Definitely, Waiting in line for iPhone is glorious
Robert Scoble, Socobleizer.com, just posted how it is “glorious” thing to wait in line for iPhone, but I am not sure to wait 6 days ahead like those people.
But it is definitely fun and exciting to wait in line with other people who have the same common “the iphone!”, and from there you can socialize and so on.
But where I am at right now, there is no actual Apple store and even if there is, they won’t be selling iPhone yet till vodafone show up. But ha! even if we had one, not even crazy person will be waiting in line for days nor hours due to the heat (115F +).
Am I getting one? Most probably, will be in the States less than two weeks from now.. so if you know me, then let me know you need one!
Sphere: Related ContentBill Gates Verdict on Windows: it SUCKS!
Todd Bishop, Seattle P-I reporter, has published a 2003 email from Bill Gates to his Windows developers. The email states Bill’s experience with installing movie-maker from Microsoft.com and how he found that to be mission impossible due to bugs in Microsoft.com site & Windows usability.
But from what it seemed like from the email, that Bill never tried on updating his Windows with patches nor installing something into his Windows. But actually that is not the case, Bill Gates is a type of person who is not lazy nor ignorant. But basically, he can’t help it because Windows is out of hope!
Now, this email is dated 2003, things haven’t changed at all. It’s almost impossible to get things done in comparison to Apple Mac OS (leopard). And this is merely one of the reasons why I gave up on Microsoft and its all products. Even Microsoft Office for Mac is still haunting me with its bugs and usability issues.
It seems like Microsoft developers think they are always right and believe their customers are just happy because they never receive any feedback. That’s true, they never receive any feedback… because the feedback function is not working!
eh, I should kiss good bye to any chance of me working for Microsoft!
p.s. I will update this blog post once I have better experience with Microsoft products 
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Sphere: Related ContentAl Jazeera Anchorman and Social Media “twitter”
It really didn’t take much of an effort to convince my father Jamal Rayyan, Al Jazeera anchorman, to join Twitter and interact with its community.
My father will be asking twitter’s community for questions or opinions to be discussed in the News programme called “Hassad Al Youm” in English “Today’s Harvest”.
Though, I am little skeptical on how things will turn out to be due to the fact that Arab community on Twitter or on Social platforms is very small, but I am hoping this will encourage Arabs to join social communities to have their voice delivered/heard on Al Jazeera.
Anyway, you can follow him on twitter. His username is jamalrayyan and the link to the twitter is: http://www.twitter.com/jamalrayyan
Also, you can follow his blog: http://www.jamalrayyan.com
Oh, let me take this opportunity to say: I have twitter also! you can follow me on http://www.twitter.com/mrayyan
Sphere: Related ContentGoogle IO Conference: Videos are available
Not sure how many of you wanted to go to Google IO conference. Well, I wanted to, but I was and still am stuck to this project which we are about to launch.
Anyway, Lucky me and for others who wanted to go but couldn’t. Google was generous enough to release videos of all sessions of all tracks on their site: http://sites.google.com/site/io/
If the page is empty, then login to Google.com/Sites with your Google account before clicking that link.. And that should fix it.
In case if you wanted to know what sessions I am interested at, here they are:
- Creating a Client-Side Search Engine with Gears
- Keynote: Imagination, Immediacy, and Innovation… and a little glimpse under the hood at Google
- Building Scalable Web Applications with Google App Engine
- And more…
Sphere: Related ContentMust Read! Time Magazine on that platform battle
Time Magazine has a must-read piece on the battle between Google, Facebook and Apple to build the best platform. The story looks at the open-vs-closed approach, the mobile-vs-tethered schools of thought, and why Google seems to be playing catchup instead of leading the way.
I did discuss in previous posts about how Facebook will lose the platform battle if they keep sticking to the current “closed” platform, while Google will definitely dominate the market since many facebook competitors are merging/joining Google’s initiative on open platform usability.
As for Apple, never predicted they will be listed as one of the web contendetrs. Always looked at Apple as leaders in Hardware & OS and nothing else. But surprisingly, not anymore, TImes magazine listed them in this article as one of the top 3 out there. With the launch of iPhone and opening it’s platform with SDK which allows to extend the iPhone usability to something like social network world, this for sure nominates Apple to be number 1 on the mobile side, but not the Internet world yet since there is no prominent presence (yet).
But then, there is Android, so I am not sure anymore. Will Android’s opengl beat the cocoa engine on
iPhone? And will the iPhone be able to stand against Android’s open platform?
We just have to wait and see
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Morad Rayyan is IT professional specialized in New Media development and has special interest in networking "routing" as well as programming.
