Vine is a smartphone app for iOS, Android and Windows that allows you to make and share short looping videos. The idea behind Vine, which launched in 2012, was to bring video into the world of social ...

Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform ...

Popular photo sharing service Instagram has just launched a new standalone application called Boomerang. It’s a very simple app that serves only one purpose – to help you make short, 1-second long ...

Twitter is hoping the next innovation is just the evolution of a micro YouTube. For making and sharing short looping videos, the media company is playing with a product called Vine. Sometimes the best ...

Loop Media is partnering with TiVo TIVO. Loop Media is a streaming company that focuses on short-form video. Their library includes a mix of fully licensed shorts, music videos, viral videos, trailers ...

Is there any space on kids’ homescreens for another social sharing app to poke in? Y Combinator backed Splish wants to have a splash at it (😊) — with a super-short-form video and photo sharing app ...

Recently my editor alerted me to the existence of a MetaFilter thread called “Gif that’s what’s for dinner.” (A-plus pun idea, C-minus execution.) In it, users shared and discussed their favorite ...

Loops, a decentralized short-form video app, brings TikTok to the fediverse. Loops, a decentralized short-form video app, brings TikTok to the fediverse. is a former weekend editor who covered tech ...