It’s official: GIF has been named the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year. The word–and the computer science behind it–has been around since the 1980s, but the GIF has gained popularity in ...

My friend Judy used to always say that whenever she met another Judy, she knew exactly how old that Judy was—to the day. Now that level of precision might be a bit of a stretch, but, as the above map ...

Google owns search intent. Facebook owns the social graph. But the “emotional graph” is still up for grabs -- or so goes the argument David McIntosh, cofounder and CEO of the mobile GIF keyboard and ...

Twitter had a blast on Tuesday morning with #FirstGifComesUpForYourName, which simply appeared to be users looking up the first GIF that appeared when typing in their name. We decided to do some ...

GIFs may be a popular way of communicating as the way we talk to each other increasingly shifts to mobile, but really it’s about communicating in some form of video. We’re seeing video become more and ...

The GIF has been around for over 25 years, and 2012 was a huge year for the file format, and probably its most popular year yet with animated GIFs showing up all over the place. With that said, it ...

Internet culture gets its proper due in journalism today, as “GIF” has beat out “YOLO” as the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year. “GIF celebrated a lexical milestone in 2012, gaining ...