MEGA hosted a dear friend Rami Fayoumi AKA @plus961 www.plus961.com one of the best Lebanese blogs out there to talk about blogging in Lebanon.
thank you Rami and plus961.com for sharing the video.
Dear readers, a new blog has emerged from the ashes of Lebanon’s technology, a very serious blog on all what you need to know about Nokia. What makes this blog deferent then the ones we usually read is that first of all its 100% Lebanese and second the blog’s owner is a passionate tech friend who lives on that stuff. All the reviews are 100% made in Lebanon and he so far not only he surpassed others but he proved that with all his limited resources he can have something to say about the newest tech creations.
check it: http://www.allaboutnokia.com
Cheers Ant1! keep it up…
Yamli.com, a startup targeting the Arabic Web, unveiled its new search engine that allows users to easily search Arabic content in all its forms. Various studies show that transliterated Arabic content is ubiquitous due to a large portion of Arabic internet users choosing to write Arabic phonetically using Latin characters in an ad-hoc and informal fashion. Yamli automatically expands Arabic keyword searches to include all of their transliterated variations and returns results for both Arabic and transliterated content. This feature is a breakthrough for Arabic Internet users who are frustrated with having to repeatedly search different variations of their query when searching for music, news or videos.
According to co-founder Habib Haddad, “The challenge with Arabic content is that it’s hard to reach all of it. For example, a simple search for ‘Umm Khulthum’, the famous Egyptian signer, has over 90 transliterated variations – Om Kaltoum, Oum Kalsoum, etc…. Yamli will take an Arabic search term and expand it to include all transliterated variations, returning the maximum number of relevant search results, regardless of whether Arabic or Latin characters were used to write the content. Prior to Yamli, that kind of search was not possible,” concluded Haddad.
Yamli Search comes with a rich and easy-to-use interface that has been optimized for slower connections. Under the hood, it uses APIs from search engines such as Google, Microsoft Live Search and YouTube. Yamli Search also includes Yamli’s award-winning Smart Arabic keyboard that allows users to type Arabic without an Arabic keyboard.
According to one of the early ex-Googlers Georges Harik, “The web is universal, and speakers of every language should get equal access to information. Yamli continues to do a great job of extending access to information to all Arabic speakers,” concluded Georges Harik who is also an investor in Yamli.
Yamli’s new search engine was first announced at Harvard Business School’s MENA Conference on Saturday, December 4th during a panel discussion on Entrepreneurship in the MENA region in which co-founder Habib Haddad participated.
You can try Yamli Search for yourself at Yamli
PS: Habib Hadad will be MEGA’s guest on Saturday December 20th 2008 to talk about the new service from Yamli.
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