Posts Tagged ‘ Facebook ’

Shaker – Virtual Pub

A Facebook app called Shaker, created by Israeli startup, won the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 2011 in San Francisco just few days ago.  Shaker is a virtual bar, where each person has a virtual character that moves around in a bar and can speak with other people and join existing conversations. Shaker aims to turn Facebook into [...]



IDF Social Media Commando

Arutz Sheva meets the army’s special team for dealing with the information war online: the IDF New Media desk. It is well known nowadays that what happens on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube has great influence on events as they occur on the ground. The Internet, too, is a battleground. It is thus comforting to learn that the [...]



Multimi

One inbox, all of your social media accounts and social network messages at the same place. That is the promise of  Multimi, a new software app for Windows launched few days a go, July 19th. Multimi was developed by Israeli startup Zbang in collaboration with Antivirus company, AVG. MultiMi is a cool new free desktop [...]



FB & G+ (Halachot)

“The Halachas of Facebook and Google: A Rabbi and a Web Marketer Discuss” by Naomi Elbinger I have a confession to make… I am a Web marketer. I spend most of my working day up to my eyeballs in Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. And Yes, I know what the rabbis are saying about this… [...]



Google+Facebook

Google+ or Facebook? “Both!” says new Israeli application Google+ is Google’s answer to Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook. The new social network was launched only a week ago with a great buzz – first it was almost impossible to get an invite, then it was closed for new users and now it’s available, only if you’re 18 [...]



if I die

if I die, created by Willook*,  is the first Facebook application, that enables you to create a video or a text message that will be published after you die. All messages are safely stored in a secured location and only you can view them. What happens to your Facebook profile if you die? Your facebook profile [...]



Photo Sharing

Dropico, Israeli startup, is a provider of a revolutionary, Web-based drag & drop photo management platform expanding with photo sharing applications for both iPhone and Android users.  Dropico’s new apps will effectively enable them to capture and enhance photos with a rich range of filters, then share them across any social networks and online services – [...]



Mobile Internet

Facebook CTO Bret Taylor recently said that mobile is the company’s top priority for 2011, and now Facebook took another step in that direction by buying Snaptu, which recently created a mobile version of Facebook that allows mobile phones, even those less advanced than an iPhone or Android phone, to access mobile Internet. Facebook has gone on [...]



Person of the Year

Despite the fact that Wikileaks front man Julian Assange won TIME’s reader poll for the magazine’s Person of the Year 2010 feature, the editors ultimately picked Facebook CEO Mark Elliot Zuckberberg as the overall winner. Zuckberberg was chosen “for connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; or creating a new [...]



Israeli iEmbassy

After years of not knowing to handle it, the government of Israel has finally “gotten” tech. The IDF has its Youtube channel, and the government has learned how to use Twitter and Facebook. And now, the Tourism Ministry has its own iPhone app, called iSrael, which you can download for free from the iPhone App Store. The iSrael app has a nice [...]



Palestine online

Since Western leaders regularly ignore everything printed in the Arabic press and sidestep the contradictions presented by Arab opinion polls, researchers for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) decided to go to a source no one today ignores, social media, to find out what the Palestinians are really thinking. Western media and politicians like [...]



face.com

How recognizable are you in a crowd?  According to Face.com, a Tel-Aviv-based company that develops facial recognition technology, you can be pinpointed in a Facebook crowd consisting of 500 million users and 7 billion pictures with 90% accuracy.  Evidently, several investors believe that that is no mean feat, and they are showing their support by pouring [...]



IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit (Hebrew: דובר צה”ל‎, Dover Tzahal, abbr. Dotz)  is the unit in the  IDF Operations Directorate, professional body responsible for information policy, media and public relations in Israel and around the world. The unit is led by the IDF Spokesperson, a brigadier general and member of the General Staff, and by the Deputy [...]



SM vs. Religion

Sunday’s Detroit Free Press ran a cover story detailing how social media (SM) is being used by religious leaders. In his article, religion editor Niraj Warikoo looks at how houses of worship are using Facebook and Twitter to reach out to its membership and potential members. He writes, “Religious groups are increasingly trying to harness [...]



Poxi

Poxi is an iPhone app launched in partnership with the Israeli 411 devison of  Bezeq,  Israel’s largest and leading telecommunications group. Poxi enables iPhone users to discover places and businesses around them, to see their friends location right now and to “check in” to venues while posting their location,  reviews and photos directly to Facebook. [...]