Facebook Holding an Event on Thursday March 7
Facebook has just issued its invitations to the press to attend an event on March 7th, 2013 in its Menlo Park headquarters. The invitation (as seen below) specifies that the focus of this event is for people to have a sneak peak at the new design of their news feed. Apparently, a redesigned version of the [...]
Your Instagram Feed is Now on the Web
You know that Instagram feed you look at every time you open the app on your phone to see all the new pictures your friends and people you follow have posted? Previously, doing this was only limited to the screen of your phone (or tablet). But starting today, you will be able to do this [...]
Facebook Announces Graph Search
Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday the release of a new search tool called “Graph Search”, which, in short, is intended to help Facebook users in searching through the numerous links and connections that every one has for specific information and common interests. As Zuckerberg puts it, this is “not web search.” The new tool is designed to find specific [...]
The Nielsen Brief – Issue #4
Mobile phone history got itself a new milestone this year: Smartphone owners became the majority of mobile phone users for the first time ever, growing from 49 percent in Q1 2012 to 56 percent by Q3 2012. As far as online brands are concerned, Google remained the top Web brand, with a monthly average 172 million unique [...]
Google+ New 2012 Winter Arrivals
As weird as it might look, many people do effectively use Google+. We’re only saying this because Google+ does seem to drag behind other social networks like Facebook and Twitter in terms of individual user adoption. It might be normal, it’s younger. But Google+ is not Google Buzz; It is growing. It is true that it [...]
Make Your Own Music Videos with Strum
You want to turn the videos shot on your iPhone into crazy instant music video clips, in a matter of seconds? The guys at Smule will make of your wish a reality, through Strum. Instagram lets you add sepia filters to your pictures, now Strum offers a number of built-in filters for your videos; That’s [...]
SoundCloud Gets a Massive Refresh
SoundCloud is different now. In fact, it is different since last Tuesday. The result is a more social experience that makes of SoundCloud the YouTube of audio. The main modifications have been done to its user interface. The whole platform is now cleaner, with a vastly simplified navigation. Two navigation buttons instead of the old five, [...]
A Quick Insight from TEDxBeirut 2012
Following the astounding success of the TEDxBeirut event last year and the amazing build up job done by the organizers including the TEDx Salons roadshow across lebanon over the past year, there was no limit to the excitement of the over 1200 attendees arriving at the Unesco Palace this past 17th of November. The audience [...]
Can Myspace Wake from the Dead?
Originally started in 2003 by Tom Anderson and Chris Dewolfe, Myspace was the (only?) place to be if you wanted to connect with your friends or share things with the larger online community. You might remember it being famous for being that site where supposedly anyone could tweak the design of their profile page simply [...]
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