This is interesting but in my opinion, the layout and font size you choose ruins it. We should be able to see much much more text (raw and previewed) on a standard size screen.
And to enter in negotiations of this kind is usually to divert most of your energy from actually building your company. You end up with a team only working on this topic, only working on the contract and the visible surface of the project, and after weeks or months of very hard meetings, you sometimes have bet so much that you think you don't have any other choice than sell.
I'm not sure the network effect of FB will be so hard to turn over. The point is there are a lot of people (or people aspects) not on Facebook. Most engineers I know aren't on Facebook and none of them would use Facebook for work practices. If Google+ is good enough for distributed workgroups, it could be a hit.
I'm not sure I really understand how this Group video chat works but it sounds like a very useful function for work groups as there aren't any efficient and freely available multi-point video-conferencing system working on all platforms (win, linux, mac).
If you cannot type the Arabic URL, there are chances you don't need to. Maybe you'd want to follow a link and read the page using a translator, but not type the URL.
The non latin URL is totally coherent with the freedom to have a non latin content and, ultimately, some web users knowing only languages without latin letters.
A problem with Wolfram (today?) is that it thinks in English. For most non native english users in the world, building a search in Wolfram is to hard, compared to Google which need only the core words.
I'm impressed each time I see a successful query but it's always a query made by somebody else : each time I try WA gives me useless numbers unrelated to my query.
The problem is not IE respecting standards, it's MS pushing IE into the hands of users so that they use the worst browser. Having the OS maker impose the browser, and a lot of IT directors imposing to use of IE just because it comes with/from MS, are the problem.
In order to launch fire at a distance of 150m the old bow & arrow looks more practical too. Even if this steam cannon seems more plausible than the mirror hypothesis it looks more like an engineer's gadget than the future (at this time) of warfare.