Imgur's new GIFV format means animated images load faster, look better and play when shared on social networks. Will the 1987-era GIF format finally fade from use? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...
Facebook is betting on the potency of GIFs by acquiring Giphy, whose technology will be integrated into Instagram, which Facebook acquired in 2012. The price was reported by multiple media outlets to ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - The internet creates world-changing technologies and unimaginable fortunes – just not always at the same time. Stephen Wilhite ...
eBay today is running an promoted post across image sharing site Imgur that shows how technology has transformed over the recent years. In the GIF shown above, you can see how everything that used to ...
Buzzfeed has bestowed a new kind of GIF upon the Internet that they claim puts the site "at the very top of the GIF game." Is this new technology really an evolution? They call it the Rubbable GIF ...
And so on. But the thing is? The Times is right. The first GIF I ever made, which, lamentably, isn't currently online, was of breakdancers. (It was sort of like the image at left, which is from this ...
Social media giant Facebook on Friday acquired the GIF-sharing service GIPHY, which will now be a part of the Instagram team. According to Axios, Facebook paid $400 million for the acquisition. "By ...
Early in the days of the web, when the internet was turning into a mass medium with possibilities for mixing images and sound, a file format known as the GIF was used to create miniature animations on ...
Is Looper the first movie to release an official poster as a GIF? There have been many fan-made movie poster GIFs in recent years, but our inquiry into prior official examples put out by a film’s ...
Users must know that this features enabled the users to send a personalized GIF just like a personalized sticker. By using this feature, you can trim a video and convert it to a GIF. After which you ...
Last week, the family of the man who invented the GIF, Stephen Wilhite, announced that he had passed away at the age of 74 due to complications from COVID-19. While he claimed to have “never got 1 ...
"The reason everyone thought MySpace was going to die was because these (GIFs) are really ugly," says meme-master general Kenyatta Cheese, speaking at the Story Festival in London. Cheese helps to run ...