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	<title>360east | design, media, technology</title>
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	<description>Ahmad Humeid on branding, design, architecture, media and technology, from a confused Arabia</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Egypt x Algeria: Football, brands, the Arab national state and God in a snapshot</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1196</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Branding</category>
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	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	This moment I am lying in bed. I&#8217;ve been lying here for the better part of the last 48 hours, with a fever and a headache. It&#8217;s a common cold or a flu (apparently not of the swine variety).

	As I write this, the Nile has turned into a river of tears. A little while ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting gears in Jordan.. Let&#8217;s talk entrepreneurship!</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1195</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
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	Going to the opening of the Global Entrepreneurship Week tonight was like going to group therapy. My partner Razan and I had just had an &#8220;afternoon from hell&#8221; dealing with extremely lame financial reporting issues at the office. It&#8217;s the stuff that makes one curse the day he or she decided to be entrepreneurial and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navigating Amman: Hands on with Nokia&#8217;s Jordan GPS maps!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Architecture</category>
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	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	     

	Finally!

	I&#8217;ve been covering developments in getting Amman and Jordan mapped electronically for a few years now, at one point even suggesting that we as users just do it ourselves!

	This whole GPS maps and navigation business in Jordan was being held up for over a year by what seems to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amman&#8217;s most colorful day: a city no longer ashamed of itself!</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1193</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Branding</category>
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>Family stuff</category>
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	

	

	

	

	

	

	

	

	


	

	

	

	

	


	For the past two years, the subject of Amman has been unavoidable for me. Not only do I live in this city, but I&#8217;ve also been, with my company SYNTAX, involved in the first big branding effort this city has undertaken. I am overdosed on Amman! The branding project has been completed but writing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experience Amman and its story: the most comprehensive city history site ever</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1192</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	

	It&#8217;s been a long time in the making, but now its here.

	Never before has Amman&#8217;s story been presented to its citizens and guest so vividly and comprehensively. It&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweeting goes Arabic: Dubai Eye 103.8 and Business 27/7 cover Watwet.com</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1191</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1191#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	This morning I woke up at 6 am Amman Time, be interviewed by Dubai Eye 103.8&#8217;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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The longevity of content: Iftah Ya Simsim, the Sesame Street of Arabia</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1190</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Filmmaking</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	I have three kids, aged 11, 6 and 3. So its obvious that a lot of children TV and content is consumed in our household. Kids today have an amazing array of media targeted at them: from  Bluray quality Pixar movies in vivid detail, color and surround sound, to online Flash games and YouTube [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scramled/fuzzy screen on your XpressMusic 5800? Just shine some light on it!</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1189</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
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	In a previous post a month ago I explained that the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic&#8217;s screen goes fuzzy and scrambled when it gets cold, and that warming it up helps bring the screen back to normal.

	A number of people from around the world commented on that post, describing the same problem. In my desperation I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grendizer creator Go Nagai coming to Amman!</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1188</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1188#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	A flying robot..

	

	An his creator..

	

	..are coming to Amman!!

	Go Nagai, the man behind Grendizer is coming to Amman and giving two lectures.

	7 October at 11 am at the Princess Sumaya University
8 October at the Royal Film Commission.

	This is fantastic. Details here.

	When I blogged about Grendizer five years ago, the amount of comments I got was overwhelming. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How disagreeing with the Jordan Times on Twitter will get you BLOCKED from their service!!</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1187</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1187#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	UPDATED: I had a very friendly chat with the Jordan Times Editor in Chief (who was totally unhappy about what happened with me on Twitter). Obviously, The Jordan Times does not condone the blocking of users from their service nor the style of the communication that was used by the person working on their Twitter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google listens to feedback, changes &#8220;Egabat&#8221; to &#8220;Ejabat&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1186</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1186#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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	And they even created a video to celebrate the change..  

	When I blogged about Google&#8217;s new Arabic Q&#38;A service a while ago, I received a comment from Wael Ghonim, Google&#8217;s MENA Product and Marketing man, noting with interest the issue I (and others) raised about the service&#8217;s name &#8220;Egabat&#8221;. Now, after surveying the community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Migrating to the Mac feels like immigrating to a first world nation&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1185</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1185#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	


	A Facebook update by my friend Bilal Hijjawi inspired this &#8220;360east imitation&#8221;
Click to enlarge a little bit  

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		<title>Amman&#8217;s new brand starts making an appearance</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1184</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1184#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Earlier this year, SYNTAX delivered the brand guidelines of the new Amman Brand to the Greater Municipality of Amman, which was the final delivery of a project that kept us totally immersed in Amman, its history, its people and its character for well over year. It was an intensive process of discovery, research, conceptualization, writing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living without the dish: our family&#8217;s video-on-demand experiment</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1182</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1182#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Two months ago, my family moved house. Our satellite dish was left on the roof of the old house. Since the move, we&#8217;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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suddenly, public transport is &#8216;cool&#8217; for Arabs. Thank you Dubai.</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1181</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1181#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	
Dubai Metro by Gulf News

	Arabs are car crazed. This is one generalization that is safe to make.
And Arab elites, are big car crazed. That&#8217;s another generalization safe to make.

	No wonder that public transport systems across the Arab world have not really evolved since the 1960s. Increasingly fueled by easy oil money, and increasingly alienated from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More crazy stuff with an &#8216;Islamic&#8217; label on it..</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1180</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1180#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	It&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Arabic Q&#038;A service &#8216;Egabat&#8217;: clever way to sniff the market (and what&#8217;s up with the Egyptian influence in its name ;-)</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1179</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1179#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	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&#8217;s post.


	

	Its definitely exciting to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: From Amman to Zarqa, by train!</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1178</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	     


	Ikbis.com&#8217;s very own video master Mohammad Jaradat took a ride on the ancient train from Amman to Zarqa, and came back with an FANTASTIC video report. The video speaks for itself. The train, the stations, the reaction of the people and the areas it passes through together tell a tough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Huffington Post on the Maktoob-Yahoo! deal: Giving hope.</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1177</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1177#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Faisal Ghori did an excellent story for the Huffington Post on the Maktoob-Yahoo deal. The story&#8217;s focus is on how this deal gives hope to entrepreneurs in the region where hope is in short supply.

	The story also highlights Jordan as the region&#8217;s leading tech startup base. I am happy that this notion is becoming a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nokia N900 phone/tablet: very promising departure from Symbian</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1176</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	

	Check out the really new video of the new Nokia N900. It&#8217;s officially an internet tablet, but its also a phone. Important fact: it&#8217;s not Symbian-based at all (which phones like the N97 and Xpressmusic 5800 use). No, this is Nokia&#8217;s &#8220;secret weapon&#8221; Maemo operating system (pronounced &#8220;My Mo&#8221;), which used to run on Nokia&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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