tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80951014018353662932024-03-13T19:56:37.048+04:00The MediaZineA rant based blog on media in the U.A.E and M.E - Views expressed here are my ownAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-48425561411043943792014-01-16T11:31:00.000+04:002014-01-16T11:31:02.893+04:00The Facebook Panic Frenzy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hey everyone! Long time no blogpost!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anyways, I know it's been ages since I've blogged but now that I've gotten into using twitter it's been almost impossible to WANT to write anything more than 140 characters. However, I do have something I need to expand on abit - & It's about Facebook.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Social media marketers have been running around like a bunch of headless chickens recently, mainly because Facebook has changed how marketers need to create , manage and promote content.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Facebook</i> content comes in many forms; Text, Links, Images, Videos, Articles, or a combination of a few of them. - The rule of thumb (to get ahead of EdgeRank and try to increase the visibility of your posts was) Link + Image + Copy (With a CTA).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sounds simple enough, but when you're trying to keep in mind the brand, it's guidelines, their social media objective (if they have one, if they listen to us , if they care) the tone of voice, <i><b>dual languages,</b></i> copy in the image, multiple links (what can I say clients just won't understand) , posting during the correct time of day (Thank you Facebook Insights woohoo! - <i>PLEASE DON'T CHANGE</i>) , Whether apps are functioning or not (again here you need to look at dual languages again!) , and then TRY to make sure the copy it within a certain limit, (in both languages again) - and yes I think it's best the copy doesn't exceed an overall of 400 characters when posting in dual languages , the social media tool (or tools) you'll be using ......i think you get my drift, it turns out that our gold (text, link. image) rule is actually quite difficult to achieve - forget about when managing multiple accounts!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Getting to my original point, Facebook is making social media marketers run around like headless chickens, trying to find the best way to explain that they been blind sided by Facebook and just desperately trying to figure out how to make their clients understand why EdgeRank has suddenly changed it's algorithm (No, WE don't want you to spend ad money on Facebook ads, Facebook does), in what way it's changed it (HAH - yea like that's easy to explain) and then tell you how that affects our post content.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Facebook is claiming that they are now focusing on "High Quality 'Articles' (Find out more here: http://bit.ly/KkGNVD) " being pushed to the top of users newsfeeds. - Now what they actually mean is, more "OMG WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MILEY CYRUS' articles are going to pop up rather than "Check out the latest Product by Blah, and find out how to WIN more useless stuff here: " - Yes, I see what you mean, very high quality either way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just say you want us to force our clients to spend more money so that everyone can reach their targets! Baaaaaaaah :'( </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Actually, since Mobile Penetration is about 112% in the Middle East - Check out the slideshare article below - (I guess this stat really needs to be questioned - Mobile Penetration here is super high) , this is quite a good turn around, now we will create more mobile friendly content, articles and be part of the growing organism that it the internet and social media (Yes- it pretty much has a life of its own)<br /></span></span><br />
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<strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/wearesocialsg/social-digital-mobile-around-the-world-january-2014" target="_blank" title="Social, Digital & Mobile Around The World (January 2014)">Social, Digital & Mobile Around The World (January 2014)</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/wearesocialsg" target="_blank">We Are Social Singapore</a></strong> </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-62370657287621498622011-07-20T16:01:00.001+04:002014-01-16T14:59:41.029+04:00Prejudice in the media<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xmlns="">It's
amazing how we live in a world where people all around the world of
different generations, classes, races and cultures can connect with each other at any time of the day anywhere in the world, but still
advertisers use (Enforce or create) heavily misconstrued stereotypes to
push advertising. It's insane. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xmlns="">It's
one thing to reflect what the society around you projects to eachother
and it's another to reinforce it. To be fair, I am very guilty of making
stereotypical based jokes , though I don't mean to cause offence,
doesn't make it ok. Advertisers and their clients have a bigger
responsibility to do the same, stop reinforcing negative / misconstrued
stereotypes in your advertising and maybe, just maybe, your consumers
will trust you more.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xmlns="">I had seen this post on Facebook:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xmlns=""><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">"</span></i><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Urgent!!Cast required for an upcoming tvc:<br />Main Cast breakdown – 11 (main camera time)<br />1. Emirati family (all dressed in traditional local custom)<br />• Father 34-38<br />• Mother 24-29<br />• Son 8-10<br />• Son 6-8<br />• Daughter 4-6<br />1. Egyptian family (all dressed in traditional local custom)<br />• Father 35-40<br />• Mother 30-35<br />• Son 8-10"</span></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xmlns="">I was really curious to see what they thought an Emirati, or an Egyptian family should "look" like.</span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xmlns="">First of all, apparently these two cultures have very traditional backgrounds. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xmlns="">What does a traditional Egyptian family wear- who decides that? There are tons of variations in clothing depending on which part of Egypt they're from and their education level…etc</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xmlns="">Also, they're assuming that Emiratis marry women TEN YEARS YOUNGER THAN THEM. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xmlns="">If you look at the age ranges of the "oldest" son and the "youngest" the mother could be… SHE'D BE 14 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE GAVE BIRTH TO HER FIRST CHILD. And obviously they HAVE to have two boys and one daughter, and have their first born be a son, for the family to be a successful one. BLEH</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span xmlns="">And Egyptian women and men apparently like to marry within 5 years of their age ranges.</span></span></span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-62892035186808034322011-06-07T12:28:00.001+04:002014-01-16T15:00:07.279+04:00My all time fav tweeple to follow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here are a few Tweeps I think everyone should follow, some are from the UAE some aren't .<br />
Most of these tweeple are either interesting, informative or fun... but it's just my opinion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Follow them to find out why :) No hard feelings?<br />
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Media Tweeps:</b></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.successwithstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/twitter_weaksignals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.successwithstrategy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/twitter_weaksignals.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Great for Social Media and Media in General.</i><b> </b></span></div>
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<li><a href="http://twitter.com/2cre8"><span style="font-size: small;">@2Cre8</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/smexaminer"><span style="font-size: small;">@smexaminer</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/spotonpr"><span style="font-size: small;">@spotonpr</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/askaaronlee"><span style="font-size: small;">@AskAaronLee</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/trendcrusher"><span style="font-size: small;">@TrendCrusher</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/mashable"><span style="font-size: small;">@Mashable</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://twitter.com/CampaignME">@CampaignMe</a><b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Chatty Tweeps:</b><i><br />
These are the most fun tweeps to chat to for a variety of reasons, you'll have to find out yourself.</i></span></div>
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<li><a href="http://twitter.com/theregos"><span style="font-size: small;">@Theregos</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/FaridaA"><span style="font-size: small;">@FaridaA</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/moodymohd"><span style="font-size: small;">@MoodyMohd</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://twitter.com/omardxb">@Omardxb</a><b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tweeps to watch:</b><i><br />
