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The Emoji Story explores the complex, conflict-prone, and often hilarious world of the creators, lovers, and arbiters of emoji, our world’s newest pictorial language. How do you create a global language on the fly?
THE EMOJI STORY
A documentary that charts the evolution of emoji.
Crystal is a community curated database of individual police officer interactions and police department culture. It is an open-source application backed by over 5000 submitted records.
Crystal
RateMyProfessor for police officers & departments
a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji
How innovation really comes about
Jennifer 8. Lee
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Zak Stone, one of the cofounders, is an amazingly talented thinker and engineer. I've known him for 9 years, since he started his PhD at Harvard.
Smoothie
Remix videos into awesome animations
Smoothie
Remix videos into awesome animations
Jennifer 8. Lee
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I've known Greg and Lee for a long time. Good guys, a long time in honing the product. (There was also listorious). They also run the Shorty Awards.
Muckrack
Easily find & build relationships with journalists.
Jennifer 8. Lee
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The NYT (along with the Guardian) is one of the most digitally innovative legacy newsrooms around. They have an amazing range of historical data, from campaign finance, to recipes to movie reviews (it's amazing to read the original review of The Godfather, for example). Also neat is Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, who headed the digital report and is now senior editor for strategy in the newsroom.
New York Times APIs
Why just read the news when you can hack it?
Jennifer 8. Lee
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Newsdiffs serves a very different purpose from Circa (which, btw, has one of the best uses of alert real estate of any app). It's much more about forensic and archival purposes, not for tracking ongoing stories (which is what Circa is about). You can read about it here. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/opinion/sunday/article-changes-are-shown-in-a-tool-created-by-outsiders.html
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NewsDiffs
Tracks edits to stories over time on major news sites.