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Finally! I’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

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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 “afternoon from hell” dealing with extremely lame financial reporting issues at the office. It’s the stuff that makes

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This moment I am lying in bed. I’ve been lying here for the better part of the last 48 hours with a fever and a headache. It’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 litt

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They’re back! The guys from Ireland who claim to have created a magnetic machine that generates energy from nothing. It’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 dre

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Last week my TootCorp partner Mazen and I had a great time attending Le Web Europe’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

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My AmmanView more documents from SYNTAX. I had the pleasure of being invited by Jordanian social entrepreneur (and self proclaimed “doctor of companies governments and peoples”) Maher Kaddoura to give a talk about ‘My Amman’ at the pilot of NewThink an i

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Welcome the the new year in the open air.. on Amman’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

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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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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). A

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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 ‘difficulty’ of the math test. Another cer

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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 sit