Roadsters AND Social Media

Social media today has a huge impact on everybody’s life, whether on a personal or professional level. Taking into consideration some of the companies that are active on social media today one discovers important details. Roadster is a diner that is active on Facebook, twitter, and foursquare. It has about 5,156 followers on twitter and about 28,439 likes on Facebook that support the diner’s events, food, and its everyday activity. When Roadster... Read More

Dubizzle launches blog… in beta

Dubizzle have launched their blog in beta mode, if you want to know why its in beta you can read one of the articles posted and you should get a laugh or two out of it. They’ve posted the announcement on their Facebook group page this morning: The blog seems to be powered by WordPress and so far is only in English. For now they seem to be posting articles that go along with the Dubizzle brand, but I can see where this is going – engaging... Read More

Meet the Geek: Osama Romoh

We’ve had the pleasure of meeting Osama Romoh (@osamaromoh), who is a prominent Jordanian Blogger at osamaa.com with over 1,800+ Followers on twitter and with more than 13,900K likes on his facebook page. Osama now works in Dubai with Dubizzle where he is the Digital Marketing manager, we thought we’d share his wisdom with the world when it comes to Digital marketing so we sent him a couple of questions and he gracefully replied. Below... Read More

Twitter vs. Facebook traffic

I was taking a look earlier today at our Google Analytics report to see how we’re doing in terms of visitors and traffic sources and I think it is safe to say that if you’re running a blog focus on Facebook rather than twitter. Our referrals from Facebook are more than double the referrals from Twitter even though we have over 1,400 followers on twitter and only 137 fans on our Facebook page. Now here are some reasons as to why (in my... Read More

Do not re-invent the wheel; just make a better working one

This post is written by Humza Ijaz is a Digital Creative Director, currently working @ LBI. His interests include: Designing for Web, Looking out for new technologies and has a new hobby of studying information design. This is exactly the thinking that went into choosing a re-design for www.interactiveme.com Before I took up the opportunity of being a regular contributor to this blog – Tarek Kassar (founder of this blog) asked me to help him out... Read More

Taya IT Launches In Beta A New Content Discovery Portal for Arabic Web

In an optimistic move towards the internet in the Arab World, a firm specialized in enterprise and internet search applications, Taya IT, announced today the launch of a new content discovery portal which serves as an independent gateway to discover and share the best content on the Arabic Web. Yajeel.com was released in beta featuring a new search engine as well as content-specific categories serving as dedicated portals to the most popular topics... Read More

ictQatar Aims Big On Making Qatar Digital Savvy

The Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR) is leading the strategic thinking and implementation of ICT initiatives in e-government, market development and knowledge management, e-education, e-health, e-inclusion, cyber security. Along with their latest event, Mudawanat: All About Blogging, which took place on Dec 12th, 2009 in Qatar (which we covered it through live video broadcasting and tweeting) ictQatar team launches... Read More

Mudawanat Event Persuades New Debate On Aljazeera Interactive TV Forum

200 attendants and 60 viewers of our video live streaming channel have been a part of a successful event happened yesterday discussing two main challenges facing the web in the region in terms of effective blogging and e-Arabic content. Mudawanat 1-full-day event that took place yesterday at Sharq Village in Doha city, an initiative by ictQatar, Mudawanat gathered young and expert bloggers from around the region and the world to explore the incredible... Read More

Six Days To Go For Mudawanat Event: Check Out Speakers Profile

Mudawanat, a new initiative of ictQATAR encouraging people in Qatar and the Arab world to take the blog-waves. Mudawanat event is happening this Saturday, December 12, 2009, from 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at the Sharq Village & Spa in Qatar. The event will feature international and regional blogging experts, as well as interactive workshops. Speakers: Jeremiah Owyang is one of the fresh, young voices on the social media transformation of business.... Read More

Mudawanat: All About Blogging Event in Qatar by ictQATAR

ictQATAR is encouraging people in Qatar and the Arab world to take to the blog-waves. ictQATAR is hosting Mudawanat: All About Blogging, on Saturday, December 12, 2009, from 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at the Sharq Village & Spa. The event will feature international and regional blogging experts, as well as interactive workshops. “Blogging is a tremendous way for people to share their thoughts and engage in society, whether they want to... Read More

CampaignME Monitor: DELL Ads, Mobile TV in UAE, Ipsos Online, ADMC

Read in Campaign Middle East magazine (Nov 1- 14, 2009) about digital/interactive media: Dell Launches its first ever Middle East TV campaign - movie sponsorship packages and 30-second spot herald entry of Dell into TV space. Mobile TV deal struck in UAE – Emirates Mobile Telecommunication Corporation consortium (du, Etisalat, MBC, Abu Dhabi Media Company, Dubai Media Inc, Emirates Communications & Technology Company …) has been granted... Read More

The Doha Tribeca Film Festival Gets Official YouTube Screening Room

The inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) which opened Thursday 29 November with a red carpet extravaganza and a unique free 3000 seat open-air auditorium screening at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) also comes today digital to the rest of the world. YouTube writes on their official blog that they turned the YouTube Screening Room over to the expert curators at the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, who have put together a lineup of five films (four... Read More

Nielsen Reports 17% of Internet Time is Devoted to Social Networks & Blogs

The Nielsen Company today reported that time spent on social network and blogging sites accounted for 17 percent of all time spent on the Internet in August 2009, nearly triple the percentage of time spent on the sector a year ago. “This growth suggests a wholesale change in the way the Internet is used,” said Jon Gibs, vice president, media and agency insights, Nielsen’s online division. “While video and text content remain central to the... Read More