Ahmad Humeid
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Posted: July 5th, 2008, 4:49pm MDT by Humeid
Almost 40 years ago, a 14 year old Beetles fan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room with a tape recorder. He convinced the star to do an interview about peace. ... -
Posted: July 4th, 2008, 12:41am MDT by Humeid
Flash video performance on my PowerBook G4 was really bad over the past few months. Maybe because my hard disk is always almost full.. Or maybe because I really need ... -
Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 12:50am MDT by Humeid
How lucky are we in Amman to get the newest Pixar movie just a few days after its release in America? I went to see Wall.e today with two of ... -
Posted: July 3rd, 2008, 11:59pm MDT by Humeid
The cool guys at SpinBits in Dubai have hosted TootCorp’s Karim Arafat on the their Spin Show podcast, to talk about the Arabian web and mobile scene and the story ... -
Posted: July 2nd, 2008, 1:26am MDT by Humeid
Over the past few days, the boycott of the Jordan Festival, lead by some of Jordan professional associations, has, reportedly, caused a number of Arab singers to cancel their participation. ... -
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 2:16am MDT by Humeid
Wi-tribe, Amman’s new Wimax ISP, who were the subject of a previous post on 360east, called me today. They read the post, found my number and called. I am happy ... -
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 1:51am MDT by Humeid
You might remember my post from a couple of week back, about how horrible my Zain Jordan phone line has become. The problem with dropped calls, repeatedly getting network errors ... -
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 12:37am MDT by Humeid
Sha3teely finally provides THE music video for Yazan Rousan’s “Gally: Errukhas”. The song itself is pretty hilarious. Now it has a fitting video to go with it, shot in one ... -
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 12:20am MDT by Humeid
I just read this in the New York Times: Obama Will Make Visits to Middle East and Europe – NYTimes.com: Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, will visit Jordan, Israel, ... -
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 1:48am MDT by Humeid
Yes it’s true. Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft to devote his time to charitable work in his foundation. I am not a Microsoft fan, but I just have to say ... -
Posted: June 26th, 2008, 11:54pm MDT by Humeid
Come on.. admit it. You want to get in touch with your inner blogger Well, this Saturday, the 28th of June 2008, you can. Thanks to Sha3shaboneh: a joint project ... -
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 12:42am MDT by Humeid
Just as I was forgetting about the (still unresolved) Steorn fiasco, two things had to remind me of the story today. Long time readers of this blog may remember my ... -
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 1:34pm MDT by Humeid
My normal TV consumption for the past 5 years has been something like half an hour PER MONTH. For the past few weeks I’ve been watching ALL the European football ... -
Posted: June 23rd, 2008, 11:08am MDT by Humeid
A new Wimax-only operator has gone live in Amman. Wi-tribe revealed their service today after a rather large press and outdoor teaser ad campaign, under the headline “we networked the ... -
Posted: June 17th, 2008, 12:38pm MDT by Humeid
I have to dial numbers three times to get a connection. Ring tone suddenly drops off Every other call drops off What is happening? This started a few days ago. ... -
Posted: June 17th, 2008, 12:34pm MDT by Humeid
More stuff like this on Ikbis.com’s Ground Zero.... -
Posted: June 11th, 2008, 10:42am MDT by Humeid
I am usually the first to complain about my ISP’s internet speed. But today I have good news. I noticed my browsing was zippier over the past two days. So ... -
Posted: June 9th, 2008, 12:02am MDT by Humeid
First of all, let me share with you how I followed the keynote speech at Apple WWDC 2008: 1. I watched part of this live web video show, hosted by ... -
Posted: June 9th, 2008, 12:33pm MDT by Humeid
3G iPhone? Touchscreen Mac or PDA? A special Mac for developers? A new .mac service? Errr, The end of global warming? The rumors are raging like CRAZY. We’re now less ... -
Posted: June 7th, 2008, 1:29am MDT by Humeid
I have an ADSL line from Orange. A bit past midnight the web started acting crazy. Most pages don’t load. Some do very slowly. Is anyone facing the same problem?... -
Posted: June 4th, 2008, 12:41pm MDT by Humeid
This is a part of a jam-packed, lively breakout session of the Global Media Forum yesterday, entitled “Terrorists Online”. It was moderated by Yassin Musharbash, Editor, SPIEGEL-ONLINE. The panel consisted ... -
Posted: June 4th, 2008, 12:14pm MDT by Humeid
This is a part of a jam-packed, lively breakout session of the Global Media Forum yesterday, entitled “Terrorists Online”. It was moderated by Yassin Musharbash, Editor, SPIEGEL-ONLINE. The panel consisted ... -
