A New Micro Blog Service: CivilCivil.com
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on September 29, 2009
We have been informed about a new player that made entry to Turkish micro blog market. The startup is called CivilCivil.com and it got online in June 2009 without much PR, but in that period, it accepted members and was open to use by everyone for only a few days, and then accepted only users who [...]
Founders of GittiGidiyor Invest In Pabbuc.com!
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on September 28, 2009
We have learned that founders of GittiGidiyor, Burak Divanlioglu and Serkan Borancili have made an investment in Pabbuc.com, online shopping website for shoes, bags and accessories that is one of the eTohum initiatives and became partners. The initiative will continue to serve under the company established after the investment is made with the name Pabbuc [...]
Interview: Nurettin Ozdogan on KariyerGENC
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on September 28, 2009
KariyerGENC is an initiative that was brought to life to support newly graduated or still studying young people in their career development as we have mentioned before. The company’s aim is to build a bridge between young talents and companies. They work with almost 90 worldly known and leader Turkish companies, some of whose are [...]
Grou.ps Got Webrazzi While Seeking The Most Talented PHP Coders!
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on September 25, 2009
Today and throughout this week, when you entered Webrazzi, you’ll see ads of Grou.ps, founded by Emre Sokullu, that the company is looking for the most talented PHP coders in Turkey in many ad sections. To expand the team Grou.ps has started to take action and the company will hire system administrators and interns for [...]
Two Successful Turkish Initiatives: SitelerHakkinda.com and LivePageRanks.com
No Comment by Guest Author on September 25, 2009
Note: Burak Budak works in the Research Dept. of Hayal Ofisi, and this article of him has been published in Webrazzi as guest author. I have examined two successful Turkish initiatives for Web site owners and users. The initiatives have things in common, as well as parts that are quiet distinct from each other. I [...]
Aydin Senkut’s Investments Under One Roof: VentureBeat Acquires TradeVibes!
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on September 23, 2009
Webrazzi readers know about Crunchbase, TechCrunch‘s directory for people and companies in tech industry. But you may not be well informed of TradeVibes, which works like Crunchbase but it is more focused on acquisitions and ventures deals. Leading blogs of the industry like Mashable and ReadWriteWeb use TradeVibes data. As we have learned today, VentureBeat, one of the [...]
limango’s New Design and Up-to-date Shopping Statistics
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on September 23, 2009
As of today, limango, which provides Private Shopping service, has a new design. According to the announcement the company made on its blog today, some new features has been added to this service as well as the known system update. Although we have not yet found a word-to-word translation for the concept in Turkish, a [...]
In-Depth Analysis on Twitter– 2: When and Where is Twitter Popular?
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on September 23, 2009
On the first article of in-depth analysis on Twitter series, I shared some statistical information on who uses Twitter and how they use it, now you will find info on Twitter usage based on time and area that caught attention on the same study below. With Google Wave starting to become prominent these days, and micro [...]
Last.Fm and MySpace Banned in Turkey
23 Comments by Arda Kutsal on September 19, 2009
Access to MySpace and Last.fm is banned by Turkish court. We are currently not fully informed about the reason of the ban, but it may be due to music copyright violations. And again, this ban may be a consequence of a case filed by Turkish Union of Music Producers (MÜYAP) in order to protect music rights. Turkish [...]
Interview with Ahmet Alp Balkan about FriendFeed Applications
2 Comments by Hasan Başusta on September 18, 2009
We are continuing our interview series with Ahmet Alp Balkan who drew attention by developing many Friendfeed applications in the last months. Ahmet is a sophomore scholarship student at Bilkent University studying Computer Sciences. His first important project was mySchoolog , which he developed when he was only 17. This project was translated into 17 [...]