On March 15th I organized a crowdsourcing session at the famous GarageGeeks venue in Israel. We had different companies presenting their concept of crowdsourcing to us and showing us how they utilize crowdsourcing in their own companies. For those of you who couldn’t make it, here are some highlights from the night in the videos below. Please note that the videos are in Hebrew. Hope you enjoy them! 1st video - Doron Reuveni, CEO of uTest: 2nd video - Yael [...]

Next Monday, March 15th I am organizing a crowdsourcing session at the famous GarageGeeks venue in Israel. We have four different companies presenting their own view of what crowdsourcing is all about and how they utilize crowdsourcing in their own companies. We have four speakers: Doron Reuveni, CEO of uTest - Doron will discuss how online communities are disrupting many industries; will compare the differences between a mob, a crowd and a community; will provide a sneak [...]

Yesterday I attended Jeff Pulver‘s 140 Conference in Tel Aviv. I really enjoyed @thekotel‘s presentation which unfortunately I didn’t film but go to the twitter profile and check it out. Alon Nir is doing a remarkable job there. The lecture I enjoyed in particular was Yaniv Golan’s (CTO of Yedda)  “The 140-characters Netscape” where he stated: “I believe that in 2 years the Twitter brand will be in the same position as the Netscape brand [...]

It can be argued that AOL is the granddaddy of the social Web. They were the first to have a buddies list, the first to really get instant messaging, groups, email as a social graph and they were the first to integrate all of these in one service. Lately they seem to be making a push back to their social roots with an entire division called People Networks built around their social properties (Bebo, AIM, [...]

AOL sure is in an interesting place these days. They have a brand new CEO (ex Google VP – Tim Armstrong), a legacy dial-up access business (that more than twenty years after it was launched) still makes billions of dollars a year and the rest of AOL split up into three different groups; 1) Platform A which is one of largest advertising networks 2) Media Glow which includes AOL.com and mega blogs like TMZ and [...]