These are great to watch, they're always posting funny /ironic one liners and get you going through the day.</i></span></div>
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<li><a href="http://twitter.com/fearlessindubai"><span style="font-size: small;">@FearlessinDubai</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/MunaAlMuhairi"><span style="font-size: small;">@MunaAlMuhairi</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://twitter.com/PurpleNano">@PurpleNano</a><b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bloggers:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Must read blogs, for media, photography, keeping you up to date or just witty commentaries. </i></span></div>
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<li><a href="http://twitter.com/GeordieArmani"><span style="font-size: small;">@GeordieArmani</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/HishamWyne"><span style="font-size: small;">@HishamWyne</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/AlexanderMcNabb"><span style="font-size: small;">@AlexanderMcNabb</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/Mich1Mich"><span style="font-size: small;">@Mich1Mich</span></a></li>
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Personally, I suck at #FF , because I'm generally not checking up on Twitter on fridays!<br />
So I guess these are my all time #FF 's<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-46154504937010418252011-05-26T12:15:00.000+04:002014-01-16T14:47:49.563+04:00Nice online activation by Emirates NBD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My Favourite bank hhas changed their website!<br />
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They've got some lady running around telling us about their services!<br />
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HOW's THAT for mordernity (banking wise) in the Emirates! Yippie!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-81637614427894103232011-04-22T22:58:00.000+04:002011-04-22T22:58:10.323+04:00The effort shows!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IvereP3Toe8/TbHOwiew7hI/AAAAAAAAARs/DVgOqMaZCKM/s1600/Volvo+AD.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IvereP3Toe8/TbHOwiew7hI/AAAAAAAAARs/DVgOqMaZCKM/s640/Volvo+AD.JPEG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
Found this half page banner on Gulfnews.com<br />
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What I LOVE about this advert is that, although it has the usual pretty picture and slogan and "low" price, it also has copy that makes you feel like the advertiser actually tried to make an effort to target it to the UAE (or at least Dubai residents) by adding "Designed for Sheikh Zayed Road".<br />
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At least they made an effort with the copy. <br />
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Excellent.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-77557644763539994362011-04-08T16:12:00.002+04:002011-04-08T16:19:42.154+04:00Cobone gives discount on outdoor advertising<div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p3suXXq-WBo/TZ75x1mAYPI/AAAAAAAAARo/NCgl8Guei8c/s1600/Cobone-+Deal-+Pay+AED+49%252C500+instead+of+AED+99%252C000+for+Outdoor+Advertising_1302264111498.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p3suXXq-WBo/TZ75x1mAYPI/AAAAAAAAARo/NCgl8Guei8c/s640/Cobone-+Deal-+Pay+AED+49%252C500+instead+of+AED+99%252C000+for+Outdoor+Advertising_1302264111498.png" width="307" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Parapub International have teamed up with Cobone.com to give advertisers the chance to get two months worth of outdoor advertising for 49,500 AED instead of 99,000 AED...</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Cobone is just another great example of how residents on the UAE are becoming less and less hesitant to make purchases online. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Cobone heavily relies on Social Media and word of mouth to generate traffic to their site, with a bit of ad spend here and there .. and they're doing a very good job at it as well!</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span></div></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-73159654768892175692011-03-14T16:49:00.002+04:002011-04-08T16:14:33.656+04:00The word '' Creative'' has become a Cliche<blockquote><div class="header"><h2 class="me"><i>Cre·a·tiv·i·ty</i></h2><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="pronset"><noscript>&amp;amp;amp;lt;a &amp;amp;amp;lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;" class="goog-spellcheck-word"&amp;amp;amp;gt;href&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;="http://dictionary.reference.com/audio.html/&amp;amp;amp;lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;" class="goog-spellcheck-word"&amp;amp;amp;gt;lunaWAV&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;/C09/C0958300" target="_blank"&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;" class="goog-spellcheck-word"&amp;amp;amp;gt;img&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt; &amp;amp;amp;lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;" class="goog-spellcheck-word"&amp;amp;amp;gt;src&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;="http://&amp;amp;amp;lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;" class="goog-spellcheck-word"&amp;amp;amp;gt;sp&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;.dictionary.com/&amp;amp;amp;lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;" class="goog-spellcheck-word"&amp;amp;amp;gt;dictstatic&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;/g/d/speaker.&amp;amp;amp;lt;span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;" class="goog-spellcheck-word"&amp;amp;amp;gt;gif&amp;amp;amp;lt;/span&amp;amp;amp;gt;" border="0" alt="creativity pronunciation" /&amp;amp;amp;gt;</noscript><span class="show_spellpr" style="display: block; margin-top: 8px;"><span class="prondelim">[</span><span class="pron">kree-ey-<span class="boldface">tiv</span>-i-tee</span><span class="pron">,</span> <span class="pron">kree-<span class="ital-inline">uh</span>-</span><span class="prondelim">]</span> <span class="pron_toggle" style="display: inline;"></span></span></span></i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>-noun</i></span></div></blockquote><div class="body"><div class="pbk"><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="pg"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"></span> </span></span></i></span><br />
<div class="luna-Ent"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="dnindex"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">1</span>.</span></span><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">state</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">or</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">quality</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">of</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">being</span> </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/creative" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">creative</a><span id="hotword">. </span></i></span></div><div class="luna-Ent"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="dnindex"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">2.</span></span></span><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">ability</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">to</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">transcend</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">traditional</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">ideas,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">rules,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">patterns,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">relationships,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">or</span> </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/the">the</a><span id="hotword"> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">like,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">and</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">to</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">create</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">meaningful</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">new</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">ideas,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">forms,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">methods,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">interpretations,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">etc.;</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">originality,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">progressiveness,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">or</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">imagination:</span> </span><span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">need</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">for</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">creativity</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">in</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">modern</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">industry;</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">creativity</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">in</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">performing</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">arts.</span></i></span><br />
