Inside “Emojigeddon”: The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium

2018-04-19T02:48:55+00:00April 30th, 2016|Tags: , , , , |

Inside “Emojigeddon”: The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium

kenyatta:

Emails seen by BuzzFeed News reveal an emerging tension at the Unicode Consortium — the 24-year-old organization that was established to develop standards for translating alphabets into code that can be read across all computers and operating systems.

The series of frustrated messages show a deepening rift between those who adhere to the organization’s original mission to code old and obscure and minority languages and those who are investing time and resources toward Unicode’s newer and most popular character sets: emojis, a quirky periodic table of ideograms and smiley faces that cover everything from bemused laughter to swirling, smiling piles of poop. The correspondence offers a peek behind the scenes of the peculiar and little-known organization that’s unexpectedly been tasked with building what some see as the »

2018-03-27T08:07:32+00:00May 27th, 2015|Tags: |

pieto:

guardian:

With its poodles, noodles and happy poos, Emoji is now the fastest growing language in the UK.

What a huge step back for humanity. 

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someone should translate hegel into emoji

“Speak Emoji if you want. I’ll stick with the language of Shakespeare.”

What Using Emoji Says About Your Sex Life

2015-02-18T18:06:47+00:00February 18th, 2015|Tags: , |

What Using Emoji Says About Your Sex Life

A study found that people who use more emoji in text messages have more sex.

“[Emoji users] want to give their texts more personality,” says Fisher. “Here we have a new technology that absolutely jeopardizes your ability to express your emotion… there is no more subtle inflection of the voice … and so we have created another way to express emotions and that is the emoji.”

2018-03-27T08:22:58+00:00December 2nd, 2014|Tags: |

supremeblunt:

omg

Games in chat are going to be big, someone’s going to do it.

2018-03-27T08:40:18+00:00July 11th, 2014|Tags: , |

Emoji Dick is a crowd sourced and crowd funded translation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick into Japanese emoticons called emoji.

Each of the book’s approximately 10,000 sentences has been translated three times by a Amazon Mechanical Turk worker. These results have been voted upon by another set of workers, and the most popular version of each sentence has been selected for inclusion in this book.

In total, over eight hundred people spent approximately 3,795,980 seconds working to create this book. Each worker was paid five cents per translation and two cents per vote per translation.

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