David Heinemeier Hansson gave this awesome talk at Paul Graham’s Startup School. Great speech and refreshing style here.

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IBM is moving all over the place these days.

Last announcement is in the cloud computing space where a partnership has been signed with Amazon.
Read more on Techcrunch:

IBM Uses Amazon To Leapfrog Microsoft On The Way To The Blue Cloud

The first Wordpress Dubai meet-up was set up in no time by Fouad with the help of Rida.
A nice geeky crowd mixed with bloggers and entrepreneurs was attending the event at the Montgomerie Golf club: a good 25 people made this express meet-up quite a success.
Matt Mullenweg was very open to our questions and the conversation was flying free-flow.
We had an interesting insight of the Automattic / Worpdress genesis and the growth strategy behind the scene.

Update:
A more comprehensive post from Fouad on his blog.

Flickr: Unofficial Wordcamp

Tom Gara from The National gives his insight on this DemoCamp event.
A good read on the rising startup community in the Middle East.

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