Live Blogging the First #AmmanTT

May 4, 2010 at 7:14 pm · Filed under Amman

  • 1:15 PM: RobaAssi Tons of people here, not enough places. Lots of unfamiliar faces. #AmmanTT
  • 1:19 PM: RobaAssi Why are we always apologizing for speaking in English? English is language of technology
  • 1:19 PM: RobaAssi Why are we always apologizing for speaking in English? English is language of technology #AmmanTT
  • 1:20 PM: RobaAssi LOL. Mentioning Khaled Jabasini #AmmanTT
  • 1:24 PM: RobaAssi People are still coming. No place to even stand, let alone sit. Kinda funny. #AmmanTT
  • 1:25 PM: RobaAssi Design is missing in #AmmanTT “The Local Tech Scene Slide”
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  • 1:27 PM: RobaAssi Where do we want to position Jordan? Next Silicone Vallery? They’re suggesting: Digital Wadi. I hate the word “digital” #AmmanTT
  • 1:28 PM: RobaAssi Starting with Omar Al-Taweel, a tech lawyer. I didn’t know such a thing existed in this country. Wesh hath? #AmmanTT
  • 1:30 PM: RobaAssi “Nzee7 bo3bo3 tasjeel il sherkeh” is goal of first talk #AmmanTT
  • 1:31 PM: RobaAssi To my Facebook friends: bare with me for a few hours, I will spam you with Twitter updates :)
  • 1:33 PM: RobaAssi Mic is too low guys, make it louder #AmmanTT
  • 1:38 PM: RobaAssi Interesting talk, hard to concentrate with the buzz outside. #AmmanTT
  • 1:39 PM: RobaAssi Our Internet law is a copy from the first EU law that was published years and years ago #AmmanTT
  • 1:42 PM: RobaAssi At #AmmanTT with Bayt technology team
  • 1:43 PM: RobaAssi LTD company registration has gone down from 30,000 as start-up fees to 1,000
  • 1:45 PM: RobaAssi Some guy in the audience is proving to be a know-it-all. Dude, there’s a speaker. Apply2be speaker next time. We’re not here2argue.#AmmanTT
  • 1:46 PM: RobaAssi RT @iHijazi: #AmmanTT If I registered my trademark in Jordan, will I be protected worldwide? Is it still for 600 JDs? Recommendations?
  • 1:48 PM: RobaAssi You’ll get blacklisted if you create a “sharkeh gheir 3amleh” online #AmmanTT
  • 1:49 PM: RobaAssi #AmmanTT registering trademarks is 600JDs, a move up from 50JDS
  • 1:50 PM: RobaAssi Omar Al-Taweel just finished his topic, very intersting. I wish it was longer and in a bigger hall w/bbetter sound. #AmmanTT
  • 1:50 PM: RobaAssi Ibrahim Manaa of #WheelsExpress now on stage #AmmanTT
  • 1:51 PM: RobaAssi Happy with the amount of females at #AmmanTT
  • 1:56 PM: RobaAssi $2.1 billion retail ecommerce in egypt. WOW #AmmanTT
  • 1:58 PM: RobaAssi MENA is still under <1% of global ecommerce #AmmanTT
  • 1:59 PM: RobaAssi RT @basemaggad: #AmmanTT @OmarFELTaweel “A JD600 trademark registeration will cover u throughout the WTO GAT members”!
  • 2:00 PM: RobaAssi Ahhh that’s why DVDonWheels died… they had copyright problems #AmmanTT
  • 2:00 PM: RobaAssi Oh please let’s not talk about credit cards again. PLEASE PLEASE. #AmmanTT
  • 2:04 PM: RobaAssi really rude guy behind me #AmmanTT
  • 2:09 PM: RobaAssi the guys outside are really loud. it looks like they’re having a party #AmmanTT
  • 2:14 PM: RobaAssi Fouad, we already read this ;) #AmmanTT
  • 2:15 PM: RobaAssi LOL. Usama Fayad flipped presentation to Arabic from first English slide. Funny guy. #AmmanTT
  • 2:21 PM: RobaAssi Fayyad: Arabic is 2nd most spoken language, with only 103,800 article on Wikipedia, 32K articles in LATIN :D CRAZY #AmmanTT
  • 2:22 PM: RobaAssi RT @tarawnah: AlGhad is socialmedia happy 2day! good coverge on Mecca St riot: videos & pics of tear gas & cops bit.ly #JO
  • 2:22 PM: RobaAssi Fayad: Shopping activity is double content acivity, from 1% of global to 1/2% of global. #AmmanTT
  • 2:24 PM: RobaAssi good point RT @HamzehN: @RobaAssi I’m not sure where that statistic is from, but it’s ironic that Wikipedia says Arabic is 5th, not 2nd!
