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Startupmeme and all the latest in the Startup and Technology market

First a side note. I have decided to cover a few of new websites that are coming up on the Pakistani blogging and content scene. And the first one is StartupMeme.

Startupmeme has recently been started by a few entrepreneurs from Karachi and it features all the latest information about the internet, technology and the startup world. The weblog has writers that able to attract readers with their simple language and latest news.

In it’s few months after starting up, Startupmeme has gathered a lot of recognition from the blogging world outside of Pakistan. Like I said, their posts are not only latest, but they generate interest and have really good content in them. In a conversation with the co-founder I learned that they plan to expand their scope in the near future and expand it into other domains also. Not only as a weblog, but as an entire information portal. Currently they focus on upcoming technologies and companies that will make a difference in the market. They already boast a readership of 50K plus on Feedburner, and 5K plus on TwitterFeed!

It’s your one stop hop to all the latest startup information from inside and outside of Pakistan!

I Spy With My Little iSight!

A few days ago I did a story on how personal privacy and safety were being debated in the computer industry and just today I read an interesting piece on how the iSight for the MacBook actually helped someone recover their stolen laptop.

Before I go any further, I think the iSight coupled with the Back To My Mac remote computing software for MacBooks can be a perfect spy tool.

Anyways, so to cut a long story short, a woman who had her MacBook stolen logged into her Back To My Mac application and activated her iSight camera. She got what she wanted! The thief in the camera. The thieves were caught and the woman who wishes to remain nameless got her laptop back.

And in other news, the first Gear of War 2 footage is here.

HotForWords? Yes, it’s very educational!

Marina is a Russian who moved to the USA in pursuit of furthering her education in the English language and to improve on it. She wanted to earn a Ph.D. in Philology. Back in Russia she was a high-school teacher who taught English and World History. Her story of rising to the superstardom on the Web is amazing. Watch this video to learn more about how this 27 yo managed to make learning so cool yet not-boring. Marina has been voted a Wired.com’s Sexiest Geeks!

What is the Web 3.0 all about?

So we’ve come across the term Web 2.0 a lot now, and we see it being used with virtually all new applications that are coming out. Just when you thought “Web 2.0″ was a useless meme, researchers and forcasters say there will be a Web 3.0, too.

Yes. But contrary to popular belief, these versions of the Web are not upgrades of a single service or patches to an old one. It’s basically a whole new philosophy of approach towards information and the web. How to organize it, how to index it, how to share it, how to search it, how to store it, and all that. With internet availability being a smaller issue today, than it was 10 years ago, and with speeds much faster now, the Web is taking a whole new meaning for users and publishers.

We are entering the age where information is more meshed together than ever before. I came across a wonderful article that actually explained how a few technologies could help the advent of the Web 3.0 and how it would be fascinating to see new applications emerge that would make information access much, much easier and simpler.

Gaming today is quite linear in terms of information that they require. Gaming today relies only on the information that the game contains. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a game that could actually change dynamically to the real world scenarios and events?

Read the article, watch this video and give me your feedback.

Take your internet back!

The penetration of the internet as a fast medium of information for the developing world of which Pakistan is a part of. And some people do not want you to know the truth. Well, the truth is out there and you need to take the internet back from them.

Of the late, YouTube has been a regular target of internet censorship in Pakistan, and since some ISPs have started unlimited-usage services on their high speed connections, they are fond of regularly blocking YouTube to avoid traffic clogging. Not only that, but due to a lot of objectionable material surfacing on online social websites, governments around the world are rethinking their decisions to let the information pipes run free. Which is absurd. But anyways. Help is on the way.

Kortaz has listed an awesome amount of web proxies that enable you to skip firewalls and visit website like Facebook and MySpace without much hindrance. Kortaz also lists user submitted proxies, and with all of them they have added a small description to let you know if the proxy would work on your destination website. The entry submission date is also given so you know which proxy is old and might be malfunctioning, etc. Proxy.org, is another website that has listed proxy websites according to various orders; country, popularity, usage, ISP, software, etc.

Check out our earlier posts on Web proxies to find out the ones we have already discussed and a few that have been suggested by our users.

FireFox 3 goes into Beta testing phase 3

The much awaited FireFox 3 has finally been revealed. Thanks to a few special acquaintance of mine, I was directed to the beta site for the immensely popular web browser. Beta testing is a phase designed for the Developer’s needs, not for the user’s joy. So don’t be disappointed if a few add-ons don’t work (yet) on your browser, they eventually will when the full release is pushed.

So if you want to go through the process of helping the FF team out, and filling bugs, head on over to the Mozilla Beta Test site, and follow the release notes link to get to the download link. This is an open beta, join in the development process and have fun.

If you want to know what improvements there are to the browse, suffice to say that, “The Fox just got faster, leaner and meaner.”