I'd like to start with a simple public service announcement: Tumblr has its own GIF maker now, allowing you to create your own animated images from pictures and videos on your phone. That's right — ...

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 ...

Tumblr today is launching a new tool that will capitalize on its community’s love for both creating and sharing GIFs with the debut of a mobile-only “GIF Maker.” The tool, which lets you quickly turn ...

There are not a lot of things that unite almost every person in the world, but here's one of them: everyone loves GIFs. This is why it's such momentous news that Tumblr's mobile app now lets you make ...

Vevo wants to make it easier to turn music videos into GIFs: The major label-owned music video platform launched a GIF maker Monday that allows anyone to select up to five second long snippets from ...

Google’s News Lab launched a new tool for making basic data GIFs today. While the Data GIF Maker is mostly geared toward journalists, anybody can use it to make some halfway interesting visuals based ...

In an age of ubiquitous computing when we all have high-bandwidth video streaming capabilities in our pockets, the fact that the humble GIF continues to thrive is remarkable. But its success is ...

With GIFs being increasingly popular, it was only a matter of time before big names from social media focused their attention on the catchy dynamic files. Tumblr did so and released a tool allowing ...

Facebook is experimenting with a built-in GIF creator on the platform. With a quick app update, select iOS users can spot the new GIF mode within Facebook’s camera. The GIF function is not available ...

There is no shortage of GIFs on Tumblr. According to the company, more than 23 million of the animated loops are posted on its service every day. That is a lot of (hard-G) GIFs. There’s also no ...

There is no doubt that data plays a crucial role in research, presentations, and discussions (especially when they turn into arguments) but it is the representation of data which can actually affect ...