An Israeli entrepreneur’s FreshBiz board game is being played all over the world by budding business executives seeking to sharpen their skills.
Author Archives: Brian Blum
Apple gets the Word
You may be able to ditch your laptop, now that Israel’s CloudOn is bringing the full functionality of Microsoft Office to the iPad.
If you build it (on Facebook), they will come
MyWebees takes your existing website and transforms it into a Facebook business page to generate better traffic.
Indie rock discoveries at this year’s Jacob’s Ladder
Jacob’s Ladder is my favorite weekend of the year. Located at the picturesque Kibbutz Nof Ginosar, on the banks of the Sea of Galilee, the festival is billed as “a unique bluegrass, folk, country, blues, Irish and world music extravaganza.” It …
Searching for a cure to insomnia the Israeli way
Haaretz recently published an article about an Israeli website they dubbed “Dr. Google.” The site is called Treato; its goal is to aggregate health and medical information, in particular on drug side effects, in a single place rather than forcing …
Apping the Omer
From the second day of Passover until the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, observant Jews perform a ritual called “counting the Omer.” Between those two dates, there are 49 days and, during evening prayers, one is commanded to say a few …
Srugim co-creator tells all in Jerusalem lecture
For its three season run, I was hooked on the Israeli TV drama Srugim. The program told the tale of four religious (and one formerly religious) young Israelis living in Jerusalem’s singles-centric Old Katamon neighborhood, affectionately known as the “swamp.” …
Taking care of our children
Two soldiers died tragically yesterday in what would seem to have been preventable accidents. The incident that grabbed the top headlines was at Mount Herzl where a lighting rig fell during practice for the next week’s Independence Day ceremony, crushing …
Are you ‘follow-worthy’ on Twitter?
Haifa startup Twtrland offers a free, simple analysis of other tweeters so users can quickly decide which ones they’d like to follow.