Jahanshah Javid

JJ Thank you for up date. This is important info you put out.

Thank you for creating this site for us to be more inform and to express our thoughts about events in Iran also it is good way to learn about other Iranian’s thoughts and opinions. There are other Iranian sites that I visit but I fund Irainian.com’s format is simple and talk about subjects that are important to me.

I am amazed when IRI supporter come on this site and say as they please and enjoy free format here and never mention as why there is no site like this in Iran where people to express their feeling about this regime with out getting executed.

JJ can you travel to Iran?

Keep up the goodwork and wish you the best.

Thank you JJ

I wish you and the new team all the best. Please continue your good work of letting people write freely of what they think about Iranian society. The success of Iranian.com is only because it allows everyone to put their points. Please do continue this policy of freedom of thought for everybody.

Keep it up.

I humbly thank the old team also.

Bye

JJ

Rule #1 - Never do business with Iranians. 

Rule #2 - Never trust Iranians.

Rule #3 - Never forget Rules 1 and 2.

Good job Mr. Javid! You did

Good job Mr. Javid! You did a great job all these years and deserve a praise... We are also doing our own part to promote this commuity in hopes of further promotion of Freedom and Truth on your site, from you and your staff to create a positive change and new inspiration for our Motherland Iran that would God willingly lead to rightful Freedom of our nation from all tyrannies in near future to come ...

Best wishes,

Free Iran and Iranians.

R

MvP - thanks. I already did it. For IC, up to JJ what 2 link

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MM

its for the general user and has nothing to do with this site. give it a try. the link has instructions.(my post was in response to people who offered sites like Behnevis, ariadic etc)

MvP/OG/EA - good suggestions for JJ - I bookmarked them.

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best transliterator چرا راه دور میرید؟ گوگل از همشون بهتر.

google's transliteration bookmarklet is best. when you click on the bookmarklet on any site that contains forms , it will automatically replace the keyboard layout with farsi. you wont have to copy paste. and you can easily type in fingilish. 

go to this link: 

• //t13n.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/blet/docs/help.html
•  go down to  the link "[پ Type in Persian]"
• drag the [پ Type in Persian] link to your firefox/google chrome toolbar
• now try replying to this page. click on the link you've just created and voila, u can type farsi on iranian.com forms!
• to turn off and type in english, click on the link again! 
• you're welcome.

The online Farsi keyboard/transliterator

I use Behnevis and have 'installed' their toolbar and don't even go to their websites anymore, just click on the toolbar in my Internet Explorer and type in English and correct Farsi transliteration and get the final text.  Just be careful not to install everything because then it becomes part of your Word and then Behnevis appears all over the place, whereas with just the toolbar, it is 'just' the toolbar.

The Behnevis toolbar is actually better than the website because it never falls back to English and you can always correct the Farsi text.

//www.behnevis.com/

From time to time I also use Aryanevis which is basically an online Farsi keyboard, not as easy to use but it works when you need it. Click on "Show Keyboard" on the bottom right hand side to see the online Farsi keyboard and then type with your mouse.

//www.dodoost.com/aryanevis/

 Everything is sacred

Persian Dictionnary

MM,

Thanks for website with Persian Keyboard. Even if I use Windows OnScreenKeyboards and configured Persian Keyboard in my PC , these sites will be usefull when I use another PCs.

There is another site which I use and is very helpful for dictionary. this is //www.ariadic.com/

Regards.

Orang

Much appreciated

Best of luck with this site, this non-Iranian's online connection to all things Iranian. I have witnessed a high level of integrity. With an ongoing posture of learning this site can only become better.

Abarmard

Thanks. 

We should have more than a few of these Farsi keyboard sites handy just in case one site goes down or goes out of business.  I bookmarked your reference site. 

For those wondering what is going on, here are the sites to go to in order to type in Farsi and then cut/paste into IC blogs/comments.

//www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/persian.htm

//www.gate2home.com/?language=fa

As a relatively old member,

As a relatively old member, I have enjoyed IC for many years and look forward to many more years of visiting this site. My biggest and most important wish for IC is to remain independent from special interest.

