Thursday, October 26, 2006

Israel Web Tour Nov 6-9th in Palo Alto

Heading out to Palo Alto in a couple weeks for the Israel Web Tour to investigate a new group of Israeli technology firms. Reminds me a little of Rush week in college...

I am excited to check out these new companies:

BeInSync Allow individuals and small business to access their data from any computer of location

Fixya FixYa offers user-generated tech support, troubleshooting, repair, and customer service on over 700,000 products.

Foxytunes -Create the best way to enjoy all the great things the new music universe has to offer – by bringing together all user’s favorite players and services without forcing users to choose or give up anything they like

Gizmoz A multimedia communications company which enables an advanced medium of personal visual emotional expression for consumers and Pop culture business on any network such as TV/IPTV, Mobileand Internet.

ILCU Strives to be the number one social city guide through its website ILCU.com and its extensive affiliate network. On ILCU.com urban people can find the most up to date entertainment information and meet and socialize with others.

inter8ing: An advertising platform and better rating program for the blogs.

Kasamba Kasamba is an online marketplace for immediate, personal, high qualified expert advice

MyHeritage MyHeritage creates a unique and profitable community service by fusing Genealogy, Social Networks and Face Recognition technology

RadarSync RadarSync developed a computer driver and software update tool. It prevents common computer problems and optimizes performance by tracking, downloading, and installing both hardware device driver updates and software patches, fixes, and upgrades for a system.

Skylow Skylow delivers the cheapest available price for any requested flight route around the world. SkyLow.com provides the ultimate search, compare, and book engine, serving both consumer and business segments.

SpearCast SpearCast’s mission is to become the market leader in high quality business ratings for consumers searching for local businesses online. By using its patented VoIP technology, SpearCast will provide reliable ratings (e.g. the best plumber, dentist or Italian restaurant in your area), taking a leading position in this $30bn market.

Trusted Opinion Trusted Opinion’s mission is to leverage it’s core Social Recommendations Engine™ technology to enable networked circles of individuals to share and reap the benefits of their combined knowledge and experience to generate commercially unbiased, uniquely personalized ratings and recommendations for each and every user.

ViewScore
ViewScore simplifies the product research process for consumers by aggregating product review content from thousands of product review sources across the Net and generating a single product score that best captures the world’s view and opinion of the product

Yedda Yedda is a Community Knowledge Exchange – a Web 2.0 service that connects knowledge sources with knowledge consumers, leveraging the long tail of knowledge and creating a social network of people with similar topics of interests

I would like to thank the organizers of this event, The California Israel Chamber of Commerce (aka Iris and Shuly)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Leslie,
Thanks for plugging us in. we look forward to working together.

Shuly Galili
The California Israel Chamber
www.israelwebtour.com

Anonymous said...

Was great meeting you over a glass of free wine (well, at least until 10pm!).

Can't wait to see the result of your investigation :)