Monthly Archives: July 2009

Facebook, Twitter .. Around Surprises

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Each of both social networks Facebook and Twitter had surprises to show for their users . Twitter released its new home design to users which is more “blue” and better than the older one while defining what it means to tweet . so It’s not about Just Blogging or “Micro-blogging” but It’s now sharing everything that happens :


Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world

Twitter is more than a fun tool to share “What are you doing” with your friends, It’s more likely to be a source of information to visitors, users and Media .

It’s not just about the new design but showing some new way from twitter to sort trending topics which is popular right now, popular today or this week . Twitter is introducing its new media to public and Media to start to know that media is not the only way to know the news, people are the source of news and whatever happens on earth .

While Twitter was celebrating its new home page, a Facebook bug allowed some applications like Twitter and Friendfeed to post status updates that had access before to send to Facebook . It was really confusing that you are awake at 5 am or something like me and find your tweets are going to be updates on Facebook and you are through mobile and cannot get to reach those apps and remove them till bug is fixed .

Maybe Facebook would start looking for something new instead of just working on the design and get some features as “Like” which I still don’t use it a lot like Friendfeed .

Twitter next step : More Languages ? I hope so

How to get MSN Working in Empathy IM (Ubuntu) ?

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If you’re upgrading from an old version of Ubuntu to Jaunty (9.04) and using Empathy Instant Messenger, then MSN Client will never work with you and You’ll get a “Connection Error” Message .

To Solve this issue All you have to do is close Empathy and Go to Terminal and reconfigure pymsn to get work again , just like that :

dpkg-reconfigure python-msn

And then Start Empathy again and your MSN Account will work for you :)

Source : Launchpad Bug #338891

Microsoft Maren, Competeing other Services ?

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Microsoft Maren is a newely tool released by Cairo Microsoft Innovation Lab which concidered as a service like Yamli, Google Ta3reeb or Onkosh .

According to CMIC : Microsoft Maren is a Windows extension that comes to the rescue, allowing you to type Arabic in Roman characters (Romanized Arabic, Arabizi, Arabish or Franco-Arabic) and have it converted on the fly to Arabic script.

As a Windows Tool, It’s very helpful and interesting as It’s the first Desktop Application to offer this service Unlike other services which is web-based . But the whole point is not about the tool itself .

Promoting Maren was not in the right way. I’m blogging in English and I chat with some friends in Franco-Arab way but I really care about Arabic Content and promoting the proper content to users, But Maren Video Demonstration didn’t show that It’s helping users to use Arabic Letters or Franco-Arab but It just says Screw Arabic letters .. Write in Roman Characters and we will convert to Arabic .

CMIC with this tool is promoting the Extinction of Arabic Language for people who are kind of slow with writing Arabic Letters ! I really think Microsoft should think again how they promote their tools like that.