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...
Last week, search engine Onkosh distributed prizes to the winners of the Soduko competition held during Ramadan on www.onkosh.com.
Sudoko Winners:
Soduko relies on logical mathematical analysis and has recently gained popularity amongst young and old. Ten thousand three hundred and fifty-one players (10,351) from 90 countries, 20 of which were ...
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,...
Yamli .com takes on major challenge to arabic content on the web
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Yamli.com one of my best Arab startups has released a free API that allows the easy integration of its award-winning Arabic transliteration technology into any website. Yamli’s Smart Arabic Keyboard allows users to type Arabic using Latin characters by conv...
Araby (Arabic Link) the Arabic search engine from Jordan based Maktoob Group- which attracts more than 13 million unique users- has added new features.
The first new feature is categorized search, where all inbound searches to Araby are categories under different categories and displayed at the front page of Araby. search categories includ...
ArabCrunch nomination by Aspen Institute was part of the institute issued paper titled "Dead Sea Scrolling", the paper features reports and articles about new media in the Arab world.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C, USA. The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization (NGO) that was founded in 1950. The institute and its int...
Note: Dear AC readers, Sorry I have not updated AC for few days, as I was busy with some business and private matters.
iGoogle, is an Internet startpage that lets and customize your web experience, you can add valid feeds from websites/blogs across the web, arrange them in boxes inside a page, add more pages with more feeds boxes, and cust...
Update: Bellow
Saudi telecom (ST) new internet brand is called M3com (with you) (Arabic link) was developed by Maktoob Group out sourcing unit.
M3com is fully in Arabic and has a custom startpage, a social network called As7ab ( friends), and a bunch of other channels: News, Islam, sports, Saudi succor, yellow pages, photo sharing, v...
In an answer to my question whether Google will add demographic targeting to Google Adwords, Elias Darwish Google's Account Manager MENA ( Middle East and North Africa) region, said that there are no current plans, but he said that in YouTube, google identifies demographic info, for example age groups of certain types of videos, which advert...
Launched by Albawaba the Middle Eastern Portal, Sharekna is another free Arabic-English video and photo sharing website.
Sahrekna competes with a score of regional players such as: iKbis, Maktoob's Clipat , Maktoob's Zoom, and d1g.com
The service allows users to store photos and videos up to 500 MB, and upload a maximum file size of 10 M...
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