Internet ‘n Computers

Flying over the sphere

by Haitham Sabbah December 22, 2005

Sorry guys for the outage. Some technical issue, resulted from load on the server. But guess what? As much as this is upsetting me, it is also evident that visitors to this site has grown so big in the last few months, in fact exceeding all the KPI’s that I expected. Well according to my [...]

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WordPress 2.0

by Haitham Sabbah December 21, 2005

This is only really of interest for WordPress bloggers. According to the WordPress development blog, the WP 2. 0 Release Candidate is ready for all and sundry to download.

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Google Zeitgeist 2005

by Haitham Sabbah December 21, 2005

The always fascinating google zeitgeist has been released for this year. A list of top search terms, and other rankings. While Myspace is the 1st highest gainer, Wikipedia came 4th. See other search result ranking and trends of World Affairs, Nature, Movies, Celebrities and Phenomena.

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If you are in US, Blogging Can Harm You

by Haitham Sabbah December 8, 2005

This is a true story of Hoder (Iranian Blogger), who was barred from entering the States because of something they found on his blog after googling his name right there at the border: Goodbye to America I’ve literally become homeless. My new home is now hoder.com and I’m not joking. You might have seen a [...]

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Off to London!

by Haitham Sabbah December 7, 2005

Well, now I’m officially on my way to London to attend Global Voices 2nd annual meeting. So far, only one bumper, flight delay. I’m traveling on Gulf Air, the flight was suppose to take off at 1:00 pm (Bahrain local time +3 GMT), but they never fail to surprise you with delays, it is now [...]

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Global Voices Online 2nd Annual Meeting

by Haitham Sabbah December 5, 2005

Finally, Global Voices Online, 2nd Annual Meeting is knocking the doors. The meeting will take place in London this weekend December 10, 2005, and I’m looking forward to attend it. As some of you already know, I’m working with GVO as Middle East/N. Africa Editor, for the last few months. During which, I made so [...]

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Flickr Blocked in Saudi, Again!

by Haitham Sabbah December 4, 2005

Not to be missing to follow the steps of UAE, Saudi blocked Flickr again. I just can’t get what stupid policy is this to block it one day and then open it later and then block it again. What is the benefit of doing such a thing? Is it a game some employees in these [...]

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Fake FBI virus catches net users

by Haitham Sabbah November 26, 2005

A Windows virus that warns users about illegal net use is spreading online. The bug-bearing message claims to come from either the FBI, CIA or German BKA police agency. It warns users they have been detected visiting illegal sites. Anti virus companies said that outbreak was the "biggest of the year." [Hat tip: Mary]

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Don’t Bomb Us – A blog by Al Jazeera Staffers

by Haitham Sabbah November 24, 2005

"Don’t Bomb Us – A Blog by Al Jazeera Staffer" Bookmark this http://dontbomb.blogspot.com/ Al Jazeera staff members decided to start a new blog to to give voice to a lot of concern around the office regarding what is going on – and will also serve as a tribute to fallen journalists. [Hat tip: Staff Member [...]

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Flickr Blocked in UAE, Again!

by Haitham Sabbah November 23, 2005

Flickr is blocked again in UAE? I just heard that from SC. This is also confirmed here and here. What the heck is all this about? Since I lived in UAE for few years, I know that Etisalat have this sort of stupid unexplained actions. But anyway, may this slow down the UAE spam on [...]

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The Jordanian Blogsphere got late, early out there

by Haitham Sabbah November 19, 2005

All of a sudden, almost everyone in the Jordanian blogsphere is talking politics. While this is good, it is late. Late for what happened already, but ahead of what might be coming ahead (good and bad – God forbid). Some time back, it was impossible to get a conversation going. Conversation worth the time spending. [...]

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A phalanx of secret police at Expression Under Repression

by Haitham Sabbah November 19, 2005

Submitted By: amichel Rebecca MacKinnon and Ethan Zuckerman hosted "Expression Under Repression," a workshop at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis (for more on that, please check out these blog posts).  Rebecca and Ethan are co-founders of Global Voices, a blog that features citizen journalists from around the world.  They also maintain [...]

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Who is Riya?

by Haitham Sabbah November 19, 2005

As expected. Google can’t fail to copy Yahoo (same goes for Yahoo). Rumors are now that Google are going to buy a new project called Riya. Someone says this is highly rumored and unconfirmed news, but you can’t expect to see google running without something like Flickr which was bought earlier this year by Yahoo. [...]

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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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False Freedom

by Haitham Sabbah November 17, 2005

Human Rights Watch released its long-awaited report on Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa. This report examines Internet trends and policies in the Middle East and North Africa region as they affect freedom of expression, focusing particularly on Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. Human Rights Watch selected these four countries for closer [...]

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