Twitter is the new youtube!

What? Is shadi going crazy? Hear me out. Think back when YouTube was growing like a weed, and Google snapped it up. Most people (including me) saw this as Google “getting into the video business,” and sure, that in fact was one part of the equation. But as we all know, making money from consumer driven video ain’t a cakewalk, and hosting that video is really, really expensive. So why did Google really buy YouTube? My answer, which of course looks brilliant given it’s 20/20 hindsight: YouTube was a massive search asset.

How twitter could be a real threat to google

Google’s search engine is so dominant that it’s hard to imagine how anyone could knock the Mountain View company from its pedestal. And yet if history is any guide, such reigns never last. IBM gave way to Microsoft, which now has been usurped by Google.

Ten Questions about Google Chrome

Four years ago, I blogged about rumors that Google was working on a Web browser. I found them intriguing, as anyone would, but no such browser ever appeared, and Google became an enthusiastic Firefox booster. The blogosphere pretty much stopped pondering the possibility of a Google browser, and so did I. But now all has changed…

R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008

Before the Eternal September, but after the Great Renaming, I learned about the world on Usenet. A few years later, on ancient computers at unsociable hours, I met friends I still have today. We “spewed” about our teenage lives in ways that would be familiar to any MySpace blogger circa 2008, but that were radical, strange, and comforting in 1993. We made faraway friends, burned photos to CDs and mailed them to far away lands with way too many stamps. We were the first Net kids, really…

Wordpress 2.5 Released [Reflection on upgrade and SVN]

So on Saturday the latest version of wordpress (2.5) has been released, which has been in the making for the past 6months.
I have always been an extremely fond user of wordpress, and the system never fails to impress me, as a blogging interface, a CMS, site management, it is incredibly clean, intuitive and simply “beautiful”. [...]

Remote Mail Delivery for Google Apps and Postfix Mail Server

After stumbling upon this issue various times I’ve decided to finally resolve it.
The Issue:
If you have a domain hosted on a server, but you have setup Google Apps for your domain to use the Gmail style email system for your domain, then you might notice a problem with sending mail to your own domain.
The problem [...]

Facebook Phishing Alert: 371233 cn

There has been a phishing attack currently going on in facebook where the site: http://www.facebook.com.profile.php.id.371233.cn/ has been posted on peoples wall by ones that have fallen victim.

from wikipedia [link]:
In computing, phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity [...]