I like this commercial and wish them all the best luck with this new product!
Great Product Marketing-Management Work!
Monday, June 29, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
מעט ורעים היו ימי שני חייו
* "Short and sad were his two lives"
Michael Jackson - A child and an adult. Amazing creator. His recent years were crazy, for sure, but it's still very very sad that such a talented man left our world today.
Jackson 5 first tv show -
Back then - his father, apparently, didn't let him have a childhood..
Michael Jackson Became A Star as a Teenager. Since then - the paparazzi didn't let him have a life -
The next parts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6IzRz1pD6M&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOnAFOrGRyE&NR=1
With great sadness, Michael's life ended today -
Michael Jackson - A child and an adult. Amazing creator. His recent years were crazy, for sure, but it's still very very sad that such a talented man left our world today.
Jackson 5 first tv show -
Back then - his father, apparently, didn't let him have a childhood..
Michael Jackson Became A Star as a Teenager. Since then - the paparazzi didn't let him have a life -
The next parts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6IzRz1pD6M&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOnAFOrGRyE&NR=1
With great sadness, Michael's life ended today -
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
An Entrepreneurship for a Cause
Entrepreneurship is about recognizing a problem and an opportunity and providing a solution, right?
Below I describe a huge problem, the opportunity (or why now), and two small, amazing, and successful entrepreneurial programs that give inspiration and option to get involved.
The problem:
There are more than 1 billion children around the world who live in a terrible conditions. The problem is that they won't know how to change their situation when they will grow up to be adults because they don't get the tools now.
This situation is a ticking bomb for our next generations.
What's new?
While a century ago these children didn't know that there is another kind of world out there, now they do. This is because of many reasons, one of them is that traveling became a commodity and x10 more tourists visit their lands (e.g. Africa).
The consequences of this were ugly presented in many cases in the past in New York and other cities:
People that are aware of the strong and known differences between their lives and the life that they could have, and their lack of resources to change the situation, brings very ugly crime. Not only inner-countries crime, but for sure - a great out-of-county crime (where the money and the resources are).
Imagine that only 1% of these cute children will get to the situation that I described.
Today:
In 10 years:
1% of 1billion = only 10 million hopeless people out there.
So why did I take a break from my crazy schedule this week in order to write specifically about this one NOW, especially when there are so many other bothering 'trending topics'?
Because there is no better time, and because if not now.. It may be too late. The opportunity will be gone (I don't like this situations in business, so in this case... I like it much less).
Today this danger can still be controlled. This problem is still a new one. These children are still children.
We can still protect these children and our next generations if we act now
The Solution:
Entrepreneurs are building projects to give these children some resources. Small ones for us. Huge ones for them (and for our future).
There are two programs that I like, and I will definitely participate in them in some way. Please feel free to comment and add more.
1. Mama Kellie - www.obrienschool.org
A GREAT article about this program - by Alexa Jenner
http://www.chicagoparent.com/article.asp?aID=0728802.2654795.77350.03956202.7483011.964&aID2=5941
2. TOMS Shoes - http://www.tomsshoes.com/content.asp?tid=273
Watch the 4 mins video and get inspired -
Below I describe a huge problem, the opportunity (or why now), and two small, amazing, and successful entrepreneurial programs that give inspiration and option to get involved.
The problem:
There are more than 1 billion children around the world who live in a terrible conditions. The problem is that they won't know how to change their situation when they will grow up to be adults because they don't get the tools now.
This situation is a ticking bomb for our next generations.
What's new?
While a century ago these children didn't know that there is another kind of world out there, now they do. This is because of many reasons, one of them is that traveling became a commodity and x10 more tourists visit their lands (e.g. Africa).
The consequences of this were ugly presented in many cases in the past in New York and other cities:
People that are aware of the strong and known differences between their lives and the life that they could have, and their lack of resources to change the situation, brings very ugly crime. Not only inner-countries crime, but for sure - a great out-of-county crime (where the money and the resources are).
Imagine that only 1% of these cute children will get to the situation that I described.
Today:
In 10 years:
1% of 1billion = only 10 million hopeless people out there.
