Making User Data Friendly: Building Personas So, let’s say that as a user experience designer you’ve done your user research in an orderly manner like the "scientist" that you are, and ... George Elkhabbaz • 22 December, 2011 User Experience Design
3 Easy, Cost Effective Content Management Systems In my previous article, 7 Must-Dos Before You Build Your Website, I mentioned different options an entrepreneur can consider to build his... Gaby Abi Aad • 22 December, 2011 Digital Marketing
Lessons from Zynga: How Identified is Using Game Mechanics to Become the LinkedIn of Facebook After Zynga’s $10 billion IPO, it’s clear that adding game mechanics to a vast social network is a recipe for success. Yet the recipe isn’t ... Nina Curley • 28 December, 2011 LinkedIn
twofour54 Abu Dhabi and Ubisoft Debut Arabic Video Game Studio Investment vehicle twofour54 has announced the opening of the first major video game studio in Abu Dhabi, in partnership with French video... Nina Curley • 26 October, 2011 Gaming Mobile Gaming
Wixel Studios Pivots into Mobile Gaming with Launch of Santa's Rookie It's your job to save Christmas in Wixel Studios's addictive new game Santa's Rookie 2012: Operation China. The game, which co-founder Ziad... Nina Curley • 15 December, 2011
Jordanian Entrepreneur Invents Kinetic Electrical Charger [Wamda TV] Young Jordanian entrepreneur Anwar AlMojarkesh pitched a green clean technology invention called "The Movement Charger" to convert kinetic... Nina Curley • 03 January, 2012
Meet the First Social Network Designed to Make Your Dreams Come True Every one of us has dreams, ranging from meeting a celebrity to visiting a chocolate factory or flying to the moon. What if someone gave... Souhail Khoury • 15 December, 2011
Arabic SEO Part 3: 10 Tips for Link Building So finally, after part one and two of our series on Arabic SEO, here I’ll discuss the most important element in SEO in general, which is l... Wissam Dandan • 14 December, 2011 Analytics SEO
Virtual Closet App DressBox Wins Microsoft DevCamp Competition With every startup competition lately seeming to feature iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, and Android apps, watching a series of developers pitch... Wamda • 11 December, 2011 Fashion Mobile Apps
How to Find Out What Users Really Want: Part One How do you find out about what the user wants? Or if your application is effective? You should conduct research, but it pays to take a... George Elkhabbaz • 09 December, 2011 User Experience Design
Arabic Smartphone App Review Site Tatbeeq.at Launches Website Tatbeeq.at, meaning "applications" in Arabic, launched in beta 5 days ago to offer the Arab World its first fully Arabic directory... Nina Curley • 08 December, 2011
Woopra Responds to Google Analytics with Game-Changing iPhone App Analytics lovers looking to monitor their site traffic on foot now have a new weapon in their arsenal: Woopra’s sleek iPhone and iPad app. T... Nina Curley • 01 December, 2011 Analytics Woopra
Qordoba Launches Innovative, Affordable Arabic Translation Platform For international platforms looking to break into the Middle East, local companies looking to go global, or even bilingual platforms like... Nina Curley • 07 December, 2011
From Doodle to YouTube, Google Empowers Egyptian Voters As Egyptians head to the polls today to vote in the first Parliamentary elections, Google has stepped in to make elections in Egypt a touch... Nina Curley • 28 November, 2011 Google
Yamli Helps Egyptian Voters Register for Tech-Enhanced Elections It’s not just Google’s tools that are being used to facilitate the elections in Egypt today- Yamli, the Arabic transliteration engine cre... Nina Curley • 28 November, 2011
Need a Refresher on Egyptian Candidates? Mobile App Sawtak Offers On-the-Go Election Information If Egyptian voters queuing in long lines today needed a quick reminder of the list of potential candidates, all they had to do was open a... Nina Curley • 28 November, 2011
Fights Break Out Between Egyptian Presidential Candidates, in Online Game Masr 3ayza Meen As voters continue to cast votes for the Parliamentary elections in Egypt today, streetfights have broken out between Egypt’s presidential ... Nina Curley • 29 November, 2011
In the Mobile OS War, Can Android Ice Cream Sandwich Save Google's Lead? If your answer to which mobile device operating system has the most market share is “iOS,” this article will set you straight. Google, with ... Souhail Khoury • 29 November, 2011
Arrested at a Protest? Egyptian Mobile App Will Notify Your Loved Ones As violence comes to a boil in Egypt this week in anticipation of the first Parliamentary elections, protestors may want to take advantage... Nina Curley • 24 November, 2011
Exclusive Sneak Peak at Jabbar’s New Travel Site Word on the street is that Jabbar, or specifically, its travel arm Joob, is about to launch a new social travel site named Sawty.com (“my v... Nina Curley • 24 November, 2011
iOS 5 Keeps the 'Smart' in 'Smartphone' In the last article, I extensively reviewed the iPhone 4S; however that review could not be complete without a proper understanding of the... Souhail Khoury • 21 November, 2011
Quirkat Releases MENA Speed, a Game for Car Lovers Jordanian video game developer Quirkat has announced the release of a new game for the Sony PlayStation Network, called MENA Speed... Nina Curley • 16 November, 2011 Gaming
3 Hats that a User Experience Designer Wears In my last post, I defined a few site types to aim for when designing, in order to give designers a sense of the roles they might need to... George Elkhabbaz • 17 November, 2011 User Experience Design
Arabic SEO Part Two: Accessibility This piece is a follow-up to “Arabic SEO: Part One,” which gives a quick summary of how to optimize your content in Arabic for search eng... Wissam Dandan • 17 November, 2011 Analytics SEO