Vine
A new app/social network has been going viral this past week.
Vine is a service that allows you to create and share beautiful looping videos with your friends and family. The application is pretty heavily integrated with Twitter. Vine is a little more elaborate than Instagram, where you just apply filters to photos. Vine allows you to capture images for a maximum of six seconds and publish them as a video to all of your friends and family. The service may be easily explained as looping animated GIFs.
Vine started making headlines Thursday when Jimmy Fallon sent out a Vine video saying "Hello" using Scrabble tiles. After Fallon, a whole celebrity rush of users began …