The Web that was once created to be public, free, and open is not the same anymore. Almost everything we do online these days is controlled by private companies; whether we are sending an email (through Gmail), expressing and debating an idea (Facebook and Twitter), snapping and posting a picture of our food (on Instagram), […]
If you had five minutes with representatives from some of the top Internet companies in the world, what would you tell them about Arab social media? What should they know? What would you ask for? This Friday, in San Francisco, SMEXbeirut will present about social media in Lebanon and the region to representatives of Twitter, […]
Yamli has launched a tool that lets you edit the machine translation almost as you type. Based on Google’s translation API and consisting of a simple set up of two side-by-side boxes, users type in the original language in the left-hand box and watch as the machine translation is generated in real time on the […]
Last Tuesday (apologies for the late post), several of us met at the RootSpace to discuss how we might use mapping to strengthen civil society in Lebanon. The exercise was inspired by the announcement of Google’s Geo Challenge, which invites submissions until December 22, 2008, for online mapping ideas in one of five core areas: […]
