Saturday, December 25th, 2010 03:07 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tips and Tricks by Reda Cherif
At the same time that the Internet grows, it Achilles’ Heel gets more exposed too. Therefore, the fact that the Internet is growing is neither good news, nor bad news. That’s purely factual.
Tags: blogs, communication, data management, google, internet, media, open source, wikileaks
Sunday, December 12th, 2010 11:06 pm GMT -5 in Code, Tubes by Bianca Wilson
Crisis mapping tool,Ushahidi and the US Institute of Peace recently launched a new initiative called Universities for Ushahdi to encourage developing country students to use the platform. But is the tireless work of countless students in the US being overlooked?
Tags: crisis mapping, crowdsourcing, data management, SIPA, ushahidi
Monday, November 29th, 2010 11:47 am GMT -5 in Content by Reda Cherif
Ask children in rural Kenya working with their parents in community fields what their hobbies are, I’m not sure you’d get answers such as “photo”, “horse-riding”,”bird watching”.
Tags: africa, communication, data management, development, facebook, imperialism, internet, media, numeric divide, social media, social networks
Sunday, November 7th, 2010 03:06 pm GMT -5 in Content, Tubes by Reda Cherif
My trip to Cuba was an amazing opportunity to compare the two systems – the Free West and The Tropical Communism- through the prism of Digital Age, Web 2.0 and Social Networks.
It is so different and so similar at the same time.
Tags: blogs, censorship, communication, computation, data management, facebook, google, internet, media, network neutrality, New York Times, social media, social networks, technology
Monday, October 18th, 2010 12:10 pm GMT -5 in Tubes by Gabrielle Tang
Twitter exceeds its original use of being a social networking medium by taking a spot in the world of science and economics.
Tags: communication, data management, economics, science, social media, social networks, twitter
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 01:22 am GMT -5 in Code by Reda Cherif
Originally aimed at socializing people through entertainment videos (music, dance), Youtube has now become a major global actor playing a political role in each and every country.
Tags: big brother, censorship, communication, conflict, data management, facebook, internet, Israel, journalism, network neutrality, photo, social media, social networks, technology, transparency, volatility, youtube
Monday, September 27th, 2010 09:21 pm GMT -5 in Tubes by Reda Cherif
That made me think of Apple’s strategy. They make you “ideolize” in January what they will have you “despise” in December…
Tags: branding, communication, consumers, data management, media, technology
Friday, September 18th, 2009 04:36 pm GMT -5 in News Briefs by Michael Cervieri
IBM looks to create a… computer?… that has the processing power of a billion desktops.
Tags: computation, data management, things that are really big