Muslim social networking tips up
Islam Online
A US TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE has ranked a Muslim web portal as one of Europe’s top tech startups, giving Facebook, Yahoo and Youtube a run for their money.
The US based media company outfit, Red Herring, put Muxlim.com in its top 100 of innovative technology businesses, for creating what they believe, is the most popular Muslim social network site to date. (they’ve obviously never heard of Meet-a-Mullah online dating then). Since it was launched in 2006, the site has managed to pull in over a million users spanning 190 countries worldwide.
The company’s Scandinavia-based CEO, Mohamed El-Fatatry, said that his firm was trying to face up to the challenges of creating social media that was engaging, fun and user friendly, whilst also realising that “a huge number of Internet users, particularly parents, want access to an online experience that does not expose people to vulgarity, offensive content, and adult material”. But, isn’t that missing the whole point of the Internet then?
Not to worry, if you don’t find any non vulgar content to tickle your fancy, the website also offers its own YouTubeAlike dubbed Muxlim TV, which allows users to build up their own personalised online TV channel by uploading and sharing videos. Good luck keeping offensive content out of that, is all we can say.
The popular site has also said it has plans to launch the first Muslim personalised-homepage and social networking service soon, which it will call My Muxlim. The page will be based on Google’s OpenSocial platform, and will let users download all kinds of Muslim oriented widgets and applications, like a Ramadan countdown, or Koran verse of the day.
Good news for lazy, or socially awkward Muslims is that Muxlim will also be launching an alternative fantasy world to the likes of Second Life, called Muxlim Pal. Should make the long pilgrimage to virtual Mecca a bit easier. µ
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No vulgarity
Ya right, it will turn into another hate Christian and Jew chat room. Muslims are separatists who hate anyone that is not like them. If you don't believe me you must be living in a closet.Sweet!!
Wow, neat!! I can imagine the dating going on. All the girls will be dressed in burquas LOL. Good luck trying to figure out who's a good catch ;) Oh but on the bright side, do the guys get to have 4 simultaneous dates?How about we move all the taliban and terrorists online. They can have their own e-world, complete with e-taliban and e-terrorists and e-jihad and e-virgins. Neat-o!!
Yup... people love to hate
What do you expect people with a common dislike to talk about? Every played a facebook texas hold em game with 7 Latinos? The blatant spanish conversation is very anti American...Indeed
Regulas has pretty much summed it up. Sad but true!well i don't think so
actually Moslems Don't hate anyone,Molsems aren't Separatists,
I don't Believe you,
I'm A moslem and i don't live in a closet!
lol and btw i don't hate you too.. :)
but you see the problem is with the media that brain washes your head.. and some faulty groups who doesn't understand what Islam is..
RE; No vulgarity
LOL, I am a Muslim and i do not hate everyone who is not like me. in fact i have many non Muslim friends including, Christians, Jews, atheists, Hindus, Sikhs...Very vulgar comment
Pot. Kettle. Black.Or was that irony in your post Regulas?
Doh!
@AlexI thought one of the tenents underpinning American society is Freedoms of expression,
not
Freedoms of expression, unless it deviates from the official stance of the Federal Adminsitration or mainstreem white americans?
maybe you should learn spanish, or shut up - Amigo?
do you blantently speak American English when you go abroad? or do you never leave the US mainland?
inq loves freedom. but muslims? not so much.
regulas obviously felt free to air his bigotted views because the main article is quite mocking in tone itself.i'd expect this kind of nonsense on the many far-right blogs out there but didn't expect such antagonism on a site like inq where one would expect slightly more enlightened individuals.
No vulgarity???
Let me see:'Muslims are separatists who hate anyone that is not like them'
So that would make a Christian hate anyone who is not like them and a Jew hate anyone who is not like them...can anyone see a pattern emerging?
Wow this persons statement is truly groundbreaking.
And if anyone is wondering, yes there are only three religions in this world, honest!