As the Muslim Twitter list grows, we wanted to start a list for Muslim Pownce users. You know the drill, if you are a Muslim user of Pownce, drop a comment with a link to your profile, please feel free to add your business if you use Pownce to promote your company.

First 5 valid comments will get an invite to SocialThing.

And if you are on FriendFeed (similar to SocialThing), please add us here: http://friendfeed.com/islamcrunch

On Pownce, check us out here: www.Pownce.com/IslamCrunch

Here is an earlier post about Pownce with a video review from CenterNetworks.

Our followers on Twitter have increased since being mentioned on a tweet conversation. We appreciate all the brothers & sisters & organizations who are following us. We wanted to expand the Muslim Twitter phenomena by asking all Muslim users of Twitter to drop a comment with a link to your Twitter profile. If you use Twitter to promote your business, please feel free to add a link to you site and/or blog. Also please add your favorite method of receiving and sending tweets: clients, IM, phone, web, etc.

First 5 Twitter users who add comments will get an invite to Ping.fm, currently in closed beta mode.

And follow us here: http://twitter.com/islamcrunch

A new web 2.0 search engine has been released that allows you to search the Arabic web using English text. Yamli follows the well-known Google model of having a mimimalist site: a simple search field and and a few links with Yamli’s other service. Actually, the search field (powered by Google) is not ’simple’. You type in a word and a list of Arabic equivalents is provided in a dropdown menu.

Yamli’s other service is their English to Arabic text editor. Send a message in Arabic and show off your command of broken Arabic language (choosing the correct word will need some knowledge of Arabic, so you could be sending a word that sounds like what you want to express but the letters could be wrong! And different letters changes the meaning). Correction: the Yamli Editor allows you to convert transliterated words into the Arabic equivalent.

Here is what I typed out using the Yamli Editor: 

First person to guess what I wrote in English gets a special invite to next the Web 2.0, Social Network or Muslim organization that we receive invites from. Drop a comment to submit your guess.

Our marketing team* has developed an innovative way to expose your company, organization, product or service on IslamCrunch. We have implemented a messaging system that reaches out to new visitors to our site. Every new visitor (or returning visitors who delete their cookies) will see the following message:

We will add a tagline at the bottom of the message for those who are interested in signing up for this new venture. The tagline will include a link to your website.

Sample tagline: Powered by RizqCo - Beneficial Products for your whole family

On monthly basis, 71.24%** of our visitors are new visitors. Our site is SEO (search engine optimized) friendly, we are linked on several high-traffic sites like DeenPort, popular blogs and featured on several forums. Many visitors land on our site after searching on Google, Yahoo and MSN Search.

To sign up for this exposure opportunity, please contact us. If you would like to advertise through other means, we have several options available. Don’t hesitate, we have already received many requests to advertise.

Please note: we strive to maintain quality content, which translates to quality visits and increased awareness of your site.

* = I am guilty of association
** = According to our Google Analytics

P.S. if you decide to use this system on your site, please be kind enough to give credit to us. Thanks!

The Madinat Al-Muslimeen forum is hosting a series of Ramadan diary entries. The idea behind the diaries is to encourage people to

“sign up for one day in the month of Ramadan to write a ‘journal entry’ type thing about their day, reflections and thoughts, their experiences…

This is an interesting means of exploring the diverse experience of Muslims during the sacred month of Ramadan. Imagine reading entries from around the world showcasing a day of purification and sacrifice… An important note from the moderator of the forum:

Again, like last year if everyone signs up and all the days are taken we can make the diaries public. Otherwise they will be in the Ramadan Tent Forum and only those who signed up can read other people’s diaries!

At the time of this posting, there are some slots available during the last 10 days of Ramadan. So, if you are an established or aspiring author, blogger or writer, use the link below to sign up.

Ramadan DIARIES 2007 — SIGN UP here thread!!

Click the links below to read diary entries from previous years:

Ramadan Diaries 2005
Ramadan Diaries 2004
Ramadan Diaries 2002

And while visiting the forum, don’t forget to crunch this thread.