Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Loomni is a new service that’s being launched today for the region that promises to reshape and transform continuing education, making it more accessible and affordable to everyone. The problem Loomni is trying to solve is that of education outside of public schools and universities being out of reach for most people as it takes [...]
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Kngine, the semantic web search and question answering engine, that was previously reviewed here, recently launched a brand new statistics platform called Kngine Stats. Kngine Stats goes out and collects, organizes, and indexes a large number of records of statistical data from resources such as: the UN, the World bank, the CIA Factbook, and a [...]
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
After around a year and a half without releasing any new features, the team behind Al-Fawaed, the Arab social knowledge sharing site has gone and launched a new version of their online service. Al-Fawaed is a service that lets users share the useful and most interesting points they’ve taken away from reading a certain book or article, [...]
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Google has just launched their service Knol in Arabic, as one of the first languages supported by the language worldwide. Knol is a new service from Google that in some way competes with Wikipedia, it is a free tool encouraging people to write articles about the things they know about most, and that they’re considered [...]
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Questler, the online learning and knowledge network, just launched a new version of their service today, with a sleeker looking logo and a new navigation system. This new version brings a number of changes beyond the design, like: Channels: New channel pages have been introduced for each user, where you can browse all their contributions, [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Al-Fawaed, which means “benefits” or “useful things” in English, is an interesting new project, which lets users share the useful and most interesting points they’ve taken away from reading a certain book or article, listening to a lecture, watching a television program, or even from a personal life experience. There are two ways of sharing [...]
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Questler is a new online service that was launched into public beta a few months ago and which has an interesting social networking approach to acquiring and sharing knowledge online. The idea of the website stems from the belief that everyone is a learner, seeking to know more about certain topics of interest to them, [...]
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