So why did I take a break from my crazy schedule this week in order to write specifically about this one NOW, especially when there are so many other bothering 'trending topics'?
Because there is no better time, and because if not now.. It may be too late. The opportunity will be gone (I don't like this situations in business, so in this case... I like it much less).
Today this danger can still be controlled. This problem is still a new one. These children are still children.
We can still protect these children and our next generations if we act now
The Solution:
Entrepreneurs are building projects to give these children some resources. Small ones for us. Huge ones for them (and for our future).
There are two programs that I like, and I will definitely participate in them in some way. Please feel free to comment and add more.
1. Mama Kellie - www.obrienschool.org
A GREAT article about this program - by Alexa Jenner
http://www.chicagoparent.com/article.asp?aID=0728802.2654795.77350.03956202.7483011.964&aID2=5941
2. TOMS Shoes - http://www.tomsshoes.com/content.asp?tid=273
Watch the 4 mins video and get inspired -
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Great Application for Web Conference
I recommend you to try to use DimDim if you are looking for a web-conf tool to share your screens and presentations.
Below is a 4mins intro.
Some personal notes:
1. Sign Up and Getting started - very simple, quick, and easy. You just configure your user/pass and you are signed. Afterwards, you can immediately Host a new meeting.
2. Invite people - they don't need to have a dimdim user or anything like that.
3. Free - if you have a conference of up to 20 people the service is FREE and is not limited on time.
* Notice - I used it 4 times until now. 3 times it worked perfectly, and one time not...
Enjoy!
http://www.dimdim.com
Below is a 4mins intro.
Some personal notes:
1. Sign Up and Getting started - very simple, quick, and easy. You just configure your user/pass and you are signed. Afterwards, you can immediately Host a new meeting.
2. Invite people - they don't need to have a dimdim user or anything like that.
3. Free - if you have a conference of up to 20 people the service is FREE and is not limited on time.
* Notice - I used it 4 times until now. 3 times it worked perfectly, and one time not...
Enjoy!
http://www.dimdim.com
Opera Unite
Some details:
Take control of what you share online
Opera Unite allows you to easily share your data: photos, music, notes and other files. You can even run chat rooms and host entire Web sites with Opera Unite. It puts the power of a Web server in your browser, giving you greater privacy and flexibility than other online services.
Share with other Web browsers
What if you use Opera at home, and a different Web browser at work? Opera Unite services can be accessed from any modern browser, including mobile browsers! At home, just select what you want to share, and you can view it later using your work Web browser without any problems.
Integrated and extendable
Simply enable Opera Unite when you start Opera, and you are ready to go. Find and install services with one click from our online catalog or easily create your own by using Web standards like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG and AJAX.
To read more - http://unite.opera.com/
Monday, June 15, 2009
Dead Grasshoppers Give Life to Social Media Marketing Campaign
A nice video, and a creative campaign:
Read more about the campaign itself here:
http://mashable.com/2009/06/15/grasshopper-campaign/
Read more about the campaign itself here:
http://mashable.com/2009/06/15/grasshopper-campaign/
Holocaust Museum Death, Facebook, and Advertisers
I find this article to be very interesting -
Holocaust Museum Death Won’t Change Facebook’s Mind On Hate - But Advertisers May Be Able To
TechCrunch, Michael Arrington, June 12, 2009
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/12/holocaust-museum-death-wont-change-facebooks-mind-on-hate-but-advertisers-may-be-able-to/?awesm=tcrn.ch_3lk&utm_campaign=techcrunch&utm_content=techcrunch-autopost&utm_medium=tcrn.ch-twitter&utm_source=twitter.com
Earlier this week a Holocaust denier shot and killed a guard at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Facebook didn’t change its policy on allowing Holocaus denial groups, even though one group quickly put up a cartoon mocking the event.
If attacks on Jews by Holocaust deniers won’t be enough to sway Facebook that this is all hate speech, perhaps angry advertisers will do the trick. Brian Cuban has been trackingadvertisers who have insisted their ads don’t show up anywhere near Holocaust denial pages on Facebook, and at least one who doesn’t want ads to be placed on profiles of people who are members of such groups.
