There are huge smoke clouds on the skies of Lahore. Its still unknown that is it a fire at some place or some terrorist activity or something else.
The fire seems to be somewhere around Multan road.

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This is something i spotted at a local audio cassette store. A folk singers new album having title song Kithay kereya phone sajna SIM badale aay (where should i call , my lover has changed her mobile number/sim).
Local folk punjabi songs always have this cultural touch, but recently modern developments have started to get into local songs, tappas etc. Lets see how far it goes and how entertaining it can be.

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Google has recently started advertising on its mobile website the localized search initiative. The local search is all about searching places like restaurant, shopping places, gas stations, atms etc. All you need to do is to goto local search page and type in the query or select a category from the provided list. Google will show you all the related places near you with all the available information (like contact details, addresses etc). When you click a specific place it shows it on Google Maps for you.
As Mapmaker's (mapmaker.google.com) data has been opened to API to some extent you can also find a lot of places in big cities (Lahore, Karachi etc) of Pakistan. For instance try finding chinese restaurants in Lahore and it will return you a reasonable list.

It was inevitable that Google will integrate maps data into search and Local Search is one interesting and uncluttered way of doing it.

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In my previous post about our first sale I highlighted the fact that there are 5 major stages a Startup has to go through to be called successful; Initial Hardships, Recognition, Sales (or devising a good enough business model), Raising Money (Angel investment or at later stages Venture Capital) and going public/getting acquired.

I am excited to announce another big news about SeenReport (pvt.) Limited. We have raised Series A VC funding from Al-Janabi Group (A prominent International Venture Capital Firm). With this step SeenReport joins a very small list of Pakistani Startups who have raised VC money. The capital injection takes overall worth of our startup to several million dollars.

It has been really tough throughout this time period, as in Pakistan there is absolutely no platform where one could raise Angel Investment let alone VC Funding. This really is a milestone for a Pakistani Startup and we believe that this will mark a new era taking Pakistan’s name to the next level where internationally people would start taking Pakistani Startups more seriously and may be more opportunities open up for Venture Capital injection. Pakistan would start to get even more attention for being a place where innovative work is being done. Hopefully this will also encourage many other young Entrepreneurs who are struggling to make an impression or thinking about starting their own business.

The series A investment will really help us in taking SeenReport’s platform to a new level where we would be able to make an even better impression on MainStream Media by promoting Life Streaming, Freedom of Expression, Citizen and Process Journalism and involving technology in bridging the gap between Internet, mobile users and common people across the globe.

Note: If you are a blogger, running your own portal, an influential person or a young Entrepreneur, we would appreciate if you take this Pakistani success story ( the Startup that started from zero and became a multi million dollar company), propagate it and tell Pakistani people that we can do it. We are not terrorists; we are the flag bearers of innovation. All you need is passion and you can go out and change the world. Spread the word

PS: The official Press Release (Click Here)

In our efforts to make you manage your Web Presence as easily as possible SeenReport Labs has rolled out integration with WordPress. Now you can attach your WordPress blog with your SeenReport account. All the reports you send in through MMS, Email or direct upload will be automatically pushed to your Blog. We are really excited about this new feature as it really helps those Users who still maintain their own presence along side their SeenReport profiles (like me ).
Now Making News, Being Heard and Bringing Change is not just limited to SeenReport but is also disseminated to multiple platforms you use. You wont really need to make your friends and reader migrate with you to your social space rather you can stay at as many social spaces as you want (without
terminating your central space) and take your life streaming experience to next level.

You can view this post on my blog (www.bhonpoo.com) as well which has been posted automatically via SeenReport

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During my recent trip to railway station of lahore to drop some relatives off I noticed a very strange change. Platform ticket was for the people (who were not there for traveling purpose) to visit platform mainly to pick and drop their relatives.
The ticket introduced a lot of ease as in Pakistan many senior citizens and common people dont know how to find the right platform, reach that platform (as its a big station) and board the train. As the station is huge so there are a lot stairs as well and many ladies eventhough not with too much luggage have trouble reaching platform. Keeping all this in mind its strange to see such stupid decision being made and implemented.

One could argue that it might have been done for security reasons and to stop unrelated people from reaching platform but then for what all those security gates are for? The platform ticket was also a profitable thing as many people would buy them (eventhough not everyone). May be it was done to stop ripping common people off but that seems highly unlikely because now you can’t enter the gates without having a proper ticket (buying that just to visit platform would be plain stupid). On inquiring from railway staff their behaviour was rude and they simply said “Nahi ja saktay bus”.

Trains are being stopped and stupid decisions are being made all in the name of making railway profitable.

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Some time ago Microsoft released Official Facebook Application for Windows Mobile phones. (We broke the story of Facebook officially advertising it on its mobile website). Eventhough its considered the best of both worlds (in terms of expertise) still the app fails to impress at most of the occasions.

Facebook has really enhanced its website in the last few months (from bigger quality images to multimedia uploads) which has resulted in strong competition to already present Apps. The only extra features that one gets is video uploads (which doesn’t prove to be reliable and fail safe) phonebook in a single page and photo tagging. For the time being Photo tagging is the only feature thats worth it.

As there is a lot of room for improvement I think here is a list of features that can really make it THE app for pocket pc.

1- The friends page should have tighter integration with addressbook and should automatically sync by updating phone numbers, profile pictures and emails from facebook friends to PPC contacts. There is already an app out there that does a reasonable job in syncing avatars but the interface is not that user friendly.

2- Facebook Events should be automatically synchoronized with Pocket Calendar.

3- Last but not the least a lighter memory print, with a today plugin and Push notifications should really hook Facebook lovers to this application.

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Twitter is a prime tool for micro-blogging around the world. In our effort to increase your reach to all the social networks for your life Streaming purpose and bringing all the networks togather we have launched Twitter integration. If you are a Twitter User and like to See and Report things as they happen through your mobile and want to reach out to your followers and friends on twitter now you can simply combine both by going to your profile -> edit profile -> social apps -> and clicking the twitter icon. We will not ask you for your Username and Password ( yes its Oauth based). All your News stories , pictures, videos submitted through mobile/email/or web will be tweeted through your Twitter account as well as http://twitter.com/seenreport .
For our community Users the same sort of integration will work for community accounts and all community stories will be tweeted on community twitter account.

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Today I went to railway station to pick someone up. It was so sad to see so many people waiting for trains in such miserable way. The travel fares rise every now and then but no proper investment is being made for the benefit of the passengers. Railway which should be a profitable business is advertised as a failure. Rise in fares yet not benefit for the passengers. Infact many trains have been stopped and overbooking is being done. People are be ing stuffed into the trains and are being over-charged.

Sent from my Windows Mobile phone.

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Ufone launched UConnect a service that helps in connecting you to your PC through mobile. It offers some basic and useful services such as Remote file access, PC control commands and some other basic features through a very simple interface. Dynamics of the service aside, one detail that has been missing is that the service is powered by foneitall. Its a product by FiveRivers Technologies that made its first appearance at Softec 2008 (in Software Enclosure).

One strange thing is that foneitall.com is being redirected to UConnect’s website. Is there some testing going on or Ufone has acquired sole rights of the Product (instead of a non-exclusive license)? The details are not available.

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