<div class="dndata"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="ital-inline"><span id="hotword"> </span></span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span id="hotword" name="hotword"></span><span id="hotword" name="hotword">3.</span><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">the</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">process</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">by</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">which</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">one</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">utilizes</span> </span><a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/creative" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">creative</a> <span id="hotword"> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">ability:</span> </span><span class="ital-inline"><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword">Extensive</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">reading</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">stimulated</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">his</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">creativity.</span></span></span></i></span><span class="ital-inline"><span id="hotword"> </span></span></div></blockquote><div class="luna-Ent"><blockquote><span class="dnindex"><span id="hotword"> </span></span></blockquote></div></div></div><br />
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The word "Creative" is such a <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20%20%20http://www.viviennegibson.com/creativecliches.html">cliche</a>...<br />
and so is the phrase "Think outside the box" . The phrase in itself it SO INSIDE the box that you would't be able to pull it back out if you had a super vacuum creating gun to suck it out.<br />
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I just over-heard some twerp talking about such and such an organization (let's call it Blah) being the leader in 'creative' thinking and needing to bring in more 'creative' people to keep up the image of the Blah mission of it being a 'creative' center.<br />
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Seriously? I felt like giving him a good thwack.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.harpers.org/media/image/art/cartoons/mrfish/Creativity_504x428.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="271" src="http://www.harpers.org/media/image/art/cartoons/mrfish/Creativity_504x428.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The problem with the media industry Arab world (besides Egypt of course) is that more media agencies "strive" to be "creative" and to be "leaders" in the media industry.<br />
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How much more boring, bland , and many more words beginning with "B" can we get? How much more campaigns are going to get butchered by bad cliches, terrible translations, and badly selected imagery.<br />
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The U.A.E has such a large percentage of <a href="http://www.oberjuerge.com/http:/www.oberjuerge.com/come-to-the-uae-and-never-die/">young people</a> that you would think that the agencies here would always have "new" and "fresh" "insights" and "ideas" to apply to their bloody campaigns.<br />
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DON'T blame it on the censorship laws here. It should inspire people to actually think up of something different for once.<br />
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I know how difficult it is the come up with a good idea, convince everyone that it's awesome, convince the clients that its awesome, the convince them to spend the bloody money.<br />
But why don't we have more appealing adverts? And why is the word "Creative" so over used?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-9380878413106400872011-02-02T14:17:00.004+04:002011-02-02T16:45:54.099+04:00Virtual Miscommunication and its effect on relationships<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Whether it's next door or across the globe, we have gotten used to being able to keep in touch with people.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.aoc.gov/images/pony.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="204" src="http://www.aoc.gov/images/pony.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Long gone are the days of pony express riders who would deliver the most urgent of messages within 'only' a few days, long gone are the days of snail mail , postcards and hand written love letters. Nowadays when a person says they prefer the 'traditional method' of keeping in touch they mean e-mails and instant messaging and phone calls.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Instant gratification.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">But no, we wanted better, faster and easier ways to connect with people. Hence all the new Blogging, microblogging and social media platforms we use these days. Wordpress, Blogspot, My space, Facebook, Twitter, What's app, BlackBerry Messenger.. just to name a few.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.coachcurran.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/top-social-networking-sites.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://blog.coachcurran.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/top-social-networking-sites.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Just before we get started, let have a quick look at some of our new/redefined terms:</span><br />
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<ul><li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Relationships:<br />
The interaction between two people through</span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span>a</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">connection,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">association,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword">or</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">involvement.<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Virtual Grudge:</span><span id="hotword"><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"><br />
A feeling of ill will or resentment as a result of harboured because of a real (or fancied) wrong, in the virtual world that is sometimes carried into the physical world.<br />
</span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"></span><span id="hotword" name="hotword"></span><span id="hotword" name="hotword"></span><span id="hotword" name="hotword" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;"></span> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Virtual Credit:</span><br />
To name or list one by one in order to determine a total number of times contact has been made and in turn deduce the number of times contact is owed.<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Virtual Tone: <br />
The understood manner of speaking by the recepient of the sender. <br />
(Example described later in this blog post)</span></li>
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">I was talking to a friend of mine over the phone the other day and he was arguing the point that virtual communication is one of the driving factors of most relationship problems.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">He spoke about the 'good old days' when msn messenger and AOL were the latest online chat room craze. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">He said that ' You would find yourself chatting to your friends on MSN and all of a sudden you'd be involved in a competiton of who has the cleverest comebacks and the people you would talk to everyday would suddenly try to be the ones with all the smart-alec jokes...'</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">An example he used was: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://www.123flashchat.com/img/crrc-04.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.123flashchat.com/img/crrc-04.gif" style="cursor: move;" width="316" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">"If you had a girlfriend who always had a picture of the two of you up and you guys broke up she'd change the picture to a dog (for example)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">You're then supposed to try to figure out if </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">she was comparing your relationship to her to a dog? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">or if she's trying to prove that she doesn't care about the fact that you two have broken up and has just put up a quick picture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">.... then if YOU change the display picture to one of a dog (or any other animal) and try to play at the same game all of a sudden YOU look sad and pathetic"</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He also spoke about the "Virtual Grudge" people would get if they felt offended as a result of a miscommunication in the virtual world. He also spoke about "Virtual Credit", where people would keep in mind the number of times each person has contacted them , or the number of times they had contacted another person.</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">His example of these two terms was of a person(F1) who contacts their friend (F2) via BBM.<br />