Again best wishes to you and the staff that kept it up and running so well

Mehrdad

Best of Luck

to you JJ. Hope you make your mega bucks in the near future. And thank you, sincerely, to Kayvan, Foaad, Wayne, and all the others. As to the business model, from what you described, you may have partnered with someone with the right skill sets for what you're thinking.

I think copying Facebook format was suggested in one of  the comments. Which might be easier said than done. I'm sure y'all will find a way to increase traffic. 

Thanks and best of luck to all of you on your onward march. 

Mamane-Omid

Recipe for disaster:

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Recipe for disaster:

- Do not read more than one page of a new contract.

- Rely completely on trust.

- Let your mind go completely blank upon seeing a contract full of legal terms.

- Be confident about working with a good, smart, and capable team.

IC could do alot better

 Like first of all, the "Iranian of the day" thing. Get better people up there, people who are not degenerates, and if you can't find anyone every day, then change it to Iranian of the month or the week. Plus, a little more culture wouldn't hurt. And stop trying to be so liberal, cause none envy's ass kissers who don't respect themselves. Half the Iranian sites I've seen failed due to too much anti-Iranian bullcrap by non-Iranian racist members spamming. Sites like d.c Persian, My persian buddies etc.. were destined to crash, cause they had no goal. If it, the video or the posts are meant to ridicule Iranians, it shouldn't be put up in the first place. Trust me, do these simple things and you'll get alot more members joining in.

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"They are not afraid of the ideology alone, but of the detemination and will of the men behind it"

Thank You

Thank you Foaad and Kayvan for all your hard work whilst we played. Looking forward to IC's new format and features and wish it the best for the future. I also would like to thank the investors whose help has allowed the creation of one of the most wonderful sites dedicated to Iran.

Do not reinvent the wheel with small budget

follow success:

Copy facebook format as much as possible 

best wishes and thank you

Thank you and your team for all the years and memories JJ

I just logged in to wish you and your team good luck with the future, but since I have as much sense about business and improving IC as a fridge magnet I thought I would write the advise in the style of fridge magnet poetry from selected random internet info, so here it goes: 

Buddha sat by the river, heard that if a string is pulled too hard it would snap and if left loose it wouldn't play.Superman could only jump so they made him special and made him fly but he was too perfect so they made him lonely, gave him a nagging girlfriend and Kryptonite so that weak humans would read his comic. Lucky Voice is the most liberating, heart-racing, life-affirming private karaoke
experience on earth. Good Luck is a Japanese TV series about a guy called Hajime who always wanted to become a pilot. Would it not be nice to have vending machines that vended vending machines? Week by week, you can build your own fascinating vending machine that you can use to sell rubber johnnies, Class A drugs and dead rodents. Get your first freeze-dried rat and coin slot in issue one. Free binder, wrap of ground-up aspirin in issue two.

Putting my little joke, eccentricity and typos aside, I'm serious, now is a good time to Thank your team. IC is in the hand of the evolutionary process of our community so it is effectively what we are or at least what we aspire to be, critics could argue that when you mix all colour you get grey but from time to time we have all seen beautiful colours and I hope we would continue to see that in future.

Like I said I'm useless at giving advise!

A look into

your (IC) future in light of IP.com founder as your new partner:

A sexy or provacative looking blog will appear. Once clicked the image of the blog (likely a beautiful Iranian woman) while the content is blurred. Reader must register to view and after 3 views subscribe to monthly, quarterly or annual memberships (yes... been there). The blogs will appear in the order of the age of the writer and articles can be published only if new candidate is Gold/Platinum member. Silver will get a shot paying for one publication and then upgrading to gold. Blogs will be targeted to your match. One on one blogs arranged based on your profile & preferences. political discussions will take a more entertainment style tone because we can't do didley squat about Iran getting raped daily so lets focus on what's important...sex, drugs and rock & roll (I should say Justin Bieber). The geriatric member base unable to leverage all mobile fast paced new IC capabilities will pay to call in their blogs and gradually die out or phased out completely and replace by much more desireable demographic group like Jersey shore/Persian versian Iranicans (who are even more dumb founded by Sargord's comments and lineage), and those who can no longer point Iran on the map but still speak Persian because their parents have not quite mastered English or even Fringlish...

jj will settle with a much older affluent woman in Lichtenstein which of course keeps a tight leash. Unable to float as he wishes jj becomes a travel editor writing about his imaginery friends and travels or anything in his past globe trotting that was not already blogged. end of jj as we know it.