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 12:34pm MDT by Humeid
The employee choir of Deutsche Welle sings a South American song at the Global Media Forum dinner yesterday.... -
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 12:17pm MDT by Humeid
For those of you interested in the media aspect of the Arab-Israeli conflict, it might be worth it to check out the session “Reading between the lies – Perception and ... -
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 10:34am MDT by Humeid
The Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum, kicked off yesterday in Bonn, Germany. After a couple of welcoming speeches by the director of Deutsche Welle and a local minister, Shirin Ebadi ... -
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 5:03pm MDT by Humeid
Aref Hijjawi (bald guy in the middle), who is a familiar name to those of us who listened to the BBC Arabic service in the last decade. He is now ... -
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 12:16pm MDT by Humeid
Arrived in Frankfurt yesterday noon. Then in Bonn yesterday night. I will be blogging and sharing pictures and videos from the conference whenever I can. The Forum has just started ... -
Posted: May 31st, 2008, 1:19am MDT by Humeid
Thank goodness for conference trailers.. Very convenient. Media in Peace Building and Conflict Prevention. That’s the theme of the first edition of this conference. Not an easy topic at a ... -
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 12:40am MDT by Humeid
Judging by what I overhear sales people at electronics store tell potential customers, I concluded that many people out there are totally clueless about the whole High Definition TV (HDTV), ... -
Posted: May 27th, 2008, 1:24am MDT by Humeid
Today I spent an hour at Smart Buy hunting for a flat screen TV for our office’s meeting room. I was looking at screens 40-50 inch in size. My hunt ... -
Posted: May 27th, 2008, 2:09pm MDT by Humeid
Can’t wait to watch this crazy movie. I have a bit of a reputation of being a Machead myself. Between working and non-working Macs we have seven of them at ... -
Posted: May 27th, 2008, 10:23am MDT by Humeid
This ad above popped up in Facebook this morning. A farm for sale. The ad is in Arabic. What this means is that Facebook is starting to make money from ... -
Posted: May 26th, 2008, 1:04pm MDT by Humeid
Mike, Mohammad and the Mosquito are at it again!... -
Posted: May 21st, 2008, 2:07am MDT by Humeid
At the First Bra Store, you can look at bras, read about bras and even buy bras. But its not an ordinary lingerie store we’re talking about here. It the ... -
Posted: May 20th, 2008, 1:36am MDT by Humeid
Coming REAL SOON now! Only on ikbis.com.... -
Posted: May 17th, 2008, 12:29am MDT by Humeid
10 visual illusions in 2 minutes!... -
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 9:16pm MDT by Humeid
Apple Insider has just reported that Orange will be offering the 3G iPhone in Europe, Africa and the Middle East (including Jordan, which was named in an iPhone deal for ... -
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 3:23pm MDT by Humeid
OK people. We are looking for both senior and junior project coordinators. At the Big Name ad agency you’re working at, they probably call you ‘client servicing’ or ‘account executive’. ... -
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 2:12pm MDT by Humeid
HM Queen Rania is surely following up on what’s happening in the Jordanian web scene! In her recent interview in Jordan Business magazine, she talked, among other issues, about the ... -
Posted: May 12th, 2008, 1:38am MDT by Humeid
It took almost two years of work by international and Jordanian experts. It is a document of almost 400 pages. And it was delivered by Mayor Omar Maani to HM ... -
Posted: May 12th, 2008, 9:03am MDT by Humeid
Yesterday night, the Ikbis.com team launched a new version of the home page. This new edition starts to reflect Ikbis’s evolved thinking and some of our new strategies, which will ... -
Posted: May 11th, 2008, 11:27pm MDT by Humeid
We truly live in a dangerous time. Never before in my generation’s time has the world been so full of hateful propaganda, fear and mutual suspicion. What is scary is ... -
Posted: May 10th, 2008, 12:38am MDT by Humeid
Yesterday, Saturday, I decided to finally start my ‘project’ of documenting the old shop and office signs of downtown Amman. I parked my car at the top end of a ... -
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 10:43pm MDT by Humeid
I have been promising myself for at leas the last 7 years to start photographic the old signs of downtown Amman. But I never got around to doing that. The ... -
Posted: May 8th, 2008, 10:15pm MDT by Humeid
Moving car + Nokia N95 + Dirty windscreen + Amazing Sky + Amman’s streets = THIS. I share these picture of a breathtaking drive home this evening, as the came ... -
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 12:20am MDT by Humeid
