The ArabNet Case Study Challenge is for those who have the best campaigns that have leveraged technology and new media, and can tell the story of how they promoted a brand or service using any or all of online ads, video, mobile, microsite, newsletters, email, social media and other tools.

all interested individuals and agencies should complete the online application form, outlining their campaign’s objectives, strategies, implementation plan, results and lessons learned. Six finalists will be chosen by ArabNet and its panel of ACSC Judges, drawn from top global agencies, brands, and publishers, based on the following criteria: originality, effectiveness, impact and engagement.

Deadline for application is March 8.

Check more info about the competition and Apply from Here!

Good luck

ArabNet summit, the region’s largest digital event is coming up! ..

this year’s summit is full of discussions,  workshops, competitions, focused networking sessions, social activities and more!

the summit will include a diversity of topics, that will be interesting for everyone, either for developers, bloggers, entrepreneurs and social media fans!

the summit will go on for 5 days:

• Developer days: The Developer Days are dedicated for developers and engineers in the Middle East, covering the latest cutting-edge technologies and programming.
• Industry day: The Industry Day will focus on the way that web and mobile are affecting traditional industries including healthcare, banking, travel, education, etc.
• Forum days: The Forum Days will be the largest gathering of digital professionals and entrepreneurs in the Middle East. More than 1,500 people from across the world will meet and discuss the latest trends in technology and digital communications, and hear from first-time ever speakers in the Middle East.
• Community day: Community Day is a day of free activities for students, NGOs and the general public, raising awareness about and providing training in digital technologies

but i really think that the competitions are the most interesting thing this year, including

• Startup Demo competition: if you have a promising startup that needs a push, i encourage you to apply for the Startup Demo competition from Here (Deadline to apply: March 1st, 2012)
• Ideathon competition, :if you have a brilliant idea for a web or mobile company you should apply at the Ideathon competition Here (Deadline to apply: March 1st, 2012)

Apply for the competitions, Register to attend and stay tuned for more blog posts about the summit isA

تستضيف القاهرة يومي 19 و20 أكتوبر 2011  مؤتمر عرب نت القاهرة الذي تنظمه المجموعة الدولية المتحدة للأعمال (IBAG)  في القرية الذكية  برعاية معالي وزير الإتصالات وتكنولوجيا المعلومات المصرية د. محمد سالم وبالتعاون مع مركز الإبداع التكنولجي وريادة الأعمال (TIEC). ويهدف المؤتمر إلى التركيز على أحدث التطورات والتقنيات في عالم المحمول والإنترنت كما سيقدم عرضاً للمشاريع الواعدة من المنطقة ليسلط الضوء على الطاقات الرقمية الكامنة في السوق المصرية والتي تعد من أكبر الأسواق في العالم العربي.

planning to give The App Inventor a try .. if you already did please share us your opinion

* you can check this link : http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS41529642320100608

it’s said that the new iphone will be available here in the middle east by September with price in the range of 500$ for 16GB and 600$ for 32GB, but wondering how much will our Mobinil and Vodafone sell the new iphone in Egypt ??

On last Saturday 8′th of May i attended TEDxCairo an independent TED event organized by some great egyptian youth,

who really managed to give a well organized ,inspiring and beautiful day ,and here is my report

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First there was an Introduction of the day by Khaled abou el Naga -who presented all the speakers all the day-, talked about the talks and the schedule and some rules of the day

Then the talks started

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The Difference that Can Make a difference by Hany Mwafy : he talked about

• The passion of Change and believing in your dreams
• creative conceptualization ,Some small things can make a difference and how creative ideas can look like using a tomato in a fruit salad
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

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Experiential learning As a Vehicle for Change by Seif Abou Zeid

• One of the talks i liked, he Talked about learning by the experience, by involving students or the learning people in the learning process
• and how he tried it with people and was proved to be many times better than the widely used “one way learning” technique
• Seif travels with groups of people to many countries like :Thailand and let them learn new things by experiencing new adventures like climbing giant trees and climbing down a water fall ,
• To lead others you have to conquer your fear and lead yourself first 

