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We covered AboutUs way back when the office was setup in Lahore  

http://greenwhite.org/2007/09/21/aboutusorg-dev-office-in-lahore-what-do-they-do/

AboutUs kept going ahead Ray King was a smart entrepreneur even at the height of economic crises AboutUs secured a 2.5 Million USD Funding, and recently went ahead and bought another startup Jyte in January.

How ever it seems all is not well,  they recently closed their Lahore office, here is the post from Ray’s own blog to confirm it. What could have gone wrong?

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So its been raining facebook games recently on Green and White. Here is another entry to our aspirant young entrepreneurs making games specific to facebook.

Forgive me if i seem a little biased towards this game but my whole child has passed around a carom board as it was kind of a family game .

So back to the game, it is one of the things most of us have thought about why not take our local game on line, why don’t we have a version of ludo, but then a lot of us are just thinkers and few go ahead and do it. same is the case with these two gentle men Ata Krimani and  Shakil Awan, one of them is the developer other is the artist a killer combination for small app production.

Game playability is outstanding, the graphic do bring vivid memories of my childhood. Currently you can play against an AI Computer Characters but they do have plans for multiplayer capabilities in future, other things are similar to a typical facebook game in which your score is displayed on profile etc. The only thing i missed in this game was the delicate cutshot,  and boric powder filled hands. here is the link do give it a shot and don’t blame the wasted time on us

http://apps.facebook.com/carromchallenge/

Here is a short video/

Telenor has become the second national telecom operator to start using the Group SMS solution developed by Confiz Solutions.

The solution which was initially launched with the name of Mango Party Ufone earlier got it and launched it as SMS Buddies. Now recently Telenor has also gone ahead and is offering this service as Group SMS.

This is a healthy sign for other aspiring entrepreneurs who are focusing on VAS for telecoms, it seems that they are open for deploying VAS developed here in Pakistan which provides a very good chance for some one with limited access to western companies, previously Telenor also deployed picture sharing solution from PixSenxe as PicShare and was later also deployed for Telenor in Norway (their headquarter country) as Online Album.

Lots of congrats to the confiz team, I know personally that winning a deal from a telecom is a very hard task, it takes a lot of effort and time to get it through the door, hope they keep going like this, so if some one is keeping score they have 2 out of 5 in the bag 3 more to go which will make them the single platform for such service in Pakistan

PITB is working with a new energy, they have some new and seasoned professionals at helm and are seeking very close industry collaboration in moving forward. One of their initiative is to arrange an IT bootcamp for students.

Jehan Ara on her blog has covered this in detail here. There has always been talks about gaps the Industry faces when hiring new graduates and the time it takes to make that individual productive for any organization.  PITB with the help of Local industry and Universities is trying to fund an effort for bridging this gap, and to get a feel of what industry wants they had rightly invited Industry for a talk on Tuesday.

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Note : This is a rant so you can skip it if want.

Or at least that what they make you believe with all their advertisement. First a disclaimer I have at times lied to my parents or at work while being late or hanging out with friends I have done that all. But I am uneasy with the fact that an organization bases a complete product and is spending millions of rupees to promote this unethical things,

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We covered Feline Frenzy by white rabbit few days ago, seems there are more startups than I had originally thought who are working on facebook   domain.

Web Sketchers a very young startup of Recently graduated Fast students have launched 3d Flash based game for Facebook named Fly By.

Ohh and I must take time to appreciate their website, its wonderful, flash based but really well thought out. I have liked a site (flash based) after a long time so do go over there too.

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