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
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
5 Easy Tips To Get Groups On Google Wave
Some of you may have noticed that Google has started supporting for groups in Google Wave. Google Group is one of the very early stages functionality added to Google Wave. We saw its important to give you a quick explanation on how it works as shared by Google Wave. Currently, you can add a Google Group to a wave, set permissions and then view and edit waves with that group. Unlike other group conversations, however, group waves will only show up... 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
Mudawanat Event: Watch Live Video Streaming Now & More
QATAR is encouraging people in Qatar and the Arab world to take to the blog-waves. ictQATAR is now hosting Mudawanat: All About Blogging, started 9:30 a.m. and will continue until 3:30 p.m. at the Sharq Village & Spa. If you couldn’t make it, I’m broadcasting the live video stream event now through http://livestream.com/ictqatar. You can also follow @interactive on twitter or hashtag #mudawanat Watch live streaming video from ictqatar... 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
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
Facebook Finds New Ways Engage with Your Favorite Applications
In 2007, Facebook API launched a third-party application submission, whereby Facebook team has seen over 350,000 applications built on the Facebook Platform so far, in areas ranging from sports and games to family and education. These applications were built to accompany the core Facebook applications like photos, events and groups. In order to offer you a smooth experience regardless of what applications you’re interacting with on the site. Here’s... Read More
Facebook Changed Your Homepage; What Do You Think?
While building community portals, user-homepage remains top priority to the IA/design/development teams in order to allow you to see what is going on with the people and things you care about most, since we are talking about Facebook here. That’s why Facebook team has started to roll out some changes to the home page that simplify your experience by offering two views of News Feed: a summary view of the most interesting activity that’s... Read More
Social Media Forum Abu Dhabi Reviewed in 140 Characters
The Social Media Forum was the 1st dedicated event on social media aspect in the MENA region which took place at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center on 18-19 October 2009. Unfortunately, I didn’t attend the event but followed the hashtags – #iir and #socialmediaforum – on twitter to get some sought-after quotes and general status. By human nature many of you would be asking on the status of such event: it’s new forum, new... Read More
Inside Facebook Report: Most Growing Middle East Countries
If you are not on Facebook, you are most probably receiving continuous friends’ invites to register on Facebook, or if you are on Facebook already with email notification turned ON, you are most probably receiving continuous friends’ connect as well who recently joined the site. Facebook is evolving worldwide and it’s happening in the Middle East too. Facebook has significantly grown in the Middle East after launching the Arabic... Read More
LinkedIn Milestone: 50 Million Professionals Worldwide
LinkedIn, the leading professional network, has 50 million users worldwide and growing that figure at roughly one new member per second. When LinkedIn launched in 2003, it took 477 days (16 months) to reach their 1st million members. This last million reaching 50 Million took only 12 days. Where are these 50 million users? LinkedIn has been global since inception — about half of our total membership is international. There are now 11 million... Read More
