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Zulu’s Strange Journey

By Rai Azlan • Nov 9th, 2010 • Category: Features

Zulqarnain Haider the person who played key role in last game to make Pakistan win and he was the hero of the moment that day. The same Zulqarnain, I gave him name - Zulu, is missing today and as per his fb status, he is doing all this as a result of life threat he [...]



Gol Mal Hay Bahi Sab Gol Mal Hay

By Rai Azlan • Jul 19th, 2010 • Category: Features

Last evening when I logged into twitter after having a hectic day at work I saw some interesting, some regular, some hilarious and some worth RT tweets. While I was scrolling down, I stopped at a tweet from Muhammad Umer Javaid who has his body in Dubai but soul here in Lahore. The tweet was [...]



myyearbook.com crosses 1 Billion Page Per Month Told By Tech Crunch

By Sumaira Bajwa • Apr 11th, 2010 • Category: Technology

Many people have never heard of myYearbook, a social network that skews pretty young (half of its members are teenagers). But it’s got a substantial audience, with around 55.7 million visits  and 4.3 million uniques a month, according to comScore. And recently, it’s been growing very quickly —  according to comScore, unique visits are up [...]



Top Twitter Client

By Sharafat • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Technology

We’ve written about Twitter client Sobees, which is working to create the best social media client on the market, competing with both TweetDeck and Seesmic. Today Sobees is releasing a new version of its Windows native desktop app built in .NET, complete with realtime search, a redesign and more.
The new client includes support for Facebook, [...]



How Job Seekers Are Using Social Media for Real Results

By Sumaira Bajwa • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Misc

Whether you’re looking for your first job, exploring a career change, or just setting yourself up for future success, social media sites have proven themselves as important platforms for facilitating connections, demonstrating passions and interests, and ultimately landing you the job you actually want.
We know it’s possible to land a job with social media know-how [...]



Google Buzz in Pakistan

By Sumaira Bajwa • Feb 10th, 2010 • Category: Technology

When Google updates the status, it stays updated. Like everything else, Google once again rocks the online world and micro-blogging or whatever you name it, Google Buzz is the talk of the town.
Following are some of the salient features of this new Google product.
Go beyond status messages
Share updates, photos, videos, and more.
Start conversations about the [...]



Gmail will Kill Facebook and Twitter

By Sumaira Bajwa • Feb 10th, 2010 • Category: Technology

Google may be adding new social features to Gmail that would allow users to more quickly and easily share status updates and media the Wall Street Journal reports, citing ‘people familiar with the matter.’
Gmail’s new feature would make it ‘a little more like Facebook,’ says the Wall Street Journal’s Jessica Vascellaro (see video below). ‘Google [...]



Twitter and Me! Why It’s The Only Social Media Tool I Use

By Sharafat • Jan 1st, 2010 • Category: Technology

With all the excitement about the Crunchies awards, I thought I should cast my ballot: Twitter. No, not because it’s the best product (I think Android is), but because it has impacted me the most. To young TechCrunch readers, this post will seem pretty lame. An old professor trying to seem hip by writing about [...]



Google Is About To a Faster Search Index

By Sumaira Bajwa • Dec 29th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Google is getting serious about realtime search, adding Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace streams into results and adding a recent “updates” option which is addictive. But behind the scenes Google is also getting ready to push out an entirely new way for indexing the Web. Codenamed “Caffeine,” Google has been testing it since last summer in [...]



Yahoo’s 2010 Turn-Around Strategy Revealed: A Cycling Team

By Sumaira Bajwa • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Technology

Oh, Yahoo.
Revenues are down. Search share is down. The social stuff has been outsourced to Facebook. The search stuff is about to be outsourced to Bing. Things are not exactly on the up and up. Not even just one “up.” But it would appear that Yahoo is not one to let grim news stand in [...]