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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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+ or Facebook? âBoth!â says new Israeli application Google+ is Googleâs answer to Mark Zuckerbergâs Facebook. The new social network was launched only a week ago with a great buzz â first it was almost impossible to get an invite, then it was closed for new users and now itâs available, only if youâre 18 [...]
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 [...]
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.  Dropicoâs 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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After years of not knowing to handle it, the government of Israel has finally âgottenâ 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit (Hebrew: ×××ר ׌ה×â, 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 [...]
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 is an iPhone app launched in partnership with the Israeli 411 devison of  Bezeq,  Israelâs 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 âcheck inâ to venues while posting their location,  reviews and photos directly to Facebook. [...]