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F2 has just popped into bed and is about the fall asleep when he reads the BBM message and in F2s exaustion falls asleep. F1 see's that F2 has read the msg and hasn't replied. This drags on for a few days and F2 still hasn't replied (forgetting that the message exists.) F1 is still holding on to his "Virtual Grudge" and refuses to contact F2 directly, thinking that F2 <i>OWES</i> F1 a call/msg (Virtual Credit) and refuses to have an imbalance of this virtual credit.</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This can go on for hours, days, weeks, or even years depending on the personality of said friend. My friends argument is that had the communication been made face-to-face or over the phone (where facial expressions, body language or at least tone of voice can be interpreted) then the likelyhood of such a problem happening would be lessened.</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Which takes us to communication. (According to Wikipedia):</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><blockquote style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><blockquote>is a variety of verbal and non-verbal means of communicating exists such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_language" title="Body language">body language</a>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_contact" title="Eye contact">eye contact</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_language" title="Sign language">sign language</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralanguage" title="Paralanguage">paralanguage</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic_communication" title="Haptic communication">haptic communication</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronemics" title="Chronemics">chronemics</a>, and media such as pictures, graphics, sound, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing" title="Writing">writing</a>.</blockquote></blockquote><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_183/1189219136A8Neg1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_183/1189219136A8Neg1.jpg" width="320" /></a>When you communicate to people via microblogging tools, such as mobile SMS , BBM, What's App and Twitter, you are only left with being able to interpret the writing, and sometimes, images. (When emoticons are beng used or pictures)<br />
Therefore, there is no body language, eye contact or any other form of non-verbal and "heard" verbal (like tone of voice) communication, to add to the interpretation of the message.<br />
(unless your using webcams which for the most part aren't reliable or clear)</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My argument was that my friend's "Virtual Tone" sucked.<br />
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What I mean by virtual tone is hard to describe on e-paper! So I will try my best.<br />
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For example: On BBM You ask your friend to come out for lunch.<br />
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<blockquote>"Hey wanna go out for lunch?"<br />
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"No"<br />
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"Why not?"<br />
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"I don't feel like it!"<br />
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"Oh ok, I wasn't forcing you!"<br />
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"I know you weren't forcing me, I just don't want to!"<br />
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"So why are you yelling!?"<br />
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"Dude, I just don't feel like it ok!"<br />
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"Fine"</blockquote>Here, the virtual tone is misunderstood. Let's say that this is a typical scenario. The use of exclamation marks indicates (to me) either a person yelling or excitement. Obviously the person wouldn't be excited to say "I don't feel like it!" so my interpretation may be that the person is yelling and just doesn't want to see me =(. <br />
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Had the same conversation been over the phone (where tone of voice can also be used to receive a message):<br />
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<blockquote>"Hey wanna go out for lunch?" (Happy go lucky)<br />
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"No" (dead pan)<br />
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"Why not?" (Confused/ concerned)<br />
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"I don't feel like it!" (Forceful, defensive)<br />
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"Why babe, what's wrong?" (Concerned caring)</blockquote><blockquote><br />
"It;s just that....blah blah... so I'm really not in the mood" (Depressed/ down)<br />
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"Do you wanna talk about it?...over lunch maybe? " (Concerned/cheeky)<br />
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"Hahahaha I do, but not over lunch, do you mind coming over? I'll feed you" (Down but feeling uplifted)<br />
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"Sure, will be there soon!" (Excited, Friendly)</blockquote><br />
Can you see how the Fifth sentence has differed in both coversations? The Virtual Tone of the depressed friend (receiver) seemed Forceful, uncaring, defensive and unapproachable. It was difficult for the sender to interpret that solely through text.<br />
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On the other hand, when tone of voice was introduced (In the second conversation) the sender had more verbal communication to work with in order to understand the receiver better.</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<ul><li><a href="http://thistimethisspace.com/2009/08/13/avoiding-online-miscommunication/">Click Here</a> for some tips on avoiding virtual miscommunication from an online professor.</li>
<li>To learn how to avoid bad habits that lead to miscommunication<a href="http://www.guidedinsights.com/newsletter_detail.asp?PageID=8685"> Click Here </a></li>
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What do you think? Have all these means of communication helped us? or hindered us?</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-8603591017787217352011-01-18T12:04:00.002+04:002011-01-19T12:33:53.811+04:00This-is-Madness! Saudi ban on blogs!<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is absoloutely ridiculous!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://seerpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/saudi-blogs-forums-ban.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="http://seerpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/saudi-blogs-forums-ban.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>''Starting next month, a new law will be enforced by the Saudi Arabian government that will force all online bloggers and e-newspapers to register with the Ministry of Culture and Information.''</b></span></blockquote><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I get it... Saudi is very very very tough on censorship and they pretty much want to know everything that goes on in their country, and make sure that none of the citizens of Saudi says anything with a negative spin.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But what about their Netizens? </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Check this out, people who fall under a combanition/any of these catogories have to register for a 3 year LICENCE TO BLOG (or e-newletter =p )</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here are the categories:</span></div><ul style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">Must be Saudi</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Over 20 years old</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">High school degree holder</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Documents testifying to their “good behavior”</span></li>
</ul><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seriously? Thank God I live in the U.A.E </span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">PS: click<a href="http://www.aqoul.com/archives/2006/06/saudi_cybervigi_1.php"> here</a> for an interesting blogpost about the Saudi Blogosphere</span></div><ul style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></ul>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-64956964832043745882011-01-09T11:43:00.001+04:002011-01-09T11:44:35.331+04:00I'm in the #MENA daily<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So on Saturday morning I was browsing the net through my Blackberry, only to discover that I was mentioned in someone's tweet. Hopeing to God that it wasn't another one of those twitspams (Twitter spams ha-ha) that say something to the effect of " If your not making money out of Twitter click here" or " I can help you earn money through Twitter!", I clicked onto the button that would stop the incessant red light from blinking on my phone, accessed my Twitter through my BB App and saw the following: </div><br />
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<div class="tweet-row"><div class="tweet-text">The <a class=" twitter-hashtag" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23MENA" rel="nofollow" title="#MENA">#MENA</a> Daily is out! <a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://www.mylinksmyads.com/link/ag1teXR3ZWV0c215YWRzciMLEgRMaW5rIhkzMjQ5I2h0dHA6Ly9iaXQubHkvZDMzcmc0DA/" href="http://bit.ly/bPgniu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://www.mylinksmyads.com/link/ag1teXR3ZWV0c215YWRzciMLEgRMaW5rIhkzMjQ5I2h0dHA6Ly9iaXQubHkvZDMzcmc0DA/">http://bit.ly/bPgniu</a> ▸ Top stories today by @<a class=" twitter-atreply" data-screen-name="squashedruby" href="http://twitter.com/squashedruby" rel="nofollow">squashedruby</a> @<a class=" twitter-atreply" data-screen-name="womenmena" href="http://twitter.com/womenmena" rel="nofollow">womenmena</a></div></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