Revenues will go thru the roof in Q3/2011 thru Q2/2012 before tapering off. IC is sold to false news that renames it Iraninterrorists.com under management of a Jewish Stanford professor who immediately lays off all Iranian or Persian speaking staff to improve content quality and keep the site secure. IC becomes a teeny tiny division of Entertainment daily with two part time editors whose job is deleting comments at their discretion and often at random just to add a bit of flavor.

Live long and prosper

Oktaby

P.S. I endorse MM's suggestions but suggest googleapps over MS

Dear Abarmard, thanks for the link. Happy 2011

I will check it out. I appreciate you and MM providing these links. Happy New Year to you.

Dear Anahid

New Moon, new idea, well

New Moon, new idea, well done, especially with it being a partial Eclipse. 

Ali Mostofi

//www.alimostofi.com

$$ JJ $$

Tabreek va taslyat.

tabreek for making IC to be in a bigger picture of IT world,taslyat for not having the kind of foad & kayvan around us (hope they reconsider staying)JJ not all thing should be about money as you said it too.     

Thank you and all others who gave us this great site.            Maziar

ّام ام عزیز ممنون

ّام ام عزیز ممنون که نوشتی کجا بروم تا بتوانم فارسی بنویسم . مثل همیشه از کمک کامپیوتریت خوشحالم.

. Of course, as you see, I still need to get good at it. I used to rely on Zamaneh Editor but now it is not available.

Thanks JJ

I am fairly new to the site, but I find that IC is a great place to communicate with many friends I have met here.  You and the staff have done a fantastic job keeping the site neutral, and I hope that aspect will not change with the new partners.

My suggestions:

* Continue to keep the site neutral (most important) and a place for dialogue amongst various factions.

* Clear and equal rules of engagement for creation of a blog, removal of a comment and banning of a member.

* Better security arrangements.  My anti-virus / anti-trojan softwares went crazy warning me of intrusions when I was logging on IC for a period of 1-3 weeks last year.

* Make the blogs compatible with Microsoft Office products.  For example, if I cut-paste a few paragraphs from MS-Word to a comment, the paragraphs become garbled.  Or, I cannot import an Excel table or an Excel generated graph (or MS-Powerpoint) into a blog or a comment.  I realize that Powerpoint may be too much!

* I think others have mentioned this, but it gets annoying when I try to place both Farsi and English texts into comments/blogs and see the text not neatly tucked where I want them to be.

* While on the subject of Farsi text, I see some members try to write Farsi with English text.  It may be helpful to have a link to site that lets one know that they can type in Farsi at this particular site and then cut-paste into IC comment/blog, e.g.,

//www.gate2home.com/?language=fa

* Maximize the placement of, e.g., Google induced commercials on the two empty sides of blogs/news/articles and encourage members to click on them.  While commercials are annoying, distracting and may not be politically compatible with some people's beliefs, they pave the way to a financially healthy site so that you do not have to go around looking for new partners every few years.

Foaad and Keyvan will be Missed!

Definitely! Wishing them the Best.

انشا الله که مبارک است

بسم تعالی

بنده به عنوان صاحب جدید اکثریت سهام در این سایت از صمیم قلب این توفیق الهی را به جمیع مسلمین تبریک و تهنیت گفته، و موفقییت کامل این سایت را در از بین بردن دشمنان جمهوری اسلامی در اینترنت از درگاه خداوند خواستارم.  

السلام علیکم و رحمت الله و برکاته 

Good vibes sent your way on your special day

Nice work JJ! I much appreciate all that I have learned over the many years through you and your amazing site.

Btw, reading your piece, it's apparent how you have mastered "Trust" in business transactions. You are a good businessman. Give yourself a nice pat on that skill too.

My only regret is Foaad's departure from the site

He is a genius IT. He was doing the best service in term of quality and also his non stop efforts to maintain the site in a very professional way, were not unnoticed. I wish Foaad the best luck in all his new endeavors. He really deserves it!

FOAAD jon: On behalf of all the members of the site, I say you a big: THANK YOU! We will never forget you.