Latest in Tag: social media Highlight
Latest in Tag: social media
Obama takes to Reddit
Social Media; how to win a Presidency
Facebook at half-price: which way now?
Washington (AFP) — If you bought Facebook shares in the May IPO and held onto them, by Monday morning you would have lost more than half your investment, and not see any encouraging signs of making your money back. Three months after the largest tech share issue ever on US markets, Facebook fell to a …
New languages democratizing social media in the Middle East
By Nada Akl BEIRUT: On March 6 micro-blogging service Twitter announced the launch of its Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu versions. It all started with the grassroots #LetsTweetInArabic campaign by a handful of users who wanted Twitter to be available in more languages. While many communities are still disadvantaged when it comes to digital resources, translation …
Social media show limits as Egypt elections loom
By Yasmine Saleh / Reuters CAIRO: Egyptians who turned to Facebook and Twitter to galvanize their revolt against Hosni Mubarak are starting to wonder whether faith in social media as the key to Egypt’s democratic future might be a little overdone. As candidates jostle in the run-up to elections to replace military rule with a civilian …
Arab, German bloggers explore role of social media
CAIRO: Arab and German bloggers gathered in Cairo for the Young Media Summit (YMS) last week to explore the role of social media in the Arab uprisings. The summit is the second in a row to promote dialogue between Arabs and Germans through blogging. "YMS kicked off in Cairo in 2010 but it came back …