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Definitely, Waiting in line for iPhone is glorious

Robert Scoble, Socobleizer.com, just posted how it is “glorious” thing to wait in line for iPhone, but I am not sure to wait 6 days ahead like those people.
But it is definitely fun and exciting to wait in line with other people who have the same common “the iphone!”, and from there you can socialize [...]


Bill Gates Verdict on Windows: it SUCKS!

Todd Bishop, Seattle P-I reporter,  has published a 2003 email from Bill Gates to his Windows developers. The email states Bill’s experience with installing movie-maker from Microsoft.com and how he found that to be mission impossible due to bugs in Microsoft.com site & Windows usability.
But from what it seemed like from the email, that Bill [...]


Al Jazeera Anchorman and Social Media “twitter”

It really didn’t take much of an effort to convince my father Jamal Rayyan, Al Jazeera anchorman, to join Twitter and interact with its community.
My father will be asking twitter’s community for questions or opinions to be discussed in the News programme called “Hassad Al Youm” in English “Today’s Harvest”.
Though, I am little skeptical on [...]


Google IO Conference: Videos are available

Not sure how many of you wanted to go to Google IO conference. Well, I wanted to, but I was and still am stuck to this project which we are about to launch.
Anyway, Lucky me and for others who wanted to go but couldn’t. Google was generous enough to release videos of all sessions of [...]


Must Read! Time Magazine on that platform battle

Time Magazine has a must-read piece on the battle between Google, Facebook and Apple to build the best platform. The story looks at the open-vs-closed approach, the mobile-vs-tethered schools of thought, and why Google seems to be playing catchup instead of leading the way.
I did discuss in previous posts about how Facebook will lose the [...]