Internet technologies

Delver launches their social-search site

ron — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:52:09 -0500

ReadWriteWeb reports that Delver has launched their social search site - attempting to take over the search world. When you do a search on Delver, the service taps into your social graph to return its search results.

PLYmedia raised 6M$

ron — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:44:34 -0500

PLYmedia (platform for interactive viewing of video on the web) has just raised 6M$, in a second round, from Greylock capital, and Elron group. PLYmedia was founded in 2006, and has 25 employees.

Metalgrass software offers free Toolbar for AdSense publishers

ron — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:50:55 -0500

Metalgrass software (by Ron Mertens) is now offering a free toolbar for AdSense publishers. The toolbar can monitor the AdSense account, offering easy access to basic statistics. It also include popular links and blogs related to web publishing and AdSense, and a few other gadgets. The toolbar was built using Conduit's platform.

Click here for more details on the AdSense Toolbar.

Develop a facebook app, win an iPhone and help with marketing it

ron — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:31:22 -0600

Unicell announced a facebook-application competition, primarily for students and independent authors. They will have 5 categories (cellular, media, games, commerce and 'open-for-all'), and each will have a winner, who'll get an iPhone and help with marketing her application.

Peer39 raised 8M$

ron — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:32:55 -0600

Peer39 has finished their round B financing, raising a total of 8.2M$ from Dawntreader Ventures, HighBridge capital and other investors. Peer39 developed a system that allows you to match the ad content to the content - according to user interaction. Basically these are tools that are supposed to really 'understand' the text using Natural Language Processing tools, and machine learnings.

Dapper - turning widgets into Facebook apps

ron — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:07:06 -0500

Dapper today announced AppMaker, a tool that lets you turn any”Dapp” into its own Facebook app. The service launched with apps created by partners Answers.com and MTV. Dapper is focusing more on content syndication and allows for more powerful look and feel customization.

Facebook platform - travel applications

ron — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:15:37 -0500

A little while back, Facebook announced their 'platform' platform. Basically they opened up a way for others to write applications for facebook. The idea is that people can now enrich their facebook profile. Writing a facebook application is quite easy. They have an API which can be used to create those applications, query the facebook databases (for example to find all friends of a certain user) and they even implemented FBML (FaceBook Markup Language) - a sort of a mini HTML that makes sure that all application will have a common look, and also includes some nice short-cuts to access facebook information.

New Services by eSnips and Conduit

gil — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:59:37 -0500

eSnips, the social network where you can share, promote and sell your content, announces a new multi-channel radio player- full story from Mashable.

Conduit which has created a white label browser toolbar, released a new product called myConduit. Instead of having each toolbar appear in the browser window, which takes up a lot of screen realestate, Conduit now lets users switch toolbars via a drop down menu. This only works for Conduit-powered toolbars- full story from Techcrunch.

ILA Web 2.0 Forum- 20/3/2006

gil — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:11:38 -0600

Enterprise content in the Web 2.0 era- a multi-level knowledge management solution- Sharedocs system.

Registration and more information

You can now use AdSense for content on hebrew sites, officially.

ron — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:27:01 -0600

Great news for Israeli web site owners - you may now use Google's AdSense program in your hebrew pages.