Archive for the ‘Social Networking’ Category


Screenshot digg_url = 'http://arabcrunch.com/2009/07/breaking-google-friend-connect-now-supports-47-additional-languages-including-arabic.html'; Update: localize your current member gadget, at the end of the post. Google Friend connect, which aims to bring the social world into all over the web, has just announced adding support to 47 additiona...
Screenshot Twtri.com developed by Laith Yousi from Iraq, was announced few days ago at GIGAOM's  Structure 09 event as one of 2 U.S. grand prize winners for Microsoft’s newCloudApp() - The Azure Services Platform Developer Challenge- . The contest winners were judged by 2 industry leaders Om Malik (founder of GIGAOM) and Michael Cote. ( Submission deadlin...
Screenshot Updated. Aljazeera Arabic the well known Qatar based TV network, has just added listeners tweets to its “ Minbar Aljazeera” talk show. This move makes Aljazeera the first Arab TV to integrate with twitter. Minbara Aljazeera, (which mean Aljazeera Forum) is a weekly Arabic listeners live talk show, that tackles different issues and top...
Screenshot Folowen the Jordanian startup which was previously reviewed by ArabCrunch here, has just gone out of private beta, which means people can start using folowen without an invitation code. Folowen is a search tool that uses Google AJAX Search API to help you find profiles of people and organizations in different social media sites (currently 20.) T...
Screenshot   TwitVid.com which we recently reviewed here, announced a partnership with TwitterFon. With this partnership iPhone users will very soon be able to tweet Mobile videos to their followers by using Twitvid.com which has very recently add a feature that allows Twitter follower to watch those videos instantly- even before finishing the upload- ...
Screenshot A study run by online business networking service MeettheBoss shows that Middle East executives are spending an extra 11 hours a month online sharing their professional experiences and learning from their peers. MeettheBoss surveyed 6,000 of its 27,000 Middle East members to understand more about what effect Web 2.0 has had on the region’s busine...
Screenshot Social Networking and video portal site d1g.com, which allows users to share, discuss, and distribute rich online content, has tapped into the knowledge and expertise of online data mining and data strategist, Dr. Usama Fayyad, appintement is a big win for D1g.com.  Dr. Usama Fayyad served as Yahoo!’s Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice Pr...
Screenshot folowen which is currently in closed-beta is a useful tool that enables users to find profiles of people and organizations in different social media sites ( currently 18.) Users can save searches and chose which social media networks they want the results to be yielded from. The service uses Google API to fetch results, yielding in few cases inaccu...
Screenshot  Yamli which started as an Arabic transliteration service that changes Latin characters into Arabic text, and later went into opening its API to any developer and then launched an innovative search engine, it has just launched a FireFox toolbar in beta ( All ArabCrunch past coverage related to Yamli can be found here .) The Firefox toolbar i...
Screenshot You know facebook? Right? Well there are other types of social networks that have been popping up every now and then: These are vertical social networks, or social networks that specialize in a certain vertical or category. From Lebanon, HerSphere is the latest comer to the arena and it is for women. HerSphere is owned by Women in IT (WIT) a Leb...
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