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Social mapping platform Atly launches with $18M to be a Reddit for real-world locations… But is there place in the market for more such apps?
Founded out of Israel in 2019, Atly claims to be creating the “next social paradigm for mapping and discovering places to go.” It’s all about finding new restaurants, hiking trails, bike rental places, gluten-free eateries, record stores, rooftop bars, free public toilets, and all the rest.
Through the web or mobile app, users can create their own theme-specific community, after which they become the manager for that community, including setting rules for engagement and permissions around what other users can do in that community.
According to Maslansky, Atly is not generating any revenue itself yet, but some of its users are already earning by “gating their community” to paid members.
It’s true that Google is rather slow nowadays in developing exciting new features (just look at far ahead Waze was on that front, so they got bought out), but there is also a lot to be said about “where most people are”. That “where” is often the “why” which stops users migrating off to a new service, because their contacts are all in one place and there is a mass of useful information already available. So certainly, in this regard Google Maps has pretty good reviews, ratings, photos, and other info (as does Yelp). But possibly Atly will appeal to non-Google Map users still.
But what Atly is hoping will differentiate it, is a truly more social aspect, versus just a map with lots of reviews just posted to it. The Reddit concept has worked well, but it has no geolocation / mapping type organisation.
See https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/social-mapping-platform-atly-launches-with-18m-to-be-a-reddit-for-real-world-locations/
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Razzie Awards: Tom Hanks, 'Blonde,' 'Morbius' lead nominations for worst of the year
By: Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY
Morbin' Time is over, folks.
After horrid reviews and a box-office bloodbath, Jared Leto's vampiric antihero "Morbius" got another nail in the coffin with Monday's Razzie Awards announcement, earning five nominations including worst picture and worst actor (Leto).
But the memeable Marvel spinoff was hardly the Razzies' most hated film of last year. That would be Netflix's "Blonde," a historical fiction drama about Marilyn Monroe (played by Ana de Armas) that polarized critics with its gratuitous nudity, sexual violence and seemingly anti-abortion stance. The film topped the nominations with eight, including worst picture, worst director (Andrew Dominik) and worst screenplay.
De Armas, who has picked up Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards nods for her performance, was excluded from the worst actress lineup.
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Tom Hanks, meanwhile, wasn't so lucky. The A-lister received nominations for worst actor ("Disney's Pinocchio," playing Geppetto in a live-action remake) and worst supporting actor ("Elvis," portraying Colonel Tom Parker opposite Austin Butler's Presley). The two-time Oscar winner was also recognized in the worst screen couple category, along with his facial prosthetics and "ludicrous" accent in "Elvis."
Other stars to incur the Razzies' wrath were Diane Keaton ("Mack & Rita"), Penelope Cruz ("The 355"), Sylvester Stallone ("Samaritan") and Colson Baker, better known by his stage name Machine Gun Kelly ("Good Mourning"). Baker's pal Pete Davidson also picked up two worst performance nominations for "Good Mourning" and "Marmaduke."
The Golden Raspberry Awards – or Razzies for short – are voted on by roughly 1,000 members (a mix of moviegoers and those in the film industry), who pick what they deem the most dreadful that cinema has to offer. Now in its 43rd year, the show will announce its "winners" on March 11, the night before the Oscars.
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The full list of 2023 Razzie Awards nominees:
Worst picture
"Blonde"
"Disney’s Pinocchio"
"Good Mourning"
"The King’s Daughter"
"Morbius"
Worst actor
Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly), "Good Mourning"
Pete Davidson, "Marmaduke"
Tom Hanks, "Disney’s Pinocchio"
Jared Leto, "Morbius"
Sylvester Stallone, "Samaritan"
Worst actress
Ryan Kiera Armstrong, "Firestarter"
Bryce Dallas Howard, "Jurassic Park: Dominion"
Diane Keaton, "Mack & Rita"
Kaya Scodelario, "The King’s Daughter"
Alicia Silverstone, "The Requin"
Worst remake, ripoff or sequel
"Blonde"
"365 Days: This Day" and "The Next 365 Days"
"Disney’s Pinocchio"
"Firestarter"
"Jurassic World: Dominion"
Worst supporting actress
Adria Arjona, "Morbius"
Lorraine Bracco, "Disney’s Pinocchio"
Penelope Cruz, "The 355"
Bingbing Fan, "The 355" and "The King’s Daughter"
Mira Sorvino, "Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend"
Worst supporting actor
Pete Davidson, "Good Mourning"
Tom Hanks, "Elvis"
Xavier Samuel, "Blonde"
Mod Sun, "Good Mourning"
Evan Williams, "Blonde"
Worst screen couple
Colson Baker (Machine Gun Kelly) and Mod Sun, "Good Mourning"
Both real-life characters in the fallacious White House bedroom scene, "Blonde"
Tom Hanks and his latex-laden face (and ludicrous accent), "Elvis"
Andrew Dominik and his issues with women, "Blonde"
"365 Days: This Day" and "The Next 365 Days"
Worst director
Judd Apatow, "The Bubble"
Colson Baker (Machine Gun Kelly) and Mod Sun, "Good Mourning"
Andrew Dominik, "Blonde"
Daniel Espinosa, "Morbius"
Robert Zemeckis, "Disney’s Pinocchio"
Worst screenplay
"Blonde"
"Disney’s Pinocchio"
"Good Mourning"
"Jurassic World: Dominion"
"Morbius"
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The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews - Longreads
But in reality, it’s not always like that. Most of the time, reviews alternate between angry, comically banal, and downright bizarre. One star for Laurie’s Gentle Pet Grooming in Terrebonne, Oregon: “She butchered my pomeranian I would not recommend.” One star for a Walmart in Columbia, Kentucky: “I don’t go in Walmart stores, my husband went in. I hate Walmart.” Two stars for the New Hope Baptist Church in Five Points, Alabama: “Can’t really say …. car broke down and had to replace a radiator hose in the parking lot.”
https://longreads.com/2023/01/03/the-strangely-beautiful-experience-of-google-reviews/
The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2022
“Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo.”
