{"id":1708,"date":"2014-12-14T08:39:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T16:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2014-12-14T08:40:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T16:40:53","slug":"blippy-fun-visual-communication-via-gifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/14\/blippy-fun-visual-communication-via-gifs\/","title":{"rendered":"Blippy: Fun visual communication via GIFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/13\/tindddle-an-addictive-way-to-explore-art\/\">Speaking<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saydaily.com\/2014\/09\/tinder-swipe-and-media\">Tinder-style card interfaces<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blippy.com\/\">Blippy<\/a> is a rather delightful way to browse among animated GIFs, then add them to a custom iOS keyboard that you can use to punch up text messages, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Now if only the world would devise a non-1980\u2019s standard (y\u2019know, one with more than 256 ill-compressed colors) and call it \u201cGIF+\u201d or something. The open-source\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/speed\/webp\/faq\">WebP<\/a>\u00a0standard is less than half the size of a GIF, but it\u2019s not yet widely supported. Maybe we just need to call it \u201cGIF.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y5smMDrSASY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y5smMDrSASY\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Tinder-style card interfaces, Blippy is a rather delightful way to browse among animated GIFs, then add them to a custom iOS keyboard that you can use to punch up text messages, etc. Now if only the world would devise a non-1980\u2019s standard (y\u2019know, one with more than 256 ill-compressed colors) and call it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}