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Why can’t I comment on a photo I’m tagged in on Facebook?!

Ever have that issue on Facebook? You see you’re tagged in a photo and want to join in the happy powwow going on underneath but for some reason you’re not being given the option to comment… Logic might tell you that you should be able to comment on a photo you were tagged in but actually that is not what gives you the ability to comment.... Continue »
Deena on December 23, 2010 • Category Social Media • Tags: , , , , • Leave a comment

Cellcom Media Conference: all that talk about social media didn’t really help

Yesterday I attended the Cellcom Media Conference at Tel Aviv University. I’m assuming that Cellcom produces this mega event every year in order to strengthen its brand perception in the market. They almost managed to do that at yesterday’s event – if only they hadn’t ended up acting so cellphone-company-ish at the end. Free lunch, great speakers:... Continue »
Miriam Schwab on November 17, 2010 • Category Social Media • Tags: , , , , , • Comments (3)

Lessons from the decline of Yahoo! [VIDEO and INFOGRAPHIC]

Yahoo! is the company that brought us web search, and many other innovative tools like Yahoo! Site Explorer (for analyzing web sites for SEO), SearchMonkey, BOSS (Build your Own Search Service), Yahoo! Pipes (mashup and filter RSS feeds). It is also the company that failed to meet revenue projections for the past quarter, and has slowly and then quickly... Continue »
Miriam Schwab on November 14, 2010 • Category Business • Tags: , , , , • Leave a comment

The password nightmare

Anyone who uses the Internet more than a few minutes per day knows what a nightmare passwords are. The importance of creating really complex and confusing passwords is clear. And, of course, we should use lots of different passwords for different sites and not write them down anywhere. Yeah right. If you were to follow all those rules, I think you’d... Continue »
Deena on November 9, 2010 • Category Web • Tags: , , , , , • Comments (8)

Why the new Facebook groups suck

The suckiness of Facebook groups is not a new subject. But now Facebook groups have gone through one of those facelifts that leaves the person still looking like themselves, just way more freaky. So let’s take a moment to make fun of the “new and improved” Facebook group. What are the changes? It actually took me around a week to find out... Continue »
Deena on November 8, 2010 • Category Social Media • Tags: , • Comments (4)

Automattic creates a vertical blog source with FoodPress on WordPress.com

Automattic, the company behind WordPress and WordPress.com has taken a new direction in its activity with the announcement of a new website called FoodPress.com. FoodPress features blog posts aggregated from food blogs sitting on WordPress.com, and that’s what makes it so interesting. It’s a new venture into the world of verticals, sites that... Continue »
Miriam Schwab on November 7, 2010 • Category WordPress • Tags: , , , , , • Comments (2)

PayPal now available in Hebrew! (Kind of)

Since we find ourselves often reporting about PayPal usage in Israel, I thought our readers would want to know that PayPal is now available in Hebrew! Well, kind of. Here’s the link, but no matter which language I select for the interface (top-right corner of the screen), I see English. It seems that the roll out hasn’t been so smooth. But PayPal has... Continue »
Miriam Schwab on November 4, 2010 • Category eCommerce • Tags: , , • Leave a comment

Launch of our new Israeli business and hi-tech events calendar

We’re schepping lots of naches from our newly revamped Israel business and hi-tech events calendar. For those of you interested in the WordPress side of things, the calendar is running on a nifty premium plugin. It took quite a bit of tweaking to get it running properly, but the plugin’s creators were very helpful, and we’re quite happy with... Continue »

Israeli photo contests show brave use of social media.

We’re always on the lookout for interesting uses of social media by companies and organizations, and right now there are two groups on Facebook using photos as part of extensive social media campaigns. One is the Inbal Hotel, which is holding a contest whereby the person with the best photos of Jerusalem wins a night for two at the hotel (pick me,... Continue »
Deena on October 22, 2010 • Category Social Media • Tags: , , , , , , , • Comments (2)

Did you know that you can follow people on LinkedIn?

I was recently looking at a post on LinkedIn, and I noticed something I had never noticed before: underneath the poster’s profile picture is a link that allows me to “follow” them. Follow? What is this, twitter? I remember when LinkedIn announced that companies can now be followed. That kind of makes sense, since companies are entities. But I... Continue »
Miriam Schwab on October 13, 2010 • Category Social Media • Tags: , • Comments (2)