Friday, November 27th, 2009
I recently read an article in the Guardian where Google announced they plan to digitize 14,000 items from the National Museum of Iraq. Google explains that this project aims at introducing to the world many of the cultural artifact that shaped the beginning of civilization, many of which play a significant role in the three [...]
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Today the Times Online has a interesting article about ImHalal, a new search engine designed to help Muslims navigate the web without running into potentially “sinful” material.
The service was developed by the Dutch company AZS Media Group, and was launched yesterday. Currently ImHalal functions in 15 different languages, and the developers expect it to really [...]
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Just as I was falling asleep last night listening to the BBC, I heard about a very interesting software called Haystack. Basically Haystack is software that was developed by Austin Heap, a San Francisco based “techy” to help Iranians bypass government censorship of the web, while simultaneously protecting their identity. The software will allow people [...]