Of all the animated series I watched as a kid back in the 80′s, ThunderCats was probably the one I enjoyed the most, and that popped up first in my mind whenever I took a little trip down memory lane throughout the years. I’m not sure what it was exactly that fascinated me about it [...]
…If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions and you have to, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don’t stay. – Steve Jobs
As someone who spent a good chunk of his childhood years in Zimbabwe, and who holds very fond memories of the country, I always have an eye open for developments happening in that spot of southern Africa. Unfortunately, the news coming out of there for the past couple of decades has been nothing short of [...]
It’s been just a bit over 55 years since Tunisia got its independence from France; 55 years through which the country and its people, almost three generations of Tunisians, knew only 2 presidents, 1 political party and no options whatsoever. Sure, there were a handful of other political parties in the country, some recognized as legal [...]
Unfortunately, I haven’t been writing as much as I used to or want to on here; a combination of being busy with life and work, distracted by the rise of Twitter and me getting tired of following the daily news of the world for a while. Anyway, in the past few months, true to my [...]
Just a few days ago, the Tunisian national TV station (TTN), that was quick to shed its TV7 moniker after the revolution in Tunisia, and who overnight wanted people to believe they would become a space for free speech, aired a report on ex-President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, highlighting all the bad things he did, [...]
As someone who’s been working in the Internet space in the Arab world for what feels like ages now; I’ve heard the following line, and all imaginable variations of it more than I can keep track of; basically the line is: We have a big problem with the lack of Arabic content online, with it [...]
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. – George Orwell Simply said, but very true and represents experiences we’ve all surely had with people from the generation before us; whether parents, relatives, teachers or others; and the experiences we’re [...]
Privacy is a really hot issue these days with many people debating how this or that online social network, of which so many have popped up everywhere, is violating our privacy and exposing us to the whole world against our will. Of course, user privacy is not an issue to be taken lightly, and should [...]
Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls (tags: mobile phone data trends) SCVNGR, A New Entry Into the World of Location-Based Games (tags: scvngr location game service Internet) Yahoo! to open source floating Google-Amazon crossbreed Interesting initiative from Yahoo! to open source internal cloud serving platform. (tags: yahoo! cloud platform technology server) 65,000 [...]
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