Laith Zraikat: Jeeran

Jeeran and Performancing: Helping Arab Bloggers Succeed

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:23:00 GMT

Jeeran has teamed up with Performancing - www.performancing.com - to bring Arabic version of the widely popular blog editor - Performancing for Firefox.

If you're a blogger and are not familiar with Performancing then you should get out more :) Performancing is a group of professional bloggers with a mission "To create a home for professional bloggers. A place where those that want to make money from their blogs can learn, and perfect the art of making a living from weblogging."

Performancing for Firefox provides bloggers with a seamless interface to popular weblog platforms such as Jeeran, WordPress and MovableType. It allows them to post to their blogs from a split screen within the Firefox browser. It also features drag-and-drop functionality for more efficient blogging, enabling bloggers to easily insert text or graphics into their posts, and a “notes” tab that allows bloggers to take notes while building and researching posts.

As a result of this partnership, Jeeran's bloggers can upgrade their blogging experience through the power of Performancing and the "open-mindedness" of our blogging engine, which enables integration with any external blogging applocation through an open API -http://api.jeeran.com/blogs/rpc/- wich adopts the universal MetaweblogAPI standards.

I encourgae you to download and use this great application. You will find that you wont be able to live without it :)

Read more:

جيران - Performancing: لتجربة تدوينية غنية

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:16:00 GMT

لقد قامت جيران بالإشتراك مع Performancing - www.performancing.com - لعمل نسخة عربية من محرر المدونات المشهور Performancing for Firefox.

إذا كنت مدوناً و مع ذلك لم تسمع ب Performancing أو تجربه من قبل، فعليك ان تخرج أكثر . Performancing هي عبارة عن مجموعة من المدونين المحترفين هدفهم هو : "إنشاء مكان للمدونين المحترفين، مكان يمكن للمدونين الراغبين في الحصول على المال من مدوناتهم أن يتعلموا و أن يحترفوا طرق الحصول على المال من خلال مدوناتهم."

Performancing لفايرفوكس يزود المدونين بواجهة واحدة لخدمات التدوين الأكثر شعبية كجيران، وورد بريس، و موفابل تايبز حيث يمكنهم من إضافة المقالات إلى مدوناتهم من نافذة منبثقة في متصفح فايرفوكس. كما يمكن Performancingالمدونين من إضافة الصور و النص ماشرة الى المقال بخاصية drag-and-drop، و يمكنهم أيضاً من حفظ الملاحظات خلال كتابتهم للمقالات.

كنتيجة لهذه الشراكة يمكن لمدوني جيران تطوير تجربتهم التدوينية باستخدام Performancing فايرفوكس و العقلية المنفتحة لمحرك المدونات الخاص بنا؛ الذي يمكن استخدامه مع عدة خدمات تدوينية عن طريق -API -http://api.jeeran.com/blogs/rpc الخاص به و المتطابق مع معايير MetaweblogAPI العالمية.

أدعوكم لتنزيل هذا البرنامج الرائع و استخدامه. ستجدون أنكم لن تستطيعوا الإستغناء عنه.

Jeeran + Flickr: Have your Cake and Eat it Too

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:06:00 GMT

Flickr is the leading photo publishing and sharing service on the web. almost every serious blogger has a Flickr account which makes it essential for them to be able to integrate easily between their image collection and their blog.

This integration is now possible with Jeeran Blogs through our Web Service API. It will also enable any third party application/web site to utilize the power of Jeeran Blogs.

The sun has set on the Arabian web 1.0
Originally uploaded by laithz.

Now, everyone with a Jeeran Blog can setup their Flickr account to enable blogging of their photos directly from Flickr.

To know more about how to set it up, please read: Posting from Flickr to Jeeran

It is also worth mentioning that the Jeeran Blogs API is based on the universal MetaweblogAPI standard, so any application that supports this standard can be setup to use the API.

The Jeeran Blogs XML-RPC API end point is:
http://api.jeeran.com/blogs/rpc.rem

p.s. this was posted through Flickr :)

Jeeran's Manga Ad.

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:10:00 GMT

This is a cool ad we created for Jeeran Blogs, which went out to all our members today. Rasha wrote the script, and Tariq Odeh did the sketch… enjoy.

Jeeran Imports Blogger.com

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:10:00 GMT

I am so thrilled to announce that "Jeeran Blogs" is officially out of beta phase.
A lot of enhancements have been put in, including a prettier UI. The most significant feature in this update is the Blogger Importer. If you want to move from Blogger.com to Jeeran Blogs, you can now take all you posts and comments along. Nothing is left behind ?, and with no hassle at all. All you have to do is submit a request to our support team and they will do the rest.

Among the people who moved to Jeeran during the testing phase and who we want to thank are:

Sabri Hakim:
previously (sabrihakim.blogspot.com), now (http://www.sabrihakim.com/)
Talasim:
previously (zeidkoudsi.blogspot.com), moved in with (http://www.talasim.com/)
Proactivity Group:
previously(proactivitygroup.blogspot.com),now (proactivitygroup.jeeran.com)

Read more about our Blogger Importer.

Another major enhancement is the ability to further customize the look of your Blog. We have given you full control over your template's CSS code, which means that you can change almost any element in your Blog.

Thanks goes to the entire Jeeran team on a job well done; Developers, writers, designers, testers and most importantly our customer support for helping our members and keeping then happy ? And to our partners who continue to help and support us in our mission to change the world.

More amazing things to come from Jeeran, so stay tuned. This is just the beginning.

Are you a great Graphic, Web, and UI designer who wants to help change the world? We want you!

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:05:00 GMT

We are seeking to hire a web and graphic designer to take charge of Jeeran's creative department. The candidate is expected to possess the following qualities:
Leadership, self-learning, creativity, ambition, design vision.

For more details, view: Jeeran Careers section

Happy Season from Jeeran

Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:21:00 GMT

Wishing everyone a happy new year, blessed eid, and a merry christmas.

Gravatars are cool!

Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:34:00 GMT

Now, if you have a Gravatar registered with your email address, it will appear automatically when you post a comment using that e-mail address on any of the thousands of blogs that we host.

For those who don’t know what a Gravatar is; It stands for "Globally Recognized Avatar". It’s a personal Icon that will appear next to your name if you post topics of comments to any Gravatar enabled blog or discussion board. It will be tied to the email address you registered it with, so you'll have to use the same e-mail address on those sites.

To get your Gravatar go to: www.gravatar.com

Careers @ Jeeran

Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:23:00 GMT

This is what you get when you work at Jeeran, a fridge full of all-you-can-eat goodies ;-D ... I think we need a bigger fridge...

Bloggers writing about Jeeran

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:17:00 GMT

Sabri Hakim -a young and rising Jordanian photographer- has featured Jeeran.com on his blog. Sabri recently visited our offices and was so impressed that he took pictures (view his post)

As Sabri said, we try to reflect the spirit of Jeeran in everything we do, even the smallest things.

Thank you Sabri. As they say: "People of quality appreciate quality" :)