Boomerang — an Instagram owned app — allows you to create "mini-videos" by capturing 10 photos and sticking them together to ...

The GIF has had an impressively long run amidst the usual short-term churn of the tech industry. One of the earliest ways of displaying animations on the web—long before there was enough bandwidth to ...

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When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Steve Wilhite, creator of the GIF, died this month. Artist and curator Jason Eppink recounts the tale of the technology behind the animated internet graphic. Steve Wilhite, inventor of the graphics ...

WhatsApp is soon set to introduce a new GIF provider called Klipy. Preparations are underway to roll out a new layout for ...

If a picture says 1,000 words, how much does a video say? With motion photos, you get the flexibility of a recording with the same quality as a static image. When activated, motion photos take a ...

Bloggers and meme-fanatics alike will admit that very few things can convey emotion like an animated GIF, and with almost 23 million GIFs posted to Tumblr everyday, it’s needless to say that the ...

GIFs help convey your feelings when chatting with friends, so why not use them to talk to your blog audience? Learn where to find the best GIFs online. When communicating online, it’s hard to show ...

It's June 15—otherwise known as the birthday of the Graphics Interchange Format, or the GIF. To celebrate, take a look at some of the most important GIFs in history. According to Steve Wilhite, an ...

We use them at Buffer in our customer service tweets, our emails, our Slack channel. We include GIFs in marketing emails and team announcements. Anywhere there’s a message; there’s the chance for a ...

Emoji characters also known as emoticons on the screens of two mobile phones in Paris on August 6, 2015 Visuals like emojis and GIFs can make up for the useful cues that are often missing from digital ...