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NaanMap: Making it Easier to Find Halal Restaurants & Stores
Posted on 18. Jun, 2010 by Zahid Lilani.
Halal is to Muslims what Kosher is to Jews. Majority of Muslims eat at restaurants that have a sign saying “HALAL.” Up until now there was only one website Zabihah.com that provided a list of Halal restaurants. The problem with Zabihah is that it tries to do a lot and ends up destroying the user [...]
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Google and Entrepreneurship
Posted on 12. Jun, 2010 by Zahid Lilani.
I just got done with my last seminar class at SFSU. There was a Google employee in my class who enjoyed celebrity status because of his association with Google. Our professor was too intrigued I suppose and asked him to do a small presentation about Entrepreneurship. It was suppose to coincide with the lecture on [...]
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Not Worth the Time for Small Businesses to Embrace Social Media
Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by Zahid Lilani.
Being a small business owner, there is nothing more important to me than to get the word out about my tax and accounting services business. But is social media the answer? Does it pay off? I have trouble with all the experts and gurus saying that if you are not leveraging social media then you [...]
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Can 2 Million Pakistanis Change Facebook Policy?
Posted on 20. May, 2010 by Zahid Lilani.
There are 2 Million+ Facebook users in Pakistan according to Facebreakers. A Pakistani court on May 19th, 2010 decided that they would place a ban on Facebook until the end of the month. The ban was in response to a Facebook page called “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” to be held Thursday May 20, 2010. It [...]
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Winning An iPad
Posted on 09. May, 2010 by Zahid Lilani.
Good News: My in-laws got real lucky at a competition and won the first prize, an iPad. Bad news: Only one per family. Nonetheless, an iPad is an iPad, doesn’t matter if only one member of the family got it. If it is in the family, I can use it whenever I want. I am [...]





