IAMNEWS – Global open newsroom powered by you

Posted on: Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
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iamnews

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.

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We really believe that videos are better than 1000000 words,so…ENJOY the videos! .

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Click here for our video!

Source: http://www.crunchbase.com/

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Kontera – New advertising solutions

Posted on: Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
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Kontera, which has offices in both the US and Israel, offers advertisers and publishers in-text advertising solutions. After placing Kontera’s JavaScript in your code, their system will automatically create in-text ads throughout your site.

Kontera

Kontera

How it works? Kontera’s ContentLink service dynamically finds “contextually relevant keywords” on publishers’ web pages, which are then automatically turned into links.When a user mouses-over a link, an ad displays on the page.

There are five different ContentLink ad formats – text only, text with an image, banner, video, and flash.

Important tip: many of Kontera’s publishers use the service as a compliment to AdSense.

Kontera claims that their technology produces better relevancy & ROI.

Liad Agmon’s sleep of the just

Posted on: Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
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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 McAfee.
And as far as Liad is concerned, he’d rather be wind surfing than living the corporate dream…

Interactive, multi-dimensional web video platform? PLYmedia

Posted on: Saturday, March 21st, 2009
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Established in 2006, PLYmedia Inc. specializes in the development, design, manufacturing and deployment of an interactive, multi-dimensional web video platform – PLYplatform. PLYmedia delivers a range of applications focused on delivering personalized, enhanced and interactive web video technology by bringing new context and meaning to video.

PLYmedia

PLYmedia

PLYmedia gives publishers the tools to convert viewers from passive to active viewers, to turn videos from one-dimensional pieces of content to interactive, personalized and informative sources of engagement, and to effectively monetize their users and videos to full potential.

The company was founded in Israel, and is one of fifteen startups selected to attended the Israel Web Tour in the Silicon Valley in 2008.

PLYmedia Products:

BubblePLY-BubblePLY gives users the ability for users to add pop-up bubbles to their websites and videos.

PLYplatform- PLYplatform is a suite of applications that gives broadcast and video publishers and their viewers an opportunity to create professional or user-generated interactive content layers. These applications transform standard web videos into interactive, multi-dimensional and personalized user experiences. PLYplatform is also an open system, allowing content developers the freedom to customize material that suits the needs of individuals.

Applications include:

SubPLY, which allows users to add subtitles and captions in any language to any type of web video.

BubblePLY, which allows users to easily add pop-up bubbles, text, images, clipart and subtitles to videos.

InfoPLY, which allows items or objects in videos to be defined with smart tagged bubbles which can be professionally or custom enhanced with user-defined information and commercial links.

AdPLY, which gives publishers and advertisers the ability to insert and manage relevant text or banner ads onto any web video.

Source: http://www.crunchbase.com/

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Innovation in Online Video in Israel

NuConomy – Your next generation web analytics and optimization platform

Posted on: Sunday, March 15th, 2009
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What is the buzz word around NuConomy?  NuConomy is helping companies better assess and understand website and social marketing performance with its free, next generation web analytics and optimization platform.

NuConomy

NuConomy

NuConomy was specifically built to go beyond standard metrics and measure the rich interactions and social features of websites. Through NuConomy’s unique engagement module, websites can understand each individual user’s behaviors and engagement across content, brands and site features. Then, these insights are used to dynamically optimize their online presence, including advertising, and create 1:1 conversational marketing opportunities.

NuConomy was founded in 2006 in Tel Aviv, Israel and is now headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its executive team is comprised of former Microsoft and Google leaders. NuConomy completed its A Round financing in 2008 from WPP Group, one of the world’s leading communications services groups.

NuConomy: http://www.nuconomy.com/

In other words…With NuConomy Studio, businesses can discover new and exciting insights about their online presence.

By using the NuConomy platform, businesses will not only receive better insights about their business, but will also be able to dynamically optimize their business based on those insights, resulting in much higher monetization.

More info? no prob… http://www.nuconomy.com/Content/Press/ProActiveAnalytics.aspx

http://www.nuconomy.com/Content/Press/NuConomyFederatedMedia.aspx

http://profy.com/2008/10/28/nuconomy-helps-online-publishers-see-people-behind-pageviews/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/28/nuconomy-studio-leaves-private-beta-aims-to-redefine-web-analytics/

Source: http://www.nuconomy.com/Default.aspx , www.crunchbase.com .

Amobee-A wonderful ad-serving platform!

Posted on: Sunday, January 18th, 2009
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Amobee

Amobee

Amobee has developed an ad-serving platform allowing mobile operators to inject ads into different types of mobile content, such as video, music, and games. They hope to allow all members of the mobile content and data value chain to generate new revenues from advertising. The company claims to provide “precise contextual and behavioral targeting across all users on all handsets for all non-voice related applications and services.”

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And above all…Amobee Media Systems, the world leader in advertising solutions for mobile operators, has been selected by Israel’s leading publisher Globes and Ernst & Young Israel as the most promising start-up of 2008 / 2009.

And the future? In the hands for Amobee: Bruce Golden, one of Amobee’s lead investors and a partner at Accel Partners, said, “We believe that the iPhone, and other similar class devices, will trigger an explosion in demand for mobile content. Mobile operators have a gigantic opportunity to capitalize on this growing demand for rich media content, but they need a way to monetize it. Amobee provides that crucial monetization capability, which is why it is considered strategic to the mobile operators.”

Source: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/amobee

Source 2: http://www.amobee.com/main/operators.htm

SundaySky, revolutionary video marketing platform has raised $8M

Posted on: Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
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SundaySky promise a unique way in creating and marketing video for the Internet.

Interview with Mobi’s Ceo – Guy Amiad

Posted on: Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
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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 he was doing a presentation between one free beer and another.

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3D Me

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