The long awaited and highly anticipated ArabNet conference kick started today, with over 500 participants attending the opening ceremony, including internet and tech leaders from around the world, investors, media, entrepreneurs, bloggers and professionals from the tech industry.
The opening ceremony and the conference activities that followed were broadcast live online, giving an opportunity for everyone who couldn't attend to be part of this unique and first-of-its kind event to ever happen in the Middle East.
Under the direction of Samer Karam and a dedicated team of geeks and coders who worked 24 hours a day for the past week, a custom-designed, cutting-edge system was developed that allows for live broadcast of video, illustrations and tweets directly from the conference. The platform also integrates a voting mechanism to allow attendees to vote for their favorite startup or idea via the live website: live.arabnet.me
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Well, here's the thing I've been busy with, for the last couple of weeks. If you're into web design or development you must know about A List Apart, the best magazine on web design, development & meaning of web content.
My brother (@mkayyali) & I worked on starting the Arabic version of A List Apart (Arabic A List Apart), and thanks to Jeffrey Zeldman, we released the official edition of A List Apart in Arabic, which will feature (for now) Arabic translations for A List Apart articles.
The cool thing about A List Apart is that it focuses on web standards and best practices in web design and development, something that an huge number of Arabic websites lack. In Arabic A List Apart we'll try to break the barrier by bringing top quality content on these subjects.
I used my beloved Django to create the system that Arabic A List Apart runs on. The design still lacks some final touches which I'll be working on in the next few days.
Of course, a huge thanks to Maya Zankoul who's doing Arabic A List Apartillustrations.
Anyway, if you can read Arabic, go ahead and dive into the brand new Arabic A List Apart http://arabicalistapart.com.
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