Abu Dhabi on Twestival Map with Success
I’m editor on this portal as well as the lead organizer for Abu Dhabi Twestival. I wanted drop you my thoughts about it. Abu Dhabi Twestival was a real challenge and I mean it. Basically, the low number of Abu Dhabi tweeps was the first challenge and the culture is not yet prepared for virtual friends to meet in person is the second one. I mean, there is a social life in Abu Dhabi, but not the one that is a result of virtual to physical process.... Read More
Global Twitter-Based Charity Event Returns with Local Twist to Abu Dhabi
Following the success of the first global Twestival on February 12th 2009, in which 202 cities participated, Twestival returns in September with a local twist on “Twestival” – the volunteer-run, charity fundraising events for people who know each other through the micro-blogging service twitter.com. The Abu Dhabi event will take place on 11th of September 2009 to raise funds for Abu Dhabi based Future Centre for special needs. The first... Read More
ICANN Introduces Arabic Internet Domains at Meeting in Abu Dhabi
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, unveiled to Arab audiences that Internet address system will soon be open to greater customization and localization. ICANN meeting hosted in Abu Dhabi last week is a part of familiarization campaign for their new program, Internationalized Domain Name (IDN), a program and the generic top-level-domain (gTLD) program reflect the growing ubiquity of the Internet on a global scale and demands... Read More
