What might be worrisome for Arab online activists that Twitter might collaborate with Arab oppressive regimes after Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, and Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), announced today, Monday, December 19th 2011, a combined investment of $300 Million in Twitter.
Prince Alwaleed has a strong presence and influence ...
AreebaAreeba a business social network geared towards residents of the Arab world has reported reaching 650 thousand registered users from 110 countries, in less than a year since its launch.
The Dubai based AreebaAreeba offers smiler functionality to Linkedin, users can post status update where other users can comment on them, start and join gr...
Update: facebook responded by saying that the new translation button is powered by Bing translation engin, meaning it supports all the languages the bing supports (about 50) For now, the button is visible only to people who have installed the translations app. If a human translation is also available, they show that, instead. The way it works i...
Twitter finally has enabled right to left writing, which is great news for languages such as Arabic Hebrew and Farsi.
Before this feature when writing in Arabic in Twitter, the tweeted message used to mixx words togather, in many times changing the meaning of the tweet. This case gets worse when adding an english word.
Now, this problem...
Folks at Yahoo are raising the white banner and surrendering their social networking site in the Arab world "As7ab".
In an email sent to Yahoo Maktoob’s Arabic social network Asa7b members, Yahoo is saying that they will shut down the service as of 18/9/2011 and deleting everything, the email urges members to download their voice and video...
It seems that Syrian secret police or "Mukhabrat" is behind issuing forged facebook's security certificate in Syria when accessing via https connection or man in the middle attack, which enables them to get users password and spy on Syrian facebook users' activities.
This event happened around a week ago. users in Syria are adviced not to lo...
After reaching more than 10,000 members in few hours in light of his assassination by American forces in Pakistan Facebook deleted we are "All Osama Bin Ladin" page.
We do not know what is the excuse this time for deleting this page, is it call for violence? we did not notice any. And this excuse that any page that calls for violence should ...
In response to act of closing the pages of the Palestinian uprising or the third Palestinian Intifada from Facebook under the request of the Israel media minister, activists organized a boycotting day yesterday via facebook events app. The call came from a page called the Arab National Army and other pages and has achieved 256,931 participants.
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Israeli Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ( who belongs to the Jewish religion) to remove a page that called for a third palestinian intifada. The page has so far 319,270 members.
Yuli said that the page includes calls for violence, though by looking at the page we did not find any...
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Facebook has deleted Free Palestine page which was calling for Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
The fan page managed in few days to collect more than 216,000 members. This is the second time that Facebook deletes this page according to the page admin.
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