As the crisis continues in Gaza, Aljazeera Labs is continuing their innovation. This time they recently beta launched crowdsource mapping mashup "Mapping the War on Gaza" service, in collaboration with Ushahidi who have successfully used their platform to crowdsource information during recent crisis in Kenya and South Africa.
The platform...
Internet users are increasingly creating their own online experiences by uploading videos to websites like YouTube and Vimeo, authoring blogs on Blogger, micro-blogging on Twitter, and creating their personalized online profile on Facebook and MySpace. Bayt.com the #1 job site in the Middle East is capitalizing on those talented, creative individua...
Go3 is a Canadian startup that has been developing online games since 2007 and has grown to include more than 6 games and a number of other online properties in the gaming industry.
Go3 games are mostly browser based games, however Go3 is also expanding into the 3D MMO game market, with Mechtek and other games yet to be announced.
Explainin...
The Arab techies gathering was 4 days workshop held in Cairo, Egypt - from 23-26 December 2008. ArabCrunch was present and demonstrated itself there.
This post is to sum up the workshop. written by Zeinab Samir a guest writer to ArabCrunch, Zeinab is an Egyptian Web designer who creates designs and themes for Drupal CMS. She also has a personal...
Middle East’s largest user generated content UGC community, Jeeran.com, announced the launch of a new marketing tool that allows bloggers and users to get insights about the traffic on their blogs and pages on Jeeran.com.
The new tool, “Visitors” , features statistics and charts of the number of visitors each page/blog receives, with the ...
Mashable announced the winners of The 2nd Annual Open Web Awards, a multilingual, international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements of websites and services in 26 categories.
Over 100 Blog Partner...
ArabCrunch DEMO (DEMOize) the launch pad event for emerging technology in the Arab world that is being organized by ArabCrunch in cooperation with student entrepreneurship society "DART" at Princess Sumaya University for Technology PSUT (PSUT) -which is also part of Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE)- , has been postponed till early F...
The Social Networking World Forum will showcase leading global brands analysing how to successfully implement a social media marketing and PR strategy.
Brands such as GM, Coca-Cola, Cadburys and P&G have been invited to discuss incorporating social media into existing and traditional marketing plans, analysing new methods of measuring ...
So far, the Arab tech startups and innovation seen has been hard to spot, despite some events like GITEX, it is hard for the most promising Arab startups and for emerging technologies to be spotted in the Arab world, whether they are consumer or business applications.
GITEX is turning into an Enterprise IT exhibit, while other tech events ...
Citizen journalism takes more uptime on hot news, remember London bombings? The first images were shot by mobile camera, and today the first reports of Mumbai bombing came from citizen journalism via twitter and images on flickr.
So Aljazeera launching of Sharek (an Arabic word which means participate) is smart way to get breaking news an...
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