The Format #004

It’s been an interesting few weeks… We’ve been building up our pipeline of launch partners and things are looking great. Planning is difficult as everything is changing so quickly at the moment and the only thing we can bank on for sure is change itself… So this weeks highlights are focused on change and the future…

Our quick round up of some of the more interesting things that we’ve found:

Accept cookies? Only if they’re delicious

Andy couldn’t wait to discus how we at OPENFORMAT are sidestepping cookies and what this could look like in practice. A little techie in places but a great read.

The End of Brands As We Know Them

A lengthy, sometimes wizard like, article on how the “Human OS” is upgraded when a significant new technology comes along…The author delves into preparing the upgrade for our “Cognitive OS” from the Connected Age to the Intelligent age - the paradigm shift that is AI.

It’s Game On for Web3: How Gaming Will Onboard a Billion People

Gamers hate NFT’s (apparently), yet the market of scarcity based items for games is booming and the requirement for secondary markets and true ownership is increasing. Clearly there’s a massive opportunity here for rebranding the decentralisation of game assets…

As More Workers Go Solo, the Software Stack Is the New Firm

A16z bring the future of work vibes here… At OPENFORMAT we’ve mentioned a few times how we think that “small is beautiful” whether it’s applications or businesses. The A16z brains discuss the rise of the “solopreneur” and how instead of a team they have a “stack”, with the inevitability that the first “solo trillionaire” isn’t too far into the future.

OPENFORMAT News

We can’t wait to update you on where we are with the core SDK and Protocol but for now we’re keeping things close… More info soon, in the meantime…

Hack Night Round 2: Tiny Music Apps

On Tuesday we had our second hack night, this time with the goal of creating a music ecosystem, made up of many different Tiny Apps, all in just 3 hours… We learnt a lot, ate some amazing food and everyone had a great time. Not to mention some incredible apps were built, with the Love Dispenser and #1 Fan taking the prizes!

Prompt (Generated by AI): “Visualize an abstract concept of humans evolving into a technology stack. Depict humans integrated with servers, cloud databases, and networks, forming a singular entity. The design should be complex and detailed, inspired by the technical precision of M.C. Escher's work. —s 750”