Vodafone, Tesco, American Airlines and Domino’s Pizza have pulled advertising, says Cuban.
Domino’s Pizza’s Social Media Specialist Phil Lozen wrote to Cuban saying that “initially, Facebook was pushing back on their ability to block ads” from some of the pages. But as of today even pages showing search results for hate groups won’t have Dominoes ads. He also says that Dominoes would not have purchased ads at all if they knew of the possibility of their ads appearing near Holocaust denial pages.
What we really need are a set of large advertisers to boycott Facebook entirely until these groups are banned. There’s a reason why eBay and other private companies won’t let this kind of hate speech on their sites. It’s bad for business. And as soon as Facebook realizes that, they’ll change their policy. Then look for lots of talk from Facebook employees about how proud they are that their company did the right thing - [insert current policy here].
And for those of you who will argue that the best way to handle hate is to shine a light on it, debate these people openly, and generally assume that reason will prevail: you’re wrong. Read this USA Today opinion piece that is talking about the steady rise of hate groups in the U.S. - “the Internet gives formerly isolated racists, whether individuals or small groups, a means to stoke one another’s smoldering anger. With the ready availability of weapons, even a single person can do enormous harm.”
Holocaust Museum Death Won’t Change Facebook’s Mind On Hate - But Advertisers May Be Able To
TechCrunch, Michael Arrington, June 12, 2009
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/12/holocaust-museum-death-wont-change-facebooks-mind-on-hate-but-advertisers-may-be-able-to/?awesm=tcrn.ch_3lk&utm_campaign=techcrunch&utm_content=techcrunch-autopost&utm_medium=tcrn.ch-twitter&utm_source=twitter.com
Earlier this week a Holocaust denier shot and killed a guard at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Facebook didn’t change its policy on allowing Holocaus denial groups, even though one group quickly put up a cartoon mocking the event.
If attacks on Jews by Holocaust deniers won’t be enough to sway Facebook that this is all hate speech, perhaps angry advertisers will do the trick. Brian Cuban has been trackingadvertisers who have insisted their ads don’t show up anywhere near Holocaust denial pages on Facebook, and at least one who doesn’t want ads to be placed on profiles of people who are members of such groups.Vodafone, Tesco, American Airlines and Domino’s Pizza have pulled advertising, says Cuban.
Domino’s Pizza’s Social Media Specialist Phil Lozen wrote to Cuban saying that “initially, Facebook was pushing back on their ability to block ads” from some of the pages. But as of today even pages showing search results for hate groups won’t have Dominoes ads. He also says that Dominoes would not have purchased ads at all if they knew of the possibility of their ads appearing near Holocaust denial pages.
What we really need are a set of large advertisers to boycott Facebook entirely until these groups are banned. There’s a reason why eBay and other private companies won’t let this kind of hate speech on their sites. It’s bad for business. And as soon as Facebook realizes that, they’ll change their policy. Then look for lots of talk from Facebook employees about how proud they are that their company did the right thing - [insert current policy here].
And for those of you who will argue that the best way to handle hate is to shine a light on it, debate these people openly, and generally assume that reason will prevail: you’re wrong. Read this USA Today opinion piece that is talking about the steady rise of hate groups in the U.S. - “the Internet gives formerly isolated racists, whether individuals or small groups, a means to stoke one another’s smoldering anger. With the ready availability of weapons, even a single person can do enormous harm.”
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Palm Pre vs. iPhone. Should we even bother?
If at first the user experience of the iPhone was the most attractive thing about it, today, the strength of iPhone is the huge range of amazing applications that were developed for it.
Now, when more phones that give a slightly better user experience than iPhone are in the market, iPhone is not competing in the same field anymore. Today, iPhone brings a great added value (the applications) that can't be easily competed by none of the others.
BUT - the Palm Pre does give a nice fight on the user experience side and has a comfortable OS for app. developers (see a review below). So, I spent 5 minutes to learn more about it.
Enjoy the Palm Pre review -
(* BTW, personally, I am waiting for the next phone revolution to buy my next phone. So - 99.9% that my next phones will be - 1.modu and 2.one of the coming Android phones. modu for its hardware platform that will create an amazing eco-system and an Android phone for its software platform that will let application creativity extend into new levels).
