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: 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 [...]
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, 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. [...]
Discover where your Israeli Facebook’s friends are now. Play with the best places in town to become “King of the Place” and enter the VIP list. Soon you will be able to receive cool discounts from the best places – So you are better start gathering entries. CUin also enables you to: – See who is [...]
What do Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg, blogger Emily Gould, and the 10th-11th century scholar Rabbeinu Gershom have in common? They all articulated their views about privacy. Zuckerberg was criticized last month for Facebook’s new privacy settings. Over 500 million worldwide users of Facebook had more of their information made public because Zuckerberg believes that ”if [...]
B”H Neighbourhood Bully Well, the claws are out again, sharp and quick as opprobrium is heaped on Israel from every corner of the globe. Ranging from genuine human rights campaigners to opportunistic politicians and bandwagon terrorists, all righteously taking part in flotilla frenzy. Before any investigation has been done Israel has been roundly condemned and [...]
Social networking is a must for 21st century rabbis For me, it began a few years ago. That’s when I first heard the words: “Rabbis, you need to have a presence on Facebook if you want to succeed in the 21st century!” I heard these words at a STAR Foundation (now defunct) retreat for rabbis. [...]
Israelis are now among the world’s heaviest cellular Internet surfers. Just before December 2009, when the first estimates of iPhone sales in Israel were released, many wondered: Would the demand in Israel match supply? At one point, each of the three cellular service providers – Pelephone, Cellcom and Partner – made a commitment to Apple [...]
What is more Israeli than having a BBQ with the guys. The ultimate fun for weekends, holidays, bachelors parties and so on. When Independence Day is coming it is wise to find out who will be in charge of the grill, is he good ? Is he the best ? The iNafnaf will help you answer [...]
