![]() ![]() Imagine reading this email via VR with your digital avatar while “at work” in the future. Facebook is currently hiring 700+ roles for the team, and this is a significant signal about where the future of XR is headed. Zuck imagines an open, broadly distributed, 3D dimension online where we will all conduct much of our work and personal lives. The move follows Mark Zuckerberg’s statement that Facebook would transition from social media platform to a metaverse company in 5-10 years and as Roblox and Fortnight are also working on building out their own more comprehensive metaverse offerings. Snap recently reported that is has 293 million daily users, making its user base about 42 percent larger than Twitter’s.įacebook’s Metaverse Team is Hiring: Facebook will create a metaverse product team headed by Instagram’s VP of product. Seeing friends on a map alongside info about businesses is also a relatively unique feature that Facebook hasn’t managed to copy. The “Popular” tab at the bottom center of the Snap Map will show recommendations for places to go based on factors like your current location, friend activity on the map, and the kind of places you’ve saved as favorites. But meanwhile, more than 250 million people use Snapchat’s built-in map to see where their friends are in the world, and now Snap is adding a feature to surface popular places it thinks all those users may want to visit. Snapchat Maps Go Social: Remember Foursquare? The social nature of location-based discovery, serendipity, and connection is still a valuable feature, but “check-ins” have faded in popularity on Swarm, Facebook, and the like. It’s a two-day, in-person, conference and networking experience that’s a pretty good price considering they let people like me speak there. Oh hey, Digital Summit is coming up NEXT WEEK. So now that I’ve noticed the “Give Kudos” button and understand its background, I like to think that I would “Give Kudos” to someone by dressing up as a Greek God and bestowing honor to someone who has earned it via a wreath headdress when I push that button on my phone. I just need to buy a bedsheet first. You can send Kudos only to LinkedIn members that you’re connected to.īold use of “thrice” there, LinkedIn. Especially since this product has been out three years (thrice years?), and I’ve never noticed it nor received kudos myself. Kudos is a fun and easy way to recognize an individual or a group of members by mentioning to your connections or the public how they’ve excelled. You can show your appreciation to colleagues or people that you’ve worked with by sending them a Kudos on LinkedIn. LinkedIn’s ‘Give Kudos’ prompt was introduced in 2018, positioned as “a fun and easy way to share your appreciation for people in your professional community.” So fun! But regardless, the marketing nostalgia is soaked deep into my brain wrinkles when I hear the word “Kudos.” Delish said it’s “ The Most Upsetting Loss Of Our Generation.” I remember it as an okay chocolate granola bar we didn’t buy often. ![]() Healthy eating movements can be hard on snack food brands. There’s a lot of speculation about why Mars killed the Kudos brand. The song is a Randy Newman-meets-Billy Joel-meets-unhealthy granola bar-positioned that it will help-you-be-healthy-and-athletic kind of a situation that any kid who watched as much TV as I did in the late 80s and early 90s surely will recall and probably believed. Its slogan was “Kudos, I’m yours!” with a 30-second jingle that persisted for years. The granola bar of the same name launched in 1986 and was officially killed via a Facebook post in 2017. ( as well as the words tycoon, pundit, and socialite). But if you think of kudos like we use the words ethos, bathos, or hubris – it’s basically the same thing.Īnyway, kudos means “praise given for achievement,” and Time Magazine is credited with bringing kudos to the U.S. Of course, even that assertion is contentious as our language evolves. Turns out a “kudo” is a false singular since kudos comes from Greek (therefore the “s” doesn’t make it plural). This isn’t a “Like,” after all. It’s a Kudos. So it sent me down a late night rabbit hole into the history of kudos before I go giving them to people irresponsibly. A kudo? Is there a singular Kud? It’s basically a Seinfeld joke, right?īut ‘Give Kudos’ is a primary CTA for LinkedIn, and that bothered me. So I of course screenshotted it and ironically texted it to my coworker and said “Taking a moment” with a screenshot and then included a photo of a box of Kudos-brand granola bars. As one does.īut from there, the conversation devolved into our memories of Kudos granola bars. This week I got a notification on LinkedIn asking me to “Take a moment to recognize 4 years of being connected to your coworker” and had a call-to-action button labeled “Give Kudos.” ![]()
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