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Posted on May 24, 2009 - by Yasser
Spiderz is seven years old! Almost…
On June 3rd, 2009, Spiderz Web International will be seven years old.
Great achievement team! :D
Thank you all customers! :D
Posted on March 26, 2009 - by Yasser
Twitter may eventually kill Google search…
With time, Twitter or a similar service will kill Google search and every other search engine that we’ve known. We are about to experience the dawn of a new search system that will surpass services like Google search and the others.
The day when search will be powered by Humans and not algorithms is near.
As tens of millions of people go online and share information about their lives and environments, a natural, human-powered, and exceptionally live, metadata index is developing across social networks. It’s powered by Humans and is mostly relevant and ‘alive’.
Billions of pages indexed on Google and other search engines find it hard to compete with something as simple yet highly powerful and accurate like Twitter search.
It’s already happening… a simple search for ‘dubai restaurant’ on Google returns some of the lousiest web pages:
http://www.google.com/search?q=dubai+restaurant
Then try the same search on Twitter Search and you get something quite different:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=dubai+restaurant
With millions of people across the globe talking about their lives and sharing their experiences, some of the highest end Google algorithms stand little chance to deliver human experiences like a social network would. Humans serving accurate information to fellow humans.
This may be a time for dreaming up an ideal marriage. Google should buy Twitter and bring together it’s powerful search service and the human experience.
The following screen shots make a point:
Poor results on both Google and Twitter:
I was amazed to see some results on Twitter beat Google fair and square, yet some were ranked poorly due to the negative human factor of adding garbage to a service like Twitter.
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Al Khowahir Chemicals
With regards to the web site, it was a great experience getting the web site for our company done. More than designing, we enjoyed collecting information, framing it and the final result was nice. Our company web site has increased our exposure world over. People write to us and you never know when some good deals might click.
Leejo Phillip, Finance Director
Al Khowahir Chemicals
http://www.alkhowahirchemicals.com
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Kalhour Trading Company
Spiderz have done a great job for us. Not to say that the team is quite efficient and one of the leading companies who have a great horizon at their hand due to their continuous follow ups and not to say thinking of us before we can think of them.
Abdul Karim, Operations Manager
Kalhour Trading Company
http://www.kalhour.com
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Mega Carpets
Spiderz has been a key partner of Mega Carpets in its visibility campaign over the internet for 2 years. Since the launching of our web site, Spiderz’s after sales support system has been the main attribute of their services. Spiderz not only designed and conceptualized our web site, but also formulated our corporate branding and corporate communication “Weaving Wonders”. Spiderz go beyond its services by being pro-active, innovative, and marketing driven thinkers. Thank you Yasser for the support; and Thank you Spiderz for the “optimum” opportunities that you have rendered. Or should i say, thank you for the rendering services and opportunities.
Robert Bagatsing, International Marketing Manager
Mega Carpets
http://www.megacarpets.com
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Al Abbar Medical Group
The efforts made by the Spiderz team both in the initial creation of the Al Abbar Medical Group web site and the various updates that followed were outstanding. Al Abbar Medical Group was provided with a service of the highest quality which has met all our needs and was inline with our organizational objectives. We extend our sincere gratitude to the Spiderz team and thank them for all their effort, support and hard work. We are also very glad to have Spiderz as one of our business partners and are looking forward to doing business again in the near future.
Dr. Mohammed Al Khalili, Managing Director
Al Abbar Medical Group
http://www.alabbarmed.com
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Sky Land Realty Brokerage
Spiderz helped Sky Land Realty on two fronts when we approached them following a recommendation from one of their existing customers. First of all they helped us by explaining what was available to us in terms of Site Options. Secondly and more importantly, they understood our marketplace well, created a package and design that works for our customers and us.
The Support Service has been excellent. We are still a relatively young company and perhaps were initially a little naive in our understanding of how powerful a business tool a well designed web site can be. Spiderz has helped us to utilize the tool from Administrative, Operational and Marketing disciplines and requirements.