What is webOS?
webOS is an embedded operating system developed by Palm for the Pre smartphone. It’s based on the Linux 2.6 kernel and features a tight integration into social networks and Web 2.0 APIs. As an example the Universal Search feature accesses your contacts, and then crawls content provided by Google, Google Maps, Wikipedia and even Twitter.
The operating systems has a touchscreen-based graphical user interface and ships with a set of typical smartphone applications, like an address book, calendar and task manager.
Read more here -
Get up to speed with our Palm Pre extended executive summary
Written on June 6, 2009 – 9:09 pm
Ralf Rottmann, Serial Mobile Entrepreneur, Apple Addict
http://thenextweb.com/2009/06/06/speed-palm-pre-executive-summary/
Now, when more phones that give a slightly better user experience than iPhone are in the market, iPhone is not competing in the same field anymore. Today, iPhone brings a great added value (the applications) that can't be easily competed by none of the others.
BUT - the Palm Pre does give a nice fight on the user experience side and has a comfortable OS for app. developers (see a review below). So, I spent 5 minutes to learn more about it.
Enjoy the Palm Pre review -
(* BTW, personally, I am waiting for the next phone revolution to buy my next phone. So - 99.9% that my next phones will be - 1.modu and 2.one of the coming Android phones. modu for its hardware platform that will create an amazing eco-system and an Android phone for its software platform that will let application creativity extend into new levels).
What is webOS?
webOS is an embedded operating system developed by Palm for the Pre smartphone. It’s based on the Linux 2.6 kernel and features a tight integration into social networks and Web 2.0 APIs. As an example the Universal Search feature accesses your contacts, and then crawls content provided by Google, Google Maps, Wikipedia and even Twitter.
The operating systems has a touchscreen-based graphical user interface and ships with a set of typical smartphone applications, like an address book, calendar and task manager.
Read more here -
Get up to speed with our Palm Pre extended executive summary
Written on June 6, 2009 – 9:09 pm
Ralf Rottmann, Serial Mobile Entrepreneur, Apple Addict
http://thenextweb.com/2009/06/06/speed-palm-pre-executive-summary/
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Aviary
The photos on the Hall of Fame have captured me...
In general - Aviary is a collection of online powerful graphic design and editing tools.
It seems to be a very nice and helpful tool, which has a lot of potential to help us edit photos, create cool images, and have fun.
Try it here - http://aviary.com/dashboard
For an elaborated recommendation-
In general - Aviary is a collection of online powerful graphic design and editing tools.
It seems to be a very nice and helpful tool, which has a lot of potential to help us edit photos, create cool images, and have fun.
Try it here - http://aviary.com/dashboard
For an elaborated recommendation-
Friday, June 5, 2009
Happy B-Day Tetris
25 years ago - June 6th, 1984 to be exact - Alexey Pajitnov created a simple puzzle video game where you moved blocks around (called tetrominoes) to create horizontal lines of blocks to eliminate rows and gain points.
-- Thanks for Google for reminding (see google.com)
-- Thanks to Ben Parr for being the first to update about every interesting thing! (http://mashable.com/author/ben-parr/)
Read more about Tetris here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
-- Thanks for Google for reminding (see google.com)
-- Thanks to Ben Parr for being the first to update about every interesting thing! (http://mashable.com/author/ben-parr/)
Read more about Tetris here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Big Bing or Bing Bang or...
The commercial is too complicated for me, and I didn't understand yet how Bing can help me make better decisions than before.. But... Bing is here and the promise is that it will be a Big Bing.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Google Squared Goes Live Today!
Many times we need to find something by searching the web, and after we find it, we want to compare it to other things that are available.
Google Squared vision is to do it automatically for us and arrange everything in a very intuitive way - spreadsheets.
The Beta was released today and obviously, it is not perfect yet. Together with that, the service can already be very helpful for easily comparing restaurants, stores, movies, gadgets, and more.
A usage for example: as a product manager at modu, I was occasionally building comparison tables for available handsets. The new Google Squared Search engine could have helped me save a lot of time by automating at least some of my work...
