Israeli web

In the last couple of years we are working on a travel startup- TripTouch. During that time I found out that there are quite a few  travel projects here in Israel.

Thinking about it, it’s not surprising because Israelis love to travel and many of them have the entrepreneurship spirit.

If you are interested in those projects, you can take a look at this post at the TripTouch blog.

Affilicon Israel ,an Affiliate Marketing Conference & Exhibition, will be held in November 24-25, 2008. It's a chance to meet face-to-face in Israel with top affiliate marketers and learn from experts in Search Engine Optimization, social networking and media, and other leading internet technologies.

There will be two packed days of learning and discussion of tactics, strategies, and other topics related to affiliate marketing.

More on Mashable. 

aniBoom, the premier independent animation network, has just closed a $10 million Series B round of funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures and existing investor Evergreen Venture Partners. The company will leverage the new financing to expand operations, fund short form premium content for web and mobile platforms, and develop original animation series for television.

aniBoom was founded in 2006 and is led by entertainment and new media veterans- Uri Shinar is the founder and president.

Here the PR and Techcrunch coverage.

This might be interesting for Israeli web2.0 startups: the Next Web Awards is open for nominees.

Last year the awards were with 85.000 votes .

More info- here

nominate your company here before March 10.

As of March 11 the final nominees are announced and the website will be open for votes.

Payoneer is announcing it has received the remaining $3M of a $4M Greylock investment. All earlier investors participated in the current round including Crossbar Capital and several angel investors. Payoneer will use the additional funds to expand its services for Web 2.0 companies and other businesses that need faster, easier and more cost-effective ways of paying people around the world.

Jamster, one of the world's leading providers of digital entertainment, able to reach one in six consumers around the globe, and Israel based  innerActive Smart Media, a leading provider of innovative ad-funded entertainment channel, have announced today a trial of a new Mobile In-Game Advertising service in the UK.

Shvoong Homework is designed to assist students of all ages manage and organize their homework. Instead of using messy and disorganized notebooks, students can use Shvoong Homework to type-up their schoolwork, keep it organized, and then share it with individual or groups of classmates, the entire class, students from other schools entirely, or no one at all.

Shvoong.com is a world-wide center for abstracts, summaries, reviews, and short essays on a wide variety of topics in 34 different languages.

Techcrunch pays a lot of attention to Israeli startups lately.

Roi Carthy covered Meemix, Ouriel Ohayon covered Clicktale, and Michael Arrington covered  KnockaTV .

Roi will be covering the Israeli startup scene for TC.

Gizmoz, an Israeli startup that allows people to create realistic 3D cartoon avatars of themselves and embed them on other websites, will be getting a little mainstream attention at the upcoming MTV Music Awards in September.

On Monday, MTV, Taco Bell and Gizmoz will jointly announce a new website and promotion: users will go to tacobell.gizmoz.com and create a fifteen second audition of themselves doing anything they like. Taco Bell will select three winners and create a new thirty second spot with Gizmoz technology that will be played at the MTV music awards in September. The site is live now, but all content will be cleared or the Monday announcement.