This podcast is all about emoji. But it's really about how innovation really comes about -- through the tension between standards vs. proprietary moves; the politics of time and place; and the economics of creativity, from making to funding ... Beginning with a project on Kickstarter to crowd-translate Moby Dick entirely into emoji to getting dumplings into emoji form and ending with the Library of Congress and an "emoji-con". So joining us for this conversation are former VP of Data at Kickstarter Fred Benenson (and the man behind 'Emoji Dick') and former New York Times reporter and current Unicode emoji subcommittee member Jennifer 8. Lee (one of the women behind the dumpling emoji). 

So yes, this podcast is all about emoji. But it's also about where emoji fits in the taxonomy of social communication -- from emoticons to stickers -- and why this matters, from making emotions machine-readable to being able to add "limbic" visual expression to our world of text. If emoji is a (very limited) language, what tradeoffs do we make for fewer degrees of freedom and greater ambiguity? How exactly does one then translate emoji (let alone translate something into emoji)? How do emoji work, both technically underneath the hood and in the (committee meeting) room where it happens? And finally, what happens as emoji becomes a means of personalized expression?

This a16z Podcast is all about emoji. We only wish it could be in emoji!

a16z Podcast: The Meaning of Emoji

This is the Intrepid Podcast, where three product strategists help entrepreneurs by giving perspectives on design, business, and technology.

Our hosts are Jim Forrest, Stephen Roger & Justin Fyles.

In this episode, they talk with Cameron King, New Business Director, and Trevor Metcalfe, Associate Media Producer, from Inphantry. Inphantry is an advertising and digital experience agency that specializes in creating memorable experiences for their clients. Cam and Trevor share what it's like to work at an innovative company in Boston, explore past AR/VR projects that Inphantry has taken on, and discuss how VR’s potential impact is greater than ever before.

Episode 05 – Cameron King and Trevor Metcalfe from Inphantry

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The Intrepid Podcast is produced by Intrepid, an end-to-end mobile design & development firm with offices in Cambridge, MA and New York City, NY. We provide our clients expertise in strategy, design, development, and technology integrations. 

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