YouTube has started offering the capability to create GIF videos from its existing uploaded videos. It has started experimenting this feature on PBS Idea Channel’s page. How does it work? Simply click the share button, then drag the trim selector to pick the start and the end of your GIF video. The...

The research paper, entitled “How Qatar uses WhatsApp, Snapchat and other social networks” provides an insight into how people are utilising online media to communicate, as well as giving indications of some of their preferences. After interviewing 1,000 online users in Qatar (500 Qatari and 500...

Videos are experiencing a huge boom in social media as Instagram joins Vine and YouTube as a third promising video sharing platform with significant marketing potential. After Instagram announced that it will expand its static-images-sharing community with 15 second videos as a response to Twitter´s 6 second...

Kuwaiti officials worrying about how to bring down the gulf state’s unemployment rate — estimated at more than 3% — may have another resource to tap besides crude oil: Instagram. The photo-sharing service is becoming popular among local entrepreneurs advertising a diverse array of products...

Northwestern University in Qatar has released preliminary findings from a Pan-Arab survey showing that although web users in the Middle East support the freedom to express opinions online, they also believe the Internet should be more tightly regulated. Researchers surveyed 9,693 adults in eight Arab...

First we had the weblogs or blogs, and then came the updates on Facebook, Orkut, My Space followed by Tumblr posts. This was followed by mobile blogging on sites like Posterous which shrunk to Tweets and finally to Instagram and Pinterest. The medium through which we express our thoughts and emotions...

Instagram has been receiving backlash for the latest changes in its policy. The Instagram policy says that the company has the perpetual right to sell users’ photographs without payment or notification, a dramatic policy shift. What could you do to protect your content from being used for commercial...