Dubai, September 2009 - Baraka Ventures, a social entrepreneurship and web technology business incubator and advisory services company, today announced that it is releasing zeedna, a software as a service social publishing platform.  zeedna is the first middle east based social publishing platform that is well suited for institutions across sectors. The platform promises to take advantage of web 2.0 capabilities of social networking, social media publishing and much more.

“The region has 50 million users and is growing at a rate of 1300%. This exceeds the global internet penetration rate of nearly 300%. With so many people online, businesses are wise to use new technologies to enable online marketing.” says Mahmoud Abu-Wardeh, Co-Founder and Managing Director of zeedna in response to reasons for undertaking the 2 year development ...