"Invention"

A Romanian 'invented' a new way of using the emoticons in Yahoo Messenger. He copies and pastes on yahoo messenger the lyrics of a song and replaces the words that can be replaced by emoticons. He pastes the lyrics as the song plays to impress his girlfriend. Big deal. That's not an invention. He appeared on a online Romanian website for news and he was even contacted by a yahoo representative.

Romanian Student Invents Yahoo Messenger's Emoticoncert
7 Februarie 2007


Darius Groza, a Romanian student was congratulated by Yahoo! Inc bosses after inventing what he called Emoticoncert.

The Romanian’s invention consists in creating a video clip in which a song is played, based on a yahoo messenger window using Yahoo’s emoticons to depict the situations the song is about.

The Romanian student is 21 years old. He studies Journalisms and public relations at the Cluj University Babes-Bolyai".

'”Congratulations on your creation! It is truly original and very intelligent, said Francois Dufour, manager Yahoo! Messenger manager for the United States, in an email sent to Darius Groza.

''They told me they want to develop and integrate the concept in Yahoo Messenger , so that anyone can make an Emoticon on any kind of song, Groza said .

He added that he would like to collaborate with Yahoo and not sell his idea.

Emoticon is a brand created by Yahoo in the 90’s anii '90, using graphic signs to depict a certain emotion or state of mind.

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