January 2010
22 posts
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Egyptian websites on twitter
Although not doing very well, I see no harm from listing them:
@masrawyfans
@youm7
@FilGoal
@FilFanDotCom
@Dostor
@FilGoal_live
@rosadaily
@Shorouk_News
@DailyNewsEgypt
@rosaweekly
@rosasabah
@eahram
@elkoshary
@ContactCars
@EgyYellowPages
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Heavy Bookshelf
On a Cairo Tweetup, I have been to Cairo Book Fair today, bought many books and already I have many books on my shelf to read!
أزمة الكساد العالمي - علي شلبي
في الخطاب والمصطلح الصهيوني - عبد الوهاب المسيري
القاهرة الجديدة - نجيب محفوظ
في كل اسبوع يوم جمعة - ابراهيم عبد المجيد
عرب وعثمانيون - محمد عفيفي
النبي - جبران خليل جبران
فئران السفينة - مكاوي سعيد
الباخرة كليوباترا - محمد...
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iPad
Apple finally announced its new tablet product, the iPad, on Jan 27th Event. For sure it will redefine the tablet market, and maybe the whole mobile world. Compared to iPhone, iPod touch & Mac.. here are my takes:
Good things:
Big screen with multitouch
iPhone apps work here
Nice external design (really light & slim!)
Nice new looks for pre-installed apps
Good price
iBooks
iWork...
FilGoal iGoogle gadget →
I am really proud of this link I have made between Sarmady and eSpace and resulted in this tiny yet great hit, with more than 140,000 users in less than a year.
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Challenges are upon us!
During our mobile apps market research at Sarmady, we have shortlisted the main challenges that we will face in this market, I like to share them:
Awareness of mobile applications capabilities (for both users and clients).
Wide range of devices with various specs.
Mobile Internet usage tariff (limited daily quota).
Downloading and Installing process.
Updating Apps.
Arabic language support...
Mobile Web Growth in Egypt
According to Opera State of Web November 2009 Report:
Page-view growth since November 2008: 69.3%
Unique-user growth since November 2008: 5.1%
Page views per user: 306
Data (compressed) transferred per user (MB): 5
Data (compressed) transferred per page view (KB): 18
Top 10 sites in Egypt (unique users)
google.com
facebook.com
youtube.com
yahoo.com
my.opera.com
filgoal.com
...
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Shed ElHezam - Sayed Darwish
Best recession song...
Different music taste
I usually get bored from common Arabic music, and always looking for different taste.. here are my favorites:
Beirut Biloma
Dunia Masood
Grace Deeb
Itar Shameh
Jean-Marie Riachi
Julia Boutros
Khalid Mouznar
Kulna Sawa
Lemonada
Lena Chamamyan
Macadi Nahhas
Rima Khcheich
Soap Kills
Souad Massi
Wagih Aziz
Y.A.S
Find more on my music library on last.fm:...
Arabic iPhone apps & developers
Doing some research about Arabic iPhone apps and developers, here is what I got:
Developers:
Tarek (Egypt)
Bandar (KSA)
Adham El-Shehaby (Egypt)
Ahmed Essam (Egypt)
Abdallah mutawa (Kuwait)
Amr Ramadan (Egypt - Vimov)
Mustafa ElGharabawy (Egypt)
Arabic iPhone applications or iPhone applications developed by Arabs
Egyptian Yellowpages
mbosra developed by EME for mobinil
Hisn Elmuslim by...
HyperLink Arabic Podcast →
This is one of the best dialog based podcasts I have ever listened to, and in Arabic from Syria
iTunes Link
twitter: @hyperlinkcast
Presenters: @mkayyali & @beshrkayali
Arabic mobile sites
Mobile web has been booming lately, many businesses/websites try to expand their services into mobile, the main two players in this field in Egypt are Sarmady (a Vodafone company) & LinkDotNet, with Sarmady taking more steps ahead.
Beside the main 3 WAP portals for mobile operators in Egypt, here is a list of most popular Egyptian mobile sites I know about (I will try keeping the list...
Nile FM new website →
I think they have done nice work with Nile FM new website, so creative
أنا بحب كتب جلال أمين.
Too many challenges ahead!
Ok.. I am officially back to @Sarmady as Mobile Apps Business Manager :)
Tomorrow is the day.
Moving to Cairo
December 2009
97 posts
2010 should be interesting!