Posted on 28 March 2010
Written by Sohaib
Arabnet 2010 was indeed one of the largest internet related events that took place in the region, with more than 600+ attendees and 10,000+ tweets which made the event trend globally on Twitter in the 4th place.
The event took place on the 25th and the 26th of March, 10 startups were highlighted in the event and 10 of them were appraoched by angel investors and VC’s, I am very excited that events such as this are now taking place in the region giving entrepreneurs a great venue to present their ideas and startup companies to investors on a large scale.
There were a number of panels in the event, day 2 included the gaming panel where Wizards Productions was part of that panel represented by my colleague Afif Toukan, I was supposed to attend the event but sadly I caught a bad case of flue before the event.
Speakers at the event included Wael Ghonim, Head of Marketing – MENA at Google, Ghassan Haddad, Director of Internationalization, Facebook, Rabea Ataya, CEO, Bayt.com, Essam Al-Zamel, CEO, Remal IT, Rashid Al Ballaa, CEO of N2Ventures and many others, you can check out the full list at the speaker page.
I should be adding some photos of the event later on when Afif or Hussam get to the office, meanwhile you should follow @arabnetme on Twitter to stay updated about the future events.
Posted on 21 March 2010
Written by Sohaib
We’ve been working in the past 2 weeks on the new design for WizardsProductions website, the change comes to reflect the new vision that has evolved over the past weeks and months, the focus on social gaming will be reflected in the new website and a proper look for our company is the main driver behind this change.
The new website will also be available in Arabic, the website will showcase both the Arabic and English games that the network has after the merger with Go3 (a press release will be posted about the merger soon).
Below is a preview of the new website, we will be developing a simple CMS for the website to manage it, been thinking of using Wordpress or Joomla, but neither give us exactly what we need and customizing them will take more time than developing a simple custom solution.
Posted on 09 March 2010
Written by Sohaib
WizardsProductions attended the Jordan Web Awards 2009 that took place a couple of weeks ago, we submitted Sa7ara our browser based game for the competition on the games and entertainment category in the awards, we were all hoping and pretty much sure we will be taking home the gold, sadly though we ended up in the 3rd place and got the bronze award, not what we hoped for but thats fine, were all determined to get the gold next year.
Surprisingly there were not gaming websites competing with us, we originally thought that there is going to be a category for the games as we heard that there are other gaming websites that submitted for the award, sadly though there wasnt the organizers had to merge the gaming category with the entertainment category.
The silver award went for Shoofeetv and the Gold award went for a music related website that i dont remember.
Below are images from the event.
