I just came back from the Startups Insiders 2 meetup, and it was really good to bump into a lot of old friends and familiar faces, some after five years (note to self: must go out more often). The success (and failure stories) were interesting and the discussions were lively. If I get the time and energy over the weekend, I'll might write some more about it (I know Sharjeel (2scomplement) was trying to find a wifi signal to live-blog)… this is just a quick post to say a big thank you to Zia of Vahzay and Osama of Green & White for arranging the event – it was a lot of fun and I do hope it becomes a monthly tradition.
Tag: lahore
Lahore vs. Bangalore vs. San Francisco on Twitter
Twitter added a search feature recently. In the spirit of micro-blogging, here are a few quick and interesting twitter search results:
Lahore: 15 results, Karachi: 35 results, San Francisco: 2038 results, Bangalore: 194 results
Translated into Twitterers (or Tweeters or whatever) per 1000 citizens (using Wikipedia), its:
Lahore AND Karachi (both have approximately the same ratio): 1 out of 0.57 MILLION tweeters, San Francisco: 1 out of 396 tweeters, Bangalore: 1 out of 27216 tweeters.
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Pakistan’s Haier Edukation Instillations, Kwality Ashorance and PTCL Broadband
I read about HEC's discounted rates for the PTCL broadband for people affiliated with their institutes, and was going to ask my younger brother (who teaches at NUCES) to get me a connection, but it turned out that their ONLINE subscription form link is dead. Sad irony. Stripping down the port :88 from the URL takes you to a page with no information besides a login form, but since I'm not a subscriber, so its a Catch-22 situation.
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