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BuzzFeed announced this week that it's acquiring Jesse Shapins' San Francisco-based startup which makes a mobile app be used to make mashups of any two images, videos, or GIFs.
TechSmith Updates Snagit with GIF, Panoramic Features. By Dian Schaffhauser; 06/09/16; TechSmith has updated its inexpensive screen, video and audio capture tool, Snagit.Version 13 for Windows and ...
The exploding popularity of animated GIFs online is attracting serious interest from venture investors. Giphy Inc., a search engine for the short, looping video files that are all the rage on ...
Twitter announced on its blog that GIF support will be added for Tweets and Direct Messages. This will come through a partnership with GIPHY and Riffsy. “GIPHY delivers real-time GIFs as […] ...
Thirty years ago, the GIF was born. Ben Zimmer on how this technology term has aged remarkably well—even though how to pronounce it is still debated.
Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, has died. He was 74. His wife, Kathaleen, said Thursday in a phone interview that he died of COVID on March 14 ...
Pinterest is letting members add playful animated clips called "GIFs" to the hot bulletin board-style social network. "The well-timed GIF may be the greatest thing to have happened to the Internet ...
Google now has a "Share GIFs" section in image search results that lets users immediately share GIFs to ... Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013.