-
General
Team at Qurtaba have added another front to their impressive Urdu language based apps, they have launched their Alif Bay Pay app for Amazon Kindle, as well. Earlier it was released on iTunes.
I love what Qurtaba are doing in a niche area of Urdu Language. Although their start was from Nan-Map for which they now have an iPhone App.There love for Urdu language related apps has been flourishing in recent months. Most of their apps are doing very well on app store, some impressive numbers for their popular Urdu apps are as follows.
Urdu Writer: 10K downloads in 3 months – average 200 downloads…
Read more →
-
Featured Startup General
I happened to be in Quetta on a business trip last month with no idea of where to dine alone. Being a typical Lahoriite, a die-hard food lover, it matters to me that I try the best food of the place I visit. So this is where FCPakistan came to my rescue. I simply logged in, typed in my desired specifications and got atleast 5 suggestions.
The listing included their opening times, specific facilities like ease for physically disabled customers, credit card acceptance, smoking areas, take away facility, whether valet parking was available or not, and even directions to get there! What more could you want.
Although that was the…
Read more →
-
Featured Startup General
If you have any thing to do with entrepreneurship, its impossible you have not come across Jawwad Farid either in person or in virtual world of his blogs and judging different events realting to startups in Pakistan. He is also the author of Reboot which we reviewed a while back.
Jawwad has been writing on Finance, Risk and Treasury for some time now on learning corporate finance.
I guess that has lead to FourQuants.com. FourQuants helps people understand concepts related to finance. Following topics are mentioned in about us section of the website
- Risk management
- Derivatives products
- Option pricing models
- Basel and capital adequacy regulation
- Financial modeling
- Treasury
…
Read more →
-
Coffee Session General Marketing/Adv
OLX is a global online retailer and auction site. They have an impressive footprint in a little less than 100 countries, each with their own specific domain (like .pk for Pakistan and .in for India).
In Pakistan they have been operating under olx.com.pk for some time with people using it to sell things online.
Recently they have started advertising heavily on Television, a medium seldom used by online businesses previously. The ads (two of which have appeared ) are witty and fun to watch.
The most important factor of these adds is that they are being advertised on media which previously none of our online businesses have used.
Most of…
Read more →
-
General
Round 1 of TiE is about to reach its completion on 22nd of Jan, 2012 at Marriott, Islamabad in which ten teams will participate. Four teams will be shortlisted for the level 2. I also had the opportunity to participate in TiE All Asia Business Plan Competition 2012 along with my team members in the first few stages of level 1. Although we didn’t have the chance to go beyond stage1 but just participating helped us understand our own idea better and to polish our proposed technique along with development of a solid business plan. TiE all Asia Business Plan Competition provides a platform for generation and development of new…
Read more →
-
Announcements General Mobile Apps Software & I.T.
TenPearls has announced the successful delivery of mobile apps for Dawn.com on multiple platforms, including Apple iOS (iPad and iPhone), Android and Symbian (Nokia). The mobile apps have received great feedback from the users from around the world. It may be worth mentioning here that DAWN.COM is the #1 English News website from Pakistan averaging over 16 million page views a month, and 3.1 million unique visitors from around the world.
More details can be accessed at mobile apps for Dawn Media Group by TenPearls.
Read more →
-
General
CIO Pakistan started blog awards last year. Its is a good sign when some one takes initiative and starts some thing new. However its also difficult to introduce this into an already budding field of new media in Pakistan. Last years (or two years back now since its 2012) Awards were initiated so as it is expected it faced initial growing up pains. It always takes time for such thing to wins the trust of the community. And bloggers are one of the most hard people to win over, most of these are rebels in their own rights people who have started blogging to show the world their opinion…
Read more →
-
Featured Startup General
Pakreport.org a tool which was instrumental in gathering statistics during the massive flooding in Pakistan, has created another study/stats gathering tool for our electoral activities. Interestingly its called do we vote
With political scene in Pakistan heating up it provides very valuable information to party supporters and their leaders. A quick look at it shows the all known facts that people in rural areas take their voting more seriously than all of us supposedly educated and enlightened urban population.
Pakreport.org was an initiative launched by Faisal Chohan of BrightSpyre during the floods, the effort enabled people on the ground to send sms (the most spread out communication medium in country)…
Read more →
-
Featured Startup General
This is a revelation that came to me when I recently quit my comfy corporate job for the second time. If you are below 40 and some one asks you about how is your job going and your answer is not in tune of “I like my job because I love the work”.
You need to pause and asses your career, last time I answered this question my answer was “I like the job, because the benefits are good”, and that made me think (offcourse there were other factors as well). But if you are doing a job in which to satisfy your own self you have to look at…
Read more →
Twitter
Facebook
Delicious
Digg
Stumble
Reddit
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