بقلم ريني ريتمان، ترجمة أكرم إدريس الحمود   أعلنت جوجل الأسبوع الماضي عن سياسة خصوصية مبسطة جديدة. لقد قاموا بعمل طيب عندما أعلموا المستخدمين ان السياسة قد تغيرت من خلال التنبيهات والرسائل الالكترونية، العديد من الخبراء (من ضمنهم مفوض اونتاريو للخصوصية د. آن كافوكيان) امتدحوا الانتقال نحو سياسة أبسط وأوحد. لكن وللأسف بينما قد تبدو السياسة [...]

Photo Courtesy of ForeignMinistry In what was perhaps a first in the Middle East, Jordan’s Foreign Minister, Nasser Judeh, took live questions on Twitter last night, using the hashtag #QFMJO (Questions for Foreign Minister of Jordan). Considered one of the first Jordanian officials to join the popular microblogging site, Judeh has frequently engaged fellow Jordanian [...]

Superhighway: March 2010 Where technology, media and culture meet. This month: What’s All The Buzz About?, Is Blogging Really Dying? and What Happens When You Combine Traditional Media And Social Media? Words by Ramsey Tesdell. Powered by 7iber.com, in cooperation with JO.JO. —– Google Gets Evil, Episode II WELL, AT LEAST THEY got the name right. [...]

Highly anticipated and finally here is the first international conference for the Arab internet industry: IBAG, International Business Alliance Group, presents Arabnet 2010: Trends and Opportunities in Arab Web Business. The conference will be held in Beirut on March 25-26, 2010 with the support of Endeavor Jordan, the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship, the Syrian Young [...]

Where technology, media and society meet: What does Google know about you? And more importantly, how can you find out? Written by Ramsey Tesdell and John Lillywhite. With JO.JO Get Crunched! www.arabcrunch.net SINCE IT LAUNCHED IN 2008, ArabCrunch.com has struggled to find its place in the growing world of Internet startups and so-called professional blogs. [...]