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3 min readDec 16, 2024

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“Since Spotify Wrapped dropped almost a decade ago, there’s been a growing demand for data-driven year-in-review features. These summaries have evolved into cultural touchstones, offering more than just statistics — they provide moments of self-reflection and shareable pride.

While Spotify celebrates music, other platforms have embraced the concept for their niches, and Duolingo’s Year in Review is no exception. By turning language learning into a gamified, sharable experience, Duolingo has created its own version of Wrapped that’s fun, whilst highlighting the joy of progress and the power of celebrating educational milestones.”

Has Duolingo’s Year in Review outshone Spotify Wrapped?
By Sophia Omarji

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  • Power of metaphors in human-AI interaction
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  • A linkless internet
    “We are at a moment in the history of the web in which the link itself — the countless connections made by website creators, the endless tapestry of ideas woven together throughout the web — is in danger of going extinct. So it’s pertinent to ask: how did links come to represent information in the first place? And what’s at stake in the movement away from links toward AI chat interfaces?”

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