R O N I Nammar yasir’s personal blog

Tea Break has now become one of the most trusted platform for bloggers in Pakistan, and it is now proudly serving more than 1800 blogs from this country on diverse topics. From politics to everyday life gossips, technology to gardening, whatever the topic you’re interested in reading, its here on Teabreak.

As our network continues to grow and readership continues to increase at a healthy pace, we have now decided that its time we interact with our readers more than before, and find their opinion on different aspects about blogging and Teabreak to serve them better. With this intension in mind, we have decided to launch few periodic activities that would help us to interact with our readers

Featured Posts:

We have decided to update our facebook page with good quality posts from the bloggers of Teabreak network on daily basis. This will not only be great for our facebook fans as they’ll be enjoying some good fresh content, but also for bloggers whose hard work will be promoted on a bigger scale, as their blog post would make it to the facebook page where they will be etting more exposure from the readers. The featured posts are from various categories and from any blog on the Teabreak network, quality content is our only selection criteria.

Sunday Poll Booth:

Do you think that Pakistan is performing well in sports? What future do you see in the gaming applications of facebook? Or what’s your opinion on the new judiciary in Pakistan? Speak out your mind as we bring you the weekly polls on our facebook page about the hottest topics roaming in our country. You can not only vote about your opinion, but can also comment about what you have about it in your mind. So if you’re interested in finding out the views of Pakistani Bloggers, then Sunday Poll Booth is the place to be.

Wait, there is more fun coming up your way very soon, as we are about to launch Teabreak 3.0 with an awesome new design and look with loads of features. Rest of the details are a surprise, so you’ll have to wait and watch J

We are hopeful that with all this new initiative of ours, we will be able to serve our blogger better and could provide a platform to promote Pakistani blogs and bloggers. Share your feedback with us, your opinion is quite valuable to us.

So, stay in touch and enjoy tea break’s mind blogging experience!

Some other cool features by Tea Break:

Features and Services

• Morning Tea
• Twitter Tea Service

Social Media

• Facebook
• Twitter

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I wonder if a futurist in the past ever predicted the affiliation of an average consumer with its brands. We have seen how the followers of one religion disagreeing with the beliefs of another or fan of one sports team ridiculing the fans of another or the public reaction on the policies of their governments or representatives. But what’s new or different is the end user’s reaction on technology releases, their sacred association with certain brands and how they love to whine about their technological allergies in public. Shouldn’t be a matter preference?

With this question in mind I attended Microsoft’s blogger meet up last week at Microsoft Innovation Centre in Karachi. I always learn something new and fascinating whenever I got the opportunity to attend Microsoft organized events. My admiration is not limited to MS product releases but the community work that Microsoft is doing in Pakistan to promote computer literacy (Microsoft innovation for All), bridge the gap between Urdu and English literates (Urdu version of MS products) is commendable.

I got to the event early enough to land myself a seat in the front row. I was handed over a cool t-shirt (Covering live events have its fair share of perks!) which said: I blog, therefore I am! As soon as I tweeted about the shirt, series of tweets overflowed my (tweetdeck) inbox requesting for the t-shirt.

The entire seats in the FAST University City campus, auditorium got filled with technology loving bloggers. The first half of the event consisted of the presentation demo on Windows 7. MVP Zafar ul Islam highlighted different features of this most talked about Operating System, how it’s better, faster, reliable and convenient for all users (easy plug and play). Win 7 the product was developed keeping into consideration the needs of the end user and the feedback they received from their previous OS releases (Windows Vista). No wonder the tagline for Win7 goes like: I am a PC and Windows 7 was my idea!

Highlights:

· Most interesting part for the bloggers was the Live demo of Microsoft Live Mesh (Beta) using any mobile device (HTC Touch Diamond 2 Windows Phone in this case). The downloaded images were then animated using Windows Live Movie Maker and uploaded on facebook and Windows Live writer. That all within 5 minutes!

· But the demo that really moved me was “Microsoft Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 R2”. Looking at the growing business need, OCS is going to be one house hold name.

· Naveed Bajwa, DPE Lead, Microsoft Pakistan shared many ongoing and upcoming initiatives from Microsoft for Pakistani academia and developer Community.

· Jibran Jamshed, Microsoft Pakistan technology consultant answered many pointing question as he was demoing IE8. It was funny to watch the love hate relation of the participants with this web browser.

Out of all the product releases and initiatives being taken by Microsoft the need for a platform where all these action are highlighted is definitely needed at local level. Until than all of this will remain unnoticeable and MS will remain underrated.

Photo Credits: S.M Khan, Zafar ul Islam

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We as Pakistanis have always been deprecative of the state that this country is in today. Speak of the government policies, the inherent corruption, the ancient education system, the day-long power outages, the un-attended traffic jams… you name it and we’ll have a complain about it. But despite all the frustrations… there definitely have been days when we’ve felt proud of the country we all call our Homeland.

Pakistan is our home and we are responsible for the state it is in today… and even if we aren’t… then we truly are accountable for not having contributed. So today, for a change, let us bring out the patriotism that lies within us all and blog ONE THING about Pakistan that ever made us content, proud and patriotic.
We can also share our visions on how we plan to contribute in making this country a better place for our future generations.

Simply send your blog posts to: <network@teabreak.pk> and have them published on our special Independence Day web page.

Phir Se Jeeway Pakistan!

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We Cordially invite you to the celebrations of Teabreak’s first birthday. Join us and other bloggers at this online meet up

Start Time: Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 11:00pm
End Time: Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 1:00am
Location: TeaBreak Blogosfloor

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It was any other Sunday just like today, when I visited Asim’s place and together we instigated the idea of Teabreak, Pakistan’s first virtual Chai ka Dhaba (tea house) which will allow the Pakistani blogging community to promote their blogs and share the sense of community. We were lucky that our idea caught attention and Teabreak who started with two blog feeds now has above 900 registered blogs with the growth rate of 78%

The credit goes to the Pakistani blogging community for trusting us and team TeaBreak that professionally performed all the tasks at hand and gave it a personal stroke. The reason of writing this post is to officially announce the departure of old team members and union of a newest member in the community.

Shahzad Khan aka Dehog

Shahzad who is responsible for the design and front end code of the current web site officially left the team last month because of the ever increasing responsibilities at his present job in Singapore. His awesome designs are the face of TB, his work and presence in the team will be genuinely felt.

Zair Abbas

Zair another creative designer from CC was majorly responsible for the first TB design. He also assisted Shahzad in the second design; he is currently busy with his day job at CC and creating some cool commercial stuff.

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We wish both Zair and Shahzad best of luck in their careers; you are still the part of TB community.

Assad Ullah

Assad is the youngest and newest member to join team TB. The multi talented has joined the team as web developer cum designer. He is currently working on TeaBreak’s photo blogging portal which is due to release next month.

Coming Soon:

TeaBar (a widget-based toolbar that you can install in your browser and stay connected with Pakistan’s blogging community while continuing to browse your)

Aperture (First Pakistani photo blogging portal that will allow all the aspiring photo bloggers to see and report the issues with the help of their images)

TeaBreak v 3.0 (Not just a design re-vamp but we have planned a complete system overhaul, we are working on a behavior-based engine over aggregated data. Trying to take a step further ahead from aggregation)

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