-
General
When a 19th century romantic French writer by the name of Victor Hugo said “Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come” he obviously could not envision Pakistani bureaucracy. Not only can it reduce an idea to nothing more than its meager skeletal remains squirming in its own vile, it too often does.
Come 2004, the IT bubble is about to burst in a military run, democratic, American influenced politically independent subcontinent country by the name of Pakistan. It is here in our story that along comes an idea. It is a simple idea yet revolutionary in every way, the idea to prepare this country for the…
Read more →
-
Events General
The past whole week I was really excited about going to the exhibition on 5th and 6th at expo center Lahore since the theme read “home expo and super car expo”. I was counting on seeing some innovative home solutions, fancy cars and a lot of appliances for both. As I entered the arena, an ear piercing heavy bike engine race greeted me. Oh wow nice, we have bikes here too… and lots of them, but let’s see if we have the actual products that are expected.
First cars!! Honda Launched its new City Aspire at the event. This attracted a lot of young crowd who wanted to check it…
Read more →
-
General
NOTE: This is a sponsored post
Football. The most popular sport in the world. That may be hard to believe, we being a die-hard cricket nation, but there are many amongst us who get their blood pumping whenever our favorite team kicks some balls (pun intended). There’s excitement in the air, and the airwaves for that matter, when Spanish rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona are about to have a face-off on the field. Manchester United or Chelsea? The answer could incite either jeers or cheers, depending on who you’re surrounded by. It feels like you belong to an exclusive club really, not to mention how convenient it is to…
Read more →
-
Coffee Session General
There are two main things that are currently causing out growth in ICT to stall. One is the lack of original ideas, so most of the entrepreneurs either copy what is already around internationally or locally (same ideas of online shopping, online bidding) we still have not hit the jackpot with someone creating some thing like instagram or drawsomething and being acquired by one of the big names.
The second issue always lamented by entrepreneurs is lack of any funding sources in Pakistan. Over the years we have seen efforts being made to create funds which would help but what ended happening that most of these funds either did…
Read more →
-
Coffee Session General
We all know about the 7 layers of the OSI model. This is the framework by which computer networks are defined. Starting with the physical layer, going through the transport layer and finally culminating in the application layer where end user applications reside. I believe that this should be redefined to include and additional layer – the Social Layer. From the current vantage point, the Social Layer lies right above the Application layer – hence it is served by the Application layer.
The 90s witnessed a boom in what is now referred to as web 1.0. This consisted of static applications hosted over the web. Static applications meant that…
Read more →
-
General Mobile Apps Software & I.T.
Pakistani IT industry has been progressing rapidly over the last few years. It is heartening to see that the industry players are innovating and working in different areas to establish their expertise.
Recently, TenPearls, one of the leading IT companies of Pakistan, launched “Carumba!”, a 3D car racing game for iPhone and iPad. Carumba! has been designed and developed by TenPearls’ innovation labs. Launched as a free game, Carumba! allows users to earn coins during the race, and redeem them to unlock other cars and tracks or to get additional nitro boosts. It has also been integrated with Apple’s Game Center.
The game has received very good response from…
Read more →
-
Events General
‘Rethinking Pakistan’ [and my expression goes LOL and I will explain why] was the theme of the conference which took place at margalla hills Islamabad on March 31st 2011 organized by TEDx, lets just summarize here what TEDx is; before we further dig into the “theme” and happenings of this conference.
TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) and ’x’ denotes the independently organized events under the TED umbrella, mission is “Ideas worth spreading” and this events basically brings together individuals, communities and organizations with the opportunity to excite dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level (geographically). The programs combine live presenters, performers and pre-recorded talks from some of the most brilliant…
Read more →
-
Announcements Events General
ICT R&D Fund aims to provide graduating students a chance to really make their final projects counts. I have always felt that students in their final year some times product excellent products which due to lack of any infrastructure and proper guidance plus funding just go in the Universities Libraries.
Seems ICT R & D fund is giving these students a chance to take their projects to the next level by acquiring funding, if you are a final year student doing a project all you need is to get this form filled and submitted through your head of department .
Last date for submission for forms is 31st…
Read more →
-
Coffee Session General
I wanted to discuss the Thiel Fellowship and sort of run the idea among our readership to figure out if it was justified or not. Bay Area hedge fund manager Peter Thiel started a Fellowship program in his name about a year ago trying to capitalize not on start ups, but the smart kids who may actually come up with the next billion dollar idea.
Let there be no mistake. Innovation solves problems. Bankers, lawyers and hot shot executives are good for only one thing: managing an existing infrastructure. It is the innovators who turn existing ideas on to their heads and enable breakthroughs. Considering the point above, it…
Read more →
Twitter
Facebook
Delicious
Digg
Stumble
Reddit
ProPakistan has started what they’re calling a "Professionals Board" which is further being marketed as being a "social network for Pakistani community, especially for the people presently associated as an expert or lead in any of the industry. The board is open for people within Pakistan as well as over seas Pakistanis."
12:20 am
Well, spammers have accounts at Monster and other job sites. What can you do about that?
12:33 am
Well Hazi, for starters I can track them down with their accounts and shut down those accounts?
Atleast I’ll know who’s taking the info and spamming? And yes Monster and others are directly legally liable for such things under privacy protection. I can sue Monster if they give my private info to a legitimate spammer account.
This board has no such tracing
12:41 am
This is seriously very worrisome, but what I would like to know, if this was published with their consent
Secondly I feel its just a n00b attempt to jump into the job market. Blog style
1:03 am
Hmmm! We will surely look into what you guys just said and will try to make few changes to it. Just to add to your knowledge, all the information has been shared with consent of the users and they all have seen it.
I agree there are few issues and i appreciate that you pointed them out for us and we will surely rectify them after consultation with the team.
Teeth! For you i have one simple line “You never appreciated what we have been doing till date but you were one of the first to come out with you criticism!”
I think that is enough for you to understand what i mean!
1:29 am
Junaid – good professional comeback. There’s a lot of value in professional profiles but not in terms of resumes.
Good luck and let me know as soon as you’ve fixed some of the challenges so that I can do a followup post.
1:44 am
looks like a university graduate book
format in which candidate information has been inserted is indeed very specific.
There should be an employer accounts who can access these resumes after a specific validation process in term of registration but it shouldn’t be public – but neway people who posted their info have no issue being public. Best of luck !!
10:45 am
******ProPakistan has started what they’re calling a “Professionals Board” ……..”********
Thanks for the timely post Osama! Highly appreciated!
********Actually what it really is, is a blog with people’s resumes’ as posts……….********
Yes we’re using an Open Source for it that we found better for the execution of idea and testing different things at this moment. We’ll definitely be moving for a better one, and will keep you updated accordingly. Now coming to the point you mentioned, there’s no phone number display thingy at all… Please do let me know if you’ve found any!
Secondly yes, we do display email addresses [with profile holders’ consent], that’s in fact not hyperlinked, on some places you may find emails hyperlinked, but we’re working on to remove that. We’ll be removing the email completely and add a contact option shortly.
********Even worse is the fact that anyone can submit anyone else’s profile on this anonymously – they verify the info provided but not who submitted it to them… ……..
That’s exactly we’re to do! Besides that, all the profiles on board have been published with the consent of profile holders, and this will be same in future. Yes, we’re working on privacy policy and user agreement that will be added shortly!
********There’s a reason people invented login mechanisms and elaborate verification processes. ……..”
Agreed, but ‘A’ can submit ‘B’s’ profile more appropriately then. That case can verify an email only! I’ll highly appreciate your ideas in this context!
@Teeth
I did answer your point in above context, please let me know if something left untouched
@smaak
Thanks for the feedback; we’ll be moving that step ahead, inshaAllah!