Ismail Dhorat

So, i logged on this morning to my email, and finally i found an email from Google with aGoogle Wave Invite. Now i am not sure how i got this invite, i never asked anyone (If any of my friends added me thanks). However i did sign up for the developer preview and was put [...]

Arabcrunch, one of the blogs i read on a regular basis, writes about Google launching an Arabic transliteration service Ta3eeb that competes with Arabic transliteration and search service Yamli.
According to ArabCrunch, Google is using it’s monopoly on search and advertising to promote it’s own service. When a search is done for Yamli, an ad is [...]

Google Reader, has a feature where it recommends new feeds. It continues to surprise me (as well as freak me out) at how good the recommendations sometimes are.
Previously, it recommended people from the local SA blogosphere, that i had been following on twitter.  This morning, it recommended me the twitter stream of Umair Hague who [...]

So for the first time, in the many moons i have been using Gmail. I got back a “Server Error’ message. Anyone else facing similar issues? See below:

Doing a search earlier i came across something interesting. If you search for “CellC Ussd Recharge” the top most link is MTN which is actually a direct competitor of Cell C. Jeremiah Owang say’s Google is actually your coporate homepage. Considering that, do you really want to drive people doing searches for your brand to [...]

Read Write web recently ran a post on monetizing twitter with a business model using ads. The post was good, and i believe it makes sense However i believe they missed one key point. Twitter can be used from your mobile phone.
When Google launched image based mobile ads. i briefly covered what google mobile [...]

Google launched mobile image ads a few days back, and i have been asking myself will they work? Techcrunch also ran a poll and unsurprisingly a large portion of people selected that they would not follow a mobile ad. However Google does point out that with increasing usage of mobile internet & larger screen [...]