The news made one middle-aged Russian grandma, the unofficial queen of Blingee, very happy. Irina Vladimirovna Kuleshova , a divorced orthodontist, turns 50 in a couple of months.

The story of Blingee's back-from-the-brink revival proves that if you wish hard enough and stick enough sparkling Gansta necklaces on something, anything is possible. After nearly a decade of ...

Blingee-made images live on in Tumblr and across the rest of the Web, as a sort of tongue-in-cheek, retro take on remix culture. But none of that matters, because Blingee is over.

Like MIDI music on your website, customizable cursors and the Top 8, it’s time to bid farewell to another casualty from Internet 1.0. Blingee, the customizable GIF maker, library and community ...

As Blingee shuts its doors, the era of Myspace-inspired, Web 2.0 design comes to an end. And while we tried to make a few of our own Blingees to pay tribute, it appears that the servers are ...

Lucky for me, I was in that very dark, windowless room, in the basement of the New Museum building on the Lower East Side, for the annual Seven on Seven conference this weekend.