One more app removed from my phone now. Thanks Facebook.
Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
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#352Congrats to giphy I guess? But I'll be honest, any time I've ever used them as an extension in slack or anywhere, and tried to get relevant gifs, I got back some really bad results. I'll never fully understand why they're so successful short of just dominating the market through sheer popularity. I remember switching our team over to rightgif and the difference was astounding given the fact that giphy has millions up…
I had a recruiter from Giphy pursue me pretty hard, and all I could think was there's no way I'm going to go to a company that won't be around in a year.
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#353Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
iOS keyboards given “full access” in settings can see literally everything you type. That’s why I don’t use GBoard on my iPhone, also why I don’t enable “enhanced spellcheck” in Chrome.
Hmm, I guess I know why SwiftKey became free. Probably want to check on their privacy policy now
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#354Makes sense, it seems like a great way to inject ads coupled with facebooks profile information it's likely a goldmine
You start a campaign and suddenly you have people inserting meme-like-ads feature your content into their chat threads
It'll have a personal and convincing touch ( esp. with facebooks ad targeting) it's going to be amazing for our industry reaching customers, Pepe/Trump memes did win an election afterall
Also a great way to get ads into whatsapp messages without seeming intrusive
Re: Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
#355I hope this transaction undergoes a deep antitrust review. As Instagram should have.
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#356Every 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.
FB has dramatically reduced ad spend waste. Not sure how anyone can call that valueless. Moreover, though you may be annoyed by your mother-in-law's minion memes, Facebook is a (free) vital communication tool for millions who are less privileged than you.
The facebook hate really just gets out of hand sometimes.
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#357I wonder what happens to Giphy porn.
probably it'll be gone. gfycat already banned it, creating another service (redgifs I think) and moving that content there
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#358Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is an unpopular opinion, but if the meme creator violated copyright when they made the meme, and they want credit for their “derived version” then they need a license.
What would be the infringement? I would say any animated GIF (or whatever) should be defined as fair use across the board, since it's impossible to use it for anything other than criticism or comment. It's not exactly like Beastie Boys vs. Chambers Bros, but it rhymes with it.
Isn’t there a gif of the entire first Shrek movie?
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#359Last private raise - https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/31/giphy-the-platform-for-all... - $600MM - $150MM raised - $400MM sale price - $400MM - $150MM 1x preferred = $250MM (assuming not ratchet up for selling below last preferred price) - $250MM net to shareholders. - 50% for preferred investor share holders - 25% to founders - 25% to individual contributors - 25% of $250MM = $62.5MM These are all just estimates
I wonder what happened to employees who joined later on, with underwater options.
Not much, I'd imagine. It'd be like getting FB stock options upon joining and having it drop in price when the stock market tanked in March. That's the point of stock.
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#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
happens that it was banned in TX schools until 2003, so i guess some share of population just doesn't grok it :)