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Parallax

HigherSites is always on the lookout for new trends to help set our client’s sites high above their competition. One effect that has been around for a while, but lately is becoming more used and talked about is ‘parallax scrolling’. The Parallax effect or parallax scrolling in web design is the technique that features layered images that move around the website in different speeds/perspectives creating a nice and interesting 3D illusion.

Parallax is a difference in the in the apparent position of an object viewed along different lines of sight. The term derives from the Greek word parallaxis, meaning alteration. An example that certainly makes scrolling around websites an interesting experience can be found at http://www.nikebetterworld.com/

Facebook’s Facial-Recognition Acquisition Raises Privacy Concerns

Right now, Facebook’s facial-recognition software can sense who is in your pictures and make tagging suggestions, but what if the social network could further learn behaviors and preferences by reading the Gap sweatshirt you’re wearing and seeing that Coca-Cola can in your hand?

Following Facebook’s recent acquisition of facial-recognition software company Face.com for an undisclosed amount of money last week, some users have expressed concern that the expansion of this type of technology on the social network could encroach on their privacy rights. Facebook hasn’t said what it’s future plans are for Face.com or its technology and would not comment for this story.

The acquisition — which is rumored to cost $60 million — won’t even close for a few weeks. But because Facebook’s rapid user growth has slowed due to so many people joining the site in recent years, it needs to boost engagement in other ways.

For more information visit http://mashable.com/2012/06/25/facebook-facial-recognition-privac/.

MoneySupermarket To Acquire MoneySavingExpert For £87 million

MoneySupermarket, a UK-based price comparison site for financial services, is acquiring advice site MoneySavingExpert from founder Martin Lewis, for £87 million ($133 million).

Lewis, a personal finance journalist, launched MoneySavingExpert in 2003. According to the site’s Google Analytics metrics it gets 39 million unique visitors and about 277 million page impressions a month. That makes it a powerful player and Lewis has parlayed this into books and TV shows in the UK.

For more information visit – www.techcrunch.com.

Facebook May Launch Smartphone by Next Year

Whilst rumours have been abounding for the last 2 to 3 years over if and when Facebook might launch its own mobile handset range the latest is that Facebook may be gearing up for the launch of its own mobile handsets at some point in 2013.

According to The New York Times, engineers have been sought by recruiters to work on building hardware for a Facebook smartphone. This would be the social network’s third attempt to develop a smartphone, the report said, citing sources close to the matter.

For more information on the launch of Facebook’s Smartphone visit – http://mashable.com/2012/05/27/facebook-smartphone/.

Financial Times could have more digital subscribers than it sells print copies

The Financial Times predicts more digital subscribers than it sells print copies by end of year.

By the end of the year, the Financial Times could have more digital subscribers than it sells print copies, FT.com‘s managing director Rob Grimshaw predicted this week during an on-stage interview with NewsCred‘s CEO Shafqat Islam as part of the Internet Week New York.

According to Grimshaw, who has been heading the newspaper’s digital operations for the last four years, the FT currently has a whopping 270,000 online subscribers – almost as high as its 310,000 print copy circulation, which it may soon exceed.

To carry on reading this article follow the following link http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/05/18/the-financial-times-predicts-more-digital-subscribers-than-it-sells-print-copies-by-end-of-year/.

Google Chrome Just Passed Internet Explorer To Become The World’s Most Popular Web Browser

After months of chipping away at its lead, Google Chrome has finally overtaken Internet Explorer to become most popular web browser worldwide.

Chrome’s share of the market rose to 32.8% in the week ending May 20, while Internet Explorer’s share of the market dropped to 31.9%, according to new data from StatCounter, via TheNextWeb. This marks the first full week that Chrome has beaten Explorer.

For more information visit – http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/05/21/google-chrome-overtakes-internet-explorer-as-the-webs-most-used-browser/