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    An Honor for the Creator of the GIF
    Steve Wilhite, who invented the enduring GIF file format in 1987, will receive a lifetime achievement Webby Award.

    He is proud of the GIF, but remains annoyed that there is still any debate over the pronunciation of the format.

    “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Mr. Wilhite said. “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.”

    Gif guff? Or respect to the ‘jif’?

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    Exclamation: Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!

    yahoo:

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    I’m delighted to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!

    We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and…

    First news of its kind announced by animated gif?

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    Yahoo in rumoured $1.1bn bid to buy white-hot Tumblr
    Reports claim board has approved move to buy blogging platform site that could catapult Yahoo back into top flight web firms

    Press release from Yahoo just now:

    Yahoo! to Acquire Tumblr

    Promises not to screw it up

    What do you think of the idea of Tumblr being bought by Yahoo? What do you think makes Tumblr so attractive?

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    Not surprisingly, Pinterest users have fought back against criticisms of the site, and rightly so: Telling women what they should be interested in and doing online is patronizing and counterproductive. Is being girly still such a bad thing in our culture? Why are wedding dresses and cupcake recipes any more frivolous than cat photos and rage-face memes? There’s an obvious double standard at work in criticisms of the site. If there’s a problem with Pinterest, it’s this: Pinterest is perceived as the women’s space online to the general exclusion of other spaces. The media and popular culture are now painting it as a pink ghetto that defines what women are passionate about and how they behave online. It’s not a problem that a lot of women love pinning content about fashion and home decor on Pinterest, but it is a problem if a Pinterest stereotype ends up standing in for all women on the web.

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