Comments on: Re: Trust & Arabian Online Services

By: za3tar

za3tar — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:31:47 +0000

Mamod: Thank you for the compliments. Yeah, i read your reply comment to the original article and i do agree with most of your points. I also wanted to write my reply as comment, but found it too big so i moved it to a full-fledged post … plus i have been wanting to write something about this for a while, so i took the opportunity…. anyway, thank you for visiting this blog, and i hope you become a reader

Razan: Thanks for stopping by. Sorry for the confusion, i listed Questler along with Yamli, Ikbis, and G.ho.st as examples of Arab online applications that do not require “private information”, and not as an example of blog aggregators. Anyway, thank you for your amazing application, and my best wishes to you and your team for continued success.

By: Razan

Razan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:03:49 +0000

Thanks Za3tar for replying to Qwaider’s post, which I will comment on shortly as the Founder of Questler, just a correction here, Questler is an informal learning network and definitely not a blog aggregator! Each Quest in questler is a mini-blog by it self containing several aspects of a learning experience.

By: Mamod

Mamod — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:02:51 +0000

Umm Za3tar nice name by the way I just love Za3tar, and this is my first time being on this interesting blog, I want to salute you for this response article, it shares a lot of points with my comment on startuparabia, in fact I wanted to write a response my self but being a lazy blogger I thought it would be easier to post a comment which turned to be bigger than an article, anyway great opportunity to find your blog and thanks for Qwaider for his great continuous contributions to the blogger space.

By: za3tar

za3tar — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:57:37 +0000

Thanks Qwaider for your comments and for your post on StartupArabia. It is great to have these discussions about the perceived state of startups in Arabia.

You’re right, every startup needs to assure their clients regarding their privacy and security, and ultimately work to gain their users’ trust.

We should continue to have these discussion about startups in Arabia. I highly believe that we are on the footsteps of a tech boom in the middle east, and there are many issues to talk about there. I have been trying to write a longer article about originality in Arab online startups, i’ll try to finish that up soon.

By: Qwaider قويدر

Qwaider قويدر — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:03:25 +0000

Thank you Za3tar, I really appreciate the rebuttal and I don’t completely disagree with the content as much as I think that there are a number of issues all stemming from transparency. Most Arab online business don’t have much transparency and thier records are neither government or private audited. This causes accountability to plummet and user’s trust to vanish.
I’ve decided to share my thoughts as point that any start-up need to consider and think about to reassure thier customers and users that they’ll be safe and well taken care of. It doesn’t hurt to have certain clause about these matters in the operational policy of the company to maintain high level of professionalism between them and thier customers.

Thanks again for sharing your view, I learned a lot from it