For the last 30 years, the emoticon has been the quickest and easiest way for people to express their emotions digitally. Most smart phones and chat services even have them built into the operating ...

If you’ve ever worked in a corporate environment, you’ve learned about the shortcomings of electronic communication, particularly email. We’ve all heard that the majority of human communication is ...

Emoticons are already pretty annoying, but making a physical emoticon that changes expressions based on emoticons in Windows Live Messenger? That’s really, really annoying. Keep this thing the hell ...

Brigitte Nerlich receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the ESRC. The use of “GIFs” has exploded in recent years. They are used for news, views and entertainment but are most commonly seen as ...

Diwali is a festival of lights also known as Deepawali. On the occasion, people get ready to light up diyas, and firecrackers with their friends and family. However, if you don’t get a chance to be ...

Although Google+ hasn’t turned out to be quite the Facebook (FB) ”killer,” Google (GOOG) is still very serious about expanding its social network. The company announced on Friday an upcoming update to ...