Very interesting meeting yesterday in Rome organized by @donatelladr with the stars of the web2.0 scenario in the Middle East:
- Laith M. Zraikat co-founder and chief product officer of Jeeran.com, the largest Arab online community with 1,5 millions registered users and more than 7 millions of unique visitors per month.
- Nadine Toukan co-founder [...]
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It’s a long time I have the impression that my mind is changing the way it “works”.
In other words, I feel like the tools I use to do my job, and Internet in particular, are modifying the way my mind process information and manage knowledge. So, reading, writing and, consequently, working approaches have been reshaped. [...]
I think we should spend much more time on communication…
P.S.: thanks @gaurisalokhe
Yesterday Google presented what it seems to be a new killer application or, at least, “what email would look like if it were invented today”.
It’s called Google Wave as it brings a total restyling of the oldest, and most used of the Internet applications: the email.
I know many people think email [...]
kiwanja is releasing a new version of its famous software FrontLineSMS, the leading SMS management platform. Now the software allows users to manage forms to collect and share data:
You can read more on afromusing, an interesting blog on innovation, technology and beyond or on Ken’s blog.
A funny tool to visualize the “faces” of those who are following you on twitter:
Something I discover thanks to my friend Gauri.
Internazionale is a very interesting magazine and offers tons of inputs for better understanding what’s going on around the world. It helps putting pieces together.
The number last week collected the following three articles on blogging:
Why I blog by Andrew Sullivan,
Who killed the blogosphere? by Nicholas Carr, and
The New Journalism: Goosing the Gray Lady [...]
This morning I had the chance to observe something incredible: thousands and thousands of messages on twitter about the Gfail that’s to say the fail of Gmail’s servers.
It was incredible to see, using twitterfall, the ways people reacted to this event. When I came back after lunch, there were over 8.000 messages in line about [...]
Ghana just voted yesterday for the Presidential Elections and many observers followed the elections using twitter. Read what happened on Global Voices.
Is the school preparing children to address the coming world?
Are development projects addressing new forms of education as effective tools to fight and prevent future poverty and hunger?
Open questions for which I don’t have answers but only ideas…
It is called O3b and stands for other3billion: that’s to say the 3 billion people who are not connected yet to the Internet. It is a new initiative funded by Google, Liberty Global, and HSBC to build a new telecommunications infrastructure, with 16 satellites, offering high-speed, low-cost Internet connectivity to emerging countries.
The service is supposed [...]
As described in a post on TechCrunch called “Is This The Future Of Search?” and as appearing in this Video proposed by Adrian Pike, Google is getting closer and closer to amplifying its core activities, the Search, with some Knowledge management flavor.
As you can see from the image above, this approach will offer users the [...]
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21 November 2008
Social media is taking place on Google
This morning I found out that Google interface is changed.
As you can see on the image, new buttons have been added to the screen while reading the list of results.
Three new features are now available:
promote
remove
comment
Just checking techcrunch, and reading the Google blog, it seems like I won’t be one of the few testers able to [...]
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