Online shopping is is no more a trend it basic requirement these days unfortunately world’s most common and massively used payment gateway “Paypal” isnt available in Pakistan for years freelancers , companies , individuals have been waiting for paypal to initiate services in Pakistan but for some reason they dont want to .
so it isnt the end of world, there’s always an alternative i personally use MONEYBOOKERS and PAYONEER the best and o think only payment gateways currently working with Pakistani banks like a charm . You can use moneybookers to accept payments from online freelancing sites like odesk and can use payoneer there too . beside that you can shop online using moneybookers or payoneer too . Moneybookers is much cheaper thn paypal payoneer have fixed withdrawing fee while withdraws with moneybookers are 100% free . You can shop online like :
Buy Webhosting in Pakistan , clothes , gift , electronics and much more , payoneer is powered via Mastercard so you can use that on any site accepting mastercard for payments and you can upload / withdraw cash to your payoneer card via your bank account .

After a week of beta testing Google maps version 5 for Android powered devices is now available for download , you can navigate with much ease and much attractive features like most common feature and best ofcourse is 3d rendered view of popular buildings and destinations . Beside that another great feature is offline caching like you can browse the maps and popular routes in offline mood .
some common UI features and updates include map splitting with two fingers split , rotation with finger twist sliding 2 fingers near will zoom in and sliding apart will zoom out , these new features add new simplicity and charm to new Google Maps 5 for android .

Moneybookers is rebranding it self from “moneybookers” to “skrill” , skrill’s “about us ” indicates that newer version will take instant online payments to the next level , currently prominent improvements arent mentioned but hope this new re-branding will include a feature to withdraw cash instantly for users of country where other popular payment gateways like paypal isnt available .

Beside that prepaid mastercard for users non resident of EU would be a great improvement , just like payoneer .
Moneybookers is a popular payment gateway , first company to obtain electronic money licence from the FSA and a solid competitor to a major payment gateway company “paypal” .Moneybookers is popular payment gateway in Eu and in countries where paypal isnt available

According to cnet google is launching a Music service to take on iTunes , another source recently reported that google gave a short glimpse of its Music service to its users recently .

Some predict that it will launched as a different unique brand and some think that it will be re-branding of Google’s this service : google.com/landing/music/ which is currently only available in US .

which site is good for you to find work or find a provider ? odesk or elance , lets  review both sites below and compare the features , i am freelancing for almost 6-7 years  , there are few renowned websites known for outsourcing like Odesk , getacoder , getafreelancer ( now freelancer ) and Elance  there are some other too like scriptlance , rent a coder , ilance etc etc but if you compare traffic stats you will definately dropdown to these two   , so which one is better ?

Free

i regularly use both odesk and elance to find projects , Elance isnt completely free for providers which isnt  catchy  for any new provider to signup at all ,while Odesk is 100% free for providers but theres limited quota of 20 Bids per week for average provider there which i think is good idea to keep odesk spam free  ,  there are always fresh job postings on both sites but through buyer’s perspective if he/she will post a job on odesk candidate list will be around 10-30 same posting on elance will only render 5-10 applicants so it will give buyer less choices and talents to select best provider .

Profile Pages

now lets checkout provider profile pages , Odesk profile pages are much smoother , through the point and clean while elance prodile pages look bit boaring . if you dont have  attractive feedback there chances are low you can get job there when your competitor have high feedback , in this context on odesk if you have good portfolio and less or no feedbacks you can still prove your presence to buyers there .

General popularity

Popularity wise i think both websites are at same stage , both websites are featured in  media many times .

SEo rankings

seo wise Elance got edge , elance is ahead of odesk for popular searched keyowrds like “ find web developer” ,  ”find a freelancer”  .

Payment and Withdraws

Payment wise odesk is superb elance doesnt support withdraws via moneybookers , which is very depressing as many Asian countries which are marked as top outsourcing destinations like Pakistan , Philippines etc dont have paypal and service providers of these countries vastly use Moneybookers .

will share more comparisons soon if you want to share some likes / dislikes of any of these sites please comment below .

Just checked facebook and its charming to see that stupid page “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” is finally disabled , atleast in Pakistan . Freedom of speech is right of every human but offensive media /content shouldnt be posted on website which is considered as “oxygen” for casual youth ,even in Pakistan .
as you can check in this screenshot ,

its disabled finally i hope PTA will notice this asap and will restore facebook in Pakistan as many friends of mine are currently working on projects directly dependent of Facebook , like fan page design , application development , social media marketing etc etc