Month: May 2008
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The world’s simplest HDTV and flat-screen TV introduction!
Judging by what I overhear sales people at electronics store tell potential customers, I concluded that many people out there are totally clueless about the whole High Definition TV (HDTV), flat-screen TV craze that is sweeping the world. So I decided to put together a very simple explanation, based on the gist of what I…
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Blu-ray players come to Jordan (overpriced) and flat-screen TV’s take off (also overpriced)
Today I spent an hour at Smart Buy hunting for a flat screen TV for our office’s meeting room. I was looking at screens 40-50 inch in size. My hunt started a few days ago at Carrefour’s electronics department. Complaining about the prices of electronic in Jordan is one of my favorite pastimes. I will…
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Macheads: the new documentary for Apple fanatics
Can’t wait to watch this crazy movie. I have a bit of a reputation of being a Machead myself. Between working and non-working Macs we have seven of them at home. My mother is a Mac user. And I never recommend anything else to friends and family. I am not extremist though. I don’t have…
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Super local online advertising: is Facebook the answer?
This ad above popped up in Facebook this morning. A farm for sale. The ad is in Arabic. What this means is that Facebook is starting to make money from local Jordanian advertising. As someone involved in site publishing I keep hearing this conventional wisdom: online advertising in Jordan (and the rest of the levant)…
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Ground Zero Episode 2 out now on ikbis.com
Mike, Mohammad and the Mosquito are at it again!
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Are these bras too hot to handle for the daily press?
At the First Bra Store, you can look at bras, read about bras and even buy bras. But its not an ordinary lingerie store we’re talking about here. It the latest art installation by one of my favorite artists in town: Diala Khasawneh. Diala’s art is witty, quirky, eclectic, accessible, local, personal. It’s free from…
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It’s the final countdown.. Watch the end of civilization on ikbis.com
Coming REAL SOON now! Only on ikbis.com. Read these related posts on 360east: Happy 2006! The late 2000s have begun! Gmail messages are actually carried by hand! CBS 60 Minutes exposes Israel’s settlers: The first cracks in the wall of Israeli propaganda? ATV: now on ikbis.com (no transmitters 😉 I really like how the Combo4…
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A totally cool Samsung commercial.. but for what?
10 visual illusions in 2 minutes! Read these related posts on 360east: Samsung on a “crusade” to kill the iPhone The Samsung F700 is the iPhone killer (or is it?) Why are flat screen TVs so expensive in Jordan? Samsung Croix/Qbowl/F700: How to NOT launch a phone! Abdoun Circle: Not even buildings by star architects…
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Orange to bring the iPhone to the Middle East (and Jordan): the mystery is starting to get solved..
Apple Insider has just reported that Orange will be offering the 3G iPhone in Europe, Africa and the Middle East (including Jordan, which was named in an iPhone deal for the first time). But it is Egypt that starts to reveal the future of iPhone exclusivity in the region. Vodafone has already announced that it…
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Careers: Quit that advertising job and do something better with your management skills!
OK people. We are looking for both senior and junior project coordinators. At the Big Name ad agency you’re working at, they probably call you ‘client servicing’ or ‘account executive’. Let me also guess: there is just too much office politics where you work. You’re probably wasting your life communicating with clients who insist that…
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Queen Rania mentions Ikbis, Toot and Akhtaboot as examples of homegrown web innovation
HM Queen Rania is surely following up on what’s happening in the Jordanian web scene! In her recent interview in Jordan Business magazine, she talked, among other issues, about the homegrown development of web sites in Jordan. At TootCorp, we were delighted to read that Ikbis, and Toot where cited by the Queen as two…
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Amman, the city with a Plan
It took almost two years of work by international and Jordanian experts. It is a document of almost 400 pages. And it was delivered by Mayor Omar Maani to HM King Abdullah II yesterday, May 12, 2008. It’s the Amman Plan. Yesterday has the potential to become a key date in Amman’s history. For the…