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About the magic that is still out there by Dr.Sahar El Mougy

• بداخل كل منا جزء مجهول ربما يؤدي روتين الحياة و الحرص على عدم الخروج عن نمط الحياة الذي يفرضه المجتمع إلى اختفاء هذا الجزء و اختفاء كثير من الابداع , الابتكار و المرح معه
• نموذج الانسان المثالي الذي نحاول الوصول اليه لان (دا الصح)  أو لأن (المجتمع عايز كده)  لن يؤدي الى أي تغيير ايجابي في حياتنا و كمثال تكلمت عن نموذج سندريلا المطيعة الهادئة التي تنتظر الجنية لتحقيق أحلامها و تغيير واقعها دون القيام بأي شئ في سبيل الوصول للتغيير
• التمرد على سندريلا  هو بداية الطريق الصحيح نحو التغيير للأفضل
• التمرد هو خطوة للأمام !
• أي أفكار جديدة علمية أو اجتماعية أو سياسية يتم مقابلتها بالرفض من مؤسسات تحاول الحفاظ على الوضع الحالي بدافع الحفاظ على الأمن العام أو خوفا من ثمن التغيير
• د/سحر تكلمت بأسلوب أدبي جميل جدا يشبه طريقتها في الكتابة
• One of my best talks of the day

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The Discomfort of our comfort Zone by Wael Fakharany

I Just loved this Talk alot , Mr. Wael who is Regional Manager Egypt, and North Africa at Google

talked about his journey of loving to be happily feeling discomfort !

• We can be in 2 zones : the Comfort, warm zone where WE can relax ,have less problems but not too much into achieving Our Dreams , Or The Discomfort ,Cold Zone  Where We face troubles, do unordinary things , people around think We are mad to do such things but We feel happy to have the passion of learning new things and achieving our dreams
• Mr. wael chose the discomfort zone during his work journey even some of his choices looked non-sense for people around him
• He asked ” Why are we all feeling comfort while we live in a Discomfort Countries here ?!”

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Thinking Big Doesn’t Bite by Amr Ramadan :

• Amr Ramadan is the Co-founder of Vimov a software development company based in Egypt , he works on new applications

for iPhone, Android and iPad , like iSimulate for iPhone and Weather HD One of the stunning widgets for iPad .

• The talk was more like an interview , he was asked some questions by Khaled abou el Naga
• The same Concept you hear all the day is Said : i left my work, believed in my dream to make a big thing although every one thought it’s a crazy thing to do !

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Improving Lives with Emotionally Intelligent Technologies by Dr.Rana el Kaliouby :

The time of WoW , i very much enjoyed her talk , Dr. Rana could transmit the passion to me and i think to every one there

• Dr.Rana is a research scientist in MIT media Lab, she is working on applications to help autistic people to communicate with the world
• she showed us a Mind Reader API that helps to express and communicate people’s mental states, including emotions, thoughts, and desires , and she tried it on Khaled abou el Naga as you will see in the videos
• Dr. Rana talked about an autistic blogger that her blog is followed by many people all over the world , i don’t remember the name of the blogger ,if you do please comment it
• one of the quotes i liked is that you must think out of the stereotype way

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Finding Plenty in Nothingness by Ibrahim El Batout :

• Ibrahim El Batout is a film director and was with his camera in some wars in the world and hard situation here in egypt

capturing and filming a real life drama, he is the director of the awesome film ” Ain Shams”

• he talked about some experiences he had in his journey and how in the middle of wars , disasters, diseases we can find small good things and moments
• was emotionally impressed by his always fear to get a call that his Mother or father passed away while he was travelling away

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Learning to Walk On Shifting Sands by Dr. Erma Manoncourt :

Was very inspired by her passion and spirit when talking about helping children every where to have a better life through the volunteer action from the ideas she mentioned:

• always think outside the box
• you must work with people who have some fixed wrong habits, traditions or thought in order to help them like the FGM thing in egypt and convince them that changing those habits is a good thing.
• that made me think about volunteer to work with the UNESCO in egypt.

