February 2012
1 post
Lightning Talks To Remember →
A History Lesson
Lightning Talks first appeared at PyCon (Python Conference) in 1997, at that point it was just called “Short Talks”. The name “Lightning Talks” was first coined by Mark Jason Dominus, one of the leading Perl developers, for a similar session at Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC) in 2000.
Lightning Talks gradually became a meme at tech conferences and...
January 2012
4 posts
9 Reasons Why You Should Submit a Lightning Talk... →
For this year’s event we’ve announced that during the Developer Days we’re going to have more lightning talks and we’ve put up a call for papers.
So far we’ve had an amazing and diverse array of talent come on board, but since there are a few of you out there that might still be hesitant to join, I thought I’d provide more information on why I think every single person attending...
December 2011
2 posts
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Announcing Sawt, a tiny app for discovering the...
Sawt is a tiny discovery tool for Arabic indie music.
You can visit Sawt here: http://sawt.ep.io
Limitations:
Works only on Google Chrome & Safari
No way to keep track of what you listened to (history)
No way to specify what genre of music to listen to
I haven’t worked on this much (weekend hack) so it’s not completely done yet.
One of the cool things I wanted to have in...
October 2011
2 posts
Not Disappointing At All! →
4S or 5, it really doesn’t matter! What’s amazing is how much buzz the Apple brand can generate no matter what they do, and if it’s anything, it’s actually good!
The fact that some people are disappointed by the iPhone 4S is by itself disappointing! Three reasons for that: A) It’s just a phone, so get with it. B) It’s Apple, that’s how they roll....
August 2011
2 posts
Kinetik, Social Networking for Apps →
In light of the success of activity-specific social networking apps, a new San Francisco based startup recently introduced its application Kinetik - providing people who are passinate about mobile applications to discover and share their favorite apps.
Read more…
July 2011
6 posts
WatchTake It As It Comes [Vivian Girls]
G+ as a Blog?
So, some people have actually started using Google+ as a blog. Here’s my analysis on this: Pros:
It’s dead simple to share stuff, you can even share stuff directly from your Gmail (or any other Google service for that matter, through the top bar, though I would love to see a Chrome extension that adds that bar everywhere).
Realtime: One of the greatest thing about G+ is the...
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
7 posts
April 2011
14 posts
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
2 posts
لماذا يحقق تطبيق انستغرام هذا النجاح؟
hyperboo:
Listen!
مشكلة المنبه في اي فون ٤
hyperboo:
Listen!
November 2010
2 posts
Google Beatbox
super awesome :-)
yvynyl:
This rules.
catbird:
Click ‘Listen’
September 2010
2 posts
August 2010
7 posts
LiveTweeting: Focusing on the User: Sketching,... →
Lots of discussions around the front-end design of v0.6 of LiveTweeting.
We decided that in order for LiveTweeting to make a difference and leave a mark we’ll have to think out of the box regarding the UI. We’ve done a lot of comparisons between similar services and thought about ways to…
LiveTweeting: Use Casing, Bucketing, & a Pivotal... →
And the second session of Livetweeting brainstorming finished today, productivity was through the roof, minus some TV-time ;) The most important thing is that it was fun ^^.
First, let’s start with LiveTweeting’s value proposition - it’s not quite set in stone, but the gist of it is in there: …
LiveTweeting seeqnced!
seeqnce:
Minutes ago, The LiveTweeting Team wrapped up its first meeting at Seeqnce: discussing and preparing for the upcoming, end-user enabled, version 0.6 of LiveTweeting.
We started LiveTweeting about 9 months ago as a raison d’être at Le Web 2009 - an experiment in crowdsourcing real-time translation of English tweets to Arabic. The experiment was a major success as Arabic tweets filled...