Technical Support has been prompt when required. We are always confident that Spiderz will solve any technical difficulties and problems that arise from general internet usage and interfaces with our office I.T. systems. We can assure anyone that Spiderz have the virtue of patience as well the as business and technical skills required to provide the service that they do.
S.M. McConnell, General Manager
Sky Land Realty Brokerage
http://www.skylandrealty.com
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Strategic Land Commercial Brokers
Most impressed with your work on our site, your customer service has always been responsive to our needs & we look forward to a long and happy working partnership.
Chris Verity, Managing Partner
Strategic Land Commercial Brokers
http://www.strategiclandinvestment.com
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Your Home Real Estate
From our own experience with you, I am comfortable to say that your service alone has shown us a new hand on support, service, availability, direction and solutions that fit with our activity. I definitely will recommend your firm to others in business and feel this is the least I can do. Thank you and best regards!
Hassan Al Rais, Managing Director
Your Home Real Estate
http://www.yourhomedubai.com
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Sweet Fruit Arrangements
Spiderz has done an excellent job building my website. The site looks simple though the Spiderz team came up with many creative ideas and programmed my difficult requests in a professional manner. The processing of coupons, selection of zip codes for delivery with backend flexibility to make changes to product and categories easily is exceptional.
Ibrahim Baggia, Founder
Sweet Fruit Arrangements
http://www.sweetfruitarrangements.com
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Property One Real Estate
Congratulations for six years of hard work. Again another splendid web site with unimaginable creativity and professionalism as always. Spiderz has been at the leading edge of web site development over the years here in Dubai. As we are doing our third business web site, we keep coming back to SPIDERZ and refer our friends as well - the reason is the creativity and the professionalism, the customer service and the dedication that comes along each and every project that you guys do. I need not say much as Spiderz portfolio speaks for itself and its evident why Spiderz is successful in such short time. Job well done!
Guled Hassan, Director of Sales
Property One Real Estate
http://www.p1re.com
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
The Hub Business Directory
We are quite happy and satisfied with the business directory that was customized with our specific requirements. Spiderz were able to meet all our challenging requirements and changes.
Amer Sharaf, Director
The Hub Business Directory
http://www.thehub.ae/directory/
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Austin Hughes Europe
At the outset of our project we evaluated at least 10 web development companies, across multiple countries, the first most noticeable thing was that costs varied significantly between the companies as did the approach of how they viewed our web project. Many of the companies seemed to view the project as largely just another HTML site offering little actual development advice and really not adding any true value to our existing ideas and wish lists.
From day 1 - Spiderz presented a highly professional proposal; it was clear to us from our first meeting that they were not simply responding to, but building on our ideas and wish lists for the project. Commercially they were not the lowest cost but they were far from the highest. Prior to awarding the project we also took the action of speaking with some of the customer references that Spiderz provided to us, in each case the sites that we reviewed and the people that we spoke with were highly complimentary of Spiderz service and company. That was it - we decided to award to Spiderz – a decision that today, after the launch of our site, we would make again, without question.
During the implementation of the project Spiderz were timely, helpful, and innovative but most of all flexible – after all web sites are a development feat that largely changes as you progress. Spiderz were very quick to adapt as our ideas and expectations grew – they found solutions to our challenges and never said NO, offering advice and guidance all the way. We were particularly impressed with the high level of understanding that Spiderz gained of our company, our solutions and our support functions all of which were to be integrated into our site. Spiderz understanding of these areas were vital to ensuring that our site was used by our customers to best effect.
We highly recommend Spiderz and will be using them again shortly for further Austin Hughes development projects.
Martin Hennessey, Director
Austin Hughes Europe
http://www.austin-hughes.eu
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
D’ Events
Benita Karg, Account Manager
D’ Events
http://www.d-events.ae
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Central Films
Thank you very much for your work on our site, it is looking stunning. Please also thank your design team as the changes and creative suggestions have really improved it!
