Zvi Band

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  • That’s quite a nametag you’ve got there…

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    8.3 million. For nametags. Say what you want about the possible benefits of having it. But they have quite some competition. What is interesting to me, however, is that this is another Boston company being funded. I think, slowly but surely, investors are funding companies in places other than the valley. I’m interested in seeing…

  • Personal Area Networking

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    While I believe the setup (and the limited range of Bluetooth) makes this particular implementation of questionable value, I believe that the idea of locating users by immediate area is awesome. I wouldn’t use this for finding new people who are in my area. Instead, I would prefer an application that would pop-up when a…

  • All I can do is laugh…

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    My stocks are down 4% for the day. My portfolio is at an 11% loss overall. Days like these, I wonder why I don’t invest in the First Bank of Sealy. All my positions are solidly in the red. Except for two. My two Israeli stocks. What’s up TEVA and ISL!

  • NYT: click a word, any word…

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    I was reading an article about a passenger revolt on a Continental flight (reading articles like this makes it painfully obvious why the American airline industry is in deep trouble, and it’s all their own doing). I noticed at the bottom of the article, a small little tip: To find reference information about the words…

  • AC-130H ‘Spooky’

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    