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Jmami, Online Community For Moroccans Around The World
Mohamed Marwen Meddah | May 24, 2008 – 11:09 am |
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Jmami, is a Moroccan service that uses the phrase “Moroccans of the world” as its tagline, and just that mainly explains what the website’s goal is, to create a central community place for Moroccans from all over the world to connect with old friends, make new ones, as well as write and share content with each other.
The service has all the major social networking features we can expect; enabling users to invite their old friends, search for and make new friends, establish connections with them, message them through an internal messaging system, and create private or public groups around their shared interests, where they can launch different discussions.
Jmami also provides a light integrated blog platform giving its users the possibility to publish their thoughts and news, share and start discussions around them.
Another feature is the event agenda, where users can post and promote events that might be of interest to Moroccans around the world.
The service is available in 3 languages: Arabic (Moroccan accent), French and English.
The website is mainly targeted at Moroccan youth inside and outside of Morocco, and the fresh design shows this clearly, even though it’s not limited to just them, and registration and use of the service should be just as easy and simple for older generations.
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Microsoft And LINKdotNET Launch New MSN Maghreb Portal
Mohamed Marwen Meddah | April 24, 2008 – 6:30 pm | 1 Comment
Microsoft has launched a new French-language portal for its MSN service, called MSN Maghreb, geared towards the Arab Maghreb region which will provide the latest news and entertainment for users in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.
The project is a joint venture with LINKdotNET, a subsidiary of Orascom, with which they already launched MSN Arabia in the past, and who currently operate that portal and will operate this new one too.
MSN Arabia, which was launched back in October 2001, attracts around two million page views a day and 2.7 million Hotmail subscribers; and with MSN Maghreb, Microsoft and LINKdotNET are hoping to tap into the rest of the Arab population from the mainly Francophone North African Maghreb region, and of course by doing that, consequently get into local advertisers’ pockets.
The announcement was made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Orascom board member Khaled Bichara at a press conference in Skhirat, Morocco, earlier today.
The new portal is accessible at www.maghreb.msn.com