Obviously I was still skeptical, so I clicked on to the link to find out if this daily thing even existed. AND IT DID! Whoppeeeee. Now I have to make sure I keep tweeting relevant articles and maybe I'll be a regular! (I'm @squashedruby btw incase you didnt't know.... follow me!)</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TSlb0PvulsI/AAAAAAAAARc/vM0FFhB74Jo/s1600/thatsme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="130" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TSlb0PvulsI/AAAAAAAAARc/vM0FFhB74Jo/s320/thatsme.jpg" width="320" /></a>It's interesting to see a newsletter that is purely a coallation of Twitter updates tailored towards media and the MENA area. If you know of any more of these types of newsletters , or the programs they use to collect the data please let me know! Maybe I'll make my own one day!</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can check out The #MENA Daily here --> <a href="http://paper.li/tag/MENA">http://paper.li/tag/MENA</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Some twittiquette rules</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Twittiquette: The unwritten laws of the acceptable and polite use of Twitter.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Follow and be followed</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">.<br />
The entire point of Twitter is personal contact, so if someone follows you it is a good idea to reciprocate. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></div><div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">If a follower leaves you don’t tweet about it.</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> It's not the number of followers that matters here. You’ll also look incredibly annoying and are bound to lose more followers.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Don't tweet about every single blog post you've written.</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <br />
I’m guilty!!! :o</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Don’t promote yourself too much.</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
That goes back a bit to the previous point, people will get bored of constant self promotion and will not be able to think of you as a person. They may unfollow you!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thank someone that retweets your messages. </span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
It will make them remember you in a positive light and they may even RT more of your messages!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Show it when you RT it!</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
When you re-tweet, show it’s a re-tweet (by including "RT" in the text) and credit the original author in reply format (that is, add an @ before their Twitter handle).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Don’t be rude</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">. <br />
Unless it is part of your persona, people won’t appreciate it.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Don’t keep tweeting the same message.</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <br />
You'll bore your followers (unless its a prize!) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Keep track of replies and direct messages and respond promptly.</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
It will be appreiciated and the favour will be returned! I personally am terrible at this.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Don’t publicize everything!</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br />
Tweeple don’t need to know about your foot infection, how your goldfish cheated on you or what you had for breakfast this morning.</span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://twitter.com/squashedruby"><img border="0" height="148" src="http://static.technorati.com/10/08/23/16719/twitter-follow-achiever.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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Looking back at that post, I still think that the U.A.E at least is lacking in the radio advertisement department. Though I must admit, it is incredibly difficult to come up with a good jingle, or a memorable advertisement in the U.A.E without insulting anyone or using any sexual innuendos.<br />
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Well, in the past few weeks, I have been unconsciously listening to this one particular ad and came to the conclusion that it was funny. YES funny! very entertaining and very memorable. (If any of you know which agency created this advert please let me know so I can contact them to get a sound clip up on the blog)<br />
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It goes something like this :<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Dead pan 50's sounding male voice over</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">"We now bring you this announcement from Dr. Gustav schuhemburger"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Dr. Gustav (Heavy Albert Einstein type crazy doctor accent)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">"In my experiments on the human brains reaction to the Splash Part sale I have found an AMAZING discovery"</div><div style="text-align: center;">"When you expose the cerebellum of the brain to the <a href="http://damnoffers.blogspot.com/2010/09/splash-part-sale.html">Splash part sale</a> you get..."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Female voice</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
"OOoooHH"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Dr. Gustav</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">"You see! but wait there's more! When you expose it to the Hypothalamus you get..."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Female Voice</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Whooo ohhhhh!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://xirdal.lmu.de/xirdalium/xpix/madscientist.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="124" src="http://xirdal.lmu.de/xirdalium/xpix/madscientist.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Dr Gustav</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">"But the most AMAZING reaction is from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medulla_oblongata">Medulla Oblongata</a>..."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Female Voice(s) and Arabic drum beats</b></div><div style="text-align: center;">Arab female Za'3rata </div><div style="text-align: center;">(<span id="search" style="visibility: visible;"><a href="http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-3377-p-3.html" style="color: black;">A "<i>zaghrouta</i>" is the "lololo" moving tongue sound traditionally made by <i>Arab women</i></a><u> at celebrations)</u></span></div><br />
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ITS SOMETHING like that. It's the concept that is HILARIOUS. You must hear it. YOU MUST!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-64778978191125050892010-12-07T16:03:00.004+04:002010-12-12T16:12:20.830+04:00Blackberry Etiquette<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://invisibleman.com/blackberry_final-thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://invisibleman.com/blackberry_final-thumb.jpg" width="243" /></a></div>The professional world of the U.A.E , and especially Dubai, is a very fast paced one indeed. I mean come on, we have the tallest building in the world Burj Khalifa, the largest mall The Dubai Mall , the fastest roller coaster at Ferrari World. You name it, we've got it (even obesity).<br />
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Everyone's used to larger, bigger, faster, shinier and more technologically advanced communications tools. (Including the iPhone4 and the Blackberry). In all parts of the world people want to look good. Now "good" can be used very broadly and by "good" i mean Fancy, Shiny, New, Up-to-Date, Busy, Important, Rich... I think you get my drift. <br />
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Don't get me wrong I LOVE the UAE, and I am one of the many people that also cares about the way people perceive me. I am very aware of how people are judged (or think they are judged) by the types of phone that I/we own.<br />
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Technology, commerce, trade... all this things have been picked up so quickly by a country as young as the UAE, that places alot of importance on instant gratification, that people have missed out on something very vital... Etiquette.<br />
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Some rules of thumb for all us blackberry users:<br />
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<b>1. If you are in a meeting, put your phone away.</b><br />
Not on the desk in front of you, and not just on silent. AWAAAY! Turn OFF the vibration, better yet... turn off the phone! Out of site, out of mind. If you are expecting an important phone call and the call comes through during the meeting, excuse yourself and leave the meeting, and come back when your done. <br />
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<b>2.If you are in the office, or out socialising, turn off your notifications.</b><br />
