Tag Archives: Internet
Moodhish: The First Arabic Pinboard Image Sharing Community
Established in October 2012, Moodhish.com, the first Arabic pinboard image-sharing community. Inspired by the success of Pinterest, the largest pinboard community online, the team behind Moodhish identified the potential for an image curation site that targets the Arab-speaking world. Identifying that there is a lack of Arabic image curation sites, even though statistics show that [...]
DIA-style.com: Shop Play Talk
DIA-style.com is a new luxury online fashion e-commerce site and search engine aimed for women in the Middle East and Arab World. Created by the founders of DIA Boutique, a shopping site featuring unique international eclectic brands, DIA-style enables users to shop women’s ready-to-wear and accessories collections from a huge range of global luxury brands [...]
AmigoShop Kuwait: A Virtual Retail Directory
Window shopping has a whole new meaning with the help of AmigoShop, a concept that came to Kuwait straight from Barcelona, Spain. It is a virtual directory for retailers and lists all sorts of stores from restaurants to clothing boutiques. What differentiates them from regular online directories is their Voovio virtual walkthrough of shops technology. [...]
Interview: Carolina Castiglioni, Marni’s Head of Internet Strategy and Daughter of Marni Founder
Founded in 1994 by Consuelo Castiglioni, Italian fashion house Marni started out as a fur fashion label. However, given Consuelo’s eye for modern design and unique fashion sense, it was only a matter of time that Castiglioni would veer off the fur track and tackle a different line of fashion. As grand and global as [...]
Goodreads – Your Virtual Bookshelf and Library
Ever wanted to comprehensively sort out your book shelf? Segregate the read from the not-read perhaps? Always wanted to compile a list of titles to keep an eye out for, but never really found the time? The salve for literary-minded folk comes in the form of online site Goodreads.com. A social networking site for book [...]
WiMD: Wireless Broadband Boasting Incredible Speeds
Ever wanted to download and not worry about other people over-using the router? Do you want high-speed Internet that does NOT need a landline? We’ve always been struggling with our Internet connection here at the Khaleejesque office but have recently been introduced to WiMD and can’t stop raving about the incredible speeds we’ve been experiencing. [...]
Online Shopping: Still Anxious About It?
I first started shopping online last year. I was at a store looking for a pair of shoes that I really wanted but could never find due to such common reasons like, They’re sold out or ‚We are sorry but we don’t sell them here and so on and so on. So I decided I [...]