The Middle East and North Africa has a growing web presence. Previous to this app, we spent too much time going through separate websites and feeds on Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed and various blogs and websites from the region in an attempt to find out what people here are talking about. This app gathers the best of all in a single location, whether you're trying to see what people in Friendfeed are saying from Iran, Iraq, Syria, etc or whether you're trying to connect with Twitter users in the Middle East, or trying to explore how Facebook is being used to spread awareness about various human rights abuses in the region - this app has it all!
- Up to date feeds with latest news from the Middle East
- Feeds of featured blogs from various parts of the region
- Latest tweets from the Middle East by country or regionally
- Featured list of interesting Twitter users in the Middle East
- Ability to retweet, follow, and respond to interesting tweets
- FriendFeed updates from the Middle East by country or regionally
- Ability to comment, favorite, and read full stories via FriendFeed
- Featured list of human rights Facebook groups in the Middle East
- Mideast Youth Podcasts and player
- Set up your own RSS feeds (delete existing ones or replace with your own)
- Stay up to date with the latest of what's happening in the Middle East!
The feeds are not updated by default when you first use the app. Each news site or blog will update with the latest feeds only if you select it. Although the Twitter updates are all public, you would need to have a Twitter account in order to interact and take full of advantage of the Twitter features. In FriendFeed, you cannot use the FriendFeed login to access the service via a remote client. Instead, you need to login to FriendFeed and then access this URL. This will provide you with the login and password in order to use for remote client access. If you have any questions, feature requests, bug reports or suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact us.