For the love of Gifs.

We’re right in the middle of updating the WeGIF website with a brand new design. During this time the site won’t be available. The change should be completed before Tuesday (Nov 10, 2008) morning.

Even though the new design is way cooler and easier to use, the big change comes from being able to share all your WeGIF animations with others. Everyone will now have access to see the gif animations, (no more log-in required) just by visiting the site. This is really the first big step towards opening the site up to the public and we cannot be more excited.

During the upcoming week we may be tweeking things and will be checking if everything still works as expected. We hope you enjoy all the new features of the site.

WeGIF of the month by a Mr. Christopher Ivy. Its magic, David Blaine style.

Beam me …

We have been keeping a low profile for the past month and have not released anything new, so I decided to write this post and let everyone know what we have in store for WeGIF, and what we have been up to.

This month we are working hard on two big tasks, the first being a complete redesign of WeGIF.com. WeGIF has been in a closed beta for a few months, and now we have a much better idea of how people like interacting with the site.

The current layout was meant to just make the site functional and to get the ball rolling. The new design is much more attractive and easy to use. We’ve reorganized some of the sections to make the experience of creating and browsing for animations easier and more entertaining.

Also with the release of the new design, we are making our views public so if you’re currently using the site you will be able to send links to your friends, and they will be able to view your animations without having to sign up for an account first. This is really important and is probably our first step in sharing WeGIF with the world.

WeGIF at work

The second big thing we’re addressing is the back end infrastructure of WeGIF. We are in the middle of moving to Amazon Web Services, which offers cloud computing and storage. This is also very important since when this move is complete, we will be able to accommodate a lot more users on the site, and we will be sending out invites to everybody on the waiting list.

Feature-wise we have a lot of ideas, and plan on releasing a few new things along with the new version of WeGIF next month. One of the features I’m most excited about is the ability to pick an animated gif (or flash) to be your status avatar. Think setting an away message on IM, or status message on a social networking site that tells the world what you’re doing or how you’re feeling, except that you can now do it with an animation right from WeGIF.

There may be some down time on the site when we make some of these changes and we will notify everyone a few days ahead of time.

I love WeGIF for a couple reasons.

Its a simple tool for understanding transactional Analysis. Association of Roles.

But even more so, WeGIF helps us better understand feng shui, better know in the Western World as Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.

Placement and Movement, the more the position is known, the less direction is known and vice versa.

Both of these sites coincidentally have animated gifs on them.

Deja Vu is not just the name of a Denzel movie, however so, it was a good movie.

* Dictionary.com
* Our shared tacit knowledge knows what it is so we dont have to define it here for you.
* Just the GIF that reminds us of the Matrix.

come Ra

Hello WeGIF members! We’ve created a few “How To” videos highlighting the features of the Animated Gif Creator, and also showing how to setup a webcam in case you’re having problems getting it to work.

Here are some good examples of what you can do with WeGif. The WeGif Team made some really high quality gifs experimenting with cameras and light. Hopefully we will see some more of these gifs, since they came out so well.

Lou in the Dream Machine

James Spada, Lou, and Mugur Marculescu is the ghost moving around.

Mugur spelling his name with his mind.

Mugur’s birthday is Wednesday so make sure you wish him a happy birthday if you see him.

James Spada with light hat and pants.

Animated Gif of how to quickly add your animated gif to your myspace page.


Steps are Outlined as follows

1. Click on the Copy HTML Code, the click on it(it will automatically select all) and right click copy.

2. Click on bookmark and share button, select myspace.

3. Window will open with myspace if your not signed in sign in.

4. Right click on the box and paste the html tag.  Select in the drop down where on your myspace page you want it to appear and your ready to go.

Thank you to addthis for making this quick fix possible.

Some of you couldn’t fully participate on WeGIF before, because the Flash Gif Creator just wouldn’t let you upload very large images (specifically image dimensions above 2880×2880 px). While it is still recommended to re-size images before uploading, since the transfer time to our severs will be much shorter, for some people this is not as easy to do as it sounds.

The Create page will now accept much larger image files than before and re-size them for you. If you happen to be someone with one of those new 12 megapixel cameras and take pictures on full resolution, and don’t know how to resize them, you can now still upload your files to WeGIF (as long as the file size is less then 10 megabytes) and create gifs.

If you know your way around Photoshop and iPhoto and wish to resize your images before upload, you can resize them to fit in a 500×500px box.

Today the Wegif staff had hot dogs, they were delicious and reminded me of this German hot dog I ate in Potsdam, Germany.