Walking through Downtown Beirut on a Sunday afternoon, seeing all the people walking and sitting in the cafes all dressed up, looking at and being looked at by passers by, a CS 251 student can’t help but remember what he had learned about Impressionism and the bourgeois lifestyle of Paris during the late 1800s. Downtown Beirut...
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Remember the social network Hi5?! It was one of the most popular social networks before Facebook. And the term “social network” wasn’t even commonly used at the time. Then Facebook was born and Hi5 died. Some of you may argue that Myspace was the most popular social network before Facebook.. but the truth is Myspace was mainly...
A few years back, MSN Messenger (later called Windows Live Messenger) was the most popular instant messaging agent. Then it died. What caused the death of MSN? 1 reason: stop updating the damn program! The main issue with MSN Messenger is that MSN always kept making new versions of the messenger.. and made old versions obsolete and...
Before Facebook, there was Myspace… then it died. But how could such a giant like Myspace die? What caused the death of Myspace? Let’s take a closer look at Myspace vs Facebook. The difference between Facebook and Myspace is that Facebook had a simple uniform well organized layout for all user profiles.. where as the customizable...
This is a brief iPad case study that shows how the iPad first became successful. It’s all in the marketing. When the iPad first came out, I remember it got some negative reviews. People were calling it “the most useless product of the year”, and were asking “what the hell is it used for?”. Back then, I personally...
Racial Stereotypes in GTA San Andreas Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (a.k.a. GTA SA) is a 3D action/adventure video game by Rockstar Games. The game was released in 2004, and quickly became one of the most popular and best selling video games ever. The game’s storyline is that the player, Carl Johnson (a.k.a. CJ), an African American young...
The Use of Technology to Prevent Corruption in Lebanon (Note: this article is taken from: ) Intro How many times have you orderly waited in a queue to see someone surpass the line and take someone else’s turn? How many times have you heard that someone was offered a bribe and accepted it? How many times have you noticed that government...
Lebanese Night Traffic DSL Ads Comparison: Terranet, Cyberia, IDM Recently, we have noticed several different new ads for the new ADSL services in Lebanon, and each ad takes a different advertising approach. The first of the DSL ads we’re featuring is for the Terranet company, which has recently launched a new service of ADSL high speed...
Elements of the Humanistic Paradigm Summary After the 2nd world war, a phase of reconstruction and cleansing started inFrance. Some French magazines wanted to focus on human aspects rather than post war analysis. Photographers were asked to take pictures documenting humanistic daily life scenes of typical French people, of the “classe...
Visual Journalism: Reading the Redesigns Visual journalism, or the “ability to project a news story through image and design”, is becoming a very important compliment to the written part in journalism. Just like certain words are critically chosen when writing an article, visual elements like images, fonts, and layout should also be...