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  • Article Generative vs Agentic AI: What’s the difference?
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    Generative vs Agentic AI: What’s the difference?

    If you’re still reading after that headline, there’s no need for a cautionary Nerd Alert. We’re all nerds now. Welcome to the future.In this post, we look at recent developer events from Microsoft and Alphabet Inc. featuring commentary from both companies' chief executives.At Microsoft’s 2025 Build conference in Seattle and Google’s I/O in Mountain View, Calif., the term

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  • Article Glossary 101: What is media anyway?
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    Glossary 101: What is media anyway?

    Or should we say what “are” media? Who works in media? To whom is it addressed?And what is a bot, while we’re at it? “Real people. No bots,” we like to say here at Media.com. What do we mean?Answers…In its purest form, media is the plural of medium, but the word also tends to mean “mass media” in modern usage under which the internet is a medium (like television or radio)

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  • Article Introducing Media.com’s common-sense guru, James Mawhinney
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    Introducing Media.com’s common-sense guru, James Mawhinney

    “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”A line from Albert Einstein might seem a bit “out there” when discussing why James Mawhinney, the Australian founder of Media.com, started a social media company. But then, solving problems from a fresh angle even as the problems in question grow new fangs before our eyes… that’s precisely what

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  • Article For the record, social media is a dumpster fire - but there’s hope
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    For the record, social media is a dumpster fire - but there’s hope

    Social media. It’s become a trap full of bots, bad actors, misinformation, fake profiles and anonymity. It’s a mental-health hazard and a propaganda snake pit. Many consider it an evil force best ignored. This reality has come about in tiny bites, over decades, as we the internet pioneers circle each other in networks that increasingly undermine human connectivity as much as

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