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Opportunity Beyond Challenge by Dr.Ahmed Darwish :

he talked about :

• Always see the good thing in the problem or the challenge
• you have always to set your priorities
• always find time for doing small things even when you are busy

he talked about his experience as minister in the government in working on enhancing the technology part in the government’s work

but i just hope that we will see a reflect of this on the egyptian citizen’s daily life and his suffer with routine and bureaucracy everywhere 

google will use the real time searching techniques in it’s search result .

actually google did it , as they announced days ago that twitter updates will be

included in google’s search result .

that’s cool

Regards .

here is a screenshot :

i’m also trying cooliris (picLens) add-on for Firefox (Linux) ,i used to use it on windows

click here to download FoxTab

click here to download cooliris for Linux

enjoy 3D

Scmp which stands for:  Scalable Community Messaging Platform ,is a platform that

holds a variety of services that are sharing and integrating the same resources.

One of theses services is chat service that we managed to have it working -only yesterday-on the first sprint of the project .

But actually i’m writing this post to talk about what i loved in SCMP and what i learned from working in such project

even if my contributions were not big enough but what i learned really worth sharing:

1-I Can  Code ! : yes am really happy with this ,as i was like alot of people who love programming

learn new things from now and then ,study programming languages,but also couldn’t  code

or let’s say didn’t know from where is the starting point for programming so being able to write

a test code -even if it’s easy- and managing to understand the code in a huge system like SCMP is a very nice way to go for me !

Note:by “coding”  i don’t mean being a code writer but being a programmer.

2-Live coding gatherings : this is the part i really liked alot,to be with a group of smart people sharing ideas for hours

-or even listening to them- was a very inspiring and useful thing .

3-Team Work : with a team led by a girl like :Amal – who i consider a java geek – ,team working was awesome!

each one in the team has a task and whatever can help him to do it-books and Tutorials-and if he fails in any part

he asks the leader for help untill he manages his task well (and all thanks goes to Amal).

4-Scrum : in SCMP we had scrum ,we had online meetings to scrum ,so we have to manage our tasks

as we’ll be asked by the manager about what we have done ,discuss the problems we faced ,and take  new tasks to do .

-SCMP is now working, we are preparing for the alpha release .

I really learned alot from this project and had a great time and will continue working in it ISA

and i have to Thank Eng.Ahmed Soliman the owner of SCMP who helped us alot .

If u have the spirit to join a motivated team and contribute in a high educational project

then  Please join us .

There will be a session about SCMP next sunday during the event H4ck3rz Duo which will take place tomorrow in Mansoura University ,so u can attend it if u are interested .

For more about SCMP u can check this link :

http://scmp.cat-hackers.net/

Regards .

be awake as i was asleep for the last 4 days even when i was awake i couldn’t move , and all thanks goes to the terrifying exams

we had this semester in our lovely faculty ,any way since my Consciousness is back i have alot to do this vacation isa

i have plenty of books to read -really there are much of them here- specially to read in “Al-seerah” and it’s some of situations from our prophet’s life (peace be upon him) and other books in different fields , hmmm.. I have java ,the java course i’m having is about to be finished and as this course “Java SE ” can be considered as java basics then i’ll have to go more into java and to learn alot during this vacation -if u have a way to help me learn java like books ,tutorial or small projects it will be a pleasure – ,i also have python that i’ll miss it’s course this summer but i want to study it isa  .

I’m so excited to continue working in SCMP -actually i’m still learning and didn’t do alot- but it’s really a useful project

I hope it will be a nice ,happy and useful vacation for me and for all ya Rab .

any way stay tuned i’ll provide u with the updates

P.S. : I’m now posting with google chrome for linux that google just released for developers and i like it

you can downloaded it from here

Regards.