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Our ultra-fast Daily: Three takes on new products. Yesterday’s top ten launches. That’s it.
Listen up, AI’s about to drop a new album.
In today’s newsletter: recent developments in AI-generated music and what they might mean for artists.
Recently, Twitter banned third-party clients and effectively ended beloved products like Tweetbot in an instant. Fortunately, Twitterbot’s makers decided to pivot using their 10 years of experience building the award-winning product. Enter: Ivory, the new Mastodon client.
Congratulations to all the winners, runners-up, and nominees in the 2022 Golden Kitty Awards. It's an honor to recognize and celebrate the amazing achievements of so many makers. Until next year!
Words still have power. Wordle might not be blowing up your feed anymore, but Merriam-Webster took a page out of The New York Times’ book and acquired Quordle.
Start your week off with four Wordles at once.
Voting for The Golden Kitty Awards ends tonight at midnight PST, so this is your last chance to have a say in determining the best tech of 2022.
Support your favorite products with a vote! They’ll appreciate it, we promise.
Twitter is trialing a new monetization model… selling people statues of its old logo for $100,000. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Amazon prepare to collectively cut 38,000 jobs. That leaves Apple the only member of the OG FAANG family as yet untouched by layoffs.
Gas, the app that lets teens compliment each other, has been acquired by Discord.
Congrats to co-founder Nikita Bier. It's his second big acquisition in five years, having sold his first app to Facebook in 2017.
Golden Kitty voting time, to be precise.
Only four days left to vote for your top products from 2022: crown the best in AI, Data and Analytics, Design Tools, Developer Tools, E-Commerce, SaaS, and more.
Time flies when you’re launching products.
It’s voting week for the Golden Kitty Awards, and we can’t wait to see who will take the trophies home this year.
