Posted on 29 April 2008
Written by Sohaib
I got back yesterday from the Pan Arab Web Awards in Dubai which took place at Burj Al-Arab on the 27th, the ceremony was great to say the least, I went there along with Hussam Hammo to collect the two prizes As7ab Maktoob achieved, which are the “Best Arabic Website in 2008” Award and the “Best Arabic Social Network” Award.
I had a chance to go around Dubai in the following day before coming back to Amman, Dubai changed allot from the last time I visited it in 1996, it changed so much that you can barely know its the same city, below are some pictures I took in those two days.
One of the presentations
Not a Very good image of me receiving one of the awards:
Myself (on the right) along with other Maktoob Employees:Â
 View from the partment and the surrounding building (most are being built):
[tags]dubai, burj Al Arab, Pan Arab Web Awards, as7ab Maktoob, best Arabic website[/tags]
Posted on 14 April 2008
Written by Sohaib
As an avid user of Pageflakes, i was excited by the news of it being acquired by Live Universe which also owns the video site Glumbert.com, the details of the deal has not been announced yet, although it is being said that the acquisition isn’t a large one, Pageflakes received a its last round of funding in May 2006, the amount invested in Pageflakes reached a total of $4 Million.
Live Universe was established by the MySpace founder Brad Greenspa, they also acquired the video site revver in February 2008. Pageflakes will remain at their current offices in Germany and San Francisco.
From a user end perspective, I hope this acquisition reflects into even more improvements into pageflakes in the upcoming months, they have lots of competition from giants like Google and Yahoo that they need to look out for.
[tags]pageflakes, live universe[/tags]
Posted on 09 April 2008
Written by Sohaib
Today was a great milestone for Mafia corruption, it witnessed the launched of the new skin that we’ve been working on for a while plus reaching 10,000 registered members, a great achievement in about 6 months of buying the site when it had a little over 3000 members.
The new skin introduced a total revamp of the old theme, below is a comparison of both the old and the new theme:
Old Theme
New Theme
Big improvement? yeah?
