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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.
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?
- Twitter's GIF hack4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-06-19
- How Mozilla Changed the Face of RSS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-16
- Building Apps with Ember (a postmortem)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-29
What Hacker News says?
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”Submitted Twitter's GIF hack as a story · 280 points
HN discussionThe "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”Submitted An Open Letter to TwitPic as a story · 83 points
HN discussionIt'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”Submitted Dear Twitter, we see your 31 providers and raise you 134. Embedly (YC W10) as a story · 82 points
HN discussionAll better. TwitPic made changes to whitelist Embedly. http://blog.embed.ly/twitpic
Comment linking /twitpic
on “An Open Letter to TwitPic”Submitted Visualizing discussions on Reddit with a D3 network and Embedly as a story · 68 points
HN discussionStrange - 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”Submitted The Rise of "Gangnam Style" - Embedly Stats as a story · 55 points
HN discussionI 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”Submitted Fred Wilson invented Embedly: How we got a Y Combinator interview as a story · 52 points
HN discussionSubmitted Which Companies Wasted the Most Money on Super Bowl Commercials? as a story · 48 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedly (YC W10) releases new version of their API as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted RSS isn't dead it just needs to be repurposed. as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted 42% of URLs have Open Graph tags as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Instagram vs Twitter: A Solution as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedly (YC W10) beta launches mobile support. as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter’s Got a New Harassment Problem: Periscope as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedly (YC W10): A Call for Publishers as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sharedy.com: Create Facebook's Status Timeline with Embedly, jQuery and GAE as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedly(YC W10) Allows you to Embed Any Url in Wordpress Posts as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Findpit.com: Building a Twitter Image Search with Embedly and jQuery. as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Twitter Web Client with @Anywhere and Embedly as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted 101 ways to Embed Content: The State of Embedly as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedly is a Gem: How Kalimba was Built as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted The World According to Embedly (YC W10) as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedly's Parrotfish Extension now works on Firefox and Safari as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted ItsTrending.com - How they use Facebook Like and Embedly as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embedly Releases a Wordpress Plugin as a story · 14 points
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