iPhone Persian news

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Well, Like the Facebook application age. I'm discovering a new horizon. iPhone applications. So by now, This is the most difficult programming language I have been working with. It's so complex. To do every single thing, I spent hours looking at codes, googleing, trying. Ooof! But I kinda feel unique. Not everyone writes application for iPhone. So these are the screenshots of my first iPhone application. It's a News RSS reader with functionality to play Audio and Video. Screen shot 2010-02-08 at 11.45.49 PM.png
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Facebook app starting up

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Three years ago I have developed few facebook application on a trial hosting space. I had to delete them because the trial contract expired.
But I had the source code and recoverd the application again. before deleting it, The application had 65 thousand users.
Now, without any advertisment and listing, within few days, It attracted nearly 500 users.

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I'm making my first iPhone application, It's so fun and cool.

Make Money

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I'm working on a project which helps you make money while you're eating your shawarma.
More exciting than that?
What if there was a way to gather the people who are looking for properties in Dubai and those properties which are available. only with a single click!

I just got my internet connected and found sometime to come back to regular schedule. I have to make money by helping you make money.

Let's see,


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In today's troubled property market, making the right choice is the hardest thing.

Dubai has suffered from the market down turn too, but geopolitically and financially Dubai still has a major role in the Middle East. Studies show the massive population of expats cannot leave the city easily and hopefully gold rush age comes back again.

Making the right choice in finding a right property, this is the reason behind the idea to make something that didn't exist before.

Imagine there are thousands of Real Estate agencies working in Dubai, each has got its own website and property list. To make the right choice, you have to go through all of them one by one and search for your lifetime purchase.

It makes life difficult. Practically web is useless in the property market. The easy solution to this is to list your property in a listing such as Gulfnews classifieds or similar online listings.

By accepting the fact that your website is useless you are actually accepting that all the budget you spent on designing your own property listing has gone wasted.

There is another solution to this, which has been already discovered, a Search Engine. To this date, we have Image Search, Book Search and ... But not a Property Search Engine.

Why? The answer is more technical. Indexing a Property list is not as simple as indexing a normal webpage. It needs reverse engineering to get to the actual database.

In Sedubai, we do the difficult part. We index property lists in Dubai and combine all the available results to bring a single, complete and practical tool for Dubai Property Market.

Imagine having a Google just to search for properties. Sedubai can bring back the hope to Dubai property market. You can be rich again by having access to the data.


All come to one place

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I just got an idea.
Years ago, I had a domain name called DailyDubai.com which is currently parked with no use. What if I make the best use of it. I thought of bringing two Photodubai and Sedubai together.
I have the content the only thing is that I bring them together.

I think it will look fab!

New milestone

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Since the market is not so good, I thought of a new strategy. If the market recovers by 3Q of 2010, and if I rely on the data by then, when the market recovers the I will work more on the functionality.
What I have done. I got my supercomputer, so much missed him. Then I fixed the broken crawlers. Also added 2-3 new crawlers, by crawler I mean new property lists to crawl.

I've got so much hope that this is going to work, but as days go by, I find less time to work on it.

Shame on me, Do the job Ali :(

The Miracle: Information

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So now I have a Search engine, fully functional, not perfect but exists as a piece of art and hard work. Now I have to convince myself that it wasn't a mistake. I must hope market will be in my favor again. I must hope ...

So now that the property market is going down and down, some see no way to survive. But I do believe there is always a path to recovery.
The only thing we can rely on is Knowledge and Information,in my opinion.

There is a fact that should not be forgotten, we humans multiply and need somewhere to live. We might watch less movies or not waste our money in a useless market, But we need a place to live.
Whether it's Dubai or London or Delhi or North pole, still we need a tiny place to live. So the property market is never going to be out dated.

People leave because they don't know what to do. No one can guarantee the destination is a better place. 
The economy can not take the sun, sand and beach away.
The business can easily survive because Dubai was and is still the business hub of the whole middle east population.
Dubai can survive, Why it is not doing so is lack of knowledge.

If people know how to live cheaper, Landlords know how to be more fair, Government knows how to divert the trouble and make something out of it, then there won't be any problem.

There is always a chance to make something out of nothing.
I make Information easily accessible by bringing them all together in one place and give it an extra touch.
Sponsor me, I won't disappoint you.


Huge updates for Sedubai

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In the past days I've done so much for the search engine.
Currently there are 41 property list indexed by the crawler.
There has been a thousand minor fixes.
The spell checker works so so good now.
There is an empty result page now.
The interface is so so good now.
The price functions properly now.
You can see the latest crawler status now. What lists are indexed and the details.
There is a Help page, About page, ...
The dictionary is more complete now.

What kept me awake every night was the Search box analyzer. The way it finds type, location, and price. It was a nightmare how to deal with different search terms. But now it works, now it's beautiful.
I didn't simply fix the bugs and issues; I really put my brain on it to come up with the best method to develop a better AI.

It's enough for this weekend. Better take a break.


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