I will be posting (hopefully) short previews of what’s cooking in my world in coming weeks. I will however, give you a hint: Redesign, reworking, rethinking Mazaydar.com

We encourage all of you to contribute with whatever you can. If you are a twitter user please remember to tag  any IDP related tweet with either #IDP, #SWAT or #helpIDP and our system will aggregate that automatically.

Also, we want to do something to raise funds quickly, so we are offering 5 banner spots on the following sites for 1 year for free for anyone who donates a sizable amount to any recognized charity organization who is helping out in SWAT relief effort.

You will be able to put your banner on helpIDPs.com and Mazaydar.com for 1 year.

Let us help those in need. Let’s spread the word via all the social networks that we can think of.

Here is a video of Ammar Yassir, Mohammad Nawaz, Syed Talha Izhar, Fariha Akhtar, Jamal Ashiqain and Muneer Usman making an appeal to each and every Pakistani to become a part of the mission to offer relief and assistance to the people of Swat.

Facebook Connect

Take your friends with you. Share your experience with all your friends on Facebook. You have the option to even simply login using your Facebook credentials (we do not store any sensitive data). Once connected you will be able to see what your friends have been upto. You have the option to stream all your activity onto Facebook, letting your friends connect with you beyond our site.

Better Maps

We have integrated Google Maps with a lot of our listings now visible on the map. With the detailed maps you can exactly locate where you are headed and what’s nearby.

Better Layout

We worked hard to make our interface better. More engaging and more easy to use. With a lot of new features added, we wanted to make the interface as easy to use as possible. More structured pages, better and faster loading times and much more fun.

Much More….

There are a lot more updates that we have added. We will be talking about some of these implementations in coming days. We would like your feedback on our new site.

Enjoy finding delicious places to eat with your friends.

For those of you who haven’t seen it, please do check out the latest videocast by Jehan Ara. What they talked about in the first part of the interview is exactly what Mazaydar is trying to solve. Cater Pakistani market with relevant content. 

I believe that Dr. Irfan Ahmed is right on the mark when he says that statement. It is the exact same problem that I came across when I started looking for Pakistani websites catering people in Pakistan.

And this is just going to get better in future. With all these new users coming to internet, Mazaydar will be their online stop for finding tasty treats all across Pakistan.

So be part of this great system, join Mazaydar.com and start sharing your favorite restaurants!

Today we are pleased (and excited!!) to announce that Tazanaan.com has been acquired by Mazaydar.com. This acquisition will provide our members with an improved listing service in cities like Islamabad. We are also pleased to announce that with this acquisition, we are now able to provide listings for Rawalpindi as well.

The acquisition will result in greater efficiencies and significantly increase our market share. We also welcome the founder of Tazanaan.com, Danyal Agheem, to our team as our Regional Director for Islamabad. Danyal’s experience in running successful community based website will increase Mazaydar.com’s overall growth. We welcome Danyal to our team.

Mazaydar.com also welcomes all current users of Tazanaan.com, we hope to provide them with the same excellent quality listings in Islamabad that Tazanaan has been providing.

That’s not all! We also wanted to take this opportunity to announce another great news. We have two new team members at Mazaydar! Mahmood Mirza and Bilal Ahmad is joining us as a Community Director for Karachi and Peshawar respectively. Both have great entrepreneurial skills and are passionate about taking Mazaydar to the next level. We welcome both to our team!

All this and much more, its all live on Mazaydar.com!

We are excited about this growth, we have received a tremendous amount of feedback from our users and we plan to implement and improve upon it. If you have any suggestions, questions or concerns please feel free to contact us.

Well we just added another exciting feature to Mazaydar.com! You can now follow @obaid to get latest information about recently added listings to Mazaydar. We are using a temporary twitter account (its my personal account) for testing out this feature with our users. 

We will be adding Twitter support at various points accross our site, so stay tuned. 

Feedback? Comments? Suggestions?

Also, if you are a food junkie, who likes to eat out and knows what a good haleem and biryani is then definitely get in touch with us. We are hiring!