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Cool cats now have their own online social network
The [Toronto] Star ^
| January 07, 2013
| Lesley Ciarula Taylor
Posted on 01/07/2013 11:31:45 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
Social networking for cats has arrived.
Two tech geeks with a fondness for felines and an eye for niche marketing have created Catmoji, a Pinterest-like website that is wall-to-wall cat pictures, cat videos and cat chats.
Matthew Phiong and Koekoe Loo don’t actually own cats themselves, they told the Toronto Star by email on Monday.
They had previously created the social network Flvrd, a website where users could share any visual content they liked.
“We found out that most of our users share cat pictures and videos,” they said.
“We also like to procrastinate with cats on the Internet so we decided to just focus on cat pictures and videos.”
The emoji (emoticon) part of the site lets users find their favourite felines by emotion: happy, sad, cute or funny. There are kitten pages, genetic anomaly pages and celebricat pages.
And the cats get to like, share and comment on other cats.
Catmoji launched on Christmas Eve with 800 users who post their own images. They’ve doubled that membership in two weeks, the pair said.
“We are working round the clock to keep Catmoji up and running.”
Phiong, an online developer with a passion for startups, and Loo, an artist, were born and raised in Penang, Malaysia, where they studied computer science together.
Phiong did have a pet cat as a boy and Loo fostered a stray who died, which they speculate may be the root of their fascination.
Or, as they said, perhaps they just like “building eye candy projects that bring happiness to others.”
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: kittyping
Thanks, Gefn and Anonymous Sender-Inner!
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01/07/2013 11:37:41 PM PST
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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01/07/2013 11:38:41 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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posted on
01/07/2013 11:39:43 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
“Matthew Phiong and Koekoe Loo don’t actually own cats themselves”
FAIL
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posted on
01/08/2013 3:49:16 AM PST
by
wolficatZ
(Hey blue states....Got Food?)
To: wolficatZ
Show some compassion for the deprived.
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posted on
01/08/2013 4:28:01 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Maybe they have a doggeh and can’t have a kitteh?
Do we have a “Fail Ping’?
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posted on
01/08/2013 5:39:16 AM PST
by
Gefn
("I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder")
To: Slings and Arrows
We all know, the 'net exists only to extoll cats.
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posted on
01/08/2013 6:13:18 AM PST
by
Daffynition
(Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. ~ HLM)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
01/08/2013 6:31:01 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
("If you're going through hell, keep on going."--Winston Churchill)
To: Slings and Arrows
It is a family site, after all.
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
01/08/2013 10:47:10 AM PST
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Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Gefn
If the fail is epic enough I’ll ping it on my other list.
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posted on
01/08/2013 10:50:21 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Albion Wilde
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posted on
01/08/2013 10:51:49 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
01/08/2013 10:53:21 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
01/08/2013 12:14:34 PM PST
by
Pyro7480
(Viva Cristo Rey!)
To: Pyro7480
And many of them still live with their mummies.
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posted on
01/08/2013 12:34:22 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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