Ideation Labs Logo

After a slight delay in the anticipated start date for Ideation Labs, the Ideation Box team is happy to announce that Ideation Labs has been popped out of the box and that ideas are being accepted for submitting.

What is Ideation Labs?

Ideation labs, popped by Ideation Box, is your one stop channel for all you need when it comes to turning ideas into reality. With the technical implementation and power of 4 unique Ideators covering all divisions of Web, Design, Creativity, Social Media, and Business Development; your idea will be popping with success… [Read More]

For more info, feel free to visit: http://labs.ideationbox.com

Arabnet 2010 Logo

The Ideation Box team was proud to attend and take part in the first ArabNet ME conference held in Beirut, Lebanon on the 26th – 27th March, 2010.

ArabNet 2010 is the first international conference for the Arab web industry and it brought together leaders from across the MENA, Europe, and Silicon Valley under one roof to discuss cutting-edge trends and emerging opportunities. Professionals took to the stage as members of several panels – each dedicated to one topic pertaining to the web industry and entrepreneurship  – and shared their experience and knowledge with conference attendees. At the conclusion of each panel, which lasted approx. 2 hours, attendees and members of the audience were given the chance to ask questions which were in turn addressed by the panel.

Through 7 minute pitch sessions, the conference featured the region’s brightest ideas and promising internet start-ups, and exposed and publicized them in effort to connect them with the internet ecosystem: incubators, angel investors, venture capitalists, established internet companies, NGOs and influential bloggers.

A Gala Dinner hosted by Bank Audi on night was the venue in which the winners of the Ideathon were announced. First place went to Farah Al Fadel and her team with her idea of tasmeem.me.

This position is ideal for a junior to mid level developer with good PHP, Drupal development and solid XHTML/CSS skills. Wordpress theme customization skills would be a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement of Drupal based CMS websites.
• Develop custom Drupal modules as necessary.
• Produce standards compliant Drupal Themes from PSD and style guides.

Key Skills/Requirements

• Drupal skills; thorough knowledge of custom module development, Drupal Core and Hooks, and experience evaluating and implementing contributed modules.
• Excellent XHTML, JavaScript, JSON/AJAX, and CSS skills.
• Ability to create themes from scratch based on PSDs.
• Database optimization, experience with MySQL.
• Excellent organization and communication skills.
• Detail oriented, excellent follow through.

For more information or to apply, please send your resume to info[at]ideationbox.com

Ideation Labs

Today and after long nights of effort, planning and working, we are glad to announce the launch of Ideation Labs which will be taking care of all of your ideas and hence turn them into reality and actual businesses.

Ideation Labs, popped by Ideation Box, is your one stop channel for all you need when it comes to turning ideas into reality. With the technical implementation and power of 4 unique ideators covering all divisions of Web, Design, Creativity, Social Media, and Business Development, your idea will be popping with success.

The people behind it are young, experienced and passionate about what they do, with the willingness to help you and share in the experience of the ups and downs of implementing your ideas and dream projects. The 4 of us at one stage or another had a lot of ideas on mind but couldn’t implement it for many different reasons including financials, resources, lack of experience and knowledge. We are also aware and believe that this is the case for almost all young entrepreneurs when it comes to implementing their ideas. Therefore we promise to take your ideas hand-by-hand all the way towards success.

Basically what we do at Ideation Labs is that we invest time, effort and knowledge into your ideas and create a long-term relationship with all of you with ideas that are not implemented.

Soon we will be announcing more details on how we will be adopting ideas and what is needed from you and what to expect at the same time. Till then, read more about us and follow us on Twitter to stay updated with our news.

Let’s give you some information about the work we have done during the last couple of weeks:

We were doing the designs for the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW)

That task came out of the sudden, and we had to face it with our super powers; by collaborating with the organizers especially the QRCE Staff to deliver the impressive work, that people have seen in the newspapers, the venue, the GEW sessions and that they will keep seeing during the week between the 16th and the 22nd of November, in a very short time.

We were really glad to get the great feedback on the work and the theme we have done for the GEW especially the venue and the stage:

From the GEW - By Roba Assi

From the GEW - By Roba Assi

From the GEW - By Ahmad Humeid

We popped the QRCE Website and Blog

QRCE Website

We popped the Goody Corporate website

Goody Corporate Website

We worked on Nakhweh

Now, after 3 months of launching Nakhweh.com (Jordan’s first volunteer matching website), we have statistical information to share with you that show the performance of the website at its very early stages:

• We have a total of 15 registered organizations on the website that are benefiting from Nakhweh’s services.
• We reached the total of 954 users until the time of publishing this post.
• A total of 49 volunteering opportunities have been posted.
• A total of 856 volunteering applications have been submitted to the listed opportunities.

