As some of you know I was one of the speakers at the RTDATE (refer to title). As it says, it’s a round table discussion organized by the Pan Arab awards academy and ARADO (The Arab Administrative Development Organization)
I will try not to bore you much, so here it goes.
We started at 10 o’clock in the morning (30 minutes late, just like in any Arabic event)… Continue reading
After the few laughs and comments I got from my previous post about the iPad, it’s time to get a bit serious.
Lots of bashing of the iPad is going around, a twitter friend is waiting for me to sell the iPad (which I don’t own YET, but the spoof post lead him to think I did).
the short answer to the whole… Continue reading
I tried to keep things under the radar, but here it is, me unwrapping and playing around with the Ipad! (I know there are exactly 1001 articles JUST like this one but what the hell!)
Everybody is waiting for the Ipad in the middle east and Lebanon. Mac Shop is taking pre-orders, delivery in a month and prices START at 900 USD (plain rip off) so without further ado… Continue reading
I don’t know what our dear government is doing or even thinking, but, since things are really fucked up, why don’t they offer us something so that we forget about the major fails (health/education etc etc etc) that we are going through because of politics and their personal and religious goals.
The roads in Lebanon are ugly, it’s fact, just like the sunrise and sunset. It’s even more ugly… Continue reading
You have a team of ONE. That one person has LESS than 24 hours (without eating/sleeping/taking a crap) to deliver 6 projects. Each project needs around 3 hours and a half to finish, along with setting up a whole new department, write 3 white papers. Work on a proposal and brief the creative team.
The team is REALLY of ONE person.
let the competition begin… Continue reading
In my previous post I was wondering (nagging?) about the fact that no links to the maps are apparent on the main page etc etc…I hit a few local Google pages (middle east) to check if it’s a Google Lebanon thing, I noticed something else…
They all have the exact same menu. Nothing is different except a few languages (which is a nice touch… Continue reading
After a long wait we finally have routing/directions on Google maps for Lebanon.
I was like a kid enjoying an underskirt view for the first time! but what struck me was that there are no links/mentions (still) to the maps on Google’s Lebanon page! nothing! zip! nada!
I thought it would be in the “more”… Continue reading
Well for the 2nd day at ArabNet, the “power breakfast” had no redbull, so no power. Going to be a long post so please bare with me. “Banque Audi” s stand was a hit for the second day, RFID and AR are really picking up around here…anywhOO
First panel for day two was about Online Advertising, it was moderated by Tarek Dajani…
noooooowwww! WTF DUDES? The guy was… Continue reading
Alright folks, the numbers according to Omar organizer of Arabnet
There you have it folks! will post a resume of… Continue reading
And it starts…the event that everybody was waiting for Arabnet! To sum it all up the focus was today on startups in every single panel, the goodiness is all for tomorrow.
How it all went;
The usual Lebanese National anthem, officials introducing and launching the event, some guy telling us about his personal life and how he talked with Bill Gates (*yawn*) and the last speaker was… Continue reading