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In A Market The Internet Forgot, Souktel Helps People Find Jobs Via SMS

Souktel is the Monster.com of Morocco, Somalia, and Palestine--and now it's coming to jobseekers in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. READ MORE

Facebook VP: "We Get Too Much Credit For The Arab Spring"

Facebook VP David Fischer explicitly downplayed the social network's role in Middle Eastern revolutions to an Israeli conference which included a tech industry who's-who.READ MORE

You Stay Classy, Axe

The makers of the popular bro-wash (Broap?) create a Facebook app that lets you claim to be dating over a hundred girls at once (but actually obliterates your chances to date even one). Dislike!READ MORE

A Tale of Two UI's: Tunisia Goes Open-Source, Hungary Uses iPad for New Constitution

More technology does not always mean more openness and collaboration. Consider the divergent examples of Tunisia, writing its new constitution via the collaborative, open-source PiratePad, and Hungary, writing its guiding document via the very proprietary iPad.READ MORE

Yemeni Journalist Offers Facebook and Twitter Access, Piercing Government Blocks

Alkasir makes access to Facebook and Twitter possible in the face of oppressive regimes' attempts to block them.READ MORE

Science Panel Says World Will See 50 Million Climate Change Refugees by 2020

50 million "environmental refugees" will flee their homes for safer borders in the next nine years, forcing policy leaders and a host of others to figure out how to make room for everyone--or how to stop the massive migration from happening in the first place. READ MORE

Social Media Does More Than Support Revolutions

News media and the blogosphere have been filled with the argument that the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt were made possible by Twitter and Facebook. It's a compelling argument. But Egypt and Tunisia are the just the beginning of a new order of things.READ MORE

Iran Tech Expo Features Nuclear Might, Doubts, Concerns

Rockets, satellites, nanotechnology, and aerospace advancements will also be on display this weekend in Syria. A Nobel Laureate's take: "Iran is like the fire underneath the ashes."READ MORE

How Social Media Accelerated the Uprising in Egypt

Did Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube send people out into the streets? Of course not. Did they speed up the process of protest? Absolutely.READ MORE

Will Syria's Revolution Be Organized... on Facebook?

Tunisia has been overthrown. Egypt is tottering. Now Facebook pages are calling for protests to begin in Syria later this week.READ MORE

Tunisian Blogger Becomes Cabinet Member

One of Tunisia's best known bloggers, a member of the pro-network neutrality Pirate Party, was named a cabinet member in Tunisia's new government.READ MORE

Tunisian Government Allegedly Hacking Facebook, Gmail Accounts of Dissidents and Journalists

A strange bit of JavaScript has found its way onto Tunisian Internet users' internet login screens. Some are now in jail in a country known for torture. But they've been adopted by an unlikely ally: Anonymous.READ MORE