Giphy Wants to Make GIFs More Legit

GIFs are about to get a bit more serious Giphy, a startup that recently launched out of Betaworks, aims to empower the community of GIF creators and consumers by making it easier for users to search for GIFs and for artists to get their work discovered. The website initially started off as a side project by two hackers-in-resident at Betaworks. Jace Cooke and Alex Chung spent a couple weekends building a searchable database of about 15,000 GIFs, which they quietly released in early February. Eve...