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Slowly but surely, the human kind is reverting to pictographic script, or writing in pictures. Let\u2019s look back on the first forms of communication between people \u2013 drawings. According to scientists, the officially oldest cave paintings on the Old Continent are located in northern Spain and date back to the Paleolithic. And research has shown that they are more than 40,800 years old! Experts say that they were painted either by the first modern people or by Neanderthals even.

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Are you wondering how does this prehistoric story fit into 2018? If you\u2019ve never heard of Bitstrips before, here\u2019s your chance to learn more about it. The Canadian company was founded in Toronto by comics artist Jacob Blackstock and his high-school friend, journalist Jesse Brown. The idea was for the service to allow people to create and draw their own comic strips without needing any special skills, talent, or cra\u0006ft. As Brown explained at the \u0004time, drawing the same characters over and over again can be exhaus\u0004ting and \u0004time consuming, and one character is never iden\u0004tical to the last, which is why he teamed up with his friend to develop a base for a new way of communica\u0004tion, at one point even referring to it as \u201cYouTube for comics.\u201d

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Sounds interesti\u0004ng. But you might wonder what makes them so special. This was actually the first platf\form that allowed people to create comic strips using personalized avatars, which means you can prac\u0004cally make a personalized comic book. Bitstrips was first showcased in 2008 in Aus\u0004tin, Texas, at the South by Southwest fes\u0004tival. A year later, this pilot version became an educati\u0004onal so\u0006ftware of sorts that was being tested in several Ontario schools \u2013 Bitstrips for Schools. Teachers noti\u0004ced that the students, especially in language classes, very quickly started parti\u0004cipa\u0004ting, being more productive, and mastering the material more easily. Soon a\u0006er, Brown saw that the students spontaneously started to use the service to make comic books at home, outside of school; some he thought were extremely good \u2013 crea\u0004tive and very funny. They simply liked the idea because the main characters were themselves and their friends! A picture is worth a thousand words, the old saying goes.\"\"

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Of course, it\u2019s clear that Bitstrips gained most popularity when it launched the version used on Facebook in December 2012. In just over a year, it had a staggering ten million users on the social network, and esti\u0004mates indicate that more than 50 million comic books were made in this short \u0004timeframe! In October, Bitstrips was already available for download on mobile phones as an app. In 40 countries across the globe, this app became the top downloaded app, with more than 30 million avatars created. That\u2019s when the idea for what you\u2019ll read about below started to emerge.

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The company took a step further and developed a mobile app called Bitmoji in October 2014. This app actually allows the user to create personalized avatars and use them in everyday tex\u0004ting in the form of s\u0004tickers. The whole world went crazy for the app and welcomed personal emo\u0004ctions \u2013 emo\u0004ctions with the user\u2019s face! These were Bitstrips characters used in different templates and for different situa\u0004tions, so you could choose how you feel, what you crave, or what you\u2019re doing at the moment \u2013 and you no longer needed words! All this under the slogan, \u201cCreate your own bitmoji and be yourself wherever you go.\u201d\"\"

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Snapchat, one of the most popular mul\u0004timedia messaging apps, saw and recognized the great poten\u0004tial of bitmoji and in July 2016 acquired Bitstrips. In order to focus on the further development of bitmoji, Bitstrips was shut down and prac\u0004tically ceased to exist, and Snapchat was updated to integrate bitmoji. Users were allowed to link their accounts between the two apps and, once they did, they were able to include bitmoji in their communica\u0004tion. After the acquisi\u0005tion, in less than a year, Bitmoji ranked among the top downloaded apps in the iOS App Store in some of the world\u2019s biggest countries: Australia, Canada, UK, France, and the United States. At the end of last year, Apple published the official sta\u0004tis\u0004tics showing that this app placed first in the iOS App Store globally, while their official product \u2013 Snapchat \u2013 placed second!\"\"

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September last year saw the introduc\u0004tion of new Bitmoji versions, animated 3D renders used in Snapchat \u2019s augmented reality named World Lenses. These are fun avatars that come with their 3D anima\u0004tion. When you touch the phone screen, you can project your 3D cartoon image and place it in the real world or a situa\u0004tion template, like yoga, skateboarding, or drinking coffee. Once you create an anima\u0004tion, you can send it to a friend or post it in your story. The animati\u0004on you created shouldn\u2019t exceed ten seconds and at first it was available to iOS users only, while now it\u2019s available for Android, too.

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Try out this fun app, if you haven\u2019t already. In additi\u0004on surely making you and the people you communicate daily laugh, the app offers also other fun op\u0004tions such as friendmoji, emoti\u0004con avatars showing you and your friends. Nothing wrong with ge\ftting childish once in a while \"\u263a\"!

