The Golden Rule: do unto others as others would do unto you. finding and acting out of compassion. Something to live by in this day and age, when even religion has been hijacked. Scholar Karen Armstrong started a pretty interesting project after giving a talk at TED, dubbed the Charter of Compassion. The site for [...]

Yes, it took a while. But after many sleepless nights the new 7iber is finally up. There’s still a lot to do, but we’ve moved in without rattling the neighbors. Suffice to say, Jordanian bloggers and techies were there to help out in the past few weeks. Wael Attili designed the new logo, the good [...]

REUTERS PHOTO – Co-founders of the Talasim.com website Zeid Al Qudsi (L) and Sabri Hakim pose for a photo at their office in Amman September 30, 2009. Arabic website Talasim.com has been awarded the top prize at the international SeedCamp competition for start-up companies, which concluded in London on Saturday. The award followed a marathon [...]

So since last week’s attempt to start a little campaign regarding the incredibly bad level of service Orange Jordan offers its Internet customers, my Internet connection has been down. Some people have even fueled my head with conspiracy theories but I wouldn’t go that far. It is however ironic that just when I was starting [...]

The other night I was watching a program on one of those many religious channels on satellite TV. I am not a fan of either religious programming nor a fan of a satellite TV in the Arab world as both feel like they are constantly trying to sell me something, and a lot of the [...]

Trans-la-la-tion Title reads: The global Yahoo company acquires the Arabian Maktoob Logo reads: “And at last the world acknowledges that Arabs are good at talking!!”

Undeniably, the biggest news in Jordan this past week was the Yahoo! and Maktoob deal. Scanning the local papers or media for that matter might not be the best barometer for the importance of this business deal, but then again, local media has never been the best barometer for most things. Have no fear though, [...]

Back in December I had the opportunity to get a first look at Nokia’s new flagship device, the Nokia N97. The mobile phone, or as Nokia likes to call them: “mobile computer”, was just released in the market recently, selling for about 450JDs in Jordan. I’ve been fortunate enough to play around with it for [...]