FarQuest Fariha's Quest: Finding an answer to the question "Why can’t Utopia be a reality?" Wish to add some colors of Utopia to this world because I dare to dream and strive to turn my dreams into reality!

Here comes the long due review of the website "PakHeadlines" which was launched by Em and his groupie around a month or so ago. According to the duo:

" We fetch news from popular news sources around Pakistan and provide the headlines on just one single page! Yes, users do not have to browse the site any further as we display all headlines in our reader.

Mobile users can view latest news from our WAP website> wap.pakheadlines.com

We’ve launched PakHeadlines as beta and we’re still struggling to improve it further. If you’ve got any comments or suggestions, feel free to drop us a note at: info@pakheadlines.com"

My suggestions to the PakHeadlines guys would be:

1. Improve the lay out a little..having a look at Alltop sites may give you some ideas as to how to organize and display the headlines in a more user friendly manner.

2. Give multiple for eg. one where users can view all the top headlines together and the other where they can view headlines category wise.

3. Use m.headlines.com  instead of wap.pakheadlines.com so that mobile users have to type less.

4. Create the "Contact-Us" page where user can perhaps fill a simple form to contact you rather than just providing a link which opens ur default email program…ppl like me might not like it much I actually got irritated by it and so rather than contacting you through email, posted a comment on the PakHeadlines blog.

I hope people like this idea..comes in handy for those who might want to skim through the top stories without opening multiple news sites. All the best guys!

I will be InshAllah Live Blogging from Karachi Bloggers Meetup On Ideas Hut blog here. Those of you who are unable to attend it for any reason can catch the live happenings of the event through the live blog Also you can keep checking #KBM08 on Twitter here to see all the tweets regarding the event. Hope this event turns out to be great!

Yay!! So, after the great Lahore Bloggers Meetup, Karachi Bloggers Meetup is here too! Here are the details(that I have stolen from the event’s facebook page)

Event Summary:

The idea is to encourage Internet users & bloggers to meet offline as well. Senior bloggers get a chance to share knowledge & experience. New wanna-be bloggers can learn from the local success stories and network with leaders & professionals in this field.

Who Can Benefit From Blogging?

Students: Discover how you can earn your own pocket money

Housewives: Learn how you can earn & support your family while staying at home.

Professionals: See how you can enjoy a second income while still doing a full-time job.

Everybody: Other than the monetary perspective, learn how to share your thoughts/opinions with the world

Organizer: 

CIO Pakistan [ http://www.ciopakistan.com/] in association with Google Pakistan [ http://www.google.com.pk/ ]

Venue:

Royal 1 - The Royal Rodale.

Agenda (draft/tentative):

Keep watching… Coming soon…

Requests:

Please help spread the word in any way you can

- Karachi Bloggers: please help post about it on your blogs, twitter, FB, Digg, Stumbleupon, etc.

- You may bring your laptops as we hope to have WiFi connectivity there;Enjoy live blogging, Tweeting, etc.

- Please DON’T be shy at the event to ask even the silliest of questions!

Punctuality is virtue!

P@SHA ICT Awards ceremony is being covered through live blogging on Ideas Hut blog here

P@SHA has come up with a very exciting event i.e. the P@SHA Career Expo 2008. Some really interesting activities have been planned for all the IT enthusiasts out there. So, BE THERE and try not to miss it.

You can find the details at Jehan Ara’s blog here

The P@SHA sponsored DevNext SIG session will be conducted by yours’ truly and her colleague Imad 

So, ‘am looking forward to meet some of the readers of my blog tomorrow

Now, you can grab the Ideas Hut team and its fans on Facebook as well

Click the banner above to reach our facebook page and become a fan!

Update: We just realized that creating a facebook group is a better way to interact with people so, now clicking the above banner will take u to our facebook group. Do join it!

Teabreak-which is a Pakistan based blog aggregating site, has launched its version 2.0. It’s still in it beta stage but has introduced a lot of new and interesting features. For details follow a post on my friend’n'colleague Ammar’s blog here.

Great going Teabreak!

One fine day while I was facebooking, i noticed Sohail’s status and then:

We had a discussion for 4 days and that too revolving around a single idea put up by Sohail as his facebook status

And that was when this mad Pakistani felt we could have such discussions on a forum meant solely for this purpose. By next morning he was done creating that forum with some basic functinalities to enable users discuss different ideas.

Also by then he had started feeling that his mental faculties are being affected by the risen levels of insanity so, he decided not to take it alone and infest the culprit behind his madness with the same as well.

That culprit was accussed of bugging mad pakistani for implementing his idea related to "Developers Network of Pakistan" ……for brain storming with him writing long wall posts (argg…needless to say but she often got irriated by the restrictions put on the length of the wall post ) and for helping him shape his ideas.

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:17 p.m. PST, history witnessed the emergence of another mad pakistani who happens to be the author of this blog when she decided to take the Ideas Hut project forward along with Sohail after being sentenced to madness.

So, this is briefly about how Ideas Hut started; which today after about 10 days of its birth and being still in its beta version has already got 5 ideas being discussed on it.

But this is just a start and we are expecting a lot more to come. So, keep following

Life starts with a dot but while living this life we often fail to connect many dots……….

 We(Sohail and I) at our little venture Ideas Hut seek to and invite all of you to connect all such dots that can potentially make a beautiful picture.

Keep checking this space for further details about what Ideas Hut is all about! 

Image Credits: Katesbabybasics and Ebaumsworld

So, my friendie’s organization is offering an internship program in these summers starting from the 1st week of June. Great going Nuvica!!

For further details check out the Nuvica Pakistan’s official blog.