Around a Third of Online Time Is Spent on Social Networks
The title is pretty explicit. The figure is pretty much amazing too, even though some of you out there (hardcore social networks addicts) might find it a bit low. Why? Because you’re effectively aware of the fact that most of your internet time is spent on Facebook, Twitter or Google+, amongst others. You can hardly [...]
Innovative Marketing: Real-Time Takeovers
What are real-time takeovers? Those are online advertising techniques that fill your browser with ads that “takes over” your display. Those techniques are pretty much annoying if you’d ask me, nevertheless very effective in leaving a definite imprint of the advertised product in the minds of internet users. If done right, using some interactive components, [...]
Tech Transitions: Encyclopaedia Britannica Case
Encyclopaedia Britannica ceased production of their famed physical volumes about one year ago. Of course, as we can witness it in our daily life, the vast migration of information from ink and paper to bits and screens has begun. But imagining and realizing that a massive publication such as Britannica would cease production is not [...]
Google Readying a Physical Password
Passwords are starting to grow weak. Weak and rather predictable. A few combinations of known names, pet names, birthdays dates, and initials are hardly a good protection for your online accounts and identities. This is why Google is working on making future passwords require, well… physical proof. How this can be reached? There are multiple [...]
Makhsoom: The Lebanese Group Buying Success Story
Daily deals are catchy, and having the opportunity to get them twice a day is simply a double shot of awesome. Welcome to the world of Makhsoom. In case you don’t know about Makhsoom, it is a group-buying platform based on a website that offers you daily deals at discounted prices for a variety of services [...]
Public Universities to Offer Free Online Classes for Credit
In an interesting move among public American universities, around 40 academic institutions have teamed up with Academic Partnerships (a company that assists academic institution in moving their course online) in order to offer worldwide prospective applicants and students the opportunity to enroll in an online course from a specific major for free, in the hopes that [...]
Too Digital, Too Fast: The State of Digital Gaming
As I look around my desk, I am surrounded by tech gadgets galore; a smartphone, at tablet, an Xbox 360 and PS3 and the notebook I’m typing this on. It is without a doubt that we are far past the Stone Age, surpassed the technological age and have entered the all-new and almighty Digital Era. [...]
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