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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>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Michael Jackson (1958-2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>For mobile geeks only: talking to Nokia&#8217;s Levant marketing head about the N97, Amman&#8217;s missing map and Ovi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
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	The N97 has been on sale in Amman for the past few days (apparently for JD 450, US$ 633). There is a lot of Nokia and activity and buzz these days. I&#8217;ve been invited to attend its launch in Beirut but couldn&#8217;t go. Instead, I caught up with Bruce Howe, the marketing head for Nokia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Islam Samhan: poetry, jail and the limits of Jordanian &#8220;tolerance&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	It seems that Jordan&#8217;s tolerance and moderation can&#8217;t include a 28 year old poet who &#8220;dared&#8221; to use a fragment of Quranic language in one of poems in a way that a religious authority found offensive.

	The news that a Jordanian court has sentenced the poet Islam Samhan to one year in prison plus a JD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has anyone heard of Blink Communications (and their 5 to 500 Mbit bandwidth)?</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1147</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
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Yesterday, I received a comment on one of my posts from someone who said he&#8217;s from a company called Blink offering internet for business plans from 5  500 Mbit on their own infrastructure!

	Has anyone heard of them or dealt with them?

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		<title>Abu Dhabi&#8217;s &#8216;The National&#8217; discovers Jordan&#8217;s tech startup scene</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1146</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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Over the past week or so, several stories have been published in The National, Abu Dhabi&#8217;s quality English language daily, about Jordan&#8217;s technology scene, with a special focus on Jordanian web startups and the emerging culture around them.

	Reporting from Jordan, The National&#8217;s Tom Gara has been firing off one article after the other, featuring a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amman is looking for its stories. Now YOU can write them..</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1145</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 20:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Branding</category>
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
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	I am very excited, as just a few minutes ago, the pre-launch page for the Amman Centennial website has gone live. This is not a &#8216;coming soon&#8217; page, but an open invitation to all Ammanis (and expatriate Ammanis, of course) to share their stories of THEIR Amman.

	The last 100 years of Amman&#8217;s history, since the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wolfram Alpha: computing history was made last night</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1144</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 13:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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It&#8217;s almost like the &#8220;super computers&#8221; we see in science fiction movies. You ask the computer a question and the computer gives an answer. The question can be a request for historical data, a mathematic equation, the current temperature of a city, and so on. The thing is: the computer &#8220;understands&#8221; the question.

	But this isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia N97 to hit the UAE next month</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 21:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
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First, here is a video of Nokia trying really hard to be cool. Mind you, their new flagship device, the N97 is pretty cool and Nokia seems like it will deliver another hit. But I think they are going overboard with this video..


	Abu Dhabi&#8217;s The National newspaper is reporting that the N97 will hit the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>360east 24HRS Abu Dhabi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>A brand, a celebrity and a tweeting chicken: KFC goes KGC with Oprah</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1140</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 21:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Yesterday, Oprah created an internet phenomena. She bought lunch for America at KFC. People went crazy over this and millions of people downloaded the free meal coupon on Oprah&#8217;s site.

	Now, I am a KFC fan. If you grew up in Amman in the 80&#8217;s, KFC might have been your first encounter with American fast food. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a young creative: Make an ad.. Go to Cannes this June</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1139</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 20:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[	Just received this announcement from a loyal 360east reader (hi Dina!) about a competition by the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival that will take the winner to attend this prestigious ad event and compete in the Young Lions Film Competition.


	

	MAKE AN AD

	At midnight on 15 May (GMT), YouTube will release a brief on
www.youtube.com/canneslions for a 60-second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagining The Dubai-ification of Baghdad</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1138</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 14:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecture</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Monocle&#8217;s Tyler Brule shares a thought on the Invest Iraq conference held in London a couple of days ago:

	FT.com / Columnists / Tyler Br&#251;l&#233; &#8211; Between Iraq and a marketplace:
I couldn&#8217;t see any indication of where the Iraqi leadership was heading next, but I imagine their global tour has quite a bit to do with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computers to be exempted from sales tax, says Jordan ICT Minister</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1137</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	It was D&#233;j&#224; vu time. Jordan&#8217;s tech and telecom industry had a big lunch meeting with the Minister of ICT Bassem Rousan on Wednesday. All the old faces of the industry where there. It felt like 2000/2001 but minus the excitement and optimistic spirit which characterized Jordan&#8217;s IT drive earlier in the decade.

	Sure enough, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Omar Maani comments on 360east regarding the Sanaya Amman skyscraper ads</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[	My post about the Sanaya Amman advertising campaign, has attracted the attention of Mayor Omar Maani himself. Commenting on that post he wrote:

	I must agree the adverts look like the towers are touching the heavens when no other building dared do this. Although more than sixty stories in height, I assure all that it starts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jordan&#8217;s islamists have a real problem with women&#8217;s rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Photo by Al Ghad.

	A media battle is being waged between Jordanian women&#8217;s organizations and islamist forces over the intention of the government to drop some of its reservation to the global agreement on women&#8217;s rights CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women). Both Jordan&#8217;s largest islamist party, the islamic action [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domus Arabia magazine launched, Jordanians all over its pages!</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1133</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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An Arabic edition of the the famous Italian Arachitecture and Design journal &#8220;Domus&#8221;. Now that&#8217;s interesting.

	My first encounter with Domus was during the days of my architectural studies in the early 1990&#8217;s. So it was a really pleasant surprise when I saw the first issue of Domus in Arabic on a newsstand in Abu Dhabi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey! Journalists! Leave those kids alone!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
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	I can declare with full pride that I am a normal person. Yes I am! I don&#8217;t suffer from &#8220;psychological emptiness&#8221; nor from &#8220;blindly following the ways of the West&#8221;. I am free from all these &#8220;societal diseases&#8221; and I a normal member of the Male/Arab/Jordanian/Eastern society. Isn&#8217;t that great?

	How do I know I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Found in a bathroom of a Lebanese restaurant in Dubai</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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	I found this in the WC of a Lebanese restaurant in Dubai.

	I assume that it depicts a scene from old Beirut. Probably from the 1930&#8217;s.

	What jumped at me was the fact that there was an electrical tramway there. The tramway car even has a number.

	It seems that, in the early 20th century, the beginning of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flavored water: H2Oh! vs Masafi</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Branding</category>
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	While a lot of people cringe at the idea of flavored mineral water, I am definitely a member of such products&#8217; target market  

	Yes, a glass of pure water is sometimes the best thing for thirst, but I just find drinking a lot of &#8216;plain&#8217; water hard and/or boring. That&#8217;s why I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Objectified: a film on design an its (un)intended consequences</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
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From Gary Hustwit, the maker of the film Helvetica (yes a film about a typeface, and a really good one at that) comes Objectified, a highly anticipated documentary about design, particularly product design. It features some of the world&#8217;s most famous industrial designers such as Karim Rashid, Jonathan Ive (Apple) and David Kelly (Ideo)

	

	What&#8217;s interesting [...]]]></description>
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