Have you seen this? I’m calling it Amman’s biggest painting (prove me wrong if you know a bigger one). The wall of the Radisson SAS hotel has been undergoing a ... -
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 1:10am MDT by Humeid
Vodafone is bringing the iPhone to Egypt. I just read this in Apple Insider: AppleInsider | Vodafone inks deal with Apple to sell iPhone in ten countries: Vodafone, the world’s ... -
Posted: April 30th, 2008, 10:35am MDT by Humeid
Wherever you look in Amman you see half done stuff. Everything is incomplete. City Mall is an investment of tens of millions of Dinars. Some pretty amazing shops inside. It ... -
Posted: April 29th, 2008, 11:29pm MDT by Humeid
[click to enlarge] This caught my eye! Graffiti on a wall near the exit from Wadi Saqra Street to the 3rd Circle. Amman’s graffiti has, so far, consisted of text ... -
Posted: April 28th, 2008, 12:24am MDT by Humeid
The new lights of Rainbow Street are on! I just came back from a quick 30 minute visit to the street. I wanted to check out the street’s new developments ... -
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 1:20am MDT by Humeid
After a quick visit to the dentist at 2:30 on Saturday, I drove to Goethe Institute in Jabal Amman to drop off my son to his German class. There, I ... -
Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 11:28pm MDT by Humeid
April is almost over and.. still no iPhone for the Middle East. The rumors were wrong. Apple continues to “ignore” a potentially lucrative market. Recent rumors have indicated that the ... -
Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 1:01pm MDT by Humeid
Extensya Chairman, Mohamad Saqir announces the start of the company’s operations earlier this April. Extensya, one of the most ambitious contact management outsourcing ventures in the region has recently been ... -
Posted: April 23rd, 2008, 11:19am MDT by Humeid
A couple of days ago, the brand new Play 99.6 website went live. SYNTAX, continuing its successful collaboration with the station, strategized and designed the site in close cooperation with ... -
Posted: April 21st, 2008, 2:17am MDT by Humeid
.. supervising his workers as they install a solar energy water heating system at a villa in Amman.... -
Posted: April 17th, 2008, 11:32am MDT by Humeid
Are you sick of socializing with your superficial friends on Facebook? Are you tired of people obsessing over the pop star gossip? Are you going crazy with all the endless/useless ... -
Posted: April 16th, 2008, 12:12am MDT by Humeid
I was driving home from work around midnight last night. I was checking out Amman’s various radio stations when I hit upon Ahlen FM who were playing a familiar tune ... -
Posted: April 15th, 2008, 12:14am MDT by Humeid
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Posted: April 13th, 2008, 12:13am MDT by Humeid
This is just amazing. I believe that in the next 10 years some totally crazy material will be developed that will change the world. Love it!... -
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 12:21pm MDT by Humeid
With recent major branding and web project wins in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and the ongoing growth of our its business, SYNTAX is seeking to strengthen its managerial capabilities. We’re ... -
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 11:37pm MDT by Humeid
That’s what quiet weekend evening can be filled with… LOL!... -
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 11:27pm MDT by Humeid
Imagine what Richard Branson and the Google guys could do if they join forces!... -
Posted: April 4th, 2008, 11:04pm MDT by Humeid
Money. That’s what. Read this fascinating BBC story on a recent find of Arab coins, buried in Sweden since Viking times!... -
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 9:36pm MDT by Humeid
“In a world where it so easy to connect to one another, we still remain very much disconnected” I just checked out Queen Rania’s message on YouTube. The clip has ... -
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 12:37pm MDT by Humeid
My SYNTAX colleague/calligraphy and typography freak Hussein Azaat, is organizing a great workshop entitled ‘The Splendor of Arabic Calligraphy’, featuring the Syrian calligrapher Saleh Nasab. I highly recommend this workshop ... -
Posted: March 26th, 2008, 11:56pm MDT by Humeid
Spiky hair and low waist jeans are front page news in Jordan. Al Ghad reports that an official in the Ministry of Interior has expressed his astonishment at the rumors ... -
Posted: March 26th, 2008, 10:04am MDT by Humeid
One of the dominant news stories in the papers recently, was the contractual disqualification of the Pakistani-Chinese-Jordanian joint venture to build the railway line between Amman and Zarqa. We’re literally ... -
Posted: March 24th, 2008, 1:17am MDT by Humeid
I was shopping for a gadget today in one of Amman’s famous video game stores, when two young ladies walked in and asked if they sell DVD movies. “No,” said ...
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