Technology

Reasons of Web failure in China

I’ve discussed previously regarding China and how Yahoo, Google, and even Facebook failed to win over the chinese markets. Well, my friend and colleague Mohamed Nanabhay just blogged about a session "Economist Intelligence Unit, China" of media08 conference which he was one of the speakers.
Well, according to the speaker Jonathan Haagen, All of the Western [...]


Something to share out of my feeds for this week

Well, here are few things that I think that I read that you might find interesting….which i think it is:
1. YouTube going Live with live-broadcast-feature and soon you will be able to host youtube video upload form on your site..cool huh?
2. Google has finally released the Contacts Data API, which benefits both individual users and [...]


Macbook air & My Formatted Vista Machine for Leopard

Let me start by saying: I’ve always hated Vista. In fact, I cannot stand using Vista or Windows XP, and all of that started after I used Mac for 10 days.
Anyway, I just received my macbook air after long time of waiting for it to get delivered (25 days?).. And to be honest, when I [...]


API of the Week: Post to Twitter with PHP

I think I am going to start blogging examples of how to use API of some of the most popular social platforms out there…like facebook, Google OpenSocial, MySpace?, etc. And this will be weekly… hopefully, I won’t skip those…
But today, I am going to start with Twitter:
Like others I’ve found myself addicted to Twitter, the [...]


Respond to: Challenges to Web 2.0 in the Arab World

My friend & colleague, Mohamed Nanabhay, blogged about Challenges to Web 2.0 in the Arab World.. And here is my response to it:
Honestly, I don’t see a tremendous growth in MENA region anytime soon.. that is due to lack of services that are special made for this region… I think once a service is out [...]