Everything Fred Benenson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
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…”
Benenson: Facebook Reactions Generate Highly Effective Sentiment Training Data
“What's really interesting about Facebook reactions is, you know, you think you're saying, I love this thing, or I'm sad about this, or I'm angry about this, but what you're actually doing in conjunction with that Is giving Facebook really great label data for …”
Benenson: Emoji Popularity Stems From Text Saturation in Digital Communication
“And I'll go further and say that a lot of people ask me why emoji have become so popular. And I think it's tied to the fact that we now are just inundated with text. We live in a text culture, right? We communicate via text. Our Careers are run over email. We …”
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”
Benenson: Traditional Sentiment Analysis Is Fundamentally Broken
“Traditional sentiment analysis is really broken because you're using these kind of like stale, rigid semantic definitions.”
Benenson: Digital Avatar Tools Must Be Cartoonish to Be Believable
“If you want to try to represent yourself and you want to have like configurability around that it needs to be kind of cartoonish for it to be believable.”
Library of Congress Acquired Emoji Dick as Its First Emoji Book
“In 2013, the Library of Congress contacted me and they, you know, they said we would like to acquire Emoji Dick as our first emoji book.”
Benenson: Emoticon Punctuation Usage Dates Back to the 19th Century
“Some of the earliest references to emoticons go back to the 19th century as well, where people, yeah, yeah, people were using colons and dashes and parentheses to express like a wink.”
Fred Benenson
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