Qaym
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Business ratings and reviews |
| Founded | Jan 2006 |
| Headquarters | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Key people | Jihad Alammar, Founder/CEO, Ziyad Alghannam, Co-Founder |
| Products | qaym.com |
| Employees | 7+[1] |
| Website | www.qaym.com |
Qaym is an Arabic-language review site specialized at user-based reviews on restaurants around the world. It started as a review site mainly for restaurants in the Arabian region.The website runs a social networking, user review, and local search using the second generation of web Web 2.0. The website is aimed to deliver good restaurant reviews and easy access contents for Arab readers.
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[edit] History
- 2006: Qaym started as beta version.The beta version was a basic prototype to test the system's performance by selected professional users and normal internet users.
- 2007: By late 2007 Qaym was officially released to public.
- 2009: Qaym joined Badir-ICT, a technology incubator in Saudi Arabia.[2]
- 2011: On March 2011, Qaym raised a round of funding from N2V, a top MENA Venture Capital firm.[3][4]
[edit] API
- 2009: Qaym released a free application programming interface (API) V.1.0 in April 2009.[5] The API provides access to business listing details, reviews, photos, and ratings to a website, widget, or mobile application.[6] The API has been used to integrate business reviews into existing Google Maps applications.
[edit] Qaym Applications
- Sep 02, 2011: Qaym launched its first Qaym iPhone official app on the Apple Apps-Store.[7]
- July 28, 2011: Ahmad Salman, a web developer has created Qaym-API-Class Resources that employs PHP and API for web and mobile applications.[8][9]
- Aug 26, 2011: Ahmad Salman, a web developer has launched QaymRoulette.[10]
- Aug 17, 2010: A group of Andriod developers have launched an Restriod which is an Andriod Application.[11][12]
[edit] Publicity
- Qaym was mentioned on Saudi local newspapers such as AlRiyadh and Aleqtasdia.[13][14] Several remarks was mentioned about Qaym such as that it is one of its kind in Saudi Arabia.
- Bloggers and editors have compared Qaym to Yelp, Inc. as the "Yelp for the Arab word".[15][16]
[edit] April Fools
On April 1, 2009, Qaym has featured an April Fools prank on the site. The site was totally revamped as if its going to be Camels reviewing social network.[17]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ http://blog.qaym.com
- ^ Qaym on Badir ICT website http://www.badir.com.sa/en/Client/13
- ^ N2V Announcing Qaym Deal http://www.n2v.com/en/article/n2v-invests-in-qaym-com/
- ^ http://arabcrunch.com/2011/03/n2v-invests-in-restaurants-review-site-qaym-com.html
- ^ http://arabcrunch.com/2010/07/qaym-launches-improved-design-to-make-critical-decisions-in-the-coming-weeks.html
- ^ http://api.qaym.com
- ^ Qaym iPhone App http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id460210125?mt=8 /Qaym App
- ^ Qaym-API-Class Resources by Ahmad Salman https://github.com/ahmads/Qaym-API-Class
- ^ Ahmad Salman Website http://as.sa/
- ^ Ahmad Salman Annoncing QaymRoulette on Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/a7mads/status/106831979605012480
- ^ Resriod on ArabCrunch http://arabcrunch.com/2010/08/restdroid-social-restaurants-review-site-qaym-gets-its-android-app.html
- ^ Devdriod website http://devdroid.org/
- ^ Article About Qaym in Aleqtasdia Newspaper http://www.aleqt.com/2009/04/02/article_210762.html
- ^ Article About Qaym in AlRiyadh Newspaper http://www.alriyadh.com/2009/04/03/article419783.html
- ^ TechCrunch: Qaym is the New Yelp of Arabia http://arabcrunch.com/2010/07/qaym-launches-improved-design-to-make-critical-decisions-in-the-coming-weeks.html
- ^ http://www.zawya.com/marketing.cfm?zp&p=/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20100328061146?q=Qaym&cc
- ^ Qaym has fooled Us http://arabcrunch.com/2010/04/after-launching-its-api-yelp-for-arabia-qaym-adds-social-reviewing-for-camels.html
[edit] External links
Categories:
- Companies of Saudi Arabia
- Global internet community
- Internet properties established in 2004
- Social networking services
- Social information processing
- Student culture
- Web 2.0
- Blog software
- IOS software
- Social media
- Blog hosting services
- Community websites
- Companies based in San Francisco, California
- Consumer guides
- Internet culture
- Online companies
- Review websites