Take a look at this search: "mobile phones":
http://www.google.com/squared/table/agyoK6a0nieaiqftw1n6y78w
I was also searching for fashion stores and restaurants in different areas of Chicago - Take a look -
http://www.google.com/squared/table/agLoMdyLZKdsfWp0G9KL4pqg
http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=restaurants+chicago+"gold+coast"
This technology is by no means perfect. It is only the beginning... But it is SO Intuitive, SO Clever, and already VERY Helpful.
I recommend to check it out - http://www.google.com/squared
Google Squared vision is to do it automatically for us and arrange everything in a very intuitive way - spreadsheets.
The Beta was released today and obviously, it is not perfect yet. Together with that, the service can already be very helpful for easily comparing restaurants, stores, movies, gadgets, and more.
A usage for example: as a product manager at modu, I was occasionally building comparison tables for available handsets. The new Google Squared Search engine could have helped me save a lot of time by automating at least some of my work...
Take a look at this search: "mobile phones":
http://www.google.com/squared/table/agyoK6a0nieaiqftw1n6y78w
I was also searching for fashion stores and restaurants in different areas of Chicago - Take a look -
http://www.google.com/squared/table/agLoMdyLZKdsfWp0G9KL4pqg
http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=restaurants+chicago+"gold+coast"
This technology is by no means perfect. It is only the beginning... But it is SO Intuitive, SO Clever, and already VERY Helpful.
I recommend to check it out - http://www.google.com/squared
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Exciting - Project Natal for future Xbox
It looks imaginary or something that will be in the market only in years from now.
So... No. I know that it's for real. Trust me... Or don't.
Project Natal is a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun -- the only experience needed is life experience.
I just can't wait to do kick box training with one of the fighting games... It will be SO MUCH FUN (anyway - better than a class in the gym ;)
-- Thanks to Michael Shaulov for sending me the video.
So... No. I know that it's for real. Trust me... Or don't.
Project Natal is a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how to move your hands, shake your hips or speak you and your friends can jump into the fun -- the only experience needed is life experience.
I just can't wait to do kick box training with one of the fighting games... It will be SO MUCH FUN (anyway - better than a class in the gym ;)
-- Thanks to Michael Shaulov for sending me the video.
Monday, June 1, 2009
The Big Picture - India's massive general election
The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com. It is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery - with a focus on current events, lesser-known stories and, well, just about anything that comes across the wire that looks really interesting.
India's massive general election
By Alan Tylor
May 22, 2009
On May 16th, 2009, the Election Commission of India announced the results of its recent month-long India-wide election for their lower house of Parliament - the largest democratic election in the world. An estimated 714 million voters (from a population of 1.2 billion) were eligible to cast their vote in one of five separate phases at over 800,000 polling stations, starting on April 16th. Logistically difficult, massive in scale, and opposed by various rebel groups, separatists and protestors, the elections still managed to be held with minimal disruption, with an average voter turnout of greater than 56%. The big winner was the the Indian National Congress party, which will form the new government under the incumbent prime minister Manmohan Singh. As with any photo story from India, it is impossible to capture every aspect in just a handful of pictures - collected here are only some of the scenes that played out across the nation over the last month. (40 photos total)
for many more AMAZING pictures and stories - http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/05/indias_massive_general_electio.html
India's massive general election
By Alan Tylor
May 22, 2009
On May 16th, 2009, the Election Commission of India announced the results of its recent month-long India-wide election for their lower house of Parliament - the largest democratic election in the world. An estimated 714 million voters (from a population of 1.2 billion) were eligible to cast their vote in one of five separate phases at over 800,000 polling stations, starting on April 16th. Logistically difficult, massive in scale, and opposed by various rebel groups, separatists and protestors, the elections still managed to be held with minimal disruption, with an average voter turnout of greater than 56%. The big winner was the the Indian National Congress party, which will form the new government under the incumbent prime minister Manmohan Singh. As with any photo story from India, it is impossible to capture every aspect in just a handful of pictures - collected here are only some of the scenes that played out across the nation over the last month. (40 photos total)
for many more AMAZING pictures and stories - http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/05/indias_massive_general_electio.html
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