Not To Be Technical
21: The Metaverse, Nafis' Return to Instagram & Halloween
Nov 04, 2021
Episode 21
Charlie Scholz, Nafis Ahmed, Gary Mann
Facebook's name change to Meta and the concept of a metaverse are discussed in-depth. We discuss why they changed the name, Mark Zuckerberg remaining the lizardman face of the brand, what a metaverse actually is, Virtual Reality (VR), examples of what a metaverse could look like in the future and Nafis needing to hug people in any metaverse. But first,
- Nafis and Charlie discuss their failed costume idea for Halloween, running into an ex and impromptu costumes as Plague Doctors (2:05)
- Nafis following Charlie's exes on Instagram (10:53)
- After four years of silence, Nafis posted on his Instagram account for the first time for external validation - shoutout to photographer @theonlychriswilliams @cbwilliamsphoto (12:22)
- Poll results on Charlie's Drunk Uber Chronicles Part 2 from last episode (13:57)
- The long-awaited Fat Charlie content is still not here (15:32)
- 2021's 10 Most Popular Halloween Costumes based on Google Data (17:38)
- McDonald’s promoting the return of its McRib sandwich with NFTs (24:58)
- Spotify is now the top podcast platform in the US, reaching 28.2m podcast listeners per month, surpassing Apple Podcasts (27:22)
- LinkedIn finally launched a marketplace for freelancers within their platform (32:50)
- Apple’s privacy changes on mobile have cost Facebook, Google, Snapchat and Twitter $10 Billion Dollars (36:14)
- Zillow’s "iBuyer" home-flipping business is shutting down due to poor forecasting/execution with their algorithm and they had to fire 25% of their overall workforce (39:42)
- Facebook shut down its facial-recognition software which powered the auto tagging of user photos (44:00)
- Our Facebook & Metaverse topic starts at (44:00)
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