Mashable is holding its first International MashMeet and it’s in Tel Aviv! Attending MashBash Tel Aviv will be startups, VC’s, Entrepreneurs, high profile CEO’s and Mashable’s Adam Hirsch. The event will take place on Wednesday June 11th, 7-10pm, at the Galina Beach Club, Hangar 19, Tel Aviv Port, Israel. In addition to Mashbash, Mashable will also be covering at least 10 Israeli startups (and perhaps a few other surprises) through its Israel Media Tour Series. [...]

Last week I had a chance to meet one of the most accomplished women in the tech industry, Susan Mernit. In her past, Susan had been a VP at Netscape & AOL and a Senior Director of Product Development at Yahoo!. Currently she works as a social media and web strategy consultant. Susan is amazingly knowledgeable about social media and Web 2.0 products and it was a real pleasure talking to her about these topics. During The Marker’s COM. Vention, Susan interviewed [...]

So this morning I get on Facebook and guess what I find? Facebook Chat. Yes it was expected, but it was also a nice suprise. Since I have I almost 900 friends on Facebook, you can imagine the number of IM’s I’ve been receiving. I find myself spending even MORE hours on Facebook today (if that’s even possible). This feature will definitely add to the stickiness of the site and also make Facebook a more [...]

In celebration of Earth Day, Zlango has created some fun cards that you can send to your friends. So go ahead, spread some Earth love. Zlango is a universal icon language for the web and mobile. Zlango connects people from around the world, transcending borders and building bridges between cultures. At the core of Zlango lies a comprehensive, universal iconic language, designed for mobile messaging, web-based exchanges, greeting cards, children’s books, videos, and lots more. You can even [...]

Last week I met the lovely Cathy Brooks, Executive Producer of Seesmic. Cathy has generously given me a limited number of invites for Seesmic and I am giving them out to you guys. The first few people who comment “seesmic me” will receive them. For anyone who hasn’t yet heard of Seesmic, the service can best be described as the Twitter of video, however, Seesmic hopes to become much more than that in the future. The service [...]

Monday’s dinner was a great success. I want to thank everyone who came. Especially our guests of honor from the US: Robert Scoble Craig Newmark JD Lasica Susan Mernit Renee Blodgett Cathy Brooks Deb Schultz Sarah Lacy Brad Reddersen Jeff Saperstein Let me also take this opportunity to thank Flixwagon and Meemix for sponsoring the event. Here are some pics from the event. You can find tons more pics on Facebook. Technorati tags: Blonde 2.0 [...]

Today I am hosting a dinner for our guests of honor this week in Israel: Robert Scoble Craig Newmark JD Lasica Susan Mernit Renee Blodgett Cathy Brooks Deb Schultz Sarah Lacy Brad Reddersen Jeff Saperstein The goal of this dinner is to introduce our guests to the people leading some of Israel’s most interesting startups, entrepreneurs, and bloggers. I would like to thank MeeMix and Flixwagon for generously sponsoring our dinner. We will be broadcasting [...]

Yesterday I attended The Marker Com.vention which I really enjoyed. Amongst some of the interesting workshops I attended: Yosi Taguri from Nuconomy enthusiastically explained to us about Nuconomy’s added value to Website owners,  Yaniv Golan from Yedda gave an amazing lecture on “Incentives in Social Networks”. After the Com.Vention many of us headed to the Garage Geeks event where we enjoyed a nice BBQ with people from the Israeli tech industry and honored guests from abroad who will be with [...]

In this month’s Marker Magazine you’ll find an article entitled “The Startups Dream Team” – this is a list of the top 40 industry experts you want in your startup to ensure its success. In this list you will find yours truly as the top expert in social networks and marketing within social platforms. Others included in the list: Ofer Adler from Incredimail, Alex Sirota from Foxytunes, and Yaniv Golan from Yedda. Here’s the link [...]

Since MySpace recently launched its MySpace Developer Platform (MDP), I was looking for some statistics on the virality of MySpace apps. According to Fred Wilson, Zynga, which has launched a couple of Apps on MDP, has done some interesting research and found the following: 1) Myspace apps are not taking off in the same speed that Facebook apps did (see below). This is probably because MySpace is currently not promoting these apps nor linking to them in any way. [...]