Karen Coetzee, Producer
Central Films
http://www.centralfilms.com
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Rohmix International
We expierenced a high quality of service since we started our business relationship with Spiderz. Whenever we require the team they give their support immediately. Thanks a lot.
Kristin Scheffer, CEO & Owner
Rohmix International
http://www.buzon.ae
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Autotune Service Centre
This was my first project with Spiderz Web International and they have left a wonderful and everlasting impression in our first dealing itself. I am really impressed with the simple and most professional design of my company website which they have created for me. But more than the design what I really enjoyed was working with them!
Their professional way of dealing and their new project management system that allowed me to interact with them without even visiting their office was just fantastic. I didn’t even have to make a phone call to their office. They made everything possible through their project management website.
It was really comfortable dealing with them this way and working with them was a smooth flow from beginning till the end. There were no disputes or troubles between us. I have now decided that my relationship with Spiderz Web International is going to be long-term and they are going to handle all my web related projects in the future. Thank you Spiderz!!!
Midhun Dinesh, Director
Autotune Service Centre
http://www.autotunedubai.com
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
crm Middle East
Spiderz have designed and built our web site just how we wanted it. It’s very easy to maintain and we know we can get help whenever we need it.
We would gladly recommend Spiderz Web International to anyone in need of an excellent website at a very affordable price. Thanks for the great service!
Lina Zarifeh, Managing Director
crm Middle East
http://www.crm-me.com
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Dubai International Art Centre
Dubai International Art Centre has had the pleasure of working with Spiderz since 2005; when Spiderz designed our very first website.
Spiderz has always provided great customer service/support at every instance, at very reasonable prices. Providing great value for fees charged.
DIAC hopes to continue this wonderful relationship and would readily recommend Spiderz to one and all.
Ayesha Chen McKeever, Centre Manager
Dubai International Art Centre
http://www.artdubai.com
Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Yasser
Setting up your iPhone to retrieve emails every 15 seconds or so!
This is a fantastic hack if you own one of the jailbroken iPhones. I found it over here and after reading through the document and comments it was quite easy to get my iPhone 2G (Firmware 2.1) to check emails every 15 seconds (or so, you can set any number of seconds).
To accomplish this you must download two utilities from here:
iPhoneBrowser - Windows based GUI for manipulating files on the iPhone
plist Editor for Window - Windows based GUI to edit plist files on the iPhone
Once both these programs are installed, you need to launch iPhoneBrowser and locate a file called com.apple.persistentconnection.plist in this directory /var/mobile/Library/Preferences. Just play around with the tree structure to the left within iPhoneBrowser.
Right click com.apple.persistentconnection.plist and select Save As… and save the file on your computer’s drive. Once done, run plist Editor for Windows and Open this file. You have to locate and change the numerical value of 900 (which is in seconds) to whatever you like. I’ve set mine to 15 at the moment, thereby instructing my iPhone to check emails every 15 seconds.
Save your file after editing and right click com.apple.persistentconnection.plist in the iPhoneBrowser window. Choose Replace File… and select the modified version of the file from your computer’s drive. Once done, simply close both applications, restart your iPhone and run the mail app.
You’ll notice that the iPhone will now fetch your emails every 15 seconds as opposed to the default 900 second setting that was setup in the com.apple.persistentconnection.plist file.
This is as close as it gets to having your iPhone access your email accounts every 15 seconds or so and to enjoy ‘near push’. This setting checks all email accounts as well so you don’t need to do any special settings. One important warning is that you shouldn’t go to Settings > Fetch New Data and make changes since your modification will be replaced. Though I’ve not tested this at all.
There you go, this is the closest that we get to having our iPhone buzz with lightening every email, every 15 seconds!
Go hack it.
PS: If you have your email hosted on MS Exchange Server and enjoy push technology on your iPhones, we envy you for the push of it … (not MS Exchange)!
