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Oh, how surprising! BBC: “Google ranked ‘worst’ on privacy”

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Google has the worst privacy policy of popular net firms, says a report.

Rights group Privacy International rated the search giant as “hostile” to privacy in a report ranking web firms by how they handle personal data.

Microsoft Web 2.0 and Refugees

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

I feel sick to my stomach when I see a multi-billion giant like Microsoft using “children refugees” as a cover up to market their latest web 2.0 businesses called live.com! While doing my search for my previous story, I came across a press release by UNHCR which said: “Microsoft launches “Click for Cause” initiative to [...]

Internet Enemies and Corruption Index 2006

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Yesterday, Transparency International published the annual report, where it showed that most Arab states are among worst ranked (UAE - 31, Qatar - 32, Bahrain - 36, Oman - 39, Jordan - 40, Kuwait - 46, Tunisia - 51, Lebanon - 63, Saudi - 70, Egypt - 70, Morocco - 79, Algeria - 84, Mauritania [...]

MAHMOOD’S BLOG TO BE BLOCKED

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Update Nov 2nd: Mahmood’s Blog is back!

It’s official, Mahmood’s Blog (http://mahmood.tv) will be blocked effective immediately, by the orders of the Bahraini Ministry of Information.

Together with 6 other web sites (listed below), the official memo was delivered to all the ISP’s in Bahrain this afternoon.

Mahmood is a prominent Bahraini/Arab blogger. His blog is the most [...]

AOL-Netscape launches social news, Digg copy

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Netscape, the brand that kick-started the dot-com boom only to lose the browser war to Microsoft, launched its latest reincarnation today with a portal focused on community-driven news. It�s not exactly a Digg clone. Submitted stories are voted on in much the same way, and the more votes a story gets the higher it appears [...]

Google-bombing action for Alaa

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Ok, let’s do something productive. It is called “Google-bombing for Alaa.” Here is the deal: http://freealaa.blogspot.com/

A team of bloggers from all around the world are teaming up to create a special blog about Alaa’s detention. Then bloggers from all around the world are asked to link to this page using the text “Egypt”. (Due [...]

Alaa detained for 15 days “pending investigation”

Monday, May 8th, 2006

Update 1: I’ll be on BBC Radio “World Have Your Say” tonight to talk about Alaa’a arrest.

Update 2: Kevin from BBC’s “World Have Your Say” writes in BBC blogs:

I contacted the Egyptian Embassy here in London to give them a chance to respond. I called around 4 pm, and their press secretary had already gone [...]

The art of Racism!

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

In deviantART, the Palestinian artists simply cannot select their country from the dA country list. “Free-Palestine” community asked deviantART to add “Palestinian territories” to the country list. The answer was: “deviantART does not tolerate Mob like mentality…”. dA then banned “Free-Palestine” members, and deleted all of their content. Members are seeking your help!

Arab internet woes

Friday, March 17th, 2006

Some sad facts: Middle Eastern audiences are literally disconnected from the rest of the world and the rest of their countrymen. Less than four per cent of people in the Arab world are internet users, according to ITU data. The penetration rate is just 3.7% - in a region with an 8.59% penetration in landline [...]

Bridging culture by army of irregulars

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

Yesterday I was reading “Bloggers: an army of irregulars” by Paul Reynolds from the BBC. He talks about what big business and the mainstream media can learn from blogs :

For many in the “mainstream media”, as bloggers call us, weblogs are at best a nuisance and at worst dangerous.

They are seen as the rantings and [...]