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Video for Beirut Terraces Webby Award Nomination
Checkout our video for the Beirut Terraces Webby Award nomination!
With only two more days left for voting, it’s more important than ever to make your voice count for the People’s Voice Webby award.
So watch, Share, and get Lebanon on the Webby map by voting for Beirut Terraces to win People’s Voice award for the Real Estate website Category!
Cleartag Receives Nomination, Honorable Mention at 15th Annual Webby Awards
Two of Cleartag’s websites received recognition at the 15th Annual Webby Awards. Beirut Terraces was nominated for ‘Best Real Estate Website,’ and Drive For Change received an honorable mention in the ‘Green’ category. Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.
Webby Awards..the Oscars of the Internet
The Webby Trophy
Beirut Terraces
Beirut Terraces is a residential development by Herzog and de Meuron in the heart of Beirut’s famed Mina el Hosn District. Far from the ubiquity of standard residences, Beirut Terraces delivers a bold vision: 130 living spaces, each as unique as their owner. To reflect this, Cleartag developed an intuitive, interactive website that highlights the features of this dynamic ‘Vertical Village’.
Beirut Terraces nominated at Webby Awards
“Nominees like Beirut Terraces are setting the standard for innovation and creativity on the Internet,” said David-Michel Davies, executive director of the Webby Awards. “It is an incredible achievement to be selected among the best from the nearly 10,000 entries we received this year.”
Beirut Terraces website..
As a nominee, Beirut Terraces is also eligible to win a Webby People’s Voice Award, which is voted online by the global Web community. From now until April 29th, Cleartag and Beirut Terraces fans can cast their votes in The Webby People’s Voice Awards by visiting webby.aol.com. (Hint: The voting complex is slightly complicated. Once you sign-in, search for “Cleartag” and Beirut Terraces will come up..and then, VOTE!)
Drive for Change
The Drive for Change campaign is a CSR initiative on behalf of Rymco, one of the largest automotive distributors in Lebanon. Rymco is sponsoring a traffic and air pollution project proposed by ‘The Atmospheric and Analytical Laboratory’ at the American University of Beirut (AUB). In order to do this, Rymco and AUB have designed a first-of-its kind moving laboratory: a Nissan URVAN equipped with top-of-the-line real-time pollution measuring equipment. Cleartag developed an interactive campaign to follow the van around Lebanon. Data collected from the van live streams into the microsite, while users are encouraged to generate their own content by submitting their thoughts and photos (via Facebook and Twitter) about the pollution they see.
Rymco, Drive for Change
Winners will be announced on May 3rd, 2011 and honored at a star-studded ceremony in New York City on June 13th, where they will have an opportunity to deliver one of the Webby’s famous five-word speeches. Past Webby Award winners – and their speeches – include Al Gore (“Please don’t recount this vote.”), Stephen Colbert (“Me. Me. Me. Me. Me.”), and Michel Gondry (“Keyboards are full of germs.”) For a full list of last year’s five-word speeches, please visit: http://www.webbyawards.com/press/speeches.php.
The Webby Awards is presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 650-person judging academy whose members include Internet co-inventor Vinton Cerf, R/GA’s Chief Bob Greenberg, “Simpson’s” creator Matt Groening, Arianna Huffington, and Harvey Weinstein.
About The Webby Awards:
Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites. Established in 1996, the 13th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide. The Webby Awards is presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Sponsors and Partners of The Webby Awards include: Microsoft Expression; Aol; YouTube; Pepsi; Aquent; Yahoo!; Corbis Images; Tribal DDB Worldwide; East Media; IDG; PricewaterhouseCoopers; 2advanced.Net; KobeMail; Museum of the Moving Image; Behance; Business Insider; Time Out New York; paidContent and The Guardian.
Cleartag Launches Operations In Syria
Cleartag, a digital consultancy headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon, has officially launched operations in the Syrian market.
Cleartag has joined forces with Tabbaa Advertising and Printing Services (TAPS), a leading company in Syria with more than four decades of experience in the market, to cater to Syria’s large, fast paced emerging market.
“With the fastest growing internet usage market in the Middle East, we are enthusiastic and eager to cater to the Syrian market.” said a member of Cleartag management. “With our current presence in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and now Syria, we aim to lead digital innovation in this region.”
Cleartag: A Leading Indicator Of Lebanon’s Next Economy
AllWorld has announced that Cleartag is the 7th fastest growing company in Lebanon. Out of 50 companies competing for a spot on the Lebanon 25, Cleartag proved its might based on strenuous international standards ranging from business strategy and operations, along with analysis of detailed audited statements to verify revenues and growth. The results were announced at a reception hosted by the US Ambassador to Lebanon.
Cleartag will now compete alongside other regional leaders at the Arabia 500 to be held in the Spring of 2011.
“We are proud of this wonderful achievement, especially as a relatively young company, founded in 2001.” said a member of Cleartag management. “We would like to thank AllWorld for their efforts and interest in entrepreneurial growth in Lebanon and around the world.”
AllWorld’s mission is to find and advance all the growth entrepreneurs of the emerging world by 2015.
Google with Caffeine
Google Caffeine is an update to Google’s infrastructure and architecture.
Google announced on Tuesday, the completion of their new indexing system called Caffeine, which provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than the last index.
They opened up a preview of the Caffeine update in August of 2009, where people could test it and compare the results to their index.
Google with Caffeine
The Google Caffeine Update was needed for three main reasons:
- The amount of content and number of web documents is growing phenomenally in all languages.
- The web pages are getting richer and more complex with videos, images, applications and rich data formats.
- The “need for speed” with real time updates, fresh content and live news.
Plus the popularity rise of vertical searches and non-textual content.
The image below illustrates how Google’s old indexing system worked compared to Caffeine:
Google Caffeine Comparison
“Our old index had several layers, some of which were refreshed at a faster rate than others; the main layer would update every couple of weeks. To refresh a layer of the old index, we would analyze the entire web, which meant there was a significant delay between when we found a page and made it available to you.
With Caffeine, we analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally. As we find new pages, or new information on existing pages, we can add these straight to the index. That means you can find fresher information than ever before — no matter when or where it was published.”
Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day.
So basically, Google’s Caffeine will crawl and index your newly published pages faster than before.
If you would like to know how Google Caffeine might affect your website, contact us to discuss our SEO services.