The global economic crunch seems to have really jolted the internet landscape. A couple months ago, Rupert Murdoch of Newscorp announced that the era of the free news delivery is coming to an end. And “news” is nothing more than a simplified way of saying “information that shapes our world”. With the Internet being little more than [...]
Online video is a compelling way to draw and maintain traffic to your website. The social aspects allowing others to copy and paste the video into their own websites or blogs using the embedding code can dramatically increase the viewing of the video, and possibly garner greater traffic to your website. Implementing videos needs to [...]
Perhaps the only thing changing faster than the landscape of Dubai is the Internet itself. Dubai is one of the seven Emirates comprising the UAE, United Arab Emirates. As an oil rich region, Dubai is one of the fastest growing areas on the planet, an ever changing coastal town positioning itself to be the major travel, [...]
Video on Demand (VOD) utilizes technology available by a plethora of vendors from very large, such as Comcast, to the more botique operators such as Sunflower Broadband. And the industry will soon be reaching its first decade of implementation. A key component to succesful VOD implementation lies in the ad management software, which allows for [...]
“Yandex” is an acronym for the phrase “Yet Another Indexer.” and is the leading search engine in Russia. Their search engine automatically searches all possible forms of a given word, takes into account the distance between the searched words within sentences and paragraphs, and searches documents in the major Cyrillic languages — Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian [...]
Another dissapointment is Failblog.org. A once funny and quick moving site is now painful to puruse. They should be paying US to surf through their website full of endless ads, popups and video ads. It seems suddenly that popup ads are making their way back, and many successful website businesses have found it acceptable once again [...]
I was cheering on hi5.com for quite some time now. They were the underdogs to Facebook and Myspace, but have a very strong presence in Thailand. I liked their colorful interface and a lot of the features and tools they employed, which made it easy to interact with others and find new friends. But now, [...]
Twitter already stated earlier in the week that it was geting about 50 million tweets being sent out per day. New data released shows that approximately half of those tweets are in non-English language. Approximately 25 milion foreign languge tweets being sent out per day. A lot of people are using Twitter in languages other [...]
The folks at MyGengo, a foreign language translation services company recently published a report covering the market conditions for the language learning industry. Here some interesting facts revealed: Chinese, Spanish and English represent only 30% of the worlds spoken language by population. But these languages make up roughly 60% of the internet users. 52% of [...]
The domain name calling out a website’s web address, also called a URL, is about to become multilingual as we first reported last week. AP writer Kelly Olsen reports that as early as November 16th 2009, we may start to see the use of non-latin scripts such as Korean, Chinese and Arabic. The decision by [...]