I'm sure you find it extremely annoying when your phone is constantly beeping away, as do others. It is extremely distracting. Change the profile to vibrate and keep it in your pocket.<br />
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3. When typing a BBM, SMS or an Email...</b><br />
Avoid doing so within close proximity to strangers. They will feel uncomfortable for being tempted to snoop and you will feel hateful towards them for reading your emails. You could buy a screen protector. <br />
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<b>4. Avoid eyeing your blackberry when chatting to a friend.</b><br />
We are all guilty of this... how many times have I seen (or have been in ) a situation where people are glued to their communications devices when out with their friends... effectively outcasting themselves and their friends by NOT communicating to them.<br />
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<b> 5. Please please please please NO BROADCASTS.</b><br />
I know that some of the jokes we receive are incredibly hilarious and possibly even a relief. But it is really annoying when you receive the same broadcast ten times from ten different people.<br />
(Though I must admit broadcasts about new speed cameras are gladly received!)<br />
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Blackberries are great communications devices, and are excellent when you need to send an emergency email or if your out of the office heading to/from a meeting (not at a meeting!) they can be excellent help when looking for directions. However, you should try not to use it in excess. Especially when you stop physically communicating with people in favour of digital communication.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-68040485167589092982010-11-07T11:38:00.003+04:002010-11-07T15:31:36.743+04:00Dubai Metro AdvertisingIn my post, <a href="http://emirateads.blogspot.com/2010/09/hot-enough-to-fry-egg.html">" Hot enough to fry an egg? </a>" , I talked about the witty ambient advertising that Saatchi and Saatchi Dubai used to try to get people onto the metro. I've managed to find more images online thanks to <a href="http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/dubai_metro_wash_me">Ads of the World</a> ! enjoy!<br />
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Update: I'd like to thank @<a class=" twitter-atreply" href="http://twitter.com/msliedrecht" rel="nofollow">msliedrecht</a> for pointing out that Saatchi and Saatchi won the Dubai Lynx award for best small scale ambient advertising (for this campaign). <br />
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Click on the title of the blog for the link to the original. =)<br />
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<a href="http://adsoftheworld.com/">Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Dubai, UAE Executive Creative Director: Marc Lineveldt Creative Director: Danny Higgins Copywriter: Neil Harrison Advertiser’s Supervisor: Sara Mohammed Al Mudharreb Account Manager: Hema Patel Account Supervisor: Chandresh Rughani Art Director: Darren Jardine Photographer: Tara Atkinson</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-25247414380108600912010-11-02T21:53:00.001+04:002010-11-03T21:11:53.010+04:00Vintage cigarette ads<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TNBJyPWeKSI/AAAAAAAAANQ/-G_4-RCIbCE/s1600/smoke4_tcm35-1478753.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TNBJyPWeKSI/AAAAAAAAANQ/-G_4-RCIbCE/s200/smoke4_tcm35-1478753.jpg" width="166" /></a> SBT Co. Ltd has come up with a fantastic invention called the E-Cigarette.</div>It's an electronic cigarette that actually tricks the brain into thinking you are smoking ... <br />
The "end"of the cigarette is filled with nicotine, dosages of which you can increase or decrease, it even gives you a heating option, that increases the temperature of the end of the cigarette. <br />
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It was only a few decades ago (1920's onwards I believe) that advertisers were influencing women to smoke more. Telling them that it's cool, sexy and independent women that smoke (insert desired brand). (and telling men that they'll be manlier and more appealing to women if they smoke). They use lack of coughing, slimming down, celebrity endorsements, and flavors as incentives to attract potential and current smokers.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There are also ALOT of inappropriate sexual innuendos (entertaining too) ... just pointing them out! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Click<a href="http://emirateads.blogspot.com/2010/04/httpwww.html"><span style="font-size: large;"> here</span></a> to see my previous online shopping articles <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>I had been planning on buy the Canon 550D DSLR camera for ages now, and have finally saved up enough to buy it. So I went round to all the stores and played around with the camera, (and checked out cheaper options), looked around for the best deals, including second hand cameras on <a href="http://www.dubizzle.com/">www.dubizzle.com</a> , and finally made up my mind to buy it - but not where to buy it from...<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TNAINXXhmwI/AAAAAAAAANM/maTqBIkrQS8/s1600/souq.com+offer.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="253" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TNAINXXhmwI/AAAAAAAAANM/maTqBIkrQS8/s320/souq.com+offer.png" width="320" /></a>Therefore, I freaked out yet again and started asking around and my colleague tells me that <a href="http://www.souq.com/">www.souq.com</a> now has a "Deal of the Day" section.<br />
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So I logged on to Souq.com and Lo-and-behold! Souq is selling the exact camera I want with a carry case and 8GB memory (including the default 18mm lens) for 2,999 thats 8,50 Dhs cheaper than I was going to get for it anywhere else.<br />
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So seeing that there were only FOUR more of those left, Yasmin did the unthinkable... she took a chance. She made a hasty decision without asking for anyone's thoughts on the matter.<br />
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*Cue scary music*<br />
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.... She clicked onto BUY NOW<br />
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I don't own a credit card so I can't buy item online... BUT they had the option to pay CASH-ON-DELIVERY which is like the coolest more awesomest thing for a person freaked out by online shopping!<br />
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It was relatively simple, all I had to do was to put in my PO BOX address and phone number.... click on confirm... and that was it! I went back to the main page and it said there were only THREE cameras left (im guessing I got the fourth) ...I then breathed a sigh of relief when I got a confirmation mail from the website with my order on it.<br />
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So, we'll find out in 3-7days!<br />
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I Got IT! -----------------------------> it took 5days tuesday -->sun<br />
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Will have LOADS of fun with this!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-77935785599808899142010-10-24T13:02:00.003+04:002010-11-03T21:16:52.880+04:00iPhone 4 VS Blackberry. The result.<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After all my talk about wanting to be an <a href="http://emirateads.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-want-to-be-apple-fan-girl.html">Apple fan girl</a> , I went out and bought a Blackberry.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://iphonehelp.in/content/uploads/2010/06/iphone-bold-9700-e1277287639630.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="193" src="http://iphonehelp.in/content/uploads/2010/06/iphone-bold-9700-e1277287639630.jpg" width="320" /></a> </span></div><div style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mission: </b>Buy the iPhone 4 </span></div><div style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Technique</b>: Cash in Hand</span></div><div style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Special instructions:</b> Keep old prepaid number, or cheapest postpaid contract.</span></div><div style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Result</b>: Mission Failed</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Don't get me wrong! I desperately wanted the iPhone 4, it was going to be one of those purchases that was going to change my life forever and make everything seem perfectly fine, like a new pair of shoes.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I had been tormenting myself for months thinking about which phone would be the best purchasing decision to make.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To me:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #351c75; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Apple = Creative ,Cool, geeky (which we now know means cool to me) , tech savvy, original, reliable, MONEY.</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Blackberry = Professional, dull, smart (British meaning) , connectivity, BBM, Dull, dull ,dull, reliable, does the job.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What happened was this, I went in there with one goal in hand, to buy the iPhone 4.