Musings on tech and more from a cafe in the Middle East
Last week we interview Reza Sadeha, the found of I'm Halal. Today, we caught up wtih Kareem Arafat, the CEO of WatWet, essentially an Arabic Twitter! I like it, and I certainly like the fact that you can access the service through SMS from several countries in the Middle East. Enjoy! TheNextWeb (TNW): What inspired you to create Watwet when twitter seems to be making major inroads in the region? Kareem Arafat (KA): We actually started working on Watwet before the Twitter hype. The founding team of our mother...
It's the weekend and I've had a couple of days to reflect on my week's reading. I find myself thinking of an article published in last week's issue of The Sunday Times about Lloyd Blankfein and Goldman Sachs. Something the author mentioned in the article just kept nagging at me and I know I'm on to something, though it's so laughable I worry that if I don't articulate it well enough I will forever be known as the Techie Village Idiot. I'm a sucker for a challenge though, so I'll just throw caution to the wind and...