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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>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>After the dust settled.. some iPad questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
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	The official release of the iPad is still some time away. Apple still has not disclosed all the details. And by the time the iPad hits the stores, developers would have already prepared a lot of great applications that will make the iPad very useful.

	Like many others I was wishing for a more OS X [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firefox overtakes Internet Explorer on 360east</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The web</category>
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	I haven&#8217;t looked at my site analytics for a while, so this evening I checked out some of my browser stats. It turns out that Firefox users (37% ) have overtaken Internet Explorer users (34%) on this site. So next time when some Microsoft-centric web developer gives you a site that only looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia N900: A monster. A good monster.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
	<category>Branding</category>
	<category>Design</category>
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	Every object, every product, says something about the people behind it. In the old, pre-industrial days you would meet your carpenter, your blacksmith and your potter. People behind life&#8217;s object where more visible. Today, we don&#8217;t see the people behind the objects that define our lives. The creation of these objects requires the cooperation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I really like how the Combo4 lunch show is overlaid on Ikbis.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
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	Just opened Ikbis.com during lunch time and finally saw the Combo4 overlay &#8220;live&#8221;.. Just thought to share this moment!

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		<title>Nokia does it! Free navigation (in Amman) and all over the globe</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1209</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
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	Now this is just AMAZING.

	Nokia has decided to stop charging for GPS navigation on its phones. Voice navigation for driving and walking is now FREE. If you have an NSeries, ESeries, XpressMusic 5800 (or a bunch of other devices which have maps/navigation) you basically have just been give a GPS navigation device that works all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lebanese man walks in Amman..</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1208</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	This might sound like the the first line of a joke waiting for a punch line. But this Lebanese man is not the star of a funny joke but the writer Hazem Amin, who one evening found himself as &#8220;Amman&#8217;s only pedestrian, stumbling over its sidewalks&#8220;. That&#8217;s the title of his article in Al-Ghad today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web freedom in Jordan shouldn&#8217;t be sacrificed because of a bunch of sleazy rumor spreaders</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1207</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
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	Watch this video by Aramram. Many of us defending web freedom in Jordan are doing it because we care about the country&#8217;s development and the benefits of free speech online for society, for government, for Jordan&#8217;s international image and for business and investment.

	After 15 years of liberal internet policy in Jordan, it would be shameful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abu Saleem Al-Almani Al-Ammani</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Filmmaking</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Any name that starts with &#8220;Abu-something&#8221; and ends with a &#8220;ni&#8221; or &#8220;we&#8221; sound, might remind us of militants is Afghanistan.. But this Abu is different. Meet Abu Saleem the German-i. He may be no turbaned militant. But he has a bit of a beard. And he&#8217;s fighting for a cause: Environmental awareness in Jordan! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Jordan&#8217;s web open and free</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1205</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	One of the best things about Jordan is its liberal and open attitude toward the internet.

	In an Arab sea of restrictiveness (Lebanon is the exception) our open internet policy has enabled Jordanians to access all of the web (with the exception of one site: the US-based ArabTimes.com). This openness says something important about how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jordanians want it easy!</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1204</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1204#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	There are few certainties in life: the sun will rise from the east and set in the west. Objects tend to fall back down when thrown up. And Jordanian Tawjihi (Secondary final exam) student will complain about the &#8216;difficulty&#8217; of the math test. Another certainty: they will find a journalist to write about the complaints. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SYNTAX gets its own Word Guru</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1203</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1203#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	For me, design and writing are the same thing, and I do quite a lot of both. Sometimes I tell people that what got me into design was some weird passion for publishing (like doing a newsletter for our household when I was aged 12 or something like that).

	At our company SYNTAX, content and communication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to have for lunch? Combo4 from Ikbis.com!</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1202</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1202#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
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	Everyday around lunch time, Combo4 takes over the menu on Ikbis.com. Expect a satisfying meal of funny, strange and sometimes shocking videos, with fries or a small salad. Enjoy.
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		<title>Say Happy New 2010 on Amman&#8217;s 1st Cricle tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1201</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Family stuff</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
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	Welcome the the new year in the open air.. on Amman&#8217;s 1st Circle!

	We want to celebrate the new year the Ammani way  

	Everyone is welcome. Be creative.

	When: Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 11:30pm to Friday, January 1, 2010 at 12:30am

	Details on Facebook
(there aren&#8217;t really more details   We just want to celebrate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Amman: re-discovering, re-engaging, re-connecting our city</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1200</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	My AmmanView more documents from SYNTAX.

	I had the pleasure of being invited by Jordanian social entrepreneur (and self proclaimed &#8220;doctor of companies, governments and peoples&#8221;)   Maher Kaddoura, to give a talk about &#8216;My Amman&#8217; at the pilot of NewThink, an initiative to spread a culture of positive action, a can-do attitude and entrepreneurship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HM Queen Rania mentions use of Watwet in Le Web keynote as example of digital activism</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1199</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1199#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	

	Last week my TootCorp partner Mazen and I had a great time attending Le Web, Europe&#8217;s largest internet conference. You can actually watch the entire conference on the video archives of Ustream, who where streaming the sessions live.

	The pace of innovation we witnessed around the real time web, social networks is just and mobile apps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Steorn free energy story refuses to die as a new public demo is set up</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1198</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1198#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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	They&#8217;re back! The guys from Ireland who claim to have created a magnetic machine that generates energy from nothing. It&#8217;s a story that refuses to die.

	Now the guys have set up a public demo in Dublin. Their failed demo in London a couple of years ago drew widespread ridicule. Now their &#8216;Orbo&#8217; is spinning and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this the future of magazines (on the Apple tablet)?</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1197</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
	<category>Design</category>
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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>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
	<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>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Conferences</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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		<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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