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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Shimmy

Safety & Impact Social Media with Shimmy!

The Shimmy development team have been putting great work into bringing our Shimmy App to life. We are not far from bringing a refined and usable web app onto your screens. The product is grounded by the principles of Safety & Impact, and presents a fresh start for you to make the world a better place for yourself and others through social media... 

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Shimmy

What does social media mean to you?

Is it achieving likability? Adoration? Fame? Followers? Do you want attention? Do you want everyone to see how well you’re doing? Do you have something to show off? Is it your opinion? Should everyone care about what you think? 

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Shimmy

Shimmying to the sound of our drum

 

With widespread impending updates to legislation, and initiatives such as ISO20022 bringing improved standardisation. The governance and regulatory measures throughout the blockchain industry, are providing a stable grounding for the future of commerce, collaboration, organisational development and utility.

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Shimmy

New Year, New Shimmy…

Roaring into '22...

With the welcoming of 2022, comes rapturous updates to the Shimmy project, Roadmap, and deliverables foreseen throughout the year ahead. 2021 was a good year for the project on many counts, with the team, project scope, build & deployment plans developing and stabilising. The focus however, now switches to product, market & community build and launch stages throughout the forthcoming year of the Tiger. It’s almost time for Shimmy to roar across the social media market. ?

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