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I went to the Du stand first, all happy and perky with 3000AED that I had saved tucked carefully away in my hand bag. (I had a friend working there and was hoping she could give me a really good deal) turns out I needed my passport photocopy AND a salary certificate to prove that I earn more than AED 3000 a month. Obviously I don't go running around with spare copies of my passport lying around, let alone salary certificates, so, disappointed, i trudged along to the next stand.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then I went to Jackey's (They had a deal with Etisalat so I could save around 300AED) , at Jackey's I needed my Passport photocopy PPC (again) AND i needed to pay by credit card (which I dont have and don't plan on having), I could've cried I was so excited to get it and start playing around with it.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eventually, feeling really downtrodden, I glanced at the Blackberries. The sales lady instantly pounced and told me that the bold 9700 only cost 1599 AED. Grudgingly, I asked what documents I needed to buy it, the lady said that If I had my PPC then i could get a another phone with it as a freebie. I said no, I JUST want the phone. No contract, I want my prepaid number and I want etisalat to credit my account with 185 AED a month.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sure! The lady says... well I can be really indecisive and I wasn't going to go back to GITEX and I couldn't make a purchasing decision like that on the spot, especially after all my months of decision making.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So I went home.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And I thought, you know what, I need a smartphone now and it's so much easier to buy a Blackberry. (I am An Advertising Sales Executive and I am constantly on the road and often need to check my emails or a location map).</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I headed down to Virgin Megastores, and buying it was so easy, I could afford to buy a car charger and a bb case, as well as go get my hair done. At the end of the day, because the buying process was so easy, I bought the Blackberry.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'll be buying the iPhone 4 once they sell it without an obligatory contact !!! (and no I dont want to buy an unlocked phone)</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-7132479901392976422010-10-14T12:18:00.003+04:002010-11-03T21:16:23.445+04:00GITEX Microsites<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://tbreak.com/tech/files/gitex_2010_logo_bk_with_dates_and_website2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="80" src="http://tbreak.com/tech/files/gitex_2010_logo_bk_with_dates_and_website2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>So GITEX 2010 is coming up! And companies are going wild creating microsites to keep us all up to date!<br />
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Here are a few:<br />
<ol><li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/Gitex%202010%20is%20this%20Saturday%21%20For%20live%20updates%20check%20out%20http://tbreak.com/tech/gitex/">Tbreak Special </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.netvibes.com/gitex#Live_updates">Spot On Pr's Gitex Live</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.netvibes.com/gitex#Live_updates">AME Info Gitex</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gitex-Technology-Week-2010/102378603156758?v=wall">Gitex on Facebook</a></li>
</ol>Enjoy! See you all there!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-41234552075391192482010-10-11T11:51:00.001+04:002010-10-11T11:59:50.625+04:00Is the media evil?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TLLB4jmpLsI/AAAAAAAAANI/t2peiGcH0Xk/s1600/dr.evil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="279" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TLLB4jmpLsI/AAAAAAAAANI/t2peiGcH0Xk/s320/dr.evil.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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I was listening to some music (or whatever you want to call it, I like it so It's music to me) VIA YouTube.<br />
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I had been listening to a song by System of a Down (or SOAD) called Hypnotize (above). Now I LOVE SOAD because they always seem to have some sort of message in their music. The song in question, Hypnotize, is partly about the way people are controlled by the media. (There's a lot of Communism, mass suicide stuff going on too but lets ignore that for now - You can click on the title of the post for a link to the interpretation of the song)<br />
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The point is, it got me thinking that the concept of the Media is that it is akin to a controlling unseen being, Like George Orwell's Big brother character in "1984". (Now you know where the Big Brother reality TV show got their title from.)<br />
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There have always been debates on whether "Media" (Yes, it deserves a capital 'M' it is now an unseen entity) should be controlled or not (and many other arguments) and we all know that the U.A.E has a Semi-free media... with a couple of restrictions, like no nudity, or sexual acts, ....stuff like that. (I feel like I'm walking on eggshells in this post)<br />
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At university, i was thought two different things:<br />
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1. In your adverts, assume everyone is an idiot and simplify everything. <br />
2. In your adverts, don't insult your audience by treating everyone like an idiot.<br />
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Obviously it gets a lot more complicated than that depending on what vehicle media you actually use (Print, broadcast, Internet....etc), and how much time you have (EX: More time in magazines , less on billboards) , and who your actually trying to talk to (EX: General consumers, or tech freaks) and several other factors. The message, the clients, the audience, the expected results, blah blah, blah.<br />
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As a result, I have tried to become "immune" to advertising ... however I've failed. I want Apple's , I want to wear the latest fashion, I want to have the coolest car, the latest phone, the latest diddybeats headphones, I want to been seen with the right colour of nail polish .......you get the drift.<br />
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So, as student of advertising I still get affected by all those messages bombarded at me. (Though I do try to resist). But sometimes I buy things because I appreciate the time and effort put into the whole campaign.<br />
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My question to all of you is this. Do you recognise when the Media is sending a message to you? Do you ever feel insulted by bad advertising? Do you feel like you have an uncontrollable urge to buy everything that is being advertised at the moment? (I'm not asking if you a shopaholic just asking how easily you feel you are affected by all the messages)<br />
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In short: Do you feel controlled by the Media? and who's doing the controlling? is the Media evil? <br />
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http://http://www.slideshare.net/babrain/social-media-for-beginners-presentationAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-77808670288532518072010-10-06T16:56:00.001+04:002010-11-03T21:15:41.259+04:00Twitter fun facts!Here are some twitter facts thanks to marketingelf.com , or http://marketingelf.com/events/effective-social-media-techniques/<br />
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<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Focus on retweets</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Don’t practice tweet poaching</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>70% of retweets contain a link</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TKxxyRoJl3I/AAAAAAAAANE/szbeElJbT_Y/s320/twwl.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="243" /></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TKxxyRoJl3I/AAAAAAAAANE/szbeElJbT_Y/s1600/twwl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>retweets with a hashtag are more likely to be retweeted</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Retweet the classics – classic stories that hold up</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Their highest tweet day is Wednesday</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Retweet days are Monday & Wednesday</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>highest # of retweets are from 2:15pm to 3:30pm EST</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>#1 Twitter city is London</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>ABO – always be optimizing</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>troll friends of competitors – if they are following them then they may be interested in your content too</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>scout hashtag & trends</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>contest & giveaways are heavily retweeted</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>put tweet it buttons everywhere</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Retweet buddies & ask them to do the same</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">16.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>RT’ers track them & thank them</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">17.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Keep score and remember to retweet friends</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">18.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>one offs “payback” retweets at odd hours</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">19.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Dell did $6.5 million on Twitter last year, so it is viable for sales</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">20.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>do some automated tweets, but click throughs are less</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">21.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>quick tricks = traffic</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">22.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>a little extra effort = quality traffic</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">23.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Drive engagement: <br />
