Guy Sharett takes it to the streets! And by “it” we mean teaching. Hebrew. Giving Hebrew lessons while sitting in a cafe or passing down a poster, his students inhale the language together with the urban culture of the Tel-Aviv metropolis.
Guy spent several years in the far east, and even wrote a book about Thailand, [...]
NoCamels.com, a division of The Asper institute at Communications School, IDC is proud to present the 2009 ‘Israeli innovation video competition’.
Directors, writers, creators! We know that you have so much to show and tell the world about Israel and we welcome you to participate in a unique competition where you get to show the world [...]
City-cast is an urban media experience that connects people with the personal history of their city and neighborhood. We propose a user-generated content system using a combined approach including (a) custom cellphone recording and uploading, (b) content editing and narration, (c) web, gallery, and situated cellphone listening, (d) online voting, and (e) traditional and podcast [...]
Liad Agmon is 32 and he likes to sleep 8 hours a day, which is difficult now he has become VP, new services of Sears Holdings.
Liad leads quite a life for an IT entrepreneur, and Delver, the social search engine he’ve sold to Sears is his 2nd success, the first being an anti-virus solution to [...]
The article is about a project which reports on life as experienced by men, women and children in Gaza (Palestine) and Sderot (Israel) through stories which are being aired on the Internet. Arik Bernstein the Co- Producer of the project tells us about the idea behind this project and its feedback [...]
Picture is worth a thousand words. But how many words does a 3D picture worth?
Here’s a nice idea for your next holiday greeting card. Give your spouse your child’s first smile, A sunrise. Or even Obama’s warm friendly smile…
Snapily will take your 3 seconds videos and turn them into an interactive moving 3D card.
Almost Everybody is familiar with the popular instant messaging program ICQ which invented by 5 Israeli guys and conquered the world. If you came from mars, this video will probably help you: 60 Seconds about ICQ.
Roy Shapira is a brilliant game designer, dedicated to the point that you might call him a workaholic.
After single-handedly completing his award-winning Crysis mode “Combat Training”, which took him 9 month of work, he now leads an 18-members game-developing team in order to create “Petrograd” - a viable independent AAA game by 2009.
In this interview [...]
In the last post we wrote about game designer Roy Shapira and his ambitious project – Petrograd. Today, Roy and his group released official in-game trailer.
Here some more information about the upcoming video game, Petrograd:
Petrograd: an action-thriller first person shooter. Enter the shoes of a Black-Ops Special Agent, investigating the disappearance of a full city’s [...]
Eatliz are an Israeli alternative rock band, their songs characterized by going from melodic-mellow to mind-blowing-energetic in 5.2 seconds.
The video for their new song “Hey” looks like it came from Dreamworks latest feature, and not from some small local band.
Watch the video and check their website for some cool design.
Yarin Hochman is self-described “social media junky, tech entrepreneur, and knowledge seeker”.
We met him at the game un-Conference, and talked to him about some of his ideas.
http://yarinhochman.com/
In a perfect world, you could interact with your friends online anyway you want. There would be no boundaries, no limits on platforms or networks, and you could pkay or chat with your buddies from system to system any time…
Sounds nice, eh? Problem is, this vision is quite Utopian (like Ohad Barzilay’s Mytopia suggests. Many [...]
Guy Tomer, An entrepreneur, father, husband, son, brother, friend, technologist, Israeli, PlayStation hobbyist, squash hobbyist (That’s what he wrote on his blog) wants to use your videos and enrich them with cool widgets. While other companies are already in this business, Guy’s new start-up, attracTV will try to make it different.
Everybody dreams to work at the major news networks, to be sent to the frontline like the CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour, and bring the hottest stories. Now there are tools that might turn you to the next “news hero”, by reporting what is happening next to your home. “iamnews” is one of those tools, as [...]
We sent Danielle to interview the people behind “Garage Geeks“. She interviewed Gil Hirsch one of the founders of this amazing project. Instead of asking questions about Garage Geeks she asked about his personal life but a little on their strange projects.
Some more info on Garage Geeks from their website:
“GarargeGeeks is an Israeli based not-profit [...]
Vera Sachs is a paralegal in a patent register office but she doen’t look or act like you would expect from one. With fresh attitude and sharp mind, she came to the Game UnConference to find the next best Idea.
Nothing, not even the world financial crisis, will prevent her from finding the newest game addiction.
CamTrax brings motion to games everywhere.
They are doing what every company dreams of: much more for much less money. Yaron, the founding CEO saw the potential of controlling games with gestures, several month before the Nintendo WII came to be.
