Author: imran
I’m A Muslim, Get Me Out Of Here!
I’m A Muslim, Get Me Out Of Here! Uhuh, that’s exactly what I was feeling just minutes into last night’s opening episode of Channel 4’s Make Me A Muslim…it may as well have been called Jihad Factor, Strictly Forbidden or X-Terrorist. It seems the contestants learned nothing about the belief structure of Islam or the…
ETel & eComm 2008
We first started talking about an O’Reilly telephony-themed conference around the time of Foo Camp 2005. A few months later we successfully pulled off ETel 2006, one of the most critically well received tech conferences in the O’Reilly portfolio, followed just over a year later by ETel 2007. Each edition created a space for communities…
(Dot)Northern Snippets…
With Leeds’ bumper meetup month – OpenCoffees, BarCamps & GeekUps – behind us, what’s been happening throughout December… Last Thursday, Manoj Ranaweera’s NW Startup 2.0 held its first ‘demo’ event in Manchester. Manoj also seems to have plotted out a meetups agenda through to the end of 2008! The demo’ing companies included, Blinkbox, Blyk, D2See,…
OpenCoffee Leeds {Sette}
So the seventh and final OpenCoffee of 2007 rolled around this last Tuesday morning with around 25 attendees throughout the morning, traveling from as far as Durham and Manchester. The attendance levels are averaging out at 25-30 people and we’re still getting to meet someone new each month, so the formula’s just about working…though I…
We Made A BarCamp!
Wow. We did it. We made a BarCamp! We’ve been pinching ourselves that we pulled it off in just 28 days – sponsors, ticketing, food and venues. But that’s only half the story, in the end it was you guys – the BarCampers – that made everything work. We wondered if people would show, if…
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical Persepolis is one of my favorite books and probably the one I’ve most often given as a gift to others. Until today’s post at AICN, I had no idea there was a movie adaptation in production. The short trailer seems to capture the energy, spirit and humour of the book… I can’t…
Squeezposé
One of the things I love about my Mac is the ‘All Windows’ feature of Exposé. I’ve gotten into the habit of squeezing my Mighty Mouse‘s side buttons to invoke Exposé, but y’know that’s only for application windows. With most of my day spend inside various web applications, what’d I’d find really useful is for…
OpenCoffee Leeds {Sei}
Oops. I missed my own meetup. Fraught with preparation for our session at Web2Expo Berlin, I embarrassingly couldn’t make it to this month’s OpenCoffee Leeds, our sixth event of the year. Thankfully Ian‘s blogged an update for this month, over at Techiedog. Some of the highlights included a new local mobile virtual network enabler, Smallplanet,…
From Cellphone To Computer
Two broken teeth, a missing passport, a closed airline route, two delayed flights, several sleepless nights and a set of wonky video-chat tests later, our Web 2.0 Expo Berlin talk – From Cellphone To Computer – finally made it to the stage on Wednesday afternoon; here’s the final presentation… Rather than speaking about a singularly…
Customer Support… for Islam
A few weeks ago, I got to tinkering with Satisfaction, a web app for ‘people-powered customer service’…it’s a wonderful concept, essentially crowdsourcing support 🙂 Interestingly, products and service listings aren’t ‘owned’ by companies and organisations; they’re simply participants, placing them on an equal footing with their customers…I’m sure diminishing a company’s control over its support…