Category: The web
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A brand, a celebrity and a tweeting chicken: KFC goes KGC with Oprah
Yesterday, Oprah created an internet phenomena. She bought lunch for America at KFC. People went crazy over this and millions of people downloaded the free meal coupon on Oprah’s site. Now, I am a KFC fan. If you grew up in Amman in the 80’s, KFC might have been your first encounter with American fast…
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Facebook goes Arabic..
Interesting.. Facebook goes Arabic. In a country like Jordan they already have an audience that is probably bigger than all the daily newspapers combined. The Facebook clones out there have one less reason to exist now..
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SmartBuy’s new website: no prices and no buy button!
A few days ago I read a press release in a newspaper stating that SmartBuy has “activated” it web site. Yesterday I went there to check, thinking that they have launched an e-commerce website. I was in for a disappointment. Not only doesn’t this website allow you to buy anything online. It doesn’t even mention…
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WOW!! Almost 800 KB/sec downloads on my 8 Mbit Orange DSL!
After an evening of frustrating internet slowness it suddenly happened after midnight. At around 1:15 am I felt the web was faster so I repeated my speed tests. A download from Microsoft.com BLEW ME AWAY. First I got 660 KB/sec. Then, on another download the speed almost hit 800 KB/sec.. BOOM! It finally happened. A…
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SYNTAX and Spring design, develop the website of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha
As the world of culture’s eyes turn to Doha today for the VIP opening of Qatar’s Museum of Islamic Art, SYNTAX, a leading design, branding and user experience company and Spring, a pioneering web technology company announced the launch of the museum’s website at mia.org.qa. The Museum of Islamic Art represents a major milestone not…
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8 Mbit: ADSL heaven, ADSL hell..
After two days of installation problems, my 8 Mbit line was installed by Orange. So how is life with 8 Mbit you must be wondering. Well.. First of all, Orange told me they need to replace my modem (which is the ancient but very reliable Alcatel Speed Touch Home). I think my current modem is…
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Testing Google voice search on the iPhone
I’ve been following the news about Google’s voice search for the iPhone eagerly for the past few days. I don’t have an iPhone but one of my colleagues in the office does So when I read that the application is out (disguised as the Google Mobile Application) I immediately stole my colleagues iPhone and installed…
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Ikbis on the cover of Venture magazine
Jordan’s new generation of web ventures is on the cover of Venture magazine this month. The issue asks, somewhat skeptically perhaps, “More than a Bubble?”. The story, written by Venture journalist Adam Lichtenheld, features our very own Ikbis as well as D1G, 3alarasi and Mecca.com, focusing on the post-Maktoob web ventures which appeared in the…
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Netanyahu copies Obama’s site
Not only is he a wicked, right wing, anti-peace and previously failed politician. Now he’s also a web design plagiarizer? Benjamin Netanyahu basically copied Barack’s Obama web site design style and adopted it for his upcoming bid to become prime minister of Israel. What a joke. There is no way in hell Netanyahu can be…
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What are those Toot people up to?
I walked into our office the other day, and found a dangerous meeting taking place. What the heck are Wael, Roba, Karim, George and Munther up to? I called this meeting the Toot Coup d’état (or Toot Coup d’état).. Well, actually I was invited to it but arrived extremely late, not even remembering that the…
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NYTimes election mood cloud..
Read these related posts on 360east: A ’special’ mobile plan for parliament election candidates only! Please tell me who to vote for in the 5th district Music to your mood, dad! Why did ATV miss it’s launch yesterday? Welcome to Jordan, Senator Obama
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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic ships in the UAE, Jordan and Saudi Arabia in December ’08
I had my first chance to touch the Nokia XpressMusic at the Nokia Dead Sea MENA event. I will try to share my experience with it later on. But it has just been announced that device will make its way to the stores in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and, yes, Jordan, in December. The original…