Knowledge Management

Microsoft reading your mind!

by Haitham Sabbah October 18, 2007

“Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions,” Microsoft says. The company is not happy with evaluating human response while they interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers, so, they wants to read the data straight from your brain as [...]

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It’s all about OIL

by Haitham Sabbah January 26, 2007

The New York Times has a cool tool which you can search Bush’s SOTU speeches for any word or phrase and visualize how many times it was said since 2001 until 2007. It is interesting enough tool to make a little search and see where do some ‘Iraq related’ statements stand, especially that I’m talking [...]

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Politics explained with two cow analogy

by Haitham Sabbah January 7, 2007

Maybe you got this by email sometime as I got it, but anyway, while cleaning the spam now I found this interesting piece. Interesting enough to share with others, so here it is: Politics explained with two cow analogy: FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. PURE SOCIALISM: You have [...]

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Yahoo! New Homepage Design.

by Haitham Sabbah June 4, 2006

One of the world’s most visited webpage, Yahoo.com, has just had a major re-design (can be found at http://yahoo.com/preview). The Yahoo! re-design is officially flagged as a “preview” (a.k.a. beta) and it isn’t yet the default yahoo.com homepage. There is no firm date for the go-live of the new Web 2.0 design. Here is how [...]

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Google guilty of revealing Israelis� military secrets

by Haitham Sabbah December 26, 2005

Google, which offers satellite photos of locations across the globe, has agreed to limit the resolution of footage of sensitive military installations and vulnerable sites in Israel. The locations are: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the Dead Sea, Masada, the Dimona Nuclear Research Center (DNRC), Sdot Micha (listed as a nuclear weapons base), the Kinneret, and the [...]

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Google Intelligence Network

by Haitham Sabbah November 18, 2005

Just got this from official Google blog; they announced Google Base. They say it is an extension of their existing content collection efforts like web crawl, Google Sitemaps, Google Print and Google Video. On the other hand, I also came across Google Analytics, which actually monitors your site visitors and promises you to watch how [...]

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Yahoo Site Explorer

by Haitham Sabbah November 12, 2005

New service by Yahoo! Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search including your blog. View the most popular pages from your blog and other sites, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page (similar like if you type �link:www.sitename.com� [...]

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Arab Blogs Map!

by Haitham Sabbah November 7, 2005

Greetings! Was playing with Frappr! and thought why not create a map for Arab Blogs and Bloggers? So here we go. I’ve just created an account for Arab Blogs and foreigners blogging from the Arab world. All you have to do to join is just select the name of the city you live in, write [...]

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BlogDay2005 is here!

by Haitham Sabbah August 31, 2005

Today is the DAY! Here is my the result of my quest in random order: 1. From Mauritian: The Carine’s Page, Life of a Mauritian girl residing in Singapore. 2. From South Africa: Cherryflava pics, a blog edited and photographed by Jonathan Cherry. Shot mainly on location in Cape Town. 3. From American Samoa: Stuck [...]

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Why does the terror story keep changing? Ask these guys!

by Haitham Sabbah July 26, 2005

Matthew Parris writes: I name the four powers who are behind the al-Qaeda conspiracy AT TIMES of national emergency, the habit of the news media to drop a story or a lead in mid-air when it seems to be going nowhere unsettles the public. The media betray a sort of sheepish wish to �move on� [...]

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Casualties in Iraq

by Haitham Sabbah July 7, 2005

Here’s an interesting animated map of casualties in Iraq day by day over the past couple of years.

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Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

by Haitham Sabbah June 4, 2005

In case you missed it, this is the list of the “Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries”, you should really take a look. Of course, the list was compiled by “a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders.”If anyone hasn’t already read any of these (like me) add them [...]

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Ask your (USA) media why they are silent on the AIPAC espionage story

by Haitham Sabbah May 31, 2005

Received by email (exposeaipac@gmail.com): We appeal to activists everywhere to hold the media in this country accountable for not reporting what everyone else in the world is reporting. It’s a shame that the following story is headline news in all of the Israeli media outlets and that not a single American newspaper finds this news [...]

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Why the World Is Flat

by Haitham Sabbah May 6, 2005

This is Globalization 3.0. In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to [...]

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Cell Phones No Luxury to Palestinians

by Haitham Sabbah May 5, 2005

Palestinian youths do not buy mobiles just to hear them ring.
�We send SMS alerts to university students in the Gaza Strip informing them about exam and registration dates and keep them updated on the latest developments in their respective universities. All they need is just o send us their full names, their universities and their mobile numbers.”

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