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Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M

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Re: Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M

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Post by bndw »

degenerate wrote: post #294
cced wrote: post #210

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Does the fact that it is integrated into iOS keyboard have any implications? WlWhat kind of data does this have access to when I send gifs from iOS keyboard?

Google messenger (the default texting app) has a gif search that includes giphy, and Discord and slack also use giphy. What I don't see is what data FB is getting when the gif loads. OK, so they can see I am using giphy in Discord. Now what? edit: apparently wrong/outdated information.

Hypothetically speaking, fb gets a request for an image for each person in a chat at roughly the same time. Now they know know what chat platform you're using and who is participating in the chat. I'd venture a guess those participant identities could be de-referenced with data collected from their various [other] trackers. Now they can extend their social graph to include communication patterns on 3rd party platforms.

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Post by farns »

Freak_NL wrote: post #138
yreg wrote: post #80

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I'd just like this trend of sending reaction gifs to end. People keep posting them in Slack all the time, but I find it about as appropriate as that brief time when all my uni teachers decided that it's hip to include rage comic faces into every other slide of every presentation. , yes I know, I'm fun at parties…

I can't grok this trend at all. All these replies in the form of memes make me feel like I'm in the Darmok episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm grateful communication on MatterMost at my company has not seen the need for reaction gifs emerge; the wildest thing we have is a custom emoji of a dancing banana.

Sokath! His eyes uncovered! Temba, his arms wide.

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Post by meestaahjoshee »

kentosi wrote: post #220

I feel so bitter right now. A recruiter asked me to join them back in 2016 and they were paying $200k+ for a senior backend role. I turned them down because I was on a visa and wanted a company with financial stability. A gif-search engine startup sounded ludicrous. Well, here we are...

200k salary or total comp?

four years is a decent chunk of time im sure youve done fine since then dont beat yourself up over it - most startups arent really worth joining for the upside potential at IPO or acquisition anyway.

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Post by kgin »

jondubois wrote: post #276
cecilpl wrote: post #58

Every time Facebook is buying something I feel sad and imagine Facebook like the black plague that will swallow that normal organism.

It's a great match. They're both hype-mongering companies which add no value whatsoever to society.

Am I out of touch? No, it's the 1.6B daily active users who are wrong.

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Post by paxys »

jawns wrote: post #11

I would not be surprised if the blatant copyright infringement that is rampant on Giphy has scared off potential buyers in the past. I know, I know, there's an argument that it's fair use, but that doesn't mean that legal costs won't be incurred to make that argument, nor that the argument will be ultimately successful. I suppose if there's any company that's able to take on that legal risk, it's Facebook.

Copyright holders don't care about users sharing seconds' worth of content and bringing them free advertising. And even if they do, Facebook already handles DMCA requests at a massive scale. There's no legal risk for them.

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Post by ghaff »

qorrect wrote: post #309
ghaff wrote: post #240

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Oh, I've read it and it's on my bookshelf. Just something like 3 or 4 decades ago :-) It was never actually a particularly favorite Heinlein for me though so I haven't re-read in a very long time if ever.

Hey same here, and Heinlein was my favorite author for a very long time. That particular book just never really did it for me.

Stranger in a Stranger Land was probably more of particular time and place that a lot of Heinlein's works. Although it came out at in 1961--mostly predating the counterculture era in the US, its mainstream cross-over appeal was definitely tied in with the Summer of Love etc. later in the decade.

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Post by pwython »

codegladiator wrote: post #150

Ah shit, another site for my /etc/hosts I wonder reddit would be even more useless for me since half the content is from giphy.

You're probably thinking of imgur, which lost some steam when Reddit added their own image hosting. Only a few dozen giphy links get posed each day: https://www.reddit.com/domain/giphy.com/new/
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