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Your Dark Materials
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Social Media Is Over. Social Media Is Just Beginning
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Oct 21
Today in Briefs: Home Improvement Edition
Some of the things we're enjoying on Rover today:
A History of White House Revamps
Why are we
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Oct 15
Some interesting briefs we listened to today
As we start our small yet mighty community, we're starting to see some cool briefs. Here are a
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Oct 14
To Fix the Internet, Design for Empathy
“Empathy” isn’t typically a value you see associated with digital product design. Typically, there’s really only one value, and that’s “engagement.” Every product decision at a tech company comes down to “how will this get more people to spend more time using our thing?”
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Oct 10
You Make Friends by Asking Questions
So one of the things that I’ve really loved in working on Rover these past few months is how it inverts that dynamic, and what it means for social interactions.
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Oct 10
What Does It Mean When Most of the Web's Content Is Mass Produced?
What does any tangible handmade good mean when it can be cheaply replicated by machines? Duchamp’s response was in part to say that an object’s value comes from the human connection between giver and receiver.
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Oct 10
The AI Art That Speaks for Itself
I think we miss the deeper issue, which is this: Almost everyone is using AI to do the same thing they did before, just faster/cheaper/easier.
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Oct 08
Hello, World!
First off, and to avoid any confusion, we are not the pet sitter marketplace. (Yes, I know. I'm disappointed too.) Instead, Rover is an audio-first, AI-driven social content platform. What does that mean?
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