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 there that is meant to help the people in the region… then that will assist in increasing Internet usage and comfort among Arabs in this region.
haha…the main services that truly encouraged Arab to get online is either Porn or Blogging (forum?!)… those services became a window for the youth to be able to express their opinion/whatev..
Like what Abdu said… almost evey Internet Arab startup was a copycat of another western startup. Also, I would like to add that it was not created with a mindset that an actual Arab from MENA region will be using it….
Yahoo, Google, etc did FAIL to dominate the Far East market and that is because its services were not made for the Asian culture… And that’s how Baidu & Navlink dominated more than 80% of the market in its region.
But then, that is not the case in Arab world… there are no true local-authentic competitors out here to compete with Google or Yahoo… Google YouTube soon will enter this market… and Ikbis won’t even be able to hold them back due to its lack of innovation and creativity…
Oh well, that was my two cents….
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Morad Rayyan is IT professional specialized in New Media development and has special interest in networking "routing" as well as programming.
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