Remember Aljazeera crowd-sourced mapping mashup “Mapping the War on Gaza” we reported last January 2009 ? the story ? that got ArabCrunch on Slashdot?
Well, the crowed sourcing news concept is hitting the region again, but this time it is about the Lebanese June 7th parliamentary election with sharek961.org.
Like Aljazeera’s “Mapping...
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...
Topping all other the category websites in the of Social Networking Category, fameego.com was awarded the Gold Award at the fifth annual Pan Arab Web Awards. The regional award ceremony was recently held at the Burj Arab – Dubai, UAE. The ceremony was attended by key players in the Middle East web design and development arenas.
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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...
UPDATE: 3 Q&A with STEVEN VAILE, CEO of H2O New Media, bellow.
UPDATE 2: full interview here.
H2O New Media , the technology company focused on white label Social Media applications in Dubai, UAE has confirmed its first round of funding from Equinox International. An undisclosed yet “significant investment” has been sanctioned ...
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...
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The Twestival or Twitter Festival according to its website “
does have similarities to a Tweet-up in the sense that people from Twitter connect offline to network and catch up socially. There are three key reasons to explain what is special about Twestival. 1) It is a much larger event in scope which involves...
Interactive Ventures Holding Company (“IV Holdings”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Accelerator Technology Holdings (“ATH”), that invests in Internet and Interactive companies serving the global Arab audience, has become a strategic financial investor in MediaScope Ltd, a pioneering digital marketing and publishing company based in ...
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 ...
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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