The thing I really like about Twitter is the way it lets you discover, implicitly, the most interesting people to follow, people you might not know or read otherwise. And those people share with you not only their views, but also the views of people they follow. And so on and so forth – it’s a never-ending fountain of knowledge, filtered by the people you respect and love. But enough about Twitter. The other day Tal Givoly, the Chief Scientist
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 31st, 2010 | Filed under Telepresence, Video Conferencing
A few weeks ago I attended the Israeli Mobile and Communication Association (IMA) annual event on Mobile Marketing. It was an interesting event, especially in a year when Android sales are rising, mobile advertising is starting to become mainstream, iPhone4 has just been released and location-based services are the hottest thing around. But as I am not a professional marketing guy (yet?), what I found interesting is how the concept of “Unified Communications” and a “unified platform” has finally arrived
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 17th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
[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
By now I feel that Susan Boyle requires no introduction, but just in case you were on a vacation on the moon in the last two weeks, HERE’s what EVERYBODY is talking about. (YouTube has disabled the embedding of the video, so I can’t show it here. I’ll get to this annoyance later…) A Tribute to Susan Boyle (CC) I’m not sure if you looked at the statistics for this YouTube video, but when I’m writing this post it
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | April 28th, 2009 | Filed under Video Applications
According to the Twitter FAQs, “Twitter is a service for friends, family and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages”. But frankly this hardly begins to tell the story. While a “traditional” blog, like this one, takes a lot of work, and is often the result of a long process of research, writing and editing, Twitter is all about real-time and bottom-line. I have been using Twitter for a short while, and I found
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | April 2nd, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous
[Yossi Cohen is the founder of DSP-IP, a video development, outsourcing and consulting company. Yossi has been developing video coding and streaming solutions for the last 14 years and lectures about video for the last 9 years. In his current position Yossi assists video and web related startups to define, develop and launch their services] As a consultant to video related ventures, I constantly stumble upon companies and individuals thinking of video innovation in terms of bits, bytes and
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By guest | February 17th, 2009 | Filed under Innovation
When I was a child, if I wanted to meet with a friend in the afternoon for some unplanned quality time, there were basically two options: the direct one, where you would call his home phone and hope he’s there (or at least that his mother knows where he is…), and the indirect one, where you just wander around the neighborhood and hopefully run into him. Oh, life was much simpler then.Two break-through concepts emerged since then, and totally changed
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 10th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Unified Communication
