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Israel Memorial Day

This book is cheerfully dedicated to those greatest and most heroic of all human endeavors, WAR and WARFARE; may they never cease to give us the pleasure, excitement and adrenal stimulation that we need, or provide us with the heroes, … Continue reading

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With All Due Respect to the Libyans, There Are More Important Things Happening Right Now

Once again, Google Trends shows what the world really cares about. While Gaddafi is leading the news reference volume with about 42,000 Google News articles in the past week, Charlie Sheen (24,000 Google News mentions) clearly made it clear that … Continue reading

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The Straight Story Revisited

I watched The Straight Story again today (David Lynch, 1999; starring the unforgettable Richard Farnsworth), and it moved me even more than the previous times I watched it. I think I am getting more sentimental as I get older. Angelo … Continue reading

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Google Social Search Update

Around a hundred years ago, in January 2007, we realized the potential of leveraging your social graph for improving search relevancy. Back then, Twitter was an unknown product called twttr (or as Michael Arrington put it: “How do their shareholders … Continue reading

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The Road

I woke up exhausted today, and it’s not because of yesterday 5-mile run or the pains from my fractured rib (stupid late-night sledging in Austria last week). I woke up exhausted because I spent the entire night reading Cormac McCarthy’s … Continue reading

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The Love of Bootstrapping a Company

In a super-secret location in Tel-Aviv, we are working on an experiment that may change your social life. One room, one folding table, 4 laptops, a couple of vintage radios in the background and one really cool concept. More info … Continue reading

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Movie Trailer of the Year: Java 4-Ever

Ok, this is super geeky, but too good to go unnoticed.

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The Future is Here: My Exciting New Phone

I landed in Israel a couple of days ago and discovered Orange Israel is out-of-stock on sim cards for iPhone 4. I was given a temporary phone to use in the meanwhile. No touch screen (judging by the scratches, it’s … Continue reading

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Death of a Bookseller

I passed by Barnes & Nobles in Union Square a couple of days ago and had a strange, counter-intuitive, feeling: I was jealous of people without Kindles. They actually had a reason to go into what used to be one … Continue reading

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The Subliminal Message of Facebook’s Landing Page

Too good to go unnoticed. Source: ILoveCharts

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