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Talita Calitz

Talita was born and raised in Pretoria. She completed her BA Journalism degree at the University of Pretoria. Her main subjects were Journalism, Visual Studies and Communication. She is planning to further my studies in Marketing and Visual Culture. She has travelled to and lived in Tokyo, Mainland China, Hong Kong and London. She has a passion for photography, the Arts, writing and travelling, but share an equal interest in tech innovations and understand its importance in media today. She enjoys keeping herself up to date and sharing with others the ever-changing trends and fads circling our globe.

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• The future of shopping is mobile

  People are swapping shopping malls for online and virtual stores at a faster rate than ever before. Combine this shift with our increasingly compulsive and indecisive nature, and you can see why online retailers are frantically coming up with new ways to entice people, so they can linger on their sites longer.One way they are doing so this is by focusing on our closest companions: our mobile phones. This echoes one of my favourite lines from Irish comedian Dylan ...

• Screw advertising, start a niche online publication

  Why spend thousands to advertise in a top-notch magazine while you can start a whole new publication online for the same amount?That is exactly the current mind-set of more and more companies, which have discovered that targeting your audience with a niche approach pays off better than advertising. Why? Well, who wouldn’t like a brand that thinks creatively outside the box?Printing their own publicationsThe fashion industry seems to be leading the pack with this increasingly popular trend. Marketing director of ...

• 5 Ways real estate agents can use social media to sell houses

  Real estate agents aren't exactly renowned for their tech-savvy, and being listed among the 10 most hated professions, next to bouncers and motorcycle couriers, is a bit embarrassing.Looking for ways to turn this perception around, estate agents, like so many professions before them, are turning to social media. Memeburn decided to take a look at a few ways they can use the medium to sell houses.1. Taking offline skills online In the world of estate agents open houses, listings and viewings ...

• Want to know how your intern feels? Check out these social media accounts

  Meet the intern. They are the youngsters braving the grown-up world of office life to gain experience after graduating with fresh dreams and hopes of one day having a good career. Before any of that can happen an intern’s main purpose is to be the office sucker for up to three months, often longer. It can be frustrating. But at least there’s one place they can vent (fairly) safely: social media.A few of these venters even have Twitter accounts and ...

• 11 Webcomics worth bookmarking

  Just as books, magazines and newspapers have ditched a paper-only form, so comic books have taken up space on the web since the 1980s. The great thing about webcomics is that anyone can publish their own, using a variety of different styles and genres that range from avant-garde to comic strips. In 2007 about 38 000 webcomics were published online, but only about three percent of webcomic creators are financially successful.The first webcomic ever published was Eric Millikin's Witches and ...

• How sugar daddy sites are making a killing online

  These days it seems countless young financially stricken women are flocking to online dating sites to bag a rich old man. In the US alone, so-called "sugar daddy" sites account for 10 percent of the entire US$700-million online dating industry a year. The “sugar daddy” trend is reported to have started in 2006 when, Brandon Lee, a successful entrepreneur founded SeekingArrangement. His service has been featured in the New York Times and on Dr. Phil. The intro on the website ...

• 7 Of the most popular ‘old school’ classics on YouTube

  There is a common misconception that only modern artists like Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber can rule YouTube and create videos that generate millions of hits. In fact there are plenty of classic artists whose staying power has earned them top spots on the video-sharing site. Stars like Elvis, The Beatles and many more may have had humble beginnings on a colourless square-shaped box (the television), but they now dominate the internet and millions of people are still listening to ...

• Adventurers, athletes ‘check into’ the wild with social networking

  Gone are the days when all you needed to climb a mountain or run a marathon were some good shoes and ropes. These days sports enthusiasts and adventure travelers rely on apps and social networking to track their progress and share experiences with friends and the online community. Parker Liautaud, now 17, became the first person to “check into” the North Pole via the location-based social networking site Foursquare in 2010. Since then he’s been tweeting and posting on Facebook ...

• Farfetch expands online retail play with $18m boost

  eCommerce is booming, and there are hundreds of online retail websites where shoppers can buy products with the click of a button. Its growing success can partly be attributed to ease-of-use and the fact that buyers can choose from thousands of products without leaving their home.The latest success story is Farfetch.com, a four-year-old London-based start-up that represents 200 boutiques from 12 countries with 35 000 products and "forms the hub of a global fashion community that unites independent boutiques around ...

• Twitter’s Jack Dorsey exchanges tweets with China’s Ai Weiwei

  Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey expressed his annoyance over the blocking of his popular service in China with a tweet saying "Hello, Shanghai. Twitter is blocked here in China so I can't read any tweets," after arriving in the country on Thursday.Hello, Shanghai. Twitter is blocked here in China so I can't read any tweets.— Jack Dorsey (@jack) January 12, 2012 Controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who equally condemns these kinds of restrictions put in place by the Chinese government responded ...

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