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I spoke to Yossi Dan, CEO and Co-Founder of KonoLive, at the TechCrunch and KonoLive sponsered party at LeWeb.  KonoLive is a free application that, in their words, “lets you get things done together with your friends and colleagues.”  Through the KonoLive application, friends and co-workers can create and share documents, To-Do lists and other activities while collaborating. In our interview (which took place in a very unusual spot ), Yossi talks about what you can do with [...]

Publing is a new site for local classifieds, activities and events where you can actually post your ad or message on bulletins in your neighborhood on Google Maps.  Users can navigate to their address, or the address of their business, and pin up a message advertising a service, asking a question, looking for new friends, looking for love or anything.  Then, other users looking around that neighborhood can see the bulletin and if they are interested, contact [...]

Last month I had the pleasure of talking with Ezra Butler, LuckyStartups’ Israel correspondant.  In our interview, Ezra and I discuss everything from my personal life and where I grew up to the services I provide as a “one-stop-shop” for startups, plus of course, let’s not forget, Ezra’s love for alcohol and chocolate. We also discuss the difference between American and Israeli mentality, the amazing Israeli tech scene and I offer my own 2 cents to startups: 1. If [...]

I recently attended the Facebook Developers Garage in Tel Aviv.  At the Garage, my good friend Net Jacobsson from Facebook, whom I worked with at ICQ, gave a lecture about the new evolution of Facebook– Facebook Connect. Nat began his lecture by emphasising that Facebook has always seen themselves as a platform for change with the mission of giving users “the power to share and make the world more open and connected.”  Over 140 million [...]

You’ve probably heard about this thing called cloud computing– the convergence of virtualization, utility computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS)on a massive scale.  If you want to learn more about cloud computing and the kinds of amazing services that Amazon is offering, you will definitely want to be at the Amazon Web Services Meetup in Tel Aviv. The event is organized by Yossi Vardi and hosted by Tel Aviv University Professor of Microbiology Mel Rosenberg and Martin Buhr, European Business [...]

Barack Obama used social media to get himself into the White House and thousands of companies are using social media to create brand awareness and an online buzz.  However, social media can also be used for many other purposes as well. If you work in Human Resources, you may be thinking, “I dont want to get to the White House — I just want to recruit some employees”.  Social networks are an amazing channel for finding potential [...]

I’ve been receiving a lot of gifts lately as my birthday and the holidays just passed, but one of the coolest things that I’ve received lately was the new Sumsung Omnia i900 phone, which Samsung was kind enough to give me as part of their marketing campaign with McCann Digital.  McCann Digital is turning to social media with this campaign and is actually giving the phone to bloggers to use in their daily lives and share their experiences with [...]

With all the information on the Web today, it is becoming harder and harder to find good quality content.  There are over 180 million bloggers worldwide and over 150,000 new blogs created each day.  How can you sift through all of this data to get down to the quality content that is most relevant and interesting to you? BloggersBase is a new Israeli startup, still in Beta, with a vision of making the Internet a better [...]

Tellmewhere is a collaborative site where users come together to create a database of points of interest in their local areas.  On Tellmewhere you can share your favorite local places, point them out on a map and even upload pictures. You can also search for new and interesting places in your own area that have been recommended by other users.  Tellmewhere also gives users personalized recommendations based on their friends and places that they like. Tellmewhere isn’t only [...]