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Mobilink re-Launches its Website with a new look

May 13th, 2009 by Zeeshan Hasan

Finally Mobilink adds a change a to their online presence with a re-launch of their existing website with a new look and feel. The work has been done by evamp and saanga and from the first look its a good attempt. Being a mobilink consumer every time i visited their old website i used to get pissed off. Being a huge corporation the old website clearly reflected negligence and lack of importance for their online presance.  The new looks seems good check it out.

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What if Google Collapse & Recession Hits IT

January 20th, 2009 by Zeeshan Hasan

So this was a normal morning i woke up, had my coffee and started to spider around the internet checked my RSS and landed on a very interesting article by Profy stating ” Which of the Closed Google Services will you really miss“. Well for a moment the title was a bit concerning as i asked WTF is Google shutting down ! Well no not yet but the prediction did show a little down time for Google as well, which can be seen from their official blog posts on “Changes to Recruitment” and few left and right reads on the Google lay off and acceptance of Drop in Ad Revenue.

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So far if i see the internet from a specific angle indeed Google have given allot in terms of Internet, it really is responsible for a bunch of companies to run their business, it do help companies make money from Ad Revenue, Google Apps and of course on daily bases we do see a huge chunk of Google for our regular search queries. New business called SEO consultancies and SEO companies are bi product of Google Search Engine. For Me if i talk personally well Google is part of my life , my mail, my search, my rss its all on Google.

The Question still stands “What if Google Collapse” What if the Credit crunch hit Google and its Ad Revenue starts to take the fall. Well there might be tiny possibility of that a huge prediction that it might happen.

Well the first scenario that is going to cause this collapse is the drop in Google Ad Revenue, meaning Advertisers pulling out their money from Google Adwords well its possible City Group, Ford, Toyota all are suffering they will pull out their money from their ad revenue if not pull out they will decrease their ad revenue based on their profit. Drop in Ad Revenue means drop in Google stocks thus starting up a chain reaction of lay offs initially and cutting down of certain products, few free services like Google Apps free edition, or other business services Google offer might disappear, don’t worry gMail wont go. This chain reaction will force google to cut down on the publishers and may be only list its ads on a limited list of publishers who have a specific range of traffic and user base.

So if that goes down it means our websites who make money out of Adsense are going to Go down, we will see more Public Service ads then the regular one, thus cutting down our revenue in return and we will be looking left and right for other options to make money out of the traffic on our web properties. Note when such a thing happens its the best time when local start ups are going to launch some service that will monopolize on this gap and maybe a new corporation gets founded. Most of the dot com successful start ups started during the dot com crash in 1990’s.

As they say “Recession is the best time of investment”, so this means one thing that the credit crunch has indeed caused a global recession for companies that are old and huge but it has also opened doors of opportunities for small companies to grow out big in this time of recession, meaning old giants to retire and new giants to emerge.

oH crab Google just screwed my page rank

December 29th, 2008 by Zeeshan Hasan

While having a chit n chat on blog’s. A friend of mine just made a horrible discover stating “hey dude your blogs page rank is zero” and the next few miniutes i was trying to make sure that he was lying but …….

So my prilimanary investigation revealed the reasons why my page rank dropped to dead O

  1. It must have been a horrible mistake by the algorithims written by Google a logical flaw indeed
  2. It was a targeted attack on my blog probably Google felt threated by the technology i was developing
  3. Global financial crises is probably responsible for it
  4. Could it be the Talibans…

Update > Today (December 29, 2008 at 9:56) my pagerank returned back to 2 >> must be a bug in there system

Random thoughts

December 16th, 2008 by Zeeshan Hasan

World Call Serial Planet & I am an Addict.

This is addictive for those who have got Worldcall Cable internet, its a world which is hidden from the WWW and is sort of an exclusive access to only Worldcall Cable Internet subscribers,  with a very huge collection of almost all Tv Serials that you probably watch either on Hulu or on Star World. If enjoy watching Friends, Family Guy, Heroes, Scrubs, Prison Break, CSI Miami …… and so on then WorldCall got a portal for you only accessible to worldcall consumers. http://tv4.go4b.net.pk (its a hidden world indeed)

Telecommunication industry is Robbing Me.

Some times its sicking, when was the last time you watched TV which was not sponsored by a Telecom Company, there is Zong ’sabe sei sasti call’ then Jazz ‘aur sunao’ then Ufone its all about U but Warid seems to be a bit quite or i don’t remember their slogan somehow but still dont you think its too much. Geo Tv charges 180,000 for 1 min of air time so can you imagine how much these telecommunication companies pay per day for air time on tv / radio and print ads / banner that we see on the Road and in the newspaper. And its all our money.

Twitter is turning into a Message Board.

Twitter asked a Question “What are you doing?” but why when i look at my twitter page then its really difficult to find what other people are doing rather its easy to find what other people are discussing about so i guess its time that twitter should change the question from “what are you doing ?” to “What do you want to talk about ? ” or “Start a thread” (a billion $ idea indeed).

World Usability Day at UMT Lahore Pakistan

November 16th, 2008 by Zeeshan Hasan

Seems like a really positive movement in our tech crowd, recently ‘The Interaction Design Center’ organized ‘World Usability Day’ at the UMT campus here in Lahore. When i heard about the event i was a bit surprised as i never expected “A World Usability day” here in Pakistan, but really happy to know that it did.

I reached the event at around 10:20, expected start time was 10am but it started a little late so i was technically not a late comer. There was a tremendous energy and excitement in the people who organized it and the people who came to attended it. Imran hussain started off the event with a welcome note and Adnan was the official host and i guess the brains behind the event. Google sponsored the event along with a live international video link with the creator of Google MapMaker (Lalit Ktaragadda at Google India), quite interesting and well prepared presentation. The biggest turn off was the speech by the Dr. Tanvir Iqbal from UET lahore, seemed like he wasn’t prepared or was not well guided on what the actual event was about.

I couldn’t hang around to attend the complete event so i skipped off during the tea break as i had a bunch of tickets to resolve and work to look after but over all i really appreciate the effort, it a positive movement and i hope in future we get to see and attend many such tech conferences in Lahore.