the global community of football fans, players, and league legends on the platform.— Clubhouse (@joinClubhouse) April 25, 2021“The NFL’s commitment to innovation is matched only by their devotion to their fans, and we are proud to welcome the NFL to Clubhouse,” said Sean Brown, Head of Sports Partnerships at Clubhouse. “The Draft is one of the biggest events of the year for football fans, and we know that millions of creators will be discussing, debating, and celebrating throughout the week.”According to the announcement, Clubhouse will have a collection of NFL-hosted rooms featuring “a pre-draft assessment of the prospective players,  » Read More

First it was blogs, then came the podcasts. Where we once used blackberry messenger, WhatsApp voice notes are now commonplace. Before we asked Alexa or Siri, it was Jeeves.The internet is there to make things easier, and for those of us that are able, what can be simpler than voicing our thoughts? The trouble is, as the Turkish sociologist and tech seer Zeynep Tufekci explained so eloquently, returning to an oral culture “is not suited to certain kinds of knowledge accumulation and legibility of the world”.Our institutions, which rely so heavily on the written and print culture, “will not hold without adjustment”, she warned. One new app in particular is helping to prove her point. A friend invited me to join the iPhone-only  » Read More

Spotify, the world’s top paid music-streaming service; Hybe, the company formerly known as Big Hit that spawned BTS; and Clubhouse, the actual-human-conversation-based social-media platform launched just last spring, have made Time magazine’s annual “100 Most Influential Companies” list. According to the announcement, “To assemble it, Time solicited nominations across sectors including health care, entertainment, transportation, technology and more, from our global network of editors and correspondents as well as from industry experts. Then, we evaluated each one on key factors, including relevance, impact, innovation, leadership, ambition and success.” People who appear on the five different covers of the magazine are Reese Witherspoon of Hello Sunshine, Adam Silver of the National Basketball Association, Mary Barra of General Motors, Francis deSouza of Illumina, and Sara Menker of Gro Intelligence. “For nearly a century, Time has been a barometer of influence, and it’s hard to recall a moment when the corporate world has had a greater influence on our lives than it does now,” writes Time CEO and editor in chief Edward Felsenthal.  » Read More