ArabGeek

"firms would have to design systems to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages. Services based overseas would have to route communications through a server on United States soil where they could be wiretapped.”

there are 100s of millions of non Americans who use facebook and Google they did not have a say in electing the government who will wiretap them. let alone most Americans refuse such government spying

his last facebook status update: "I will be traveling my mom, forgive me, Reproach is not helpful, i am lost in my way it is not in my hand, for give me if disobeyed words of my mom, blame our times and do not blame me, i am going and not coming back, look i did not cry and tears did not fall from my eyes, Reproach is not helpful in time of Treachery in the land of people, i am sick and not in my mind all what happened, i am traveling and i am asking who leads the travel to forget"

well, freedome of speech comes to test here.

Arstechnica is a technology website, this is wrong to ban it

Does anyone knows of other community based projects offering open-source development platform with payments to contributors ?

facebook is now an International playground, Does that mean anything to facebook?

AVG mentioned some web security tips: log off from webmail when using public or your friends PC, and backup you data when you carry a laptop!

What would be your advice? mine is use a MAC or Linux and ditch windows :P

USA is at number nine when it comes to the riskiest places to go online where 1 in 48 people were hit by an attack , UK is ranked 31st (1 in 63), Australia 37th (attack ratio = 1 in 75) while German web surfers come in at number 41 (1 in 83).

Will this be enough to keep the site live?

yes i agree it is how he got around 1 million downloads

I am not the developer guys who said i am the 14 years old kid :)

so u r saying that kids at 14 can not code? he is not the first one to be an entrepreneur at his age in the world

go to the app profile on iTunes it got his name

the story was picked up from Kuwaiti blog i do not think his father is the developer using his kid's age!

yes per capita, and the idea played a big role yes :)

the writer is 32 years old and not translation

yep I did not have a PC but i sued to play with my mom's Mac, it used to speak as i remember :P

it is ok, there was no iPhone 21 years ago :)

welcome, i got some people to help in some coding and then the rest by my self :)

Kuwait is on the richest countries in the world in terms of GDP, so not everyone is spoiled do not u think so?

thanx :)

not sure if people understand what is free speech

good app mentioned here: http://arabcrunch.com/2010/06/facebook-photo-tagging-comes-t...

it is somehow similar to YCombinator and is one of the results of Yahoo acquisition of Arabic portal Maktoob for around 140, million USD.

check out http://arabcrunch.net/mentorship

why not start a blog to publish tips and tricks in PHP and Python? also being active on developers and startups community would help you get known, try http://arabcrunch.net/developers_qna

also use Twitter socialize with related people.

Business Model generations :)

http://ikoo.com check out kalemat

it is ok :)

I agree that it is "sad that people think that someone should or ever would run a huge operation without money being a major factor" but if Mark did wrong or not is something else.