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blog.embed.ly is the company blog at blog.embed.ly, writing about web and startups. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 74 times, most often “Twitter's GIF hack”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

74mentions?
12HN people?
2010–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 23 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for posts on how Twitter and Giphy encode GIFs as MP4 for bandwidth reasons, and on the history of the RSS icon. Commenters cite them as sources for their own points.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Twitter's GIF hack
    4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-06-19
  2. How Mozilla Changed the Face of RSS
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-16
  3. Building Apps with Ember (a postmortem)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. Twitter also followed the gfycat lead before imgur: http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell... Glad imgur is doing it though, so annoying to have to wait for gifs in 2014 and they are intense bandwidth hogs.

    Comment linking /post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-telling-you-about-gifs

    on “Introducing GIFV”
  2. Submitted Twitter's GIF hack as a story · 280 points

    HN discussion
  3. The "convert-GIF-to-MP4" technique is the same technique that Twitter [1] and Imgur-competitior Giphy [2] uses. [1] http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell... [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2g0791/hey_reddit_were...

    Comment linking /post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-telling-you-about-gifs

    on “Introducing GIFV”
  4. Submitted An Open Letter to TwitPic as a story · 83 points

    HN discussion
  5. It'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."

    Comment linking /post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-telling-you-about-gifs

    on “Introducing GIF search on Twitter”
  6. Submitted Dear Twitter, we see your 31 providers and raise you 134. Embedly (YC W10) as a story · 82 points

    HN discussion
  7. All better. TwitPic made changes to whitelist Embedly. http://blog.embed.ly/twitpic

    Comment linking /twitpic

    on “An Open Letter to TwitPic”
  8. Submitted Visualizing discussions on Reddit with a D3 network and Embedly as a story · 68 points

    HN discussion
  9. Strange - I was under the impression that GIF was larger than mp4: http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell...

    Comment linking /post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-telling-you-about-gifs

    on “Show HN: 20 Minute Workout, my first mobile app built with Phonegap and Ember.js”
  10. Submitted The Rise of "Gangnam Style" - Embedly Stats as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  11. I discovered this bit of gold while penning a history of the RSS icon we all know today: http://blog.embed.ly/post/85921629116/how-mozilla-changed-th... "and why does the browser say 'ASS' in the lower right corner is it some new website rating system?" -- Peter on https://web.archive.org/web/20041022084812/http://dhruba.cod...

    Comment linking /post/85921629116/how-mozilla-changed-the-face-of-rss

    on “The RSS icon was mistaken for the ASS icon”
  12. Submitted Fred Wilson invented Embedly: How we got a Y Combinator interview as a story · 52 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Which Companies Wasted the Most Money on Super Bowl Commercials? as a story · 48 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Embedly (YC W10) releases new version of their API as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted RSS isn't dead it just needs to be repurposed. as a story · 46 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted 42% of URLs have Open Graph tags as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Instagram vs Twitter: A Solution as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Embedly (YC W10) beta launches mobile support. as a story · 29 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Twitter’s Got a New Harassment Problem: Periscope as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Embedly (YC W10): A Call for Publishers as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Sharedy.com: Create Facebook's Status Timeline with Embedly, jQuery and GAE as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Embedly(YC W10) Allows you to Embed Any Url in Wordpress Posts as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Findpit.com: Building a Twitter Image Search with Embedly and jQuery. as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Building a Twitter Web Client with @Anywhere and Embedly as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted 101 ways to Embed Content: The State of Embedly as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Embedly is a Gem: How Kalimba was Built as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted The World According to Embedly (YC W10) as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Embedly's Parrotfish Extension now works on Firefox and Safari as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted ItsTrending.com - How they use Facebook Like and Embedly as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Embedly Releases a Wordpress Plugin as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion

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