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Israeli VC’s & The Search for the Internet Success

What have we learned from our mistakes? Will the local Israeli venture capitalist’s get in the game? With these questions in mind the Israeli VC Gemini Israel Funds gathered a group of former and current influential from the Israeli Internet scene. There where people from ICQ, Speedbit, Hotbar, Aladdin, Netsnippets, Spearcast, Maxthon (guess who..) and [...]

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Skype releases IM developer tools

A new war has heated up on the IM market – Skype is releasing IM developer tools. This on the same day that Google Talk was launched – what a co-incident…If AOL, MSN and Yahoo got a bit nervous about Google Talk, I guess this announcement wasn’t too welcome either. Tuff days on the IM market – [...]

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Google Talk – Look Who’s Talking Now

AIM, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Y! and Skype – watch out! It is quite simple, but then again for an IM you don’t need any other features. Haven’t tried the voice function yet so will come back on that one.

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Google IM = Google Talk

The ink of my last post hardly had time to dry, before the rumors of Google’s upcoming Instant Messenger – Google Talk surged. It seems to have come with the Picasa deal (Hello) a proprietary IM used to share pictures and post to blogs, and according to Om Malik is based on the open source [...]

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Lessons For ICQ

Just a short advice to my old colleagues at ICQ. Learn  from “Don’t Mess With the Lord– Mess With The Messenger” . They have a thriving community of developers to plug-in’s and add’ ons etc for MSN Messenger. You need to engage people – get them involved and give them tools to develop stuff for ICQ. [...]

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