Here’s how to set up Google Gboard’s ‘Mini’ stickers

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There’s no shortage of personalized stickers and avatars to choose from on your mobile device: Apple Memojis, Snapchat Bitmojis, and the list goes on and on.

Now, Google is launching its own version. Google’s Gboard (a keyboard extension for iOS and Android) is launching Minis, a sticker version of yourself with two distinct drawing styles.

The most diehard Google fans might remember selfie stickers in Allo, one of the company’s many different messaging apps. The new Google Gboard Minis are similar, however, they’re a little more customizable. Read more…

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Instagram adds emoji slider stickers to spice up polls

If you’ve been meaning to ask your friends just how eggplant emoji your new summer cutoffs are, you’re in luck. Today, Instagram is introducing a feature it’s calling the “emoji slider,” a new audience feedback sticker that polls your viewers on a rating scale using any emoji. The updated Instagram app is available now in […]

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Raden is betting sticker mania will stick in the physical world

 While smart suitcase startup Raden is unarguably a hardware company, they’ve decided to test the social waters by diving headfirst into the world of stickers. The company is launching a sticker store in their mobile app, which lets customers orders physical stickers that once delivered can be can be affixed to their suitcases. The app lets you preview what the stickers will look like on… Read More

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Giant 231-pound sticker ball just broke a Guinness World Record

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A Guinness World Record holder named Saul the Sticker Ball lives in Longmont, Colorado. It doesn’t really live, though. It’s a 231-pound giant ball made from over 200,000 stickers and labels.  

John Fischer is the CEO of a company called StickerGiant and, with the help of his employees, they created Saul. 

The Guinness World Records uploaded a video Tuesday of Fischer and Saul, celebrating the award.

“Stickers are fun because they allow people to take any normal thing and make it theirs,” said Fischer.

He explained in the video that the process of creating Saul took over a hundred hours but it brought the entire company together. StickerGiant created the ball in an attempt to break a world record in honor of the first National Sticker day in the United States. The ball also has some political ambitions apparently.  Read more…

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Skype launches Photo Effects – sticker suggestions powered by machine learning

 Not content with merely launching its own take on Instagram and Snapchat’s Stories, Skype today is adding another copycat-like feature to its app: photo stickers. The company says it’s introducing new “Photo Effects” (as it’s calling these stickers), which include things like face masks, decorative borders, witty captions, and more. However, unlike the photo… Read More

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