bland- what did you think of Avatar?<br />
Better – was Avatar overhyped?</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">Interesting stuff! I know it's difficult to remember all of this , and there's may more! You can check out the original blog posting by clicking on the title of the post , or the link at the top of this post.</div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-78947376567407259962010-10-04T16:04:00.000+04:002010-10-04T16:04:41.559+04:00I want to be an Apple Fan Girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TKnCJSuTbxI/AAAAAAAAANA/exY2cf-9N-0/s1600/apple-logo1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TKnCJSuTbxI/AAAAAAAAANA/exY2cf-9N-0/s320/apple-logo1.jpg" width="264" /></a></div>I work at one of the coolest companies ever. A media company that focuses on tech and gaming, as well as movies. So I get to tinker with/play on/watch stuff before (or as soon as) it's publicly released. Which is totally AWESOME.<br />
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One of the coolest things about this place is that all my co-workers are what I called "The new cool", or computer and gaming enthusiasts. Yes , I know. Geeks and now the new cool. That's just how the world works now, and I want to be one of them.<br />
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Without them, we'd literally be living in the dark, washing with cold water...outdoors, living in the cold (or heat as is the case here), still writing letters and riding horses (which isn't too bad) , waiting days to hear from someone.. you get my drift.<br />
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Anyways, we were running around Dubai going to several meetings, and when we were done I automatically assumed we were going back to the office, when my boss starts driving us to Sahara Mall, Sharjah. Why? Because he heard that they were still selling the iPhone4 there. Alas, the iPhone4 was no more and all sold out and he would have to wait till stocks were replenished.<br />
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We had lunch, and he went off to hunt for the iPhone4... i think he went to all the malls in Dubai. Poor guy... it was sold out everywhere. (Two guys at work already have the iPhone4)<br />
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Now, looking at my pathetic un-smartphone, with its VGA camera and lack of multitasking abilities, I hate Steve Jobs for creating these awesome pieces of technology that have created a sort of class-tech distinction... Apple users VS OTHERs. There's a whole following, a cult if you will, of Apple owners, running around flaunting their gadgets.<br />
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Now, I want not ONLY the Macbook pro, but the iPad AND the iPhone4. I want EVERYTHING to do with apple.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>There's a thin line between love and hate.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-663838653429952010-09-30T16:20:00.002+04:002010-09-30T16:23:39.692+04:00Market your skills through hacking! (Don't try this at home)Hello readers! <br />
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So I just read a link through twitter today (thanks to @socialmediamind about this 17 year old who hacked twitter using what he called the "mattster worm"<br />
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<a href="http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/twitter-silenced-auckland-student-3812686?ref=rss"> "He was the brains behind the computer code that caused chaos on Twitter last Tuesday night, devising a script to Tweet that replicated to every follower on the receiver's account."</a><br />
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This script was incredibly annoying, even I got it, and i was wondering what was up with twitter. It went something like this:<br />
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</div><div style="color: #444444;">sigsdohnsdjbnsd;obnabngo;dg sonnfoggna0ry49[0c04y50htrhm5yvjwvdgb 3b045jbtnf...</div><div style="color: #444444;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #444444;">or at least that's what it looked like to me. </div><br />
And now we all know about him, Oh what a jerk...oh what a young genius... do you see where I'm going with this?<br />
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Other recent hacking incidents are when:<br />
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<ul><li><a class="tickerized" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/twitter/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Twitter.">Twitter</a> was overrun with posts one morning that used a programming flaw to play pranks, distribute porn and spread worms to unsuspecting users. </li>
<li><a href="http://mashable.com/2010/03/06/twitter-accounts-hacked/">Twitter was overrun with weight-loss product spam</a> @mashable</li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1040749906">BP has admitted that its official Twitter account was compromised temporarily yesterday by hackers who posted a joke about its attempts to stem the </a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1040749906" rel="nofollow" title="Link to BBC News article">devastating oil leak</a><a href="http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/05/28/bps-twitter-account-hacked-pranksters/"> that has polluted the Gulf of Mexico.</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1276739/Twitter-hacked-Glitch-leaves-celebrities-zero-followers.html#ixzz110x0DTZJ">A Twitter security glitch left celebrities and members of the public mourning the temporary loss of their legions of online fans yesterday. </a></li>
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So why don't people think about using their hacking skills to market themselves (Im sure someone must have done it by now,,, and im sure other haven't because it's illegal)... but there must be other ways! like installing a widget on peoples desktops that has a count down to a product launch (that they can remove) or something like that..<br />
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WHAT? it's just a thought!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-13222591424735367702010-09-27T10:28:00.001+04:002010-09-27T10:29:17.629+04:00Social Media Facts and Stats<object height="286" width="450"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gQ0wFqNfu7A?fs=1&hl=en_GB&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gQ0wFqNfu7A?fs=1&hl=en_GB&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="450" height="286"></embed></object>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095101401835366293.post-89385418014743968902010-09-22T12:29:00.001+04:002010-11-03T21:14:56.961+04:003D Viewing: not special anymore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TJm-LmFKF4I/AAAAAAAAAM0/2fLK-YMchu0/s1600/2425867143_3b52ccf839.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IJvSx1tp2jE/TJm-LmFKF4I/AAAAAAAAAM0/2fLK-YMchu0/s320/2425867143_3b52ccf839.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Why is 3D viewing becoming so popularly infamous? <br />
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Everyone around me has been complaining that almost all the movies now are coming out in 3D, everywhere we go we're bombarded by 3D Ready TVs or 3D TVs and get 3D glasses shoved in our faces to enjoy this vomit inducing form of entertainment.<br />
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Yes, people actually get 3D Sickness (Motion Sickness) watching these things. 5% of the US population to be exact. Not to mention that all visually impaired eye-glass wearing humans are forced to put the 3D glasses on TOP on their own eye-glasses. (I must admit they're trying to fix the Motion sickness with some special 3D glasses)<br />
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Even Nintendo is coming up with a new portable video gaming console that allows you to play everything in 3D (though i don't think you have to wear glass).<br />
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Personally, I remember being terribly excited on the way to a 3D movie and having gloated to my friends about how cool i was. (i was probably 13 then so leave me alone haha). <br />
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I want 3D to be special again! <br />
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What do you guys think? Am i being a bit purist? or does everyone just LOVE 3D?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12699121163902060020noreply@blogger.com4