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...
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...
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...
Last month I reported on ArabCrunch that facebook launched Arabic beta, but as of today yeserday its officially launched along with Hebrew according to Ghassan Haddad, Director of Internationalization at facebook.
As with all other Facebook international languages translation, facebook Arabic and Hebrew was translated by the communit...
2 days ago Facebook announced on the homepage (once logged in) that face book in English UK is available. The drop down menu offered an array of international languages including Arabic as beta.
Before Arabic was only available in the facebook’s translation app. Now it is an option for any user to add it without installing the app.
The in...
UPDATE: see Editor's note bellow.
I have received from Delphine Eddé the founder of Wikeez an email answering my questions and giving more insight into Wikeez:
Who are we ?
An online community for fans !
As you said it in your article we're a social entertainment site, it defines it very well !
Wether your are fan of a movie, an actor,...
Founded in 1996 as a subsidiary of the Egyptian company LINKdotNET, LINK Development‘s Facebook Dynamics CRM Connector, is a new application to enable companies to communicate with and handle queries from customers through Facebook.
As facebook has reached more than 100 million members worldwide including millions in the Arab world, now...
Javi is a free mobile social networking service, developed by the Jordanian wireless applications and software solutions company Javna.
Javi V.1.0 lets you send and receive free messages with your friends locally and around the world. Also it allows you to receive your facebook notifications on your mobile handset at no charge. ( I hav...
Part of its new media initiatives, Aljazeerea launch of an iPhone app is aimed at growing the reach of the English version of the channel, which is mostly banned by US cable operators.
The iPhone app is the English version of the network's content. The default page pulls 9 headlines, and has a topic button that are categorized into: Alja...
On a rare move among one of the Arab leaders or maybe any of the world's leaders, King Abdullah II of Jordan, commented on local Jordanian blog Black Iris and Addusstor Jordan's daily newspaper web site.
On the blog the king was commenting on a post about his latest interview with Petra ( Jordan's Government news agency ) where he dismisse...
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