This podcast is all about emoji. But it's really about how innovation really
comes about -- through the tension between standards vs. proprietary moves;
the politics of time and place; and the economics of creativity, from making
to funding ... Beginning with a project on Kickstarter to crowd-translate Moby
Dick entirely into emoji to getting dumplings into emoji form and ending with
the Library of Congress and an "emoji-con". So joining us for this
conversation are former VP of Data at Kickstarter Fred Benenson (and the man
behind 'Emoji Dick') and former New York Times reporter and current Unicode
emoji subcommittee member Jennifer 8. Lee (one of the women behind the
dumpling emoji). So yes, this podcast is all about emoji. But it's also about
where emoji fits in the taxonomy of social communication -- from emoticons to
stickers -- and why this matters, from making emotions machine-readable to
being able to add "limbic" visual expression to our world of text. If emoji is
a (very limited) language, what tradeoffs do we make for fewer degrees of
freedom and greater ambiguity? How exactly does one then translate emoji (let
alone translate something into emoji)? How do emoji work, both technically
underneath the hood and in the (committee meeting) room where it happens? And
finally, what happens as emoji becomes a means of personalized expression?
This a16z Podcast is all about emoji. We only wish it could be in emoji!
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This podcast is all about emoji. But it's really about how innovation really
comes about -- through the tension between standards vs. proprietary moves;
the politics of time and place; and the economics of creativity, from making
to funding ... Beginning with a project on Kickstarter to crowd-translate Moby
Dick entirely into emoji to getting dumplings into emoji form and ending with
the Library of Congress and an "emoji-con". So joining us for this
conversation are former VP of Data at Kickstarter Fred Benenson (and the man
behind 'Emoji Dick') and former New York Times reporter and current Unicode
emoji subcommittee member Jennifer 8. Lee (one of the women behind the
dumpling emoji). So yes, this podcast is all about emoji. But it's also about
where emoji fits in the taxonomy of social communication -- from emoticons to
stickers -- and why this matters, from making emotions machine-readable to
being able to add "limbic" visual expression to our world of text. If emoji is
a (very limited) language, what tradeoffs do we make for fewer degrees of
freedom and greater ambiguity? How exactly does one then translate emoji (let
alone translate something into emoji)? How do emoji work, both technically
underneath the hood and in the (committee meeting) room where it happens? And
finally, what happens as emoji becomes a means of personalized expression?
This a16z Podcast is all about emoji. We only wish it could be in emoji!
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