anyway thanks

and happy april fool’s day hahaha

Three old men are sitting on the porch of a retirement home. The first says, “Fellas, I got real problems. I’m seventy years old. Every morning at seven o’clock I get up and I try to urinate. All day long I try to urinate. They give me all kinds of medicine but nothing helps.”
The second old man says, “You think you have problems. I’m eighty years old. Every morning at 8:00 I get up and try to move my bowels. I try all day long. They give me all kinds of stuff but nothing helps.”
Finally the third old man speaks up, “Fellas, I’m ninety years old. Every morning at 7:00 sharp I urinate. Every morning at 8:00 I move my bowels. Every morning at 9:00 sharp I wake up.”

Happy April Fool’s Day!

@everyone dissing Gaith:

Come on guys, give it a break. I don’t even know Gaith, but what is the deal with saying the same things over and over again. It sounds like a personal attack which is sad. Please let’s get over ourselves and move on.

Also, apparently some of you know nothing about the internet and why Google would buy a copy cat. Have you guys heard of Youtube? Was it the first video sharing site or was it the most popular? Google considered buying Yahoo, did you read that or miss that? Like I said earlier, get a real site, with some real content, make it bilingual and with a great revenue model and you’ll say screw Google, why do we need them (nothing personal Sergey). Smart entrepreneurs don’t do things to get bought by Google, and Google isn’t the benevolent company here to save the day for you guys. Eventually, Google may become Microsoft like and another young, hip, smart, and creative company will be the new Google. There is plenty of opportunity to get rich on the web without an acquisition, ESPECIALLY IN THIS REGION. If you guys want to have a discussion, roundtable, argument, or anything similar about that, I’m all ears…

@mobily3araby: die in your jealousy you know better man, but really we all Arabs and should be proud of each other after all your mobile speaks 3araby

@Moski and @Najeeb you both share same thoughts and believe me if Gaith didn’t say “Rumor” in his post you could never know it’s a “Rumor” but your eyes tagged that word and responded immediately, I wish Gaith said “Bla Bla Bla” instead, every body then will accept the Rumor as a trusted news, and I’m not sure if it’s only me but this “Rumor” positively affected me and glad Gaith posted it even if it’s a “Rumor” and false.

http://mashable.com/search-results/?cx=partner-pub-9942038924324175:cm4mfi-xpfs&cof=FORID:11&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=rumor&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=Search

and the Company Gaith [editor of the Blog] is having in mind is totally wrong and misleading

Tim at teksymmetry here, Great Stuff

@Allthehaters – Guys, I’m an American and have been living in KSA for 2 years and even attended the Demo Conference here last month in Riyadh. I have worked as a Director on the founding team at Kozoru (failed – search it – but amazingly talented team), VML (top five Interactive Agency in the states), NetIQ, on the HP Openview team, etc. There are two things different here than in the states that makes this market mega significant:

1. The region has fastest growing internet penetration in the world with 5 dollars in online ad spending. I have ridiculously seen people advertising the strangest things in the newspaper. I mean guys, really, look at this site:

http://yellowpages.stc.com.sa

They get an A for effort and for stealing significant money from advertisers.

2. There is significant cash (and advertising) in the region

3. There is nothing (NEARLY NOTHING) on the web at the moment in Arabic. The biggest sites are forums. When I say nothing I mean the Arabic content is TERRIBLE and I’m talking Web 1.0 stuff here guys. I will keep saying to every Arab Web Shop, “STOP MAKING GAMES AND SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES.” Yes they are fun, hip, and all the baklava, but we were able to graduate to the fun stuff in the States, because people were very used to using the internet, we already had all the boring stuff on the net, so someone had to come up with new ideas and ways to leverage that content. Here, there’s no content, so filling that void is the order of the day and yes, the boring “me too” stuff understanding the regional challenges.

There are significant challenges here, restrictions, and the like, but there’s a lot to be won for the talented (I’m not talking about Nobel prize winners) and smart teams. Heck, we still do a bit of outsourcing work for American Interactive Agencies, but we our putting our feet in the sand on this side of the water.

Coinciding with Google’s executive trip to Jordan and across the region, I’ve been hearing rumors that Google is in acquisition talks with a Jordanian internet startup, the deal is rumored to be in millions of dollars. I have the name of the startup bu…

1. the product is extremely awesome: examples of this Urchin, Writely and Feedburner. And i just can’t think of any in Jordan.

2. the company has extremely talented engineers. And again i can’t think of any company in Jordan with this characteristic.

so come on guys!

I totally believe that we will be hearing the acquisition news very soon.

@za3tar, the market is still as good for acquisitions as it was last year. The valuations were just cut in half. Adobe announced it will be more aggressive in acquiring startups this year.

I sincerely hope this would be a good stimulus for the computer companies in Jordan to help them excel since big players around the globe are keeping an eye. So it’s time to shine in our own little local

What is making me doubtful is that the current economic climate is not that encouraging for acquisitions yet. However, it would be great for the morale in the Arab market if that happened.

However, which company could it be ? Most of the Jordanian startups that i know about are doing things that already has, and the most prominent example i can think of is ikbis but i am not sure it brings much to the table.

Still interesting to see how this develops or if it is true.