April 18, 2010

Iranian Bloggers

ما ایرانیها ظاهرا عاشق نقد کردن هستیم, برای همه چیز نظر داریم. حالا می خواد فوتبال باشه, تصادف کنار خیابون باشه و یا هر چیز دیگه, همه ما کارشناس می شیم و دوست داریم احساس کنیم داریم به نکات ریزی اشاره می کنیم که به ذهن بقیه نرسیده و با گفتنش همه در شگفت قدرت تفکر ریزبیناننه ما بمونند, قافل از اینکه طرف مقابل سخت مشغول تحلیل قضیست و فقط منتظره که حرف تو تموم بشه تا بیدرنگ با گفتن نظرات خودش تورو شگفت زده کنه.

تازگی ها هم با وجود اینترنت و تکنولوژی و در دسترس بودن اون برای همه, یک فضایی ساخته شده که مردم حرفاشونو انتو بزنن و بخاطر همین خصلت “پز قدرت تفکر” دادن هاست که همه بلاگ نویس شدن اما خواننده کمه.

و اما چرا دارم این چیزارو می گم. چندی پیش یک بلاگی رو خوندم و خیلی ناراحت شدم که چقدر راحت یک آدم که اطلاعات درستی هم نداره اینطوری با اطلاعات اشتباه قصد داره اذهان مردم رو نسبت یک خدمت آنلاین تخریب کنه.
قبل از اینکه توضیحات رو بدم از شما خواهش می کنم بلاگ رو بخونین.

فقط بگم که سایت کلام یک پروژه برای یک شبکه تلویزیونی عربیه, و قصد این بوده که بزرگترین پورتال در خاور میانه باشه. خوب برای این کار سایت رو در سه زبان فارسی, عربی, و اردو در آوردند و استارت کار زده شد, و باز هم عربها در انجام یک کار از ما ایرانی ها پیش افتادند و ما موندیم و ادعاهامون و غرور اضافی.

امیدوارم هر چه سریعتر متوجه این رفتار تخریب گرانه خودمون بشیم و اینقدر منتقدانه به همه چیز نگاه نکنیم و از همه مهمتر اینکه بپذیریم که عربها با سرعت در حال پیشرفتند و ما نشتیم و همه چیز این عربهای “سوسمار خور” رو زیر سوال می بریم در حالی که جز ادعای پوچ و الکی چیزی نیستیم.

خوب مثل همیشه با یک ویدیو از سایت کلام داستانو تموم می کنم.

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February 6, 2010

The Future of Kalam …

I know a lot of people, especially Iranians who are always more amused about how a product/service generates money, or where the budget is coming from rather than the item themselves want to know more about what is going on behind the scene, how will it survive, WHO OWNS it (could it be Rafsanjani?) … well unfortunately this post will not answer any of those questions so you might as well not read any further. But for those of you who would like to know what features they should be expecting in the coming future I would like to explain two of our plans; one consideration though, we are talking about online, all of a sudden priorities may change, ideas may be erased, new ideas may be added.

One of the features that we have assigned priority one is Flash Games, yes! soon you will not only be able to play flash games but you will also be able to add new ones and see how much others enjoy them. Everyone loves spending time on these addictive low graphic games, especially in Farsi we really don’t have a Persian site that provides such games, soon that will change, the beta will only be a selection of 300 games while we prepare the ability for users to also upload games.

Geo-tagging is becoming quite important for videos, soon you will easily be able to mention the Country/City which the video was originated from. Aggregating content is always a good idea, it helps search engines give better result to the user and that is what we want make sure we do: Give you the result you are looking for, Geo-tagging is one step towards this.

OK, I do not want to overwhelm you with information, but there is something I’d like to point out about Kalam

Kalam is always looking for videos from inside Iran, we appreciate users who spend time to take videos and place them on the site and as probably many of you know we do take very good care of our users, We always have an eye open for high potential amateur video makers and help them grow, so if you like making films and would like others to see them while you make a buck, Kalam is here to help you out.

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January 22, 2010

Duplays is back …

For those of you who have never heard the name, Duplays is really a nice league of different games including (of course) Basketball; This season I will be participating the basketball games with two different teams, we will be having one game a week:

The Monday Team: Kung Fu Panda’s
The Wednesday Team: Free Palestine

The Wednesday team is going for Gold, the Monday team on the other hand consists of friends, the team I must admit is not the strongest but hopefully its going to be really fun. This week the games begin, if the tournament is as good as last season I’m going to make Kalam Branded jerseys for the team to make it much more interesting. Anyways I will be opening a tab on top called the Duplays Results; I will try to put as much as I can up there.

Also on Kalam I will be posting highlights of the games (If Shabnam is willing to come and film it with the flip camera), Its going to be an interesting season. Wish the Fung Fu Panda’s luck ya all!

I will end with a clip from Duplays clip made for the Ladies basketball but it can give you an idea of what a nice concept it is.

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January 19, 2010

Haiti’s Earthquake, a sign from God?

The problem is that Muslims are just too sensitive, they judge everyone but usually never open to any kind of criticism, everything is a threat to them, everyone must sacrifice for them but they are never willing to sacrifice for anyone else, in Iran which calls itself an Islamic Republic wearing a scarf is a must for a Muslim /non Muslim woman, but they never respect taking off the Scarf when in a country that sees a woman wearing a scarf as plain weird, anyways I could write a book about how selfish Iranian Muslims are but as mentioned before the sensitivity of the matter could cause me far more trouble than I have the capacity of experiencing, therefore I stop right here and just ask a simple question: Continue Reading

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January 16, 2010

Kalam, not another Youtube …

Every time I describe Kalam, people ask me: “so, you are trying to be another YouTube?”, I don’t blame them, I don’t blame you if you are thinking the same right now, hopefully by the end of this post you will see why we are not “another YouTube”.

Before I start listing the differences I would like to round up all I am going to say in one sentence:
We see YouTube as a huge ocean, it can be dirty, it can be hard to control, and it can be too huge! … Kalam is not and does not want to be an ocean, we are more like a Swimming Pool; we are clean, we are controlled (I will explain this), and we target the Middle East (for now at least). Continue Reading

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