Re:Emojli – The emoji-only network
by onion2k on Monday June 30, 2014 @11:21AM
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Generally speaking things that Tom Scott is involved in are either experiments or satire (and quite often both): http://www.tomscott.com/projects/ ... He's also a very entertaining speaker. If you're near a conference he's at, go along. It'll be worthwhile.
Re:Emojli – The emoji-only network
by chasing on Monday June 30, 2014 @11:19AM
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My next big start-up idea is going to be like Yo, as well, except instead of Emoji I'm going to allow users to attach short textual messages. It's going to be huge.
I don't have a sign-up page yet, but I'll have a sign-up page that'll let you know when the real sign-up page is ready.
Re:Emojli – The emoji-only network
by UweSchmidt on Monday June 30, 2014 @11:38AM
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On the one hand Yo, Emojli are a little silly.
On the other hand, they are exploring different aspects of one of the biggest achievements ever: instant mobile communication!
There is a place for SMS despite Email and phone calls. There's space for messaging apps even though we already had SMS.
It seems there are other aspects of communication that are not yet served by software. Formal or intimate, one-way or two-way, private or (semi-)public, serious business - emotional - fun. Two party or with different groups. Just text, or something that allows for individualism and creativity.
If your start-up gets one of those things right it could be huge, no problem!
Re:Emojli – The emoji-only network
by jsilence on Monday June 30, 2014 @12:02PM
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Introducing noj.li... The new innovative social network, where you can't post anything at all.
No SPAM, no trolls, stupid "Yo", no boring emoticons.
Since you can't post, there is no need to signup. Never forget your password, again.
So let's present to you our new signup page, where you can't signup at all. In contrast to other so called soon to be in existence social networks, our product is here. And it scales indefinitely.
Re:Emojli – The emoji-only network
by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday June 30, 2014 @02:44PM
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I wanted to make a personal blogging platform for myself to vent to. I often vent on tumblr, but it annoys my friends. So why not vent to /dev/null? Same effect, but /dev/null doesn't care about my feelings. It is always there to comfort me. It's never going to give me up, never going to let me down, never going to run around and desert me.
(Apologies for the rickroll, but that was a serious idea of mine.)
I have a Windows Phone 8 beta, and the built-in keyboard now suggests related emoji as you're typing. It's not as obtrusive as it might sound, and I think it's fun even though I never use them.
I don't have a sign-up page yet, but I'll have a sign-up page that'll let you know when the real sign-up page is ready.
On the other hand, they are exploring different aspects of one of the biggest achievements ever: instant mobile communication!
There is a place for SMS despite Email and phone calls. There's space for messaging apps even though we already had SMS.
It seems there are other aspects of communication that are not yet served by software. Formal or intimate, one-way or two-way, private or (semi-)public, serious business - emotional - fun. Two party or with different groups. Just text, or something that allows for individualism and creativity.
If your start-up gets one of those things right it could be huge, no problem!
No SPAM, no trolls, stupid "Yo", no boring emoticons. Since you can't post, there is no need to signup. Never forget your password, again.
So let's present to you our new signup page, where you can't signup at all. In contrast to other so called soon to be in existence social networks, our product is here. And it scales indefinitely.
/satire
(Apologies for the rickroll, but that was a serious idea of mine.)
You're welcome to vent on noj.li.
Also a platform where comments are required to be in the form of a poem would mitigate trolls and SPAM. poem.us anyone?
Wow. I had no idea.
edit: Oh, for shame, HN doesn't unicode that quite right.
But it doesn't show up in many unicode tables, so either it's new or non-standard.
I have a Windows Phone 8 beta, and the built-in keyboard now suggests related emoji as you're typing. It's not as obtrusive as it might sound, and I think it's fun even though I never use them.
Here's one I didn't use. Not sure if it's free:
- ⬇️2⃣🎉