  • 2:25 PM: RobaAssi So far i’m not liking this discussion. I can google these numbers. #AmmanTT
  • 2:26 PM: RobaAssi UAE 68% internet pen. KSA 31% CRAZY Jordan 16% 90% of them in Amman.
  • 2:26 PM: RobaAssi UAE 68% internet pen. KSA 31% CRAZY Jordan 16% 90% of them in Amman. #AmmanTT
  • 2:29 PM: RobaAssi fayyad: I like this slide on how english language changed so much in past 2000 years #AmmanTT
  • 2:30 PM: RobaAssi I think the lack of change in arabic is a negative and not a positive. it’s outdated, bulky, and impossible to use in daily langage #AmmanTT
  • 2:37 PM: RobaAssi LOL. So funny seeing @manna_87 and @basemaggad tweeting their lives away
  • 2:39 PM: RobaAssi Live blogging #AmmanTT andfaraway.net
  • 2:39 PM: RobaAssi YAHOO RUINED FLICKR #ammanTT
  • 2:40 PM: RobaAssi RT @mkhawaja: Usama Fayyad showed how a website like D1G.com is producing as content as we have of published books in Arabic! #AmmanTT
  • 2:41 PM: RobaAssi RT @Tarakiyee: The streaming laptop BSODed… #epic #fail. Sorry about the short break guys. (#AmmanTT live at ustre.am )
  • 2:42 PM: RobaAssi Okay, this Flickr presentation is aimed at an audience who has never heard of Flickr, crowd-sourcing, etc. #AmmanTT
  • 2:44 PM: RobaAssi RT @jawazsafar: i believe if another company bought filckr, it would’ve been 100 times better (#AmmanTT live at ustre.am )
  • 2:45 PM: RobaAssi zhe2et.
  • 2:46 PM: RobaAssi RT @dubayan: @RobaAssi by the way, tell him that D1G is down #ammanTT
  • 2:46 PM: RobaAssi that is really funny #AmmanTT RT @dubayan: @RobaAssi by the way, tell him that D1G is down
  • 2:51 PM: RobaAssi RT @jarofjuice: @steitieh @jawazsafar Yahoo is the flintstones of the industry now. Even their mail sevice is 90s ( #AmmanTT
  • 2:53 PM: RobaAssi i think that solving the Arabic content problem is impossible in our lifetime: we need to change mindsets, not just fix technology #ammantt
  • 2:53 PM: RobaAssi RT @jarofjuice: LOL! CLASSIC! BAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH #phoneRingInPresentationFail (#AmmanTT live at ustre.am )
  • 2:54 PM: RobaAssi Twitter makes conferences/talks/etc. SO MUCH FUN. #AmmanTT
  • 2:54 PM: RobaAssi RT @Qwaider: Watching #AmmanTT, this is Awesome! Thanks @iHijazi #AmmanTT live at ustre.am HI Y’ALL!
  • 2:55 PM: RobaAssi LOL. D1g is hiring here. FUnny. BRilliant actually. #AmmanTT
  • 2:56 PM: RobaAssi A roomful of interesting Ammanis. #AmmanTT
  • 2:59 PM: RobaAssi Fayyad: The content search engines trust most: content on wikipedia + and ending with .edu #AmmanTT
  • 3:01 PM: RobaAssi 2% of arabic population can communicate effectively in English. that doesn’t sound so valid does it? #AmmanTT
  • 3:02 PM: RobaAssi Best way to get RTs: Shove somethig related ro religion in a confereence #AmmanTT.
  • 3:03 PM: RobaAssi Okay, enough tweeting. ta ta. #AmmanTT