Arabic Q&A system based on Google Friend Connect

The third party GFC gadget created by barry welch is really cool, but with a big limitation of not supporting any other language other than English. When you try to enter Arabic words in the question or answer field, they will not display.

And because i think that this gadget could have great potential, i decided to make it speak Arabic. Actually me javascript skills are modest, so it took my sometime to pinpoint the line of code responsible for this limitation.

Skipping the technical (trivial) tweaks i did, the gadget is now speaking Arabic.

Please check it here and tell me what you think! and tell me if you want the source code! Actually you don't need to ask me, just download the latest.xml file. And do your changes.

Thanks again for the excellent work of barry welch

Please help us convince people to Support Arabic in Android

Your voice does count!

We think that android operating system is perfect OS for our region for many reasons.

Help convince Google to take arabic language seriously on anroid.

Amr Khaled new Reality Show: Another step backward

In my opinion, Amr Khaled new program or reality show called "مجددون" is defective by design. It's based on religious and gender segregation as the video clearly shows. Another step backward for the Arabs.

Jeeran.com is doing Evil and they seem to like it!

Update 12/23/2009: I have to re-post this again. Jeeran is still doing it, but this time with a more malicious way. They copy and paste the content and they provide a static text at the end of the copied article, without proper linking to the source. And in a very obfuscated manner. EVIL JEERAN. Here are examples:

\http://www.jeeran.com/technologya/a/node/37897
http://www.jeeran.com/technologya/a/node/29656
http://www.jeeran.com/technologya/a/node/28663

I am running an experimental blog which is basically an Arabic blog about mobile news in Arabic. We have some volunteers who write original content in the blog. Since the inception of the project, and we have been suffering with Arab Bloggers and forums copying and posting our content with no mercy!

Now this is becoming a real problem, since Google is not doing very good job in filtering the Arabic spam content in search result page, and i didn't find any reliable spam reporting mechanism.

Now I know that Google is not a big fan of indexing forums and message boards, so i wasn't really worried when i saw our content is copied and pasted insanely by them.

Now Jeeran.com (which is supposed to be a respected Arab site) is doing that, but in a tweaked way! Now they have this new functionality called "Channels" which as they describe it: designed especially for sophisticated users! Where people can post content in various categories!

So this is nice, but what i saw is everything but sophistication. So to make it short, Jeeran sophisticated users are copying and pasting content from all over the web like hell! Especially in the technology Channel. Now I understand that such huge websites rely on reporting fraudulent content by the users themselves, but guess what? The spam reporting functionality of Jeeran is not working!

Let me show you an example how hurtful can this be (click to enlarge):

Congratulations for the Winner of Nokia 5800

mabroooooooook for mr Asim Safarini from Amman. He is the winner of Mobily3araby.com's prize of nokia 5800. We actually called him and he's gonna get it by hand.

More than 650 people from all over arabia participated in the draw and we did it today. Stay tuned with us and more to come soon. We're thinking of a bigger prize for our lovely visitors :)

ARABS VOTE NOW: Mobile Phone of The Year 2009 POLL

Are you Arab?
Do you use mobile phones?

If your answer is YES to the above two questions, VOTE NOW to decide what is the coolest and best mobile phone for the year 2009. VOTE NOW.

The vote will end at 12:00 AM of 01/01/2010

Please Spread the Word.

Arabic Mobile Phones Junkies WANTED (Freelance Jobs)

Exclusive for Arabic Mobile Phone Addicts:

Mobily3araby.com is a popular Arabic blog that provides daily news about the latest in mobile technology for the Arab world. Our motto is Content ... Content ... Content!



Read the ad in arabic here: http://mobily3araby.com/2009/09/blog-post_09.html

We're looking for a freelance Phone Reviewer to write detailed phone reviews and comparisons (in Arabic) about the latest of the mobile phones. Here are the requirements. Typically your job will be writing 5 comprehensive detailed articles/week discussing all aspects of the handset. The handset needs to be in your hand to do that.

- Fluent in Arabic and very good in English.
- Very good writing style in Arabic: concise and straight to the point.
- Enthusiastic about mobile phones technology.
- Like to play with latest mobile gadgets and stress test them.
- Having access to the latest mobile phones is a plus.
- Prepare hands-on video reviews for the latest mobiles.
- Write comparative analysis for two competing handsets. for example iphone .vs. HTC HD2
- HTML, Javascript basic knowledge.
- Provide personal objective opinion about mobile phones.
- Graduate of a scientific discipline (preferable)
- Hate copy and paste (we need original content)

if you're still reading, then you're interested. More details in Arabic here

http://mobily3araby.com/2009/09/blog-post_09.html

3 Photos I took in France

I am no photographer by any measure! I just like these photo i took in Paris last winter:

Champs-Élysées

Notre Dame de Paris

A nice house in Normandie

The Most Expensive Arabic Click I have Ever Seen on Adsense

This is by far the most expensive click i had for an arabic-niched website!

The Inevitable Effect of Eid on Traffic (Extremely graphical)

This what happens during Eid if you have an Arabic speaking website!