Category: Digital life
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ArabNet, Beirut and ‘Being Arab’
Visiting Beirut is always a bitter sweet experience. My last trip to Beirut to attend ArabNet, the region’s first web business conference was my third trip to the city in 8 years, each of which had the duration of 48 hours. Each time I visit beirut I leave with a book, always from Librarie Antoine,…
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ArabNet 2010, Day 1: the Arab web industry emerges
Photos stolen from Andfaraway With a ballroom full of participants during all sessions, buzzing networking activity during coffee breaks, inspiring talks from both older web hands and young ones, startup demos from all over the region, not to mention very active tweeting and live blogging, we can say that day 1 of the ArabNet conference…
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ArabNet: Ten years late, the Arab web industry gets its conference
Here is one of my favorite anecdotes about the Arab web industry: the web advertising spending of the whole Arab region, including the rich Gulf region and Saudi Arabia is less than the revenue of a single niche web marketing agency (which you never heard of) in Seattle where one of my friends works. Now…
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The iPad is so 2010. Say “hello?” to the ePad..
Read these related posts on 360east: After the dust settled.. some iPad questions Say Happy New 2010 on Amman’s 1st Cricle tomorrow Apps from Arabia 360east goes to Mobile World Congress 2010 Open City: Refuge urbanism in Amman, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul
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Who can revolutionize Arabic music? A bunch of people from Finland and their friends, perhaps?
I really wish I had a time machine in my basement. Here is what I would do: pay a visit to Cairo in the 1950s or 1960s. Here is one time destination I would travel to: 24 February 1966, Cairo. I would key-in time and place on the machine’s touch screen and seconds later would…
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After the dust settled.. some iPad questions
The official release of the iPad is still some time away. Apple still has not disclosed all the details. And by the time the iPad hits the stores, developers would have already prepared a lot of great applications that will make the iPad very useful. Like many others I was wishing for a more OS…
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Nokia N900: A monster. A good monster.
Every object, every product, says something about the people behind it. In the old, pre-industrial days you would meet your carpenter, your blacksmith and your potter. People behind life’s object where more visible. Today, we don’t see the people behind the objects that define our lives. The creation of these objects requires the cooperation of…
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Nokia does it! Free navigation (in Amman) and all over the globe
Now this is just AMAZING. Nokia has decided to stop charging for GPS navigation on its phones. Voice navigation for driving and walking is now FREE. If you have an NSeries, ESeries, XpressMusic 5800 (or a bunch of other devices which have maps/navigation) you basically have just been give a GPS navigation device that works…
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Is this the future of magazines (on the Apple tablet)?
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Navigating Amman: Hands on with Nokia’s Jordan GPS maps!
Finally! I’ve been covering developments in getting Amman and Jordan mapped electronically for a few years now, at one point even suggesting that we as users just do it ourselves! This whole GPS maps and navigation business in Jordan was being held up for over a year by what seems to be regulations hurdles, combined…
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Scrambled/fuzzy screen on your XpressMusic 5800? Just shine some light on it!
In a previous post a month ago I explained that the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic’s screen goes fuzzy and scrambled when it gets cold, and that warming it up helps bring the screen back to normal. A number of people from around the world commented on that post, describing the same problem. In my desperation I…
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How disagreeing with the Jordan Times on Twitter will get you BLOCKED from their service!!
UPDATED: I had a very friendly chat with the Jordan Times Editor in Chief (who was totally unhappy about what happened with me on Twitter). Obviously, The Jordan Times does not condone the blocking of users from their service nor the style of the communication that was used by the person working on their Twitter…