Mohamed Nanabhay's Blog

This week the tech blogs were buzzing with the news that Seesmic had acquired Ping.fm, a fantastic service that allows you to update 50 different social networks at once through e-mail, IM (my favorite), SMS or the web.

Last year Ping.fm was one of the startups that I invested in.

The acquisition means that

Seesmic users will also be able to update not only with the apps they are used to, but also with Ping.fm's email, sms and chat gateways.  Seesmic is now the only social software application available on that many screens and able to update all your favorite social networks. The Ping.fm acquisition enables Seesmic to deliver faster its vision of becoming your default application to stay in touch with your friends and constantly managing your online social presence.

 
That is huge. As an entrepreneur from Dubai put it,

I agree. And I'm not just saying that because I'm now an investor in Seesmic!

Congratulations to all involved - it's a great way to start 2010!

(for more see the blog posts on Ping.fm and Seesmic)

Earlier this year we announced the launch of the Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository. This project was a very much a personal milestone, so you can imagine my delight to find it acknowledged in our corridor on a timeline of company achievements.

Firmly placed on a timeline of historic events, starting with the launch of the Al Jazeera Channel in 1996, it signifies our continued commitment to the CC.

My team at Al Jazeera English of course!

hat-tip : morad

We've just flipped the switch on Al Jazeera Blogs (http://blogs.aljazeera.net). This is the first new product I've launched since taking over the Al Jazeera English website, so am reasonably excited about it (just reasonably, since we're fashionably late to the party but the fantastic content will make up for it).

We have always placed a strong emphasis on field journalism and prided ourselves on our extensive network of correspondents who are based across the world. Just browsing through our correspondent blogs will give you a real sense of the breadth of our coverage, while diving into the posts provides real depth and insight into our world.

The narratives are compelling, diverse and I am sure, a welcome additional to the blogosphere.

Of course, while the posts are fantastic we've also deployed a lot of social web goodness. All posts are semantically tagged using OpenCalais, you can leave comments using your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID and in our continuing commitment to Creative Commons, our work is licensed under a CC license.

Please have a poke around, leave a comment and let me know what you think.

(P.S. thanks to everyone who worked on this!)