So today Firefox sends email to all his members who pledged to download firefox on the Firefox download day and help firefox set a world record and today :

We did it! We set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. With your help we reached 8,002,530 downloads.You are now part of a World Record and the proud owner of the best version of Firefox yet!

Don’t forget to download your very own certificate for helping set a Guinness World Record.

Okai i am going to be breaking this news, Yes Naseeb Networks the company behind Rozee.pk & Naseeb.com is gearing up to launch a social networking / blogging / sms / voice / mail portal in Pakistan for the people of Pakistan.

The portal so far seems to be under tremendous development and might be in stealth mode(untill this post), and it cannot be predicted when Naseeb will be ready to launch Pakistan’s first social networking site. So far the project is focusing under 6 core elements.

1. VoiceMails
2. SMS (super cool feature with tremendous potential)
3. Mail (not so cool we love gMail)
4. Friends
5. Photos
6. Blogs

Naseeb already have a very strong experience with social networking portals (naseeb.com) along with voice & sms services(ringpakistan). Apart from blogging / photos / mail the only two things that seems exciting and new is the SMS & Voice Messages to me.

With telecom companies flooding in Pakistan who have tremendous amount of ad money for promotion of such service the SMS with web will definitely get good attention and funding for Naseeb.  Previously for Rozee.pk Naseeb partnered with Mobilink and i am sure for the SMS service naseeb will definitely be looking forward to them.

http://www.talktribe.com

Finally Go4B (World Call cable internet) opens its eyes looks around and decide to reduce the internet Tariff to a very compatitve package plans so here is what Go4b - (Worldcall Broadband) is offering:

Go4B (Woldcall Cable Internet)  New Internet Tariff 2008

• 1MB         - Unlimited - Rs.25 00
• 512kbps  - Unlimited - Rs.1200
• 256kbps  - Unlimited - Rs.1000
• 128kbps  - Unlimited - Rs.600/

I have used Wateen, WOL DSL & PTCL if i compare to the service provided by Go4b - (Worldcall Broadband) with all the others then i would simply vote for Go4b - (Worldcall Broadband) and question will be why  so here is a comparative analysis that might help you before you sign up for an internet connection.

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Okai this interesting “China Mobile” who previously acquired “Paktel for $460 million finally launches an aggressive marketing campaign with a new brand called “ZONG” its a good step by China Mobile as changing there original brand name “China Mobile” on the back end and brining “ZONG” as new brand to compete in our telecommunication market where no doubt competition is cut throat.

One thing interesting about the brand name is the meaning of the word “ZONG” which according to Google means “A bong that has kinks or curves in the neck allowing more smoke to fit without the height of the bong increasing” ok now if you are smart you should know what bong is if not then “A bong, also commonly known as a water pipe, is a smoking device, generally used to smoke cannabis, tobacco, or other substances” other substances can be many other substances easily available by import from Afghanistan. So the question is What does this mean for there brand does it mean ZONG is for people who like to live ‘HIGH’ above the others hmm ..

Check out ZONG’s Website for more details on Package plans

While stuck in traffic i receive an SMS from Mobilink Informing me about there another portal service “Mobilink World” . Being a net addict to the internet i went over to the site and once again just like Wateen i witnessed the sentence written in the footer “Best Viewed in IE6″ is it me or all the IT experts working in big companies like Mobilink are blind as to what they have mentioned on the footer of there site. Let me explain what they meant by “Best Viwed in IE6″ the sentence clearly states that

“We have build this site on Windows Based system using HTML tables drawn in Dreamweaver we don’t know even HTML, although the technology we used to build dynamics of the site is PHP which is an open source platform, we have learned to write this sentence in 1990’s when there was Internet Explorer & Netscape Communicator, we have no idea about Firefox, Opera, Safari, we really don’t know if this site will open in a cell phone browser either, we don’t know what accessibility, usability and cross browser / cross platform accessibility is we have never heard of W3C standards”

Unfortunately for me this kind of statement goes personal as every single day i spend hours of my work drafting, refining, optimizing & studying CSS  i work hours optimizing a site to work perfectly with IE6,IE7, Firefox 1, Firefox2, Opera, Safari, i try to figure out a way to make a site look perfect in all resolutions. But for some people its just collection of the check without caring as to what image they are projecting to there work. I dont claim my site to be perfect but at least it stands at a level where its code is optimized, it works in all browser, its written in clean CSS and validates w3c. But in Pakistan the web is evolving & becoming a necessity for every corporation but the people ending up getting the projects are not qualified for the work they land in. As long as corporations make decisions on the basis of reference and connection the end result will be “Best Viewed in IE6″

Mobilink World developed by Evamp & Saanga