Yesterday Gamal Mubarak, the son of the Egyptian president, <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090813/FOREIGN/708129852/1135">gave his first webcast "dialogue" with the public via Sharek ("Participate") his flashy new "social" website</a>. <br/><br/> I'd love to get into a discussion about Egyptian presidential succession and what Gamal means for Egypt and the region, but will instead stick within my nerdish Beep Beep mandate and ask: does anyone know who worked on the technical side of ? Compare its fairly sleek, simple, clean look (above) with that of , of which Gamal is the policy chief: Or, check out the sites of the Ministries of or , or better yet, the . It would be interesting to know if Sharek was done in-house by people in Gamal's brain trust, or if some outside talent were involved. Combined with Dubai's Sheikh Mohamed on / and Jordan's Queen Rania , this makes three, the magical, cliche-ridden number that journalists need to declare a trend. So let it be declared: <b>regional leaders who consider themselves modernisers / reformists are seeing the "social" web as a good way to get that message across</b> . You read it here third....