OurielOhayon

30 predictions for 2007

This guys has an awesome post on his predictions for 2007. Out of 30 here are my favourotes

1) $100 PC. Finally, computing in the Third World! But priorities are reassessed when someone does the math and realizes that the One Benjamin PC could feed a single African for 37 years.

2) MySpace. Despite (or because of) News Corp's ownership of MySpace, unique users start to disappear. Someone at the New York Times realizes that your friend Tom has released absolutely zero new features to the community since Fox's takeover. In a scramble, MySpace releases a bunch of bad features that everyone hates. However, they sell several more sponsorship deals for movies, tv shows, and bands that you don't care about.

3) Apple. Apple buys Last.FM. Finally. And iTV is a hit. Finally. And the iPhone? Nope, never. Why? Cuz the iPhone is like God -- if it really existed, you wouldn't care that much.

4) Google. By partnering YouTube and Apple's iTV, Google has you watching Ask A Ninja on your plasma. Hello, Google Video ads.

8) Technorati. A media company takes a shot at buying Technorati. Maybe Tribune, maybe NYT, probably Wash Post. By the end of the year, people are talking about a Newsvine purchase.

13) AOL. I have no idea. And neither do they.

17) Second Life. Robots invade and kill everyone. Turns out "everyone" is 5 kids in Tallahassee.

One funny specificity of business plans in Israel

Sometimes cultural differences are getting to business plans/emails…I noticed recently a few startups send their business plan with the jewish religious mention besyata hachimaya represented by three letters (bet / samakh / dalet) that is the abbreviation for “With the help of God” and which is supposed to bring luck to the document/project.

At first i thought it was interesting and actually even respectable.

But then i discussed it with a friend of mine more religious than me and that gave me a good view on this. It should not be put on business plans. Why not? because if the document is printed and then thrown away then you have participated in something that is not appropriate (throwing the name of god to the bin is not hmmmm good)

Concerning my practice i never print a document (or extremely rarely) so this would not happen. But what if i threw this document to the “digital bin” ? Would that be considered as an offense?

In the doubt please don’t put the mention in your business plans or your emails…

PS: i take advantage of this post for a professional claim: please do not to send your documentations in hebrew. Only english please many people involved do not read hebrew….

PS2: i am being updated that there is no problem with digital material as long as not printed. but still in doubt do not mention …

Did someone see the Google programm on channel 1 yesterday?

What did you think? i thought it was really boring. No digging. just overview and mystification of a company. No real debate.

Don’t get me wrong. Google is a company i admire but i thought this programm did not focus on they key topics and mainly talked about search in very high level.

A bit out of date….

 

Easier than getting Arrington to link your site

Text-ad links does not lack imagination for its new campaign…appearing on TechCrunch

But the funniest thing is that they used a picture of Michael I SHOT (at the nextweb seebelow as well as my flickr account)

Should i ask for royalties???

Funny video break

you ll surely have a good laugh at this one

50 million dollars bonus

Man am i missing something? What are those jobs where you get tens of millions of dollars as a annual bonus? Ok, i know. Money is not everything.

Well you know what? i don’t care about having a great job. How about having one like that….

Now seriously, i think this is just ridiculous. I mean in one year bonus you make more than a 20 personn successful startup revenu? ok the guy is bright and he contributed to great success at Goldman Sachs or wherever.

I am not against big bonused (direct message to my boss  ) but i don’t understand those extremes mainly because it creates economic distorsions and burns the ratio of real estate. I know this is not a sustainable point of view but it just make me nervous

LeWeb3: How TV may die through distribution - the video

I moderated a panel on LeWeb3 with CEOs of Blinkx, Vpod.tv, DailyMotion and head of Google Video. The video appears below.  Like i said at the end “Keep on watching TV but differently

One day i'll switch to Mac...

See why on those brilliant Mac vs PC ads

 

Selling my iTrip for iPod for half price

If you want to listen to your iPod in your car or in your home sound system, you just have to use iTrip. i bought it less than one year ago and works perfectly.

I sell it half price (25 USD instead of 50 USD) cause i don’t use it all. My ipod is mainly for running and biking.

If you want it and live in Israel contact me at myblog at ohayon dot name

Video: seating with Danny Rimer, David Hornik and Jeff Clavier on Bubble2.0

Video from LeWeb3 with 3 stars VCs (Jeff Clavier, David Hornik and Danny Rimer that has not a blog yet) and me (a babby VC as i said). I thought this was a good panel. I wish we had more times specially for me to answer Marc Canter’s question about the “death of VC model” and place a word on what LgiLab is doing to address the new internet context.

 

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