Interview with Ahmet Alp Balkan about FriendFeed Applications
One Comment 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 [...]
Future of E-books: What will new generation e-books bring?
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on September 18, 2009
%35 of the books that are sold through Amazon is for Kindle. At least for now… The books we read are the last fortresses of traditional marketing. They are just pages after pages without interactivity. Most of them cannot unfortunately be passed being boring. Then books get transformed into e-books without getting much of format [...]
Getting Initiative Fund in 140 Characters
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on September 18, 2009
This innovative idea belongs to Richard Branson. He says, if you have a business idea of want fund, Tweet me. Those who are not familiar with Twitter can think of it as sending their business idea as short message. Generally, every entrepreneur is recommended to be ready for making his “Elevator Pitch” in one minute. [...]
Internet Explorer Fights Against Hunger
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on September 18, 2009
If you want to feed a poor and haven’t downloaded Internet Explorer yet, or updated the existing version, it’s high time, because, Microsoft will donate eight meals of food for everyone downloading Internet Explorer from this address. Moreover, within this campaign Microsoft will double its food aid and give 16 meals of food for users [...]
Twestival: Social Help with Social Media
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on September 18, 2009
Charity: Water is a social help organization established in 2006 by Scott Harrison in an effort to provide water for one billion people with no access to clean water. This organization managed to collect more than 8 million dollars from 30,000 people in a short amount of time. With this fund, 1240 water projects were [...]
Google Wave Redefines the Concept of Email
One Comment by Hasan Başusta on September 18, 2009
We are getting closer and closer to the time that Google will introduce its innovative email platform, Wave, to the market. First 100 thousand invitations will be sent starting from September 30. In development process for two years, Google Wave is a product that will change the way that we communicate online. Lars Rasmussen, one [...]
Investors in Social Media – You Are on the Right Path
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on September 18, 2009
As we see people trying to shape their worlds around “like” button in social networks such as Facebook and Friendfeed nowadays, I can assure you that social networks have started to become one of the most important platforms for putting out and sharing content. In addition, we can talk about a huge increase of not only [...]
All About Housing Loan: DoktorMortgage.com
No Comment by Hasan Başusta on September 18, 2009
DoktorMortgage.com is an online mortgage site founded to inform about housing loan, introduce the products, compare interest and commissions rates, and apply for housing loans. Although Mortgage is not known and common enough in Turkey, the figures obtained is quite satisfactory. We have interviewed with Mustafa Su, the founder of Doktor Mortgage and he gave [...]