He created his company in order to turn every webcam equipped computer into a physical playing [...]
Dror Gil, a proud geek, inventor, and a rising rock star with his Beta-Band tells us about geekcon. A drummerbot and to hand controlled fountain: in a time when every invention tries to be first and foremost profittable, it’s nice ti see some people who come together and build stuff, for the sheer pleasure of [...]
Jeff Pulver explains the pulver act, how it came to be, and the effect it has on our lives up until now. He gives a leeson in public activism and expresses concern over recenr developmnets that threaten the future of voIP communication.
During Rosh Pina Media festival the investor & entrepreneur Jeff Pulver talked to nocamels about why he keeps coming back to Israel. What startups should be invested in, and whom he considers a friend.
A political video blogger came to Israel’s media festival to show people that an Israeli political video blog would work and how he overcame obstacles and is a success and funny at the same time.
More info from Political Lunch web site:
Hosted by Will Coghlan and Rob Millis, Political Lunch is a lunchtime serving of [...]
Yossi Vardi, the creative mind behind such enterprises as ICQ, fring and answers.com shows everyone that you don’t have to be a fat kid with a light-saber to be a youtube sensation. After a half an hour presentation that took the audience into the depth of the current youtube events, Vardi decided to break the [...]
We caught a quick interview with innovator, internet activist and blogger Jeff Pulver at the Rosh Pinah Media Festival. Jeff decided that the best place to discuss Israeli innovation would be the hummus place nearby.
On a dish of steaming beans and pitas we talked about Hummus, the social networking and camels. Oh, the camels…
Uri Shenar the former CEO of Keshet-tv and now AniBOOM’s CEO greeted our project in Rosh Pina festival.
Here some more information about aniboom from their site:
aniBoom is a cross-media, cross-platform animation content project which addresses wide audiences through a range of genres, techniques and means. In order to get things started we chose the most [...]
Jeff Pulver is the Chairman and founder of pulver.com. Watch him greets nocamels.com at the Rosh Pina Festival.
Pulver is the chief writer of what’s referred to as “the Pulver Order”, which was adopted in 2004 by the Federal Communications Commission as the first FCC ruling regarding internet protocol communications. The order ruled that computer-to-computer voice [...]
The Garage Geeks are nothing like any VC- entrepreneurs party you’ve ever seen before. It began with playing PlayStation in one of the guys dad’s garage, and turned into a monthly appointment for all things geek. And when geeks come out of the closet, they do it big time: From car-engine BBQ and dove shitting [...]
Guy Ami-Ad is the Ceo and Founder of Mobi, a company created for the sole purpose of mobile advertising.
Guy describes his ideas as ones that are being repeatedly rejected by the board of directors, a fact that doesn’t seem to discourage him from trying on.
We met him at a Mobile Monday (MoMo) Tel-Aviv event, where [...]
You are now watching: The Pulver act
Jeff Pulver explains the pulver act, how it came to be, and the effect it has on our lives up until now. He gives a leeson in public activism and expresses concern over recenr developmnets that threaten the future of voIP communication.
The guys at Rusty Brick now their Torah and know their iPhone. Bellow is a quick selection of apps from people who are not afraid to mix religion and technology.
Watching this video is cool just for the casual way the guy switches from reading ancient Hebrew blessings to scrolling the iPhone. This is a Siddur [...] Read More >>
NoCamels.com is giving away 5000 shekels to the creator of the most watched video (Rules In Hebrew)
NoCamels.com, a division of The Asper institute at Communications School, IDC is proud to present the 2009 ‘Israeli innovation video competition’.
Directors, writers, creators! We know that you have so much to show and tell the world about Israel and [...] Read More >>
Guest Post By Yarin Hochman
In the last couple of weeks there were many tech conferences events here in Israel, after attending most of them, I must say that more then ever I’m convinced that early stage startups should focus most of their attention in the products themselves and not so much in their business model [...] Read More >>
Tweegee.com is a pioneering destination site that empowers Tweens to express themselves creatively and safely in an innovative and customized online environment.
Tweegee integrates social networking, digital content, and interactive tools to offer a complete online platform for Tweens.
Tweegee provides Tweens with the ability to take full ownership of their online activities, to create their full [...] Read More >>
iamnews is a global open newsroom powered by you.
With iamnews anyone can assign news tasks and everyone can participate.
for whom???? It is for independent reporters, photographers, media moguls and anyone who wants to connect with reporters from the world and collaborate in the creation of news.
We really believe that videos are better than 1000000 words,so…ENJOY [...] Read More >>