HUMAN RESOURCES | Universities are churning out masses of computer graduates, but finding a good programmer is still a pain. Ahmad Humeid looks for the source of the problem.

As the owner of a design/technology business, it is me who receives job application in the company. For the past few months I’ve been noticing a dramatic [...]

The Jordan blogging community, a small but active group, seems to be well positioned to act as a bridge between the Arab world and the rest of the world. Many Jordanian bloggers write in English and the country is open both to the west and to the Arab world. Amman is becoming a meeting place, [...]

Earlier today I had a great chat with Ethan Zuckerman, who’s here in Amman for the Open Source Opportunities seminar. Both of us were ‘showing off’ our Apple gear (Powerbooks, iPods in the lobby of the Jordan Intercontinental. We talked about blogging, podcasting, media, technology, youth and self expression. Ethan just posted this [...]

I am sitting at the Open Source Seminar at the Intercontinental hotel in Amman. < a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/">Ethan Zuckerman just gave an excellent talk on open content. Really informative and engaging presentation on open content, DRM, Wikipedia, etc.

It’s really unfortunate that this event is so small. A lot of people in Jordan would have really benfited [...]

Tuesday evening we were all glued to the web news sites at the office. Friends started calling from abroad and a sense of gloom and concern hung over our heads. Reuters was reporting a plane crash in the King Hussein International Airport in Aqaba. Al Jazeera went as far as reporting that it was a [...]

I’ve just been added as a panelist on the Open Source Opportunities Seminar to be held by int@j on 26-27 July 2005 at the Amman Intercontinental. It’s cool that the subject of open source software is being brought up again in Jordan. There will be a number of international and regional speakers. I hope it [...]

Quite a buzz is being generated around the launch, a few days ago, of Project Gizmo, a VoIP solution that closely resembles Skype. I downloaded the software, which, incidentally, is available for the Mac, PC and soon Linux. This morning I had the chance to test it with a friend. The voice quality was as [...]