My letter was published in the Financial Times today. Here, for posterity, is the letter in full…
Search neutrality keeps the internet dynamic
Published: Financial Times July 20 2010 02:15
From Mr Adil Allawi
Sir, Google’s Marissa Mayer (“Do not neutralise the web’s endless search”, July 15) is right to say that government regulation will stifle innovation in a [...]
Does anyone find this worrying:
http://www.vimeo.com/9194146
It is a very cute and cool advert for Salsa and it jumps out of your screen. For a while I have been blocking Flash in my browser just because of these take-over-your-screen adverts but that was only because they annoyed me. This advert goes a few steps past annoying to [...]
Following my friends comments once Google dropped Buzz on an unsuspecting public…
@S Feb 10th 5:28pm I don’t get this. What’s going on? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?
@S Feb 10th 5:29pm WHOA ITS LIKE FACEBOOK AND TWITTER. FWITTERBOOK!
@S Feb 10th 7:21pm It’s funny that Buzz comes about right when I started thinking about the lack [...]
I first heard of Google in the late 90’s from The Scout Report, an academic mailing list reviewing all that is new in the world of research. Google was their favorite web search engine. Since then I have become part of what I can only call the Google Generation. And it was a generational phenomenon. [...]
Be afraid, be very afraid…
Preparing my Unicode presentation I thought it would be really nice to show a simple demonstration. The topic of my presentation is “Mashing Up Bidi” about just how messy it can be to mix Arabic and English content in a mashed up web page. The idea is to take an an English Twitter or RSS [...]
Now don’t get me wrong. I like Microsoft and they can come up with some really good technology. But you just have to wonder about their marketing department sometimes.
Their latest Arabic effort, Maren, is arguably a nice tool (albeit not an original idea) that intelligently converts transliterated Arabic typed on an English keyboard into real [...]
Mash-ups is a relatively new fashion in web design - taking bits of other web sites to build up your own web page. It is not new or special - any search engine showing a small summary of a web site that it has found is a form of mash-up. Integrating an rss feed is [...]
I am at Didacta, the big German Education trade fare, this week. having been at shows from Arabia to the UK it is obvious that there are huge opposites. First, the British education market and the German Education market are poles apart. Here, in Didacta, there are stand after stand of educational engineering products on [...]
You know this market is controlled by a mafia… If I take one to court he will just send the judge 10 prostitutes and case over.
One person complaining about how hard it was to run a business in an Arab country that will not be named.
This is typical of the attitude many Arabs have about [...]