Stay tuned for the big move on the initiative as we are already working on a plan to move the whole thing to another level hoping to reach a beta version of it as we still consider what we have is not even an alpha.

More to come very soon

The Ideation Box team is still working on delivering couple of projects, we’ll be informing you about them as soon as they are launched.

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Nakhweh Arabic logo

The Nakhweh team launched the Arabic version of Jordan’s first volunteer matching website, nakhweh.com.

Visitors of the website will be able to browse the website in both languages (Arabic & English) by clicking on the language link at the top corner of the website pages.

This step comes as an introduction of a couple of services that will be added to the website to increase the interactivity between the involved organizations and the volunteers.

More to come very soon.

"Do you want to Get Involved? Then Get Involved the right way"

We at Ideation Box are very proud to announce the launch the first volunteer matching website for Jordan; Nakhweh.com.

This “very beta” version of the website represent the early stage of the project, it includes the basic features that work for volunteer matching and also form the base of the Jordanian volunteering platform that we will be building to achieve our goals of getting every single person involved in the community service.

In Nakhweh we strengthen the community by making it easier for good people and good causes to connect. The website offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement. And here we start with Nakhweh to bring people together by matching volunteers with people in need.

Volunteers and Organizations are very welcome to start using the website and discover its services, register your account now on Nakhweh.com and please keep your feedback coming on (info@nakhweh.com) so we can work closely with the users to take this project to another level.

Wheels Express

After a couple of weeks of winning the great opportunity that makes Ideation Box the official development house for Wheels Express website, and due to the joint efforts of both companies, we are proud to announce that the new website of Wheels Express has been popped by us on www.wheels-express.com.

As a Ruby on Rails application that is done using the highest web 2.0 standards with a very friendly interface design and information architectures; Wheels Express website is now a complete e-commerce portal that offers variety of services that include DVD’s, Blu-ray, Video Games, Snacks, Sheeshas, Pre-paid mobile cards and much more.

We at, Ideation Box, are committed to keep developing the website to reach the maximum satisfaction of the users and to make them make their orders with the least number of clicks.

Congratulations Wheels Express, we wish you the best of luck.

This position is ideal for a junior to mid level developer with very good Drupal module development and solid HTML/CSS skills.

The Web Developer position is an integral part of the Ideation Box team, involved in multiple ongoing projects and initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Development and implementing of Drupal based CMS sites from start to finish.
• Develop custom Drupal modules as necessary.
• Produce standards compliant Drupal Themes from PSD and style guides.

Key Skills/Requirements

• Drupal skills; thorough knowledge of custom module development, Drupal Core and Hooks, and experience evaluating and implementing contributed modules.
• Excellent HTML, JavaScript, JSON/AJAX, and CSS skills.
• Ability to create themes from scratch based on PSDs.
• Database optimization, experience with MySQL.
• Excellent organization and communication skills.
• Detail oriented, excellent follow through.

For more information or to apply, please send your resume to info[at]ideationbox.com

What's next, Google?

After Michael Jackson death, the media tools all over the world were busy, during the last 48 hours, emphasizing Google’s big move of announcing the Chrome OS.

According to Google; Chrome OS, which will run on an open source license, was a “natural extension” of its Chrome browser. The news comes just months before Microsoft launches the latest version of its operating system, called Windows 7.

Putting the core of the announcement aside, we though about what’s going to happen exactly with Eric Schmidt after taking the decision of entering the competition of the Operating Systems market. Shmedit is the chairman of Google, he is a member of the board of directors of Apple and he was a member of President Obama’s transition advisory board.

For a long time, Google and Apple were in very good terms and worked together to develop, mainly, the iPhone which has a lot of Google services. A while after Google announced the new operating system for the mobile phones (Android) which puts both companies in the position of direct competitors to each other. That sounded weird in a way or another while Schmidt is a key person in the management of both companies.

But what makes the more weird now is the decision that Schmidt has taken when Google introduced Chrome OS, because it basically moves the competition between Apple and Google to another level as both firms provide operating systems.

Probably sometime soon we will see the Chairman of Google announcing his farewell as a member of the Board of Directors of Apple.