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Month: October 2006

  • For every schoolchild a laptop.. In Libya!!

    I’ve written before about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. Well it seems that Libya, out of all places, seems to be one of the first countries to have been fully sold on the idea! U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren – New York Times: “When I met with…

  • Skype.com unblocked in Jordan! What was that all about?

    I can confirm that I was able to access the Skype.com domain again this morning. The story of the TRC’s attempted ban of Skype today made it to the Jordan Times, who ran a big story on the matter on page 2 (pasted in full below). UNBELIEVABLY, the TRC is insisting on the security/terrorist threat…

  • Go ahead.. bookmark your favorite stories and share them!

    Not so long ago, I started noticing all these small colored icons appear below the posts of some blogs I follow. I mean something like this: OK, here is a confession. I didn’t get what all the icons where about and I also hated the clutter they create. Well.. it didn’t take me TOO LONG…

  • Google buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion: is this Bubble 2.0?

    Another amazing Google acquisition. Another amazing deal. Another story that will become part of tech folklore for years to come. The rumors where true and the $1.65 Billion was correct as well. Google is buying YouTube, a company that has been around only a year and a half and who currently employ around 60 people…

  • Who wants to take Jordan back to the dark ages of telecom?

    UNBELIEVABLE. Instead of pushing telecom companies towards more innovation and lower prices for consumers, the TRC, the supposedly independent body that is charged with regulating the Jordanian telecom market, is busy ORDERING ISPs to try to stop the Skype free telephony service and to CENSOR its site. The letter above, sent by the TRC to…

  • Even MORE toot

    The growth continues.. Over the past 48 hours we added another 11 blogs to toot. After a short while there might be some more additions. http://cairofreeze.blogspot.com/ http://www.qatardr.net/blog/ http://riadzany.blogspot.com/ http://benkerishan.blogspot.com/ http://www.oceancreep.com/blog/ http://renderingsofme.blogspot.com/ http://diasporicdiscontents.blogspot.com/ http://www.adblogarabia.com/ http://mabadali.blogspot.com/ http://www.sudanesethinker.com/ http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/ Current toot blog count: 148. Read these related posts on 360east: Let the best designed blog on toot win…

  • What should America do on/with Arab TV?

    One of the best places to read about Arab media from an American perspective is on the Abu Aardvark blog (written by American political scientist Marc Lynch). I just read two of his recent post concerning the US administration’s performance on Al-Jazeera and some advice he has for the new management of Al-Hurra. Both are…

  • Retail watch: Carrefour’s sign goes up in Amman

    It’s Ramadan. Everyone’s hungry and a bit dizzy. So it’s it’s time for another Jordan retail update (here’s a previous post on the matter). So, finally, the Carrefour sign is going up, as its host, City Mall is nearing completion. Carrefour typically open stores that are 20,000 square meter or more. So expect Carrefour to…

  • Watch the toot grow..

    Over the past year, since we started toot, I’ve been getting increasingly enthusiastic about what our small, young team can do. Our team now includes seven people, working from three countries/three continents. Our core activity, beside running the toot site and creating both the toot tabat and toot for Gaza and Beirut blogs was an…

  • Steorn free energy update: jury to be selected soon, as company’s forums rage on!

    I am still following the Steorn free energy story, despite its disappearance of the media radar screen. The company’s discussion forums have erupted again after a period of quiet. This has been fueled by Steorn’s recent posting of various FAQs. The discussion on the forums are heated. An interesting aspect of the the forums is…

  • Day3a Shawerma, from Amman to Jerusalem

    I just found this interesting little blog called 3adi (great domain name!), which, among other things, had an interesting post about how the Jordanian Shawerma chain Day3a has opened in East Jerusalem: 3adi : Remember the old days? Where businesses where moving from Palestine to Jordan? Well these days are over I guess. Palestine is…

  • See how fast babies grow..

    This video took the world by storm recently. I was busy with out own new baby so I didn’t notice Check out the “Enjoy Your Digital Life” blog here. Turns out this video was produced by a friend of a friend. Small world. Read these related posts on 360east: I want my kids to grow…