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Thriving in the ‘Attention Economy’

Thriving in the Attention Economy

"In the relentless market of attention, thriving means mastering focus, turning distractions into stepping stones, and emerging not just unscathed, but enriched."

Shimmy, as an innovative social tool, enables attention to be pointed in more purposeful directions. It evades the 'attention at all costs', clickbait, self-gratification and virtue signalling we have grown so used to, in favour of rewarding attention, respecting data privacy, creating valuable, transparent, positive impact.

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Brand, Shimmy

The Story of Shimmy

The process throughout the early life of Shimmy, was very much a trial and error, learn as you go, skin-thickening endeavour. Through attempts to outsource the build, form partnerships, find funding. Came valuable lessons, difficult questions, and pivoting to find the right route forwards... 

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Product, Shimmy

Shimmy to the Rescue!

The social media market faces criticism for a range of issues, including concerns around privacy and data protection, the spread of misinformation and disinformation, the amplification of hate speech and harmful content, and the impact of social media on mental health and well-being. There are also concerns around the power and influence of social media companies and their role in shaping public discourse and political outcomes. In addition, there are ongoing debates around issues such as content moderation, censorship, and the balance between free speech and platform responsibility. This accumulates into a big opportunity for Shimmy, in our endeavours to bring light to such hardships we've collectively faced through the early years in this industry... 

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Shimmy, social media

‘Influenced’ or Inspired?

Ask yourself - are todays youth being transmitted the right values through social media? Do we want the next generations to become adults always stretching to ridiculous lengths for attention? Do we want to teach the children that how many ‘followers’ you have is the holy grail? Do we want to pass on these values of shallow, self-involved egotism and worshipping false idols? Do we truly believe that the current social media landscape is good for our species and the world inwhich we live? Do we believe that the information we are sucked in to consuming, creating and endorsing has optimal levels of value and meaning? Our view is a resounding NO, so we're acting on it...

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Information, Technology, Update/ News

Blog Assisted by Chat GPT.

As this incredible feat of technology has been such a groundbreaking and topical innovation of late, it seemed like a good idea to see what could be squeezed out of it, in terms of collecting some stats and facts relative to Shimmy! Below are some of the initial passages of text and information Chat GPT returned once prompted: 

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Product, Update/ News

Product Update

Here’s hoping you’ve settled well into 2023! We thought it would be a good idea to provide a brief product update, and a taster of what we have in store for you through the coming months - our team is growing and we are making good progress with bringing Shimmy App onto your screen!

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Shimmy, Update/ News

Shimmy 2023

Shimmy 2023

Happy New Year! We are delighted to welcome this fresh calendar year at Shimmy, and have a lot of exciting plans coming to fruition in the upcoming months. Namely, releasing the first versions of our product for testing. This has been a long time in the making, and has taken a lot of perseverance and hard work, so we’re excited to present it to you! 

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Product, Shimmy

The Shimmy Niche

Along the pursuit of developing a stand-out tech product, there must be powerful use cases born from evidenced demand or ‘need’ in any given market. Through years of answering difficult questions, researching, theorising over the market and studying activity. We found our own form of social content to house. The type of content that actually matters to others, the type of content that does good in the world. All within subject governed, permissioned, short-form media feeds we call ’Shimmies’...

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Building in the Bear Market

As current conditions within the crypto and wider markets are heavily leaning toward the bearish end of the spectrum. It begs the question of what further action can be taken? What seeds can be planted to ensure optimum and timely positioning, as things begin to improve..? 

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