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 [...]

This was too good not to share, was posting a support request to twitters get satisfaction page and came across this beaut of a comment (LOL!)

Funny as hell, though it got me thinking. In this age when we broadcast our lives to the world… on Facebook, twitter, Friendfeed etc. what are the risks? Its very [...]

So i have been tweeting about @amawheelies project for the last few days, and they just hit 100 followers and i won a voucher for Nokia music services. Now i must say i really appreciate it, and would like to say thank You.
However, out of integrity i have to call out an issue i see [...]

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 [...]

I have decided to do a quick study on what the impact of social media has been on the recent Xenophobia issue. I believe if we know how it impacts on a situation we can make use of that knowledge to actually make a difference a whole lot quicker.
Stii was kind enough to provide me [...]

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 [...]

Being a regular reader of techcrunch i naturally followed them via twitter and this afternoon news broke on the techcrunch twitter account about an apparent security issue with twitter. See the screen shot below of my twitter timeline. The tweet pointed to a post on Techcrunch.

Links to the original twitter updates: 1,2,3
Initially, i took it [...]

I was pretty surprised to find waiting in transit had a post on twitter being blocked in Dubai. He basically questions the authenticity of a post at techtree.
I personally just logged on to twitter this morning and as you can see i have been posting tweets regularly. However my internet is provided by Du and [...]