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قامت خرابيش بانتاج هذا الفيلم الكرتوني القصير والذي يتحدث عن القصص التي يتعرض لها أصحاب الشركات الناشئة باسلوب كوميدي فكاهي. وقد تم عرض هذا الفيلم في افتتاح ميدان التي تعنى باحتضان الأفكار الابداعية للشباب وتطويرها إلى شركات ناجحة.

نحب أن نستمع لآراكم وتعليقاتكم وافكاركم لتطوير هذا العمل الفني

This short cartoon animation was produced by Kharabeesh for the opening event of Meydan. Meydan is an incubator fro innovative and creative business ideas.

The animation talks about the daily stories that happen to young Entrepreneur.. we would really appreciate your feedback, ideas and thoughts on how to develop this show.

thanks

Google Arabia 2.0 was held last week in Dubai and I was lucky enough to attend such a high caliber assembly. Smartly organized, with a touch of Google creativity and joyful culture. taking advantage of the colorful spaces of the Children City, made the venue by it self a perfect place to imagine the future of Arabia.

Early morning, the lobby was filled with CEOs, high officials and decision makers in technology and business from all around the region. But lets admit it, I was a very bad socializer. Such a chance like this needs a really good hunter. Thank to a friend, I managed to catchup with few key people.

Few minutes later I found my self inside the auditorium and the event has started. Mohammed Gawdat, Head of Emerging Markets Counsel at Google, started the day in a very inspirational way by giving us the 9 rules of innovation which adopted and applied inside Google. You can review tweets on #GdayDubai.

Mr. Gawdat highlighted some very harsh realities regarding how much our region is poor in terms of innovation. But he also gave us a good case study on how to build an innovative ecosystem using the Google experience as an example.

After this very inspiring keynote, a two young Jordanian entrepreneurs came out to the stage. The founder of Jeeran.com, Laith and Omar, told everyone their story and the challenges that they faced throughout their entrepreneurial years.

After the coffee break, the glory of this event was revealed when the father of the internet started to talk about the future of the internet. To be honest with you my imagination could not keep up with that man in his 60’s. Mr. Vint talked about intergalactic network or internet which he is working on with NASA at the moment!! The only picture I had on my mind is the picture of a dirty hole in the middle of Amman’s street, left out without any proper treatment, and a black telephone cable coming out of the ground.

I felt so foolish.

Then Mr. Hugo Barra , Product Management Director for Mobile at Google, closed the circle by presenting to us the latest innovation of Google mobile products. From voice searching into searching by image capturing. I felt that google is saying to world, the age of startrek begins here and the way we talk to our devices in no longer by keyboard.

After this amazing keynotes we had a 5 minute break. I stood in a very long line of VIPs waiting for my turn to go to the restroom. That was absurd!!

Then a discussion panel started which was joined by H.E Marwan Juma’a. The panel discuss the efforts made by Jordan,UAE and Egypt to uplift the technology industry in each country. The only messing thing was that I did not see any collaborative efforts or regional vision regarding innovation. I felt that every country is playing solo and they will keep playing solo until further notice.

Once upon time, some Arab guy living in US wanted to search some Arabic terms but he did not have an Arabic keyboard so he created Yamli.com. His name was Habib Haddad. Habib created a new concept of what we call now, the 3arabeezi language..

Now google in an extraordinary move brought this concept into their services by introducing a new feature on Gmail, where you can write Arabic words using latin alphabets.

This means that the Arabic language is officially entered a new level of technology and hopefully this tough competition will come up with huge development in Arabic usage over the internet..

The world we are living.. is no more the same..

I’ve just noticed the new design and layout of Al Jazeera website. Completely new user-experience and completely new look. The site took some of the design concepts used in BBC website such as the AJAX based box and customizable layout which made it very similar to the BBC site.

To tell you the truth I prefer the old design where I can see a clear stream of news and more of al Jazeera identity.. but now I only see boxes here and there.. I think they can more innovative and believe that they’ve should design the website based on there user-experience and feedback and not based on other websites model.

It seems that facebook realized the importance of arabic interface the it seems that there is growing market for facebook in the region.. And the cool thing they are doing it a very smart and innovative way.. I think we should learn allot from facebook innovation.

I can’t believe how time pass by so quickly… it’s been two years since we’ve launched ikbis.com. I have learned so many things about the online business due to ikbis. This site was a true challenge for many people who worked on it. and it really made a difference in the Arabic online communities… ikbis was the first photo and video sharing website in the region.

I think after two years, ikbis is becoming more and more mature and focused… also It’s taking a good position in the arab virtual space. Ikbis aims to encourage arab online users to become more proactive and create original user generated content. It’s also known as a family friendly video and photo sharing website which gave it an edge from similar foreign websites .

We which all luck for ikbis in the upcoming years and my God bless the yellow and brown website

Ikbis teaser before the launch.. the biggest yellow button on the web!

ikbis first homepage

ikbis team having a small balling celebration