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Introducing GIF search on Twitter
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#42GIPHY is dealing with gif files, which are much larger and less efficient bandwidth-wise than silent webm videos, such as those peddled by Gfycat. Why on earth would GIPHY be the way to go instead of a company looking to improve the paradigm? From a technology perspective, dealing in GIF at this obnoxious volume will be needlessly expensive and difficult to scale. Perhaps GIPHY has convinced VCs that they are a new m…
GIPHY encodes each GIF as an html5 video as well (http://giphy.com/gifs/FsCMq6RYX4ySk/html5).
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Viewing a gif or mp4 is much more lightweight on mobile than a youtube video.
YouTube regularly transcodes all uploaded content into several different varieties of MP4 container. If you're on iOS, then all videos you watch on YouTube are MP4s.
I don't mean lightweight in a technical sense, I mean lightweight in terms of user experience. To view a gif (or gif converted to mp4, webm, whatever) I know it's silent (don't have to worry about muting my phone), I don't have to load the youtube app or the bloated youtube site. All I do at the most is tap to play.
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#45How is what GIPHY is doing not just plain copyright infringement? I get the "search Engine" spiel, though questionable, on their site. But there is no attribution on Twitter/Slack etc.
Don't gifs come under fair usage mostly? Can't claim a 5 second clip of a show/movie is copyright infringement
IANAL but it would probably depend on the GIF itself. Using a particular file format doesn't waive your rights as far as I know.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
The difference is, that clip art company was directly selling a product. Make a collection of clipart, customers pay money.
I guess your critique is that Giphy doesn't have a clear, announced monetization strategy? That sounds fair. I haven't done any research on the company, but that seemed vague in their recent funding announcement/valuation. However, I think it's fair to say that Giphy has created something people want to use. Anecdotally, their Slack integration is very popular in the channels I frequent. Maybe the lack of public mone…
What makes this indicative of a bubble is the combination of:
a. Business centered around an utterly frivolous endeavor
b. Seemingly far more employees than necessary to support (a)
c. Many millions of dollars raised in the pursuit of (a) and (b)
You're absolutely correct that people want to use it. But they sure as hell aren't gonna pay directly for it or put up with ads. This is not a business made to last. I know it, you know it, we all know it. Yet there are people out there willing to toss $55M into this folly.
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#47It's funny that Twitter is doing a GIF search because Twitter encodes GIFs as MP4s for bandwidth/performance reasons: http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell... I am assuming from this announcement that Giphy's Series C pitch deck was just one slide saying "we have a partnership with Twitter; give us money."
And you need to click a blue play button to play it - not in gif spirit at all! Also it can only be saved as a video, which is likely terribly compressed from the original gif. By the way, Tumblr had this feature for ages: even the icon is completely identical. [1] [1] http://i.imgur.com/v59afJb.png
This was also added into Telegram but it's done differently.
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#48Sometimes I worry that our descendants many centuries from now will refer to this period of history as, "The Moronic Age."
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#49> “GIPHY delivers real-time GIFs as they happen, helping to power Twitter’s live commentary and conversation,” says Alex Chung, founder and CEO of GIPHY. Someone built a 30+ person company around animated GIFs. And they say there isn't a bubble...
They're rehosting loads of copyrighted content, too.
That was pretty much how YouTube started. Content ID wasn't part of their MVP.
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#50I don't understand why they'd choose this particular feature? Which group of users is this for?
Millennials. That is not a snarky response.
Facebook has had this for awhile (for chats, at least on web). I rather enjoy it and not really a Millennial, I was born in 77.
I really prefer gifs to all these goofy icons and odd emoji (still use thumbs up etc, just not the poop and other odd ones).
I use Line App for chat with a group for a game I play, and they all love those stickers and emojis. Most of the time I don't even register what it is, and move on - gifs are a bit more eye catching and usually more poignant.