Jeeran is an interesting Arab internet company because its story resembles the stories you hear about in Silicon Valley (USA): A Tech startup that starts from the founders' garage or dorm and then makes it big (example: HP, Yahoo and Google to name a few.)
Jeeran was founded in 2000 by then two Jordanian students and entrepreneurs Omar Kouds...
Seems that facebook has finally just started rolling out its promised new tweaked inbox with a new more Ajaxy layout. On the left bar of the new Inbox page it shows a search bar, your Facebook messages, updates from facebook Fanpages you subscribed to and your sent items.
Messages and Updates can now be filtered into “All” and “Unread...
Around a week ago, my friend explained to me how cool friendfeed is, and explained to me how its founders are open to its users and engaged with them. That raised my respect to friendfeed and I started using it more often than just linking my Twitter account to it.
You probably heard the news that Facebook has just acquired friendfeed and yo...
NOTE: Linkedin GoDaddy and Google are doing the Blocking NOT the Government of Sudan.)
Update: Linkedin GoDaddy and Google are doing the Blocking NOT the Government of Sudan. Both Linkedin and Google said before they have to be in compliance with US laws. Google confirmed that nothing has changed from their point. The sanction though do...
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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...
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...
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.)
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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...
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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Update 1&2 at the end of the post.
After Linkedin the business social Network, blocked Internet users in Syria and then unblocked them and apologized (as ArabCrunch has reported.) It was confirmed to us that Internet users in Sudan (an African Arab country) still cannot access Linkedin, who were blocked by Linkedin since several months ...
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