My experience with…Jibayat

Long one, bear with me though…thank you

“Alfa Telecom” (managed by Orascom) have different payment options for post paid phones, which is totally great: automatic withdrawal from bank, paying at accredited points, bill collectors passing by…

Now I’ve been afraid to have the automatic withdrawal from bank for the sole reason that I can name 8 persons who had trouble with automatic withdrawal from the bank (in other… Continue reading

The veil…double standards.

first things first (yeah I like that) I am not against veils, I am not against wearing crosses that could dangle down from the pope’s window…to each his own…BUT…

My problem is with double standards. I was parking the car (you don’t expect me to park a yacht…) and this girl passes by with a guy, she was veiled…BUT she had the tightest clothes ever, her ass sticking out… Continue reading

LebaneseGov

Someone is having fun on Twitter lately pretending to be a representative of the Lebanese government and trying to be funny with the tweets.

To the idiot behind that: you are playing with fire here,  yes we have a dysfunctional government, no you are not funny, yes they can sue your ass for what you are doing. Quit while you can for your own sake. If you want funny… Continue reading

Facebook’s call to action

facebook call to action when signing out

I logged in to Facebook yesterday and signed out, saw something “funny” for a second there, the page was different.

What they did is a good (maybe?) tactic to retain users more, create stickiness and at the same time offer a better UX for the addicts to take it everywhere with… Continue reading

Digital Media Planner

If you know someone or you fit the profile, drop me a line, full time job based in Beirut.

Digital Planner plans and executes media buys for our clients focusing on emerging media. In this position he /she will be the internal and external lead of those services to clients working with the various account groups and creative services as needed.

Responsibilities:

* Work with… Continue reading

Twitter timeline not updating…

It is 1:20 pm (+2GMT) and still twitter is down, no updates on the timeline, no fail whale on the horizon, no messages on their blog/status.

If you ask me, it’s a big step not seeing the fail whale today, and still everyone can update their status…still….FIX IT PLEASE or release a post explaining what’s going on.

So don’t worry folks, everyone is still active on twitter, it’s… Continue reading

Arabic Search Engine Comparison

Well, as I predicted a few months back when Yahoo bought Maktoob, Yahoo started creeping in the Arabic search engine market (doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out), unfortunately though, my question on LinkedIn was deleted from the group Arabic Search Engine Marketing for some weird reason.

Anyways, I ran a few tests on several search engines, Araby, Ayna, Bing, Google, Yahoo/Maktoob. I came to… Continue reading

Geekfest Beirut 2010 photos

Here are some photos from the event last night, it was perfect!

Social Media Exchange Beirut will be posting a video of the whole event too soon.

A big hola and thank you for the El Maniachi @footnem for the taking these photos!

Wand Bomb Detector DOES NOT WORK!

Thank you @Azzi the information.

So, you are waiting your turn at ABC, and the guy passes by with a radio antenna and nods with his head that your car is clear and you can go and park.

Your car is clear of any explosive material. Well it turns out that you can have a bloody nuke in the car and they wouldn’t even know.

Start… Continue reading

Mouse Path

@ZuZ sent me today a sweet little tool today by Anatoly Zenkov that tracks your mouse clicks while working on your pc.

sweet little gimmick,

check the result after about an hour of work. (I inverted the colors, if you want it to be “transparent” and include an actual capture of your desktop, just put both in a psd, the… Continue reading