Month: February 2005
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RSS is cool
WEB | Tired of checking your favourite news sites and blogs? Ahmad Humeid tells you about a technology that can do that for you Here’s an acronym for you: RSS. No, I am not talking about the Royal Scientific Society! I am talking about Really Simple Syndication. If you’re a news junkie or a blog…
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Play 99.6 now live on the net
A number of people out there have been asking when Play 99.6 will start broadcasting on the net. Well, the wait is over. Log on to Play 99.6 and have a listen to their Window Media live stream. It’s a 32 Kbps stream which means that even a dial up connection should be enough to…
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Must see: Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s ‘The Gates’ paints NYC’s Central Park orange!
I don’t want to talk too much about this. You need to see it to believe it. The artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude have today seen the realization of a project they’ve been working on since 1979: The Gates. Imagine 7,500 metal frames with free hanging saffron textile ‘curtains’ gently swaying with the wind, meandering…
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Al-Jazeera: a top brand from Arabia?
MEDIA | An Arab brand makes international headlines. What does it all mean, asks Ahmad Humeid The news shocked the branding and marketing world. Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeerah has been voted the world 5th most influential brand in a poll of branding professional conducted by Brandchannel, an online magazine. Al-Jazeera came just behind Apple’s iPod,…