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"Waze for Android has grown strongly right alongside Google Maps for Android over the last couple..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:40:00 -0400

““Waze for Android has grown strongly right alongside Google Maps for Android over the last couple years because the two services address very different use cases,” Bardin explains. “We focus on the daily drive to work — avoiding traffic jams and hazards on a route you know — while Google helps you find places outside of your daily routine. Nobody uses Google Maps to get to work, because it doesn’t bring any particular value there in the way Waze does.””

- That’s what Noam Bardin told me last year. Google was also the only mapping service that he expressed respect for, due to the thorough way they collect data.

How Waze Can Beat Apple and Google at Realtime Maps | PandoDaily

Because I had a long, hard week - that’s why.

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:54:27 -0400

Because I had a long, hard week - that’s why.

Further to my PandoDaily post on Mellanox… Jeff Bezos has...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:59:00 -0400

Further to my PandoDaily post on Mellanox… Jeff Bezos has managed to stay on as both CEO and Chairman of the Board of Amazon, despite the fact that the company still doesn’t really make money, because of this explosive revenue chart and his ability to train his investors, who have now moved the stock an incredible 15,000% since IPO.

Chart: Benedict Evans

"Another friend, who works on Wall Street, is so conscious of overlap with other parents that he has..."

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:14:54 -0400

“Another friend, who works on Wall Street, is so conscious of overlap with other parents that he has broken down the list of possible names for his forthcoming baby into trader-speak categories like “momentum stock,” “oversold” or a “value play.””

- Our little Naveh was definitely a value play - with significant Grahamian margin of safety.

The New Baby-Name Anxiety - NYTimes.com

How Eminem inspired my 14 year old Israeli son

Wed, 29 May 2013 14:04:00 -0400

Hallel’s answer for his grade 8 English class assignment: Name someone who is different from others, how he or she is different, and what you think about that:

His note in the footer of the assignment (his pencil broke in the middle, so wrote with his teacher’s red pen):

Today in robocontent… NYT Money section headline partner...

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:41:00 -0400

Today in robocontent… NYT Money section headline partner WalletPop (AOL, natch) really wants you to stay calm this earnings season.

Shir Batmitzvah song - Hallel on lead guitar, Shoham lead...

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:55:04 -0400

Shir Batmitzvah song - Hallel on lead guitar, Shoham lead vocals, Shahar rhythm guitar (by Mick Weinstein)

Shir practicing her Torah reading for her Bat Mitzvah this...

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:51:08 -0400

Shir practicing her Torah reading for her Bat Mitzvah this Shabbat. Women’s mincha at our home with family Sefer Torah. Nachas. B’smachot!

Ashton Kutcher teaching Reb Zusha torah to the startup crowd in...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:18:45 -0400

Ashton Kutcher teaching Reb Zusha torah to the startup crowd in Tel Aviv tonight.

by Yael Greenberg

"The startup scene has become the “Kolel” of secular Israelis. This is where we, the..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 08:58:25 -0400

“The startup scene has become the “Kolel” of secular Israelis. This is where we, the middle class hi-tech folks are ruining the economy. Instead of working and producing money, people collect unemployment while working on some silly idea they had for yet another mobile social BS.”

- And the Madan is Rav Ovadia of course.

Roi Carthy - It’s been suggested that Waze management is pushing…

"our reporters used to go to clients in the early days of the company and ask them what topics they..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 05:02:20 -0400

“our reporters used to go to clients in the early days of the company and ask them what topics they wanted to see covered”

- That aspect of early Bloomberg reporting sounds like it added a ton of value for clients. Does anyone do this sort of bespoke reporting anymore?

Holding Ourselves Accountable - Bloomberg

Including some underwater?

Wed, 08 May 2013 04:52:03 -0400

Including some underwater?

Cool ESPN graphic shows the decline of Phillies ace Roy...

Wed, 08 May 2013 03:20:00 -0400

Cool ESPN graphic shows the decline of Phillies ace Roy Halladay’s cutter as he left it over the plate too much in the past two seasons.

via Halladay decline key: cutter struggles - Stats & Info Blog - ESPN

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Fri, 03 May 2013 05:53:23 -0400

ynet חברת ועדה: אין משורר מזרחי שמתאים לשטר - חדשות

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:23:00 -0400

ynet חברת ועדה: אין משורר מזרחי שמתאים לשטר - חדשות:

There’s a huge kerfuffle going on in Israel now over the selection of Ashekenazi literary giants only for a new set of paper currency. The wild thing is how the discussion quickly shifts from questioning the socio-political hegemony to details of literary theory. It reminds me of the great debate over the Western canon that I caught the end part of as an English student in the early ’90s in the states.

Work in progress…

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:18:00 -0400

Work in progress…

Didn’t know that the etymological meaning of my home state...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:56:18 -0400

Didn’t know that the etymological meaning of my home state is ‘Land of the War’ (via Atlas of True Names USA)

World population by longitude and latitude (via World Population...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:48:00 -0400

World population by longitude and latitude (via World Population By Latitude, Longitude | Geekosystem)

It must have been the pesticides.

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:43:59 -0400

It must have been the pesticides.

“The American Social Health Association was always experimenting...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:35:57 -0400

“The American Social Health Association was always experimenting with new ways to educate the public about venereal disease. They helped produce the first VD education film, “Fit to Fight”, in 1918 in order to educate soldiers being shipped abroad to fight in the first World War. Although this popular TV public service announcement informs the public that everybody is susceptible to venereal disease, strangely, it also seems to imply that having VD will make you successful, attractive and happy. Also, the song is quite infectious…”

via VD is for Everybody (1969) | The Public Domain Review