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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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4:43 pm
what’s the big deal simple script :p
You might have used meebo… or made one for yourself. Easy stuff.
12:23 am
you know i hate it when people read tech blogs make comments and dont actually know a shit !! meebo doesnt let you put a chat widget on YOUR website. it only has chat rooms on its OWN website.
12:41 am
actually meebo does give a chat thing to put on your page. But with that, only the admin can chat with users that come on the website. plugoo.com does the same. Bumpin is different. it lets people talk to each other and can shout messages to all. in any case its really well done and seems to work very well !!
4:09 am
bumpin enables live chat with people visiting same website or story. other dosent provide this feature. very well done. i love user interface
10:02 am
Spurious go do your research first before commenting.
10:51 am
BumpIn turns each web page into a chat room; meebo, userplane etc. are traditional web chat clients. In other other words, in the service offered by Userplane and BumpIn, they are somewhat similar — but their model is very different. One is designed to enable discussions around content (BumpIn), the other (userplane, meebo) provides a standard web IM, with traditional chatrooms etc.
I, however, really object to the comment made by Corona. “You might have used meebo… or made one for yourself. Easy stuff.” Meebo and userplane are both valuated at around $100 Million each. Such a comment shows complete ignorance of technology on Corona’s part. We should be proud of the fact that a Pakistani startup has entered this very hot space, with an product that appears to have all the ingredients to capture the market. Also checkout the chat browser plugin on bumpin’s site — that’s quite a tech gizmo!
11:25 am
Thank you Usman for details, I will definitely look into it.
3:28 pm
I agree with Usman Khan. BumpIn is not just an IM for chatrooms, it’s much more. Especially their Firefox plugin is the coolest and most usable product in this domain so far, though they don’t seem to have attracted enough traffic on it yet. They even have BumpIn live for those who are apprehensive of installing another firefox plugin and want to try it first – check it out at http://site.bumpin.com/browser/index.html
Despite being the best product in this market so far, I don’t know why they have not advertised it properly over the Internet!
6:17 pm
As usual, stupid arguments and stupid comments. I don’t even want to talk about what Meebo et al. can or cannot do since I am pretty darn sure that none of you have even tried implementing Meebo Rooms on your website, or for that matter the APIs of any other sites that have been discussed on this thread.
Awww sure, it is a Pakistani company and being Green & White we should hug it but honestly people, get real. Beating the same old dead horse over n over again is not getting us anywhere.
P.S. Best products on the market (read Internet) hardly need to be advertised.
6:21 pm
On a more serious note, it is seriously not about the technology. You can build the Large Hadron Collider into your teeny weeny lil web app and no one will bat an eyelid unless you web app does something useful.
A quick show of hands. Who feels that we have time and/or need to talk to random people on the really cool websites we visit?
9:15 pm
Tim O’Reilly perfectly puts my sentiments in words . He wants us to get serious.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/10/tim-oreilly-get.html
11:04 pm
Show of hands !! . i Doooo. i Dooo
11:17 pm
Maxi you just replied (3 times) to “random people on a cool website” — should we count you in also?
11:42 pm
Why so much hatred towards each other…. cant we seriously be mature enough to make a point without calling the other person an idiot?
11:44 pm
Seriously folks, cheer up… if we work together, we may have some semblence of making it as a society. Otherwise why not just drop down to cannibalism and be done with it
Its ok for someone to not know the full picture when they’re commenting. Lets learn from each other huh
1:30 am
Osama you are right so let me reply seriously
Maxi here is what i think.
When personal computers first came out. No body really knew why they should have one at their home. It was just so charismatic!! thats all. I remember microsoft’s ad saying their windows 95 has a Digital Clock !!. it turns out that when millions of people had a PC (may be they wanted to have a digital clock or play games, etc :p), internet had a chance to be invented.
the thing is you never know how people can use your product.All you can do is put your idea to reality. People will find a way to use it. The moto is to have fun and let your creativity flow. If you think too much trying to figure out whats serious, you may limit your potential. Maybe this chat widget is a stupid idea but thats one opinion. people may find an excellent use for it. just give them a chance
6:57 am
if there is anybody readin this right now if u have a meebo contact me at pepsquad1paige i need a few friends in my chat room so anyways write me back on my chat room o and any guys over 14 dont write me please thank you luv ya’ll
7:04 am
just a question for maxi are u a boy or a girl and how old r u
1:27 am
so bord siting on my bed watching tv and want somebody to talk to so please somebody talk to im so bord