Facebook makes its first acquisition in Israel

Facebook has announced its first acquisition in Israel, buying startup Snaptu for $60-70 million.

Snaptu's application allows mobile phones, even those less advanced than an iPhone or Android phone, to access mobile Internet.
Just this past June, Snaptu raised $6 million from venture capital firms Carmel Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Sequoia had already invested in the company.
Snaptu was founded in 2007 by CEO Ran Makavy, VP engineering Micha Berdichevsky, and CTO Barak Naveh.

via israelmatzav.blogspot.com

will they allow Israel to use credit cards now?

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Salutations

What did you do with your day?

Debbie saw this movie so you do not have to: The Social Network

Despite claims to the contrary, it’s no coincidence that Facebook chief Zuckerberg announced last week–to much fanfare on Oprah–that he was donating $100 million to the City of Newark schools.  The movie about how he created Facebook as a Harvard undergrad is an entirely negative, unsympathetic portrayal of the computer code writer, and he felt the need to do something to answer the hate it is bound to create for him.  Disregard reviews that say you’ll want to egg his house, then hug him afterward and help him clean it up.  You definitely won’t want to hug him or help him clean anything. If even a fraction of it is true, the guy’s a major scumbag. But that’s the key. Just how much of it is, indeed true?

via debbieschlussel.com

I don't need to see this movie. I know exactly what the facebook staff is like.

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don't poop where you eat

going to take a break

....and walk the dog

slice of doughboy

yeah Scoble.  cook on that

The Real Social Network

social network brat

After talking about facebook to my sister for a year... I have gone through nine profiles and even have migrated for the most part away.... she has kicked me off her myspace profile and now after all my groaning and prodding she says to me she is switching to facebook. I'm like... "YOU DO KNOW I GOT A PROFILE BACK ON FACEBOOK, DON'T YOU?" "Oh really?", she sounded disappointed. I said, "Don't worry, I spend most of my time on TWITTER anyway and I have more then enough friends congregated around that I'm not ever going to poke yours." "EW TWITTER, what is that?", my baby sister retorted. "Well you really don't have friends there", I said. "It's like a giant text chat room. You either follow or don't follow." My sister scrunched her nose. The fact is that it is human nature of youth to be elitist. The thing that really drove the "Great Generation" crazy about the "Woodstock Hippies" wasn't so much that they didn't approve of they're lifestyle and politics, because frankly the "Great Generation" got so much more accomplished as far as equality and dignity... what really drove the "Great Generation" mad was that they weren't invited to those cool parties. I imagine a generation that survived the depression and the Holocaust must of been quite lonely. When I see the kids today and they're elitist "Texting" parties walking into the public sphere with they're cell phone and ignoring everyone around them with they're Blue State politics I am reminded of the pain my grandparents must of had when seeing all they're hard work benefiting elitist spoiled brats.




I'm tired...

I had a tuff day...

my girl got herself and her family an internet connection and I have anxieties that she might see all the pretty ladies that talk to me online and think I'm trying to cheat on her or something.... I think she knows I don't leave my house.. but it is hard to know what goes into her little warped mind... maybe she is saving it up till next year.... I'm a little conditioned for her insanity.

...my mother was a pain in the ass tonight... just kind of antisocial all the time and mean spirited. We go ticketed for not shoveling the front walk because my family was too cheap to get me a new shovel when the old one broke.

finally I sent Valentines messages to every woman on TWITTER and it pissed off all the men there.... I lost about 40 followers today. I was kind of hurt about that... I'm learning about TWITTER... it isn't easy. people follow you because they find you interesting... not because they like you. when I started getting cheeasey with the Valentines stuff I pissed off the men... and I worked very hard to get those guys to engage me. kind of hard to explain.... TWITTER is nothing like MySpace. It is like being in a large room with everyone listening and if you act like a goof people will ignore you.

A lot of those men were Leftists who were curious about what a right wing person was thinking. They don't really understand that I really am a Left wing person who was disheartened with the LEFT... hard to explain to people. They hear you talking about voting for John McCain and they assume that you had a silver spoon born in your mouth. Many of these twitter people are from England and or are Muslim and they are listening to me out of interest... when I started wishing all the ladies a happy Valentines day... it turned them off. They want to argue with me... not see the human element of me. I was trying to be funny. I just hope my girl doesn't get the wrong idea about me.