Spotify Draws Up Plans To Join NFT Digital Collectibles Craze (ft.com) 12
Spotify may be the latest service to adopt NFTs. According to the Financial Times, the company is "drawing up plans to add blockchain technology and non-fungible tokens to its streaming service, fueling excitement in the crypto and music industries about the potential of NFTs to boost artists' earnings." It comes just days after Mark Zuckerberg confirmed NFTs will soon be coming to Instagram. From the report: Two recent job ads show Spotify is recruiting people to work on early stage projects related to "Web3," a tech buzzword for a blockchain-powered network that some crypto enthusiasts hope will wrestle control back from the Big Tech platforms that dominate today's internet.
Spotify's recruitment in the sector appears to be at an exploratory stage. It pointed to Web3 in a recruitment notice for an engineer on its "experimental growth" team. "This small and full-stack team is responsible for driving growth through new technologies, like Web3," the ad said. A separate Spotify job listing, for a manager in its future-gazing "Innovation and Market Intelligence" group, shows the music streaming service is looking for a candidate with experience in "content, creator, media, web3, and emerging technology industries" to "help define Spotify Moonshots," a term for ambitious new projects. The report goes on to note that Spotify "was an early collaborator on Facebook's ill-fated cryptocurrency project, Diem."
Daniel Ek, Spotify's chief executive, told a company podcast back in 2019 that cryptocurrencies and blockchain could allow users of "a service like Spotify [...] to be able to pay artists directly," especially across international borders or in regions where few people have traditional bank accounts. "That can open up massive opportunities where all of a sudden, a user in Japan might pay a creator in Argentina. And that opens up huge opportunities for how we can further our mission."
Spotify's recruitment in the sector appears to be at an exploratory stage. It pointed to Web3 in a recruitment notice for an engineer on its "experimental growth" team. "This small and full-stack team is responsible for driving growth through new technologies, like Web3," the ad said. A separate Spotify job listing, for a manager in its future-gazing "Innovation and Market Intelligence" group, shows the music streaming service is looking for a candidate with experience in "content, creator, media, web3, and emerging technology industries" to "help define Spotify Moonshots," a term for ambitious new projects. The report goes on to note that Spotify "was an early collaborator on Facebook's ill-fated cryptocurrency project, Diem."
Daniel Ek, Spotify's chief executive, told a company podcast back in 2019 that cryptocurrencies and blockchain could allow users of "a service like Spotify [...] to be able to pay artists directly," especially across international borders or in regions where few people have traditional bank accounts. "That can open up massive opportunities where all of a sudden, a user in Japan might pay a creator in Argentina. And that opens up huge opportunities for how we can further our mission."
Alzheimer's (Score:2)
I'll just leave at that
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Two dupes in one day (Score:2)
C'mon now! This is bad even by /. standards!!!
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Literally on the same page....
What do NFTs and Slashdot have in common? (Score:2)
Both have a high likelihood that you'll get duped.
How Does This Happen? (Score:3)
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Does anyone remember how Slashdot used to be, back in the good old days?
Being "slashdotted" was a real thing because the site was so damned popular and well run that even a mention would drive snotloads of traffic to your servers.
I think it's almost time to rename "Slashdot" to "Slapdash" and I also wonder where all the Slashdotters are now?
They're certainly not hanging around here leaving comments are they?
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Being "slashdotted" was a real thing because the site was so damned popular
It was also a thing because the sites being Slashdotted were often hosted on a small pipe and not connected to some massive network of CDNs and Cloud based hosting.
There's a lot to lament about the Slashdot of old, but the lack of Slashdotting has nothing to do with Slashdot. You could drive much larger traffic than Slashdot ever could to sites these days and most would barely blink.
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What makes you think Slashdot editors actually read Slashdot?
Slashdot positioning to sell articles as NFTs (Score:2)