<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- generator="wordpress/2.0.3" -->
<rss version="2.0" 
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>360east | design, media, technology</title>
	<link>http://www.360east.com</link>
	<description>Ahmad Humeid on branding, design, architecture, media and technology, from a confused Arabia</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3</generator>
	<language>en</language>
			<item>
		<title>Counterparts - Ammani House 28 in transition</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1221</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1221#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	
Photo: Dina Haddadin


	House 28 on the corner of Rainbow Street is in a state of flux.

	The old landlady and her old, bed-ridden husband have passed away. It seems like yesterday she was showing Ahmad Sabbagh and me through the apartment under the main house. That apartment became what I called the &#8220;SYNTAX house&#8221;. A succession [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1221</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The iPad is so 2010. Say &#8220;hello?&#8221; to the ePad..</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1220</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1220#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	
 ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1220</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The NYTimess writes about Amman (and my fellow bloggers and tweeps complain)</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1219</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1219#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Branding</category>
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	I really love my fellow Ammani bloggers and tweeps. I really think that they are one of the best things that happened to us in the last ten years. I love that many of them have give a voice to Amman&#8217;s urban issues and urban activism. But sometimes they have me shaking my head with [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1219</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Who can revolutionize Arabic music? A bunch of people from Finland and their friends, perhaps?</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1218</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1218#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
	<category>Conferences</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	I really wish I had a time machine in my basement. Here is what I would do: pay a visit to Cairo in the 1950s or 1960s. Here is one time destination I would travel to: 24 February 1966, Cairo. I would key-in time and place on the machine&#8217;s touch screen and seconds later would [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1218</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>VIDEO: Zaha Hadid announced as winner to design new art and culture center in Amman</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1217</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1217#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>Conferences</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Zaha Hadid was officially announced as the final winner of the long standing competition to design the King Abdullah II House for Art and culture in Amman. Mayor Omar Maani made the announcement in a special ceremony held a couple of days ago where he hosted Hadid and a group of dignitaries, cultural officials and [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1217</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>SYNTAX wins Jordan&#8217;s best website prize at the Jordan Web Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1216</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1216#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>SYNTAX</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Check this out: the sweat and tears (almost) that the SYNTAX (and Spring) team poured into the Amman Centennial website paid off in a new way. It was a nice surprise that we won the Jordan Web Awards best site of 2009 prize.

	But there&#8217;s a catch: the trophy was so damn heavy, my arm almost [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1216</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>How to swear in Arabic, using web and tech jargon!</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1215</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1215#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Filmmaking</category>
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	This video, the product of the &#8220;sick minds&#8221; at Kharabeesh was first shown at the Jordan Web Awards a couple of days ago. It was one of the highlights of the evening! So watch or I will RSS your face!
 ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1215</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>360east goes to Mobile World Congress 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1214</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1214#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Jordan's IT "industry"</category>
	<category>Conferences</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	Yes, 360east is off to Barcelona tonight to attend the Mobile World Congress, the world&#8217;s biggest get together for the mobile industry and a symbol of the world&#8217;s obsession of staying connected anytime, anywhere.

	The numbers of people alone is staggering: 50,000 professional will visit the event this year, including, supposedly 2,800 CEOs (are there so [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1214</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>After the dust settled.. some iPad questions</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1213</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1213#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	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>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1213</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Firefox overtakes Internet Explorer on 360east</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1212</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1212#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The web</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	
[Click to enlarge]

	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>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1212</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Nokia N900: A monster. A good monster.</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1211</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1211#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	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>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1211</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>I really like how the Combo4 lunch show is overlaid on Ikbis.com</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1210</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1210#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	Just opened Ikbis.com during lunch time and finally saw the Combo4 overlay &#8220;live&#8221;.. Just thought to share this moment!

 ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1210</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Nokia does it! Free navigation (in Amman) and all over the globe</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1209</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1209#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Digital life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	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>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1209</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Lebanese man walks in Amman..</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1208</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1208#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecture</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1208</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1208</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1207#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	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>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1207</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Abu Saleem Al-Almani Al-Ammani</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1206</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1206#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Filmmaking</category>
	<category>Analogue life</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1206</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1206</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Keeping Jordan&#8217;s web open and free</title>
		<link>http://www.360east.com/?p=1205</link>
		<comments>http://www.360east.com/?p=1205#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Humeid</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The web</category>
	<category>Publishing and media</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1205</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1205</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1204</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1204</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1203</guid>
		<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>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1203</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
		<item>
		<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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.360east.com/?p=1202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	

	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.
 ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.360east.com/?feed=rss2&amp;p=1202</wfw:commentRSS>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
