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.

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Orkut which was of its time a very famous social networking site launched by Google Inc. recently launched its mobile version where from mobile you can use orkut. Though there is lack in functionality as the core purpose of the mobile functionality is the ability to review / reply to your scraps … well to be frank Google people we have moved forward with scraps now we use twitter and every single day i am getting more addicted to twitter reason being its adoptability with diffrent apps, you can twitt from web / mobile / IM which is quite fun & easy.

Though check out Google Orkut Mobile at :http://m.orkut.com

After the new launch of my site I got a listing at the following great portals, highly appreciated and keep up the good work.

1. CSS Mania
   CSS Mania was born in 2004 and once official launch became extremely popular. CSS Mania claims to be the worlds first and biggest CSS website Showcase gallery.
2. Creative - Pakistan
   Creative Pakistan is a platform provided to exhibit fresh, reviving, thoughtful and interesting creations by Pakistani Web Designers. With the increase in World Wide Web, Pakistanis are developing and improving their skills day by day in the line of web styling, designing and development.
3. W3C Sites
   W3C Sites is a collection of web sites created by designers that conform with the W3C standards.Despite the name ‘W3C’, W3C Sites is not an initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), but rather an inspiration that came out of it.The site has one goal. The same goal that responsible web designers all share. That is to promote web sites that are designed to comply to the web standards.
4. CSS Container
   A CSS gallery listing

Dont be scared & welcome to the new design of “My Portfolio & my Home on Web”, finally my website zeeshanhasan.com gets a  new look ………. currently excited, scared, exhausted, excited again……

So today i relaunch my ever awaiting portfolio / web that had been pending since Oct 2007, yes it took me 6 months to get it out of my desktop and on to web, reason being its extreamly difficult to work for your own sites cause 99% of time you spend on working for other people sites and usually our own web properties never get a priority. Any how for the last two weeks i had decided to work on finishing my website though the design part was finished long time back but the CSS and complex layout needed allot of work, though currently its 98% complete and 2% i hope does not get pending and get wrapped up quite quick.

 So what does the new layout have to offer, okai first of all i haven’t moved things allot as compared to the previous layout, but have focused on details and mixing the social network life with my website as you can see the social links on the header they are the communities i usually hang out so connect with me. I have used allot of transparencies which are quite difficult to use for web due to the IE / Firefox issues but i found my way around with help of some very nice tutorials and articles i found on the net.

I have changed the logo rather i would say i have evolved the logo to a newer look & feel, the over all theme is inspired from the Nature i.e. trees, leaves.

For this web to work my core focus of the project was to expose more of my skill set, add the new artwork i had worked on and update all the information as previously all the material lying there was approximately 2 years old.

For blog i have kept it simple but there are additions coming up i.e. will probably add jQuery to enhance the functionally and interactivity on the blog.

Let me know your feedback / comments cause i am desperately in need of that …

Today i downloaded and installed Adobe Air, a project started by adobe previously know as Adobe Apollo. Adobe Air is a cross environment runtime SDK for building rich internet application using Flash, Flex, HTML and Ajax that can be deployed as desktop application. Adobe air seems like a new innovation that will open up doors to match and mix desktop application with the web applications. This seems like a foot step heading to wards the symatric web “a web where different application will work together”

Check it out