We Preach by Spamming

Once upon a time, I stumbled upon an online Quran application, back then I was studying human-computer interaction as a part of my MSc. degree, so I commented on twitter that most of the online Quran readers need to reconsider their design from a usability point of view.

Since then, and I receive dozens of spam tweets each day. They come from different people, yet they all contain the exact same message.

My only interpretation for this is that Quran.ksu.edu.sa has an application that those pople trust and it uses their accounts to send those spammy messages to me.

I sent multiple spam reports to twitter, yet they don't even respond. Isn't it strange that some applications think that it is ok to abuse the trust of their users and spam someone in order to grab his attention to give them feedback about their application!? Isn't it disappointing that twitter don't give a shit to my daily spam reports!?

A picture is worth a thousand words

You create new places, and share your thoughts and past experiences in those places using Baralbait's micro-blogging feature or geo-wall. You can also rate those places, and give them one, two, three, four, or five stars.
But we all know that a picture is worth a thousand worlds. And that's why we have decided to give you the ability to publish pictures taken in a certain place.



After going to a certain place's page on Baralbait, you can click on the attachment button in the geo-wall section, and then you can add your picture's URL.

We currently support pictures from the following services only:

• Flcikr, http://www.flickr.com/
• TwitPic, http://www.twitpic.com/
• yFrog, http://yfrog.com/

Have fun taking photos when you go out, and don't forget to share them with us.

Baralbait to acquire Twitter

I am really pleased to announce that Baralbait has decided to buy the de facto micro blogging company, Twitter.com.

Many users have asked us to add micro blogging features to our platform, and almost the same number of users have asked Twitter to make their tweets location-aware. So after a one day long meeting we agreed with Twitter to purchase them and integrate their service into ours.

I'll keep you updated and more details will follow.

Finally I'd like to welcome all Twitter team members, and wish them the best of luck in Baralbait.