Zahid Lilani – Technology and Social Media

Stop SOPA before it’s too late

Posted on 14. Jan, 2012 by Zahid Lilani.

In the tech community, SOPA is not news. For an average American, SOPA is unheard of. The traditional media and major news organizations have completely ignored SOPA as if it doesn’t exist. SOPA is real, it does exist and if passed could mean the end of internet as we know it.
Apart from calling your [...]

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Facebook not on the Technology Fast 500 list released by Deloitte

Posted on 18. Nov, 2011 by Zahid Lilani.

Deloitte, one of the Big 4 CPA firms, releases a list of the 500 fastest growing technology companies every year – Technology Fast 500. To be recognized as Technology Fast 500, companies need to own intellectual property that generates majority of the operating revenue. It looks at companies that have been in business for [...]

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PeerIndex – Yes, there is a Klout Alternative

Posted on 27. Oct, 2011 by Zahid Lilani.

Klout announced a better, more accurate way to measure online influence but it might have pulled a Netflix. The change was drastic for some Klout loyalists and their loyalty today turned into all out boycott. Heck, there is a even a @OccupyKlout Twitter account and Occupy URL modified site.
I didn’t know if there was [...]

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A Survival Guide for Facebook a.k.a Web within a Web

Posted on 25. Oct, 2011 by Zahid Lilani.

Facebook’s new Timeline feature can be considered an ambitious, but not unrealistic, vision for future. A future of web, within a web. A social web within the larger context of the World Wide Web. Homepage. Friends. Videos. Music. Photos. News. Everything organized by year, month, day…

I joined Facebook in September 2006 when I got [...]

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Facebook is the new MySpace thanks to Google+

Posted on 05. Oct, 2011 by Zahid Lilani.

Did Facebook just shoot itself in the foot by introducing it’s newest feature Timeline? According to this hilarious video, it sure did. Meet the new MySpace a.k.a Facebook. If it weren’t for Google+, Facebook would still be cool.

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