Emoticons

Nick Kolakowski: Cast LOL and Emoticons From Your Lexicon

23 May 2012

There is a very special place in hell reserved for whoever created the emoticon. Nor can we blame the scourge solely on text messaging and e-mail: as far back as the 19th century.

Learnings the Ps and Qs and :-)'s of emoticons

15 May 2012

Emoticons -- those jumbles of punctuation in an e-mail or text -- might leave you scratching your head and feeling -S

In Zlango’s World, Emoticons Are The Future (And The Future Revenue Model)

15 May 2012

They say if you want to understand the future, you have to look at children. And if my 10-year-old cousin's chat history is any indication, we will soon be communicating in emoji, Egyptian hieroglyphics or some other kind of pictographic language that renders the 2,000-year-old Roman alphabet obsolete. Sometimes she sends me full e-mails with dozens of lines of straight emoticons, which either ...