Knowledge Management

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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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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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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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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