Unicode Consortium

7 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Jenny Lee · said 17 times in 2 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Unicode Consortium Has 12 Voting Members Paying $18,000 Annually
“Emoji are regulated by the Unicode Consortium, which is a non-profit organization Based in Mountain View, California, it now has 12 full voting members that pay 18,000 dollars a year just to vote on issues, including, like, emoji and other kind of, like, techn…”
Jenny Lee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:57 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Unicode Delegated Political Flag Rendering Decisions to Phone Manufacturers
“What they did was they built this kind of like Meta country system so that you would actually be pairing these country letter emojis together. So CNN would go together, and then it would be up to your phone to decide if you showed the Chinese flag. They pushed…”
Fred Benenson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 39:06 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lee: Existing Vendor Adoption Is Key to Unicode Emoji Approval
“One of the easiest things, actually, to get emoji passed is showing that a vendor uses it.”
Jenny Lee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:45 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Unicode Emoji Criteria Explicitly Forbids Celebrities, Deities, and Logos
“Also, there's one of the more interesting rules, which is no celebrities, deities, or logos.”
Jenny Lee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:56 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
Jan 2, 2019
Disclosure
Lee Successfully Passed Unicode Proposals for Dumpling and Takeout Emojis
“In January of 2016, we submitted a full proposal for dumplings, takeout box, chopsticks, and fortune cookies, and got those all passed.”
Jenny Lee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:57 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
Jan 2, 2019
Prediction Partly held up
Unicode Considers Annual Emoji Expansions Unsustainable, Foresees Inline Images
“Emoji probably won't ever have that amount of, like, customization, and Unicode gets this, and they'll, they actually say, like, we're adding, like, 60 emoji a year. This is unsustainable. We feel like the future is inline images”
Fred Benenson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 42:56 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
Unicode Voting Power Concentrated Among US Tech Giants, SAP, and Oman
“No, so of those 12, so of those 12, nine are U.S. Multinational tech companies. Oracle, IBM, Google, Yahoo, Adobe, Facebook, Microsoft, and Symantec. Then of the other three full voting members, one is the German software company SAP, another is the Chinese te…”
Jenny Lee Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 25:13 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
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