The First Step in Social Media Marketing
Everyone is talking about harnessing the power of social networks to further brand messages. But the key element in successfully using social media is not identifying the social network’s tools of communication, but rather understanding how people use the network.All social networks, be it facebook, myspace, youtube or twitter, are built upon the population’s contributions and interactions. If there is no one watching or participating, there... Read More
Facebook Toolbar Now Speaks Arabic
Originally launched in English language for the Firefox browser only, Facebook Toolbar was released today to for Internet Explorer browser as well and made both browser versions available in a total of 16 languages including Arabic. Facebook Toolbar can be used easily utilize the most common sections and applications on Facebook in a one click-away, including your Facebook home page, profile page and inbox to check out the latest direct messages.... Read More
Meet the Geek: Firas Steitiyeh Talks About His Digital Lifestyle & ProBlogging
This is an interview with a Jordanian internet marketing guy, we will unleash his digital lifestyle as well as take his point of view on blogging in the Arab World. Tarek: Can you tell us a bit about yourself? Firas: On a personal level, I was born and raised in Jordan and love anything related to technology and the Internet. I am also a full-timer at ShooFeeTV. Tarek: And what’s your life motto? Firas: In order to succeed you have to fail. Tarek:... 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
It’s Not Twitter Fail Whale, It’s Iranian Cyber Army
Twitter is down! Fail Whale, Fail Whale!… Whenever Twitter is down, a holding page of a whale design appears that supposedly means that Twitter is facing large user-access capacity or on a scheduled/un-scheduled downtime. Yet, this time it was none of the mentioned. Twitter reported in the morning that there is un-scheduled downtime and they are working on resolving it, but later it turned out to be a complete hack attack through DNS. The homepage... Read More
Twitter Top Trending Topics 2009: Iran Election, Google Wave, Michael Jackson
Twitter’s Trending Topics of 2009 is going to help everyone understand what was happening around the world showing you in a real-time coverage; whether you were following Tehran riots or geek-freak about a major new technology like Google Wave. Among all the keywords, hashtags, and phrases that proliferated throughout the year, one topic surfaced repeatedly. Twitter users found the Iranian elections the most engaging topic of the year. The terms... Read More
YouTube 2009: Most Watched Videos & Most Searched Terms
For the first time YouTube shares with us their official Most Watched lists and some of the Fastest-Rising search terms on their platform; obviously because YouTube has been dominantly connecting millions of people around the world via YouTube simple service while online video consumption is growing year-by-year and a lot of viral marketing and social media firms need to know such vital information. YouTube Official List Most Watched YouTube videos... Read More
Bil3arabi Winners: Nokia Mobile Apps Developer Competition
Winners of Nokia’s Calling All Innovators “Bil3arabi” 2009 contest, a developer competition for Arabic-language mobile applications, have been announced. 1st place prize winner The grand prize winner of $100,000 went to “Here I am” from Enpronomics in Egypt. It is a user-friendly, geo-presence application with personal safety features that enables users to call for help in emergencies, share their location with family, close friends... Read More
Yahoo and Facebook Connect Agreement Is Not Log-in Agreement
Last week breaking news about Yahoo announcement to integrate Facebook features across its network doesn’t mean it’s a log-in agreement as explained by Yahoo senior. Yahoo agreement with Facebook means Yahoo developers will be working on implementing couple of major developments inside Yahoo giant platform, for a strategic meaning, as 52% of Yahoo users visit Facebook and 84% of Facebook users visit Yahoo (comScore, US, Oct 2009). These... 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
Sysomos Report On Exploring The World of Facebook Pages
Since being launch in late-2007, Facebook Pages have become an increasingly popular tool for major brands, high-profile organization and celebrities. To get a better handle on the world of Facebook Pages, Sysomos conducted the first large-scale study by analyzing more than 600,000 pages. Sysomos looked at a variety of metrics such as popularity, the amount of content posted, the number of fans, and the most popular categories. Some of the highlights... Read More
Brands Address Web 2.0 Marketing at the Social Media World Forum Europe
Brand engagement with social media, social media monitoring, business to business social networks, social gaming, virtual currencies and the latest web 2.0 marketing tools are some of the issues discussed at this years Social Media World Forum. Now Europe’s largest conference and expo for the social networking industry, the Social Media World Forum (www.socialmedia-forum.com) will be held March 15/16th 2010 at... Read More
TweetDeck Aims To Add Further Competitive Edge on Real-Time Browsers
TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now on Twitter goes further mile before to offer you the management of your Facebook and MySpace account as well. TweetDeck now promises to connect you with your contacts on LinkedIn which basically move this browser into all-in-one real-time browser. LinkedIn which is the world’s largest professional network with over 50 million members and growing rapidly is considered... Read More
The Webby Top 10: Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade
Capping a decade dominated by the Internet, The Webby Awards today named the ten most influential Internet moments of the 2000s. Founded in 1996, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring Internet excellence, including Websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile Websites. The 14th Annual Webby Awards are currently accepting entries at www.webbyawards.com. “The Internet is the story of decade because... Read More
Twitter Releases Geo-Tagging
In August, Twitter team announced that is working on a new API that would provide developers with the ability to geotag tweets. Today, the Geotagging API is officially available. This release is unique in that it’s API-only which means you won’t see any changes on twitter.com, yet. Instead, Twitter applications like Birdfeed, Seesmic Web, Foursquare, Gowalla, Twidroid, Twittelator Pro and others are already supporting this new functionality... Read More
Meet The Geek: Samer El Sahn Says Someone Hates My iPhone
A casual interview unleashing a real geek lifestyle in Egypt. Your name on passport? Samer El Sahn What’s your dream name? I am known online with the name Slayer; there is a band called Slayer I’m not sure if they’ve taken the cool name from me. How old are you? 31, although the guys here at eSpace make me feel that I am still in the early twenties; right guys? How did you feel yourself that you are a geek? When I was 10-year-old kid,... Read More
Facebook Tips: How To Change Email Notification
Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworker. They are rolling out a series of tips to educate more than 300 million people on Facebook platform usage. Aligned to this campaign we will be following on this series whereby today’s topic is “Email Notifications”. You don’t have to be logged in to Facebook to get the latest updates from friends. Email notifications... Read More
LinkedIn To Bring New Suit For Its Professionals
LinkedIn.com, the world’s largest professional network with more than 50 million professionals has started the process of testing a new design. During this testing phase, some users will see the new design, while others will not. Linkedin official blog share some sneak peak on what’s new and screenshots within: A global navigation bar at the top of the page that provides convenient access to all LinkedIn services. Simplified local navigation... Read More
Twitter Community in MENA Region Increased 300% Says Report
A new unique report was released about twitter, the rocketing micro-blogging platform, this time it’s MENA region centric. Spot On PR, a PR agency in Dubai, who has been active on twitter since mid-year 2008. has conducted the first regional Twitter usage survey which focuses on the Twitter habits and experiences of a sample of 216 registered Twitter users across the region. This survey started from August 8th to 14th, even if 216-surveyed... Read More
Facebook: Check Out How To Upload Photos and Videos Via Email
Facebook Team just made the uploading process even easier than ever: all facebook users can now email their photos and videos from any facebook email client and they’ll be automatically posted to your profile. You get this privilege by simply doing the following two tasks: 1. Log-in to Facebook Mobile interface (www.facebook.com/mobile) 2. Request your personal upload email address ( You will receive it via email as well and it looks like myemailupload@m.facebook.com) Now,... Read More
