[This post is based on a post written by Romi Mikulinsky and me, published - in Hebrew - in the popular HolesInTheNet blog] We live in crazy times, I tell you. Everywhere you go, someone tells you that you have to be more “social” – use social media, connect via social networks, have a social strategy, yada social yada. And it seems that the more “social” we get, the less social we actually are, as we spend most of our
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | January 5th, 2010 | Filed under Collaboration
Last week Tsahi wrote a funny post on what Twitter would look like if Microsoft was behind it. Well, I thought to myself – I love Twitter, I love video conferencing – how about writing my own twist on Tsahi’s post, and try to imagine how video conferencing would look if it was built by the Twitter folks… Video Conferencing would be given a much cooler name. Viddo? Confr? Each speaker would be limited to 140 words. After 140
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | November 3rd, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
Barack Obama needs no introduction. Even my 4 year old knows his name and what he looks like (and we, I remind you, are living in Israel, some thousands of kilometers away from Washington). It seems that Obama is everywhere, and his always-on presence is quite remarkable even for an American president. Last month in an incredible New York Magazine article titled “The Message Is The Message” Jennifer Senior gave some numbers to go with my impressions: Since occupying the
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 8th, 2009 | Filed under Innovation
It’s hard for me, for everyone I guess, to remember how our lives looked before the Internet. If I was asked to define what is exactly different, better, in life today vs. life before the Internet, I would say that it’s the distance between us and the information we are seeking that has gotten shorter, both in terms of time and effort. If you suddenly hear a song on the radio – “Still Loving You” for instance, that all-time favorite
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | January 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Innovation
Taking the risk of shamelessly promoting a commercial site, I stand tall (1.98cm) while I say it loud: I LOVE Flickr! I’ve been a proud Flickr member since 2005, when my kid was born and my good friend and Yahoo! Research Berkley member Mor introduced me to it for the first time. Technology and Experience Flickr is the one of the ultimate examples of a successful coupling between experience and technology. The technology used in Flickr! is not unique
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 27th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
