Day: June 21, 2022

What Do NFTs, Web3 And The Metaverse Mean For Digital Marketing?

Jaime E. Love 2 weeks ago

Molly Baker, CEO & Founder of Indie Consulting.

It’s impossible today to escape the growing buzz around NFTs, the metaverse and now Web3. Over the past few months, we’ve received many questions from clients, friends and partners asking for our take on all of the above and, more importantly, what it means for digital marketing.

Although it may be hard to picture, it’s natural that the internet will have to evolve beyond the platform-based ecosystem that exists today as we encounter new technology, consumer privacy standards and immersive content experiences. Many things are still unclear, as there is no road map yet from a marketing perspective and probably won’t be for a while. However, we can predict the impacts of NFTs, Web3 and the metaverse on digital marketing by understanding their basic functions and how to develop them further.

What are NFTs?

A non-fungible token (NFT) is a

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Dog Copying Owner Going Down Stairs After Ankle Break Delights Internet

Jaime E. Love 2 weeks ago

A dog has gone viral for mocking its injured owner while going down the stairs, and the internet is having a right good laugh.

In a video posted by the dog’s owner, who goes by the username Ash_laughs, on TikTok, the dog can be seen going down the stairs very slowly, imitating the owner’s movements, after seeing her struggling to get downstairs, due to a leg injury.

The post—which was shared by Ash_laughs on Tuesday—has so far reached over 697,000 likes, 2,900 comments and 26,500 reshares.

While a broken leg is not contagious, a yawn certainly is. According to research by the American Kennel Club, the sound of a human yawn can trigger one from your dog. And it’s four times as likely to happen when it’s the yawn of a person he knows.

dog and owner
A stock image shows a dog spending time with its owner. A dog has gone
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Alarm raised on fresh critical flaws in industrial equipment • The Register

Jaime E. Love 2 weeks ago

Fifty-6 vulnerabilities – some deemed critical – have been observed in industrial operational technologies (OT) methods from 10 global producers together with Honeywell, Ericsson, Motorola, and Siemens, putting extra than 30,000 devices globally at possibility, in accordance to the US government’s CISA and non-public security scientists. 

Some of these vulnerabilities received CVSS severity scores as large as 9.8 out of 10. That is specifically negative, thinking about these units are applied in vital infrastructure across the oil and gas, chemical, nuclear, electrical power technology and distribution, manufacturing, h2o treatment and distribution, mining and building and automation industries. 

The most serious safety flaws consist of remote code execution (RCE) and firmware vulnerabilities. If exploited, these holes could most likely enable miscreants to shut down electrical and water programs, disrupt the food offer, improve the ratio of substances to outcome in harmful mixtures, and … Okay, you get the strategy.

Which is

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