Archive for the 'The web' Category

Experience Amman and its story: the most comprehensive city history site ever

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

It’s been a long time in the making, but now its here.

Never before has Amman’s story been presented to its citizens and guest so vividly and comprehensively. It’s still a work in progress that Ammanis and their guest will complete in the coming months and years. I am talking about the Amman Centennial website, branded [...]

Tweeting goes Arabic: Dubai Eye 103.8 and Business 27/7 cover Watwet.com

Monday, October 5th, 2009

This morning I woke up at 6 am Amman Time, be interviewed by Dubai Eye 103.8’s Business Breakfast show about Watwet .You can listen to the interview here. This comes hot on the heels of an interview that Emirates Business 24/7 did with Watwet CEO Kareem Arafat.

With the Twitter hype going mainstream in the region, [...]

Google listens to feedback, changes “Egabat” to “Ejabat”

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

And they even created a video to celebrate the change..

When I blogged about Google’s new Arabic Q&A service a while ago, I received a comment from Wael Ghonim, Google’s MENA Product and Marketing man, noting with interest the issue I (and others) raised about the service’s name “Egabat”. Now, after surveying the community [...]

Living without the dish: our family’s video-on-demand experiment

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Two months ago, my family moved house. Our satellite dish was left on the roof of the old house. Since the move, we’ve been living without a dish, resulting in a purely video-on-demand lifestyle.

So how important is TV for you and your kids? And what happens when conventional satellite TV is absent?

Every family is different, [...]

More crazy stuff with an ‘Islamic’ label on it..

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

It’s Ramadan. Which is always a good time for the fanatics / forces of darkness / narrow-minded crazies, who have been in the driver seat of muslim culture for too long.. its a good time for them to come up with all kinds of stuff..

In Sudan, a woman was jailed, after a judge find her [...]

Google’s Arabic Q&A service ‘Egabat’: clever way to sniff the market (and what’s up with the Egyptian influence in its name ;-)

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Google today announced the launch of a new Arab focused question and answer service under the name Google Egabat (English: Google Answers), not to be confused with the now-defunct English Google Answers service which was shut down a few years ago. For more info about Google Egabat check out StartupArabia’s post.

Its definitely exciting to see [...]

The Maktoob-Yahoo deal: Shame on the Jordanian press that doesn’t understand!!

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

After the euphoria of yesterday’s news about Yahoo buying Maktoob for an estimated US$ 85 million, and after seeing the name of this Jordan-made brand on the pages and screens of every major international news outlet, and after the topic “Maktoob” made it to the top 10 topics of Twitter.. I was expecting to see [...]