Going Mobile
Ok so I have been visiting the Du Kiosk’s here in Dubai, UAE for quite some time now and on many occasions I could never find the new iPhone 4 in stock, it was always sold out. It was the same with Etisalat. That got me seriously thinking about the future of this site, with a great number of people online who are consuming content and information online having a blog is no longer enough. We have to be where the users are and we have to provide... 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
Breaking: Google Launches Real-Time Search; Check Out How It Works
All technology entrepreneurs are talking about real-time search, which is meant to change your behavior on how to access to information, it’s the main natural starting point for discovering the world’s information with emphasis on the freshest, most comprehensive, and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices you use to access it. This latest innovations in the areas of real-time, mobile... Read More
Yahoo OpenID Now Supports Attribute Exchange
Yahoo OpenID now supports Attribute Exchange, which enables users to share their Yahoo! Profile data when they sign into sites using their Yahoo! ID. The fields that we support include: Full Name Yahoo! Email Address Profile Picture Gender Sites wishing to use Attribute Exchange should use the schema defined at axschema.org. Sites that require verified email addresses can use Yahoo OpenID to quickly authenticate Yahoo! users and verify their email... 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
Meet The Geek: Mohammad Al Rehaili Owns AI Dinosaur
A casual interview unleashing a real geek lifestyle For everyone to know, what is your full name? Mohammad Al Rehaili What’s your fake name? lool, Moe is the nick name however my friends tease me with the name Muhender Suresh from Heroes How old are you? I’m 26, old enough to have a kid, maybe! For how long have you been on the geek stage? “If we are talking about PCs” I started when I was 15, the first thing I saw in my... 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
Al Jazeera Officially Blogging
Mohamed Nanabhay, Head of Online at Al Jazeera, who is responsible for Al Jazeera English website as well has tweeted today releasing AlJazeera Blogs on http://blogs.aljazeera.net. AlJazeera Blogs consists of six main categories and will be part of Al Jazeera English interface yet this section has the blog total look-and-feel: Africa Asia America Europe Middle East Business Six bloggers will be writing: Alan Fisher Barnaby Phillips Barbara Serra Hamish... Read More
Twittorati: Where Blogosphere and Twittersphere Meet
Technorati, is an internet search engine for searching and indexing popular blogs, has launched a new service on dedicated website – Twittorati. The idea behind Twittorati was to allow people to view the topical geist that the most influential bloggers are tweeting and blogging about. Twittorati shows what top bloggers are tweeting about, and how these trends compare to Blogosphere trends. You’ll be able to filter tweets by topic, see... Read More