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\n", "content_text": "Slowly but surely, the human kind is reverting to pictographic script, or writing in pictures. Let\u2019s look back on the first forms of communication between people \u2013 drawings. According to scientists, the officially oldest cave paintings on the Old Continent are located in northern Spain and date back to the Paleolithic. And research has shown that they are more than 40,800 years old! Experts say that they were painted either by the first modern people or by Neanderthals even.\nAre you wondering how does this prehistoric story fit into 2018? If you\u2019ve never heard of Bitstrips before, here\u2019s your chance to learn more about it. The Canadian company was founded in Toronto by comics artist Jacob Blackstock and his high-school friend, journalist Jesse Brown. The idea was for the service to allow people to create and draw their own comic strips without needing any special skills, talent, or cra\u0006ft. As Brown explained at the \u0004time, drawing the same characters over and over again can be exhaus\u0004ting and \u0004time consuming, and one character is never iden\u0004tical to the last, which is why he teamed up with his friend to develop a base for a new way of communica\u0004tion, at one point even referring to it as \u201cYouTube for comics.\u201d\nSounds interesti\u0004ng. But you might wonder what makes them so special. This was actually the first platf\form that allowed people to create comic strips using personalized avatars, which means you can prac\u0004cally make a personalized comic book. Bitstrips was first showcased in 2008 in Aus\u0004tin, Texas, at the South by Southwest fes\u0004tival. A year later, this pilot version became an educati\u0004onal so\u0006ftware of sorts that was being tested in several Ontario schools \u2013 Bitstrips for Schools. Teachers noti\u0004ced that the students, especially in language classes, very quickly started parti\u0004cipa\u0004ting, being more productive, and mastering the material more easily. Soon a\u0006er, Brown saw that the students spontaneously started to use the service to make comic books at home, outside of school; some he thought were extremely good \u2013 crea\u0004tive and very funny. They simply liked the idea because the main characters were themselves and their friends! A picture is worth a thousand words, the old saying goes.\nOf course, it\u2019s clear that Bitstrips gained most popularity when it launched the version used on Facebook in December 2012. In just over a year, it had a staggering ten million users on the social network, and esti\u0004mates indicate that more than 50 million comic books were made in this short \u0004timeframe! In October, Bitstrips was already available for download on mobile phones as an app. In 40 countries across the globe, this app became the top downloaded app, with more than 30 million avatars created. That\u2019s when the idea for what you\u2019ll read about below started to emerge.\nThe company took a step further and developed a mobile app called Bitmoji in October 2014. This app actually allows the user to create personalized avatars and use them in everyday tex\u0004ting in the form of s\u0004tickers. The whole world went crazy for the app and welcomed personal emo\u0004ctions \u2013 emo\u0004ctions with the user\u2019s face! These were Bitstrips characters used in different templates and for different situa\u0004tions, so you could choose how you feel, what you crave, or what you\u2019re doing at the moment \u2013 and you no longer needed words! All this under the slogan, \u201cCreate your own bitmoji and be yourself wherever you go.\u201d\nSnapchat, one of the most popular mul\u0004timedia messaging apps, saw and recognized the great poten\u0004tial of bitmoji and in July 2016 acquired Bitstrips. In order to focus on the further development of bitmoji, Bitstrips was shut down and prac\u0004tically ceased to exist, and Snapchat was updated to integrate bitmoji. Users were allowed to link their accounts between the two apps and, once they did, they were able to include bitmoji in their communica\u0004tion. After the acquisi\u0005tion, in less than a year, Bitmoji ranked among the top downloaded apps in the iOS App Store in some of the world\u2019s biggest countries: Australia, Canada, UK, France, and the United States. At the end of last year, Apple published the official sta\u0004tis\u0004tics showing that this app placed first in the iOS App Store globally, while their official product \u2013 Snapchat \u2013 placed second!\nSeptember last year saw the introduc\u0004tion of new Bitmoji versions, animated 3D renders used in Snapchat \u2019s augmented reality named World Lenses. These are fun avatars that come with their 3D anima\u0004tion. When you touch the phone screen, you can project your 3D cartoon image and place it in the real world or a situa\u0004tion template, like yoga, skateboarding, or drinking coffee. Once you create an anima\u0004tion, you can send it to a friend or post it in your story. The animati\u0004on you created shouldn\u2019t exceed ten seconds and at first it was available to iOS users only, while now it\u2019s available for Android, too.\nTry out this fun app, if you haven\u2019t already. In additi\u0004on surely making you and the people you communicate daily laugh, the app offers also other fun op\u0004tions such as friendmoji, emoti\u0004con avatars showing you and your friends. Nothing wrong with ge\ftting childish once in a while !\n \nThe post Bitmoji \u2013 Personalized Avatars for Online Communication appeared first on SEE Business travel & meetings magazine.", "date_published": "2018-07-31T13:03:48+02:00", "date_modified": "2018-07-31T13:08:43+02:00", "author": { "name": "Milica Novak", "url": "https://www.seebtm.com/en/author/milicanovak/", "avatar": "https://www.seebtm.com/wp-content/uploads/Milica-Novak.jpg" }, "image": "https://www.seebtm.com/wp-content/uploads/naslovna-eng-2.jpg", "tags": [ "online communication", "OMG... Really?!" ] } ] }