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 ...

Animated GIFs, which were hugely popular in the late ’90s, went out of fashion for many years. Now they’re suddenly new again, and the Internet is full of them. Today’s GIFs tend to be animated ...

Earlier this week, some Pinterest users noticed that the company was experimenting with support for animated GIFs on its site – the popular, moving images that, until recently, defaulted to static ...

I guess it was kind of inevitable. You have a social network whose entire gimmick is showing people pictures of stuff. After a while, the network starts to worry that maybe it might get a little ...

Pinterest is testing out support for playing back GIFs on users’ pinboards, as spotted by the fashion search engine Wantering. Previously, when a user uploaded an image to Pinterest it appeared on ...

This story contains interviews with Ludo Antonov and Cristina Petrovici, both growth engineers at Pinterest, and Silvia Oviedo-López, international operations manager at Pinterest. The first problem ...