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Web 2.0 Offline - A Real Life Example

One of our local radio stations is providing its listeners with the option of recording their voice for special song dedications. One of the listeners, actually speakers now, has turned this into a real offline Web 2.0 application.
Most of the people recording their dedications just do that, they say to whom they would like to dedicate this song, and how much they love that person, blah blah blah.

Music Community and Stardom on the Web

I recently started working on a project for online music sharing, uploading, and community building. Several different directions presented themselves so far.
Creating a huge database of rare and very-har-to-find music collection is one of these, and I got to know one serious enthusiast working in this direction like crazy.
Another idea, by Tareq, was to announce to singers from wherever, to record a song, and we can then record them singing and upload the video clip on our website.

Advertising For What People Really Want

The classical cycle of advertising starts by first researching what your customers want. You collect data, and you spot trends.

Advertise or Blogsvertise?

Zeki Ziki

In Turkish, Zeki means smart, which is a word derived from Arabic.
Ziki is a website, that reminds me of the word "zeki", because that's what they are!
I couldn't believe that they will actually make a Google ad with my name as the keyword.
Their service is very simple, but brilliant: you sign up, but you have to be one of the first 10,000 people to do this, and you just ask them to promote your name.

My Flake From Pageflakes

Pageflakes is as customizable a service as I can think of. They provide us with the ability to creat pages, with "flakes" on them. These are rectangles with customizable content and size. We can choose any of the numerous flakes already included in their site. We have both options of having our flakes private or public for other people to see. At the same time, we can export any of the flakes and add them to our site or blog, as I did here on the sidebar. This is the feed for this blog, and you can subscribe from here.

The World in the Eyes of Google

Google This was the title of a TV show on Alarabiya, which consisted of two parts: the first was a translation of the documentary, and the second was a discussion of the documentary by a panel of specialists in the field.
As a Google fan myself, I was interested in watching and getting to know more about the company and its services.
What was really interesting was thinking about the inevitable dilemma such a company will have to face,

Hyper Text and Hyper Evolution

If you are wondering what "Web 2.0" is, this is a perfect explanation...

Couldn't embed it for some reason. But here is the link.

Enjoy...

Toolbar, a New Model

Just got to know about a new toolbar provider, Agloco. They are advertising for a new toolbar, which is yet to be distributed, and sharing the revenue with referrers. That's a very interesting model compared to Conduit's.
While Conduit let's you make your own toolbar, with any links you want to any money-making program, they only impose the search box which is not an optional component.

The Benefits of a Local eBusiness

Nothing!
Was my first reaction. Especially when I first heard about Vital Edition a newly-opened online book store targeted to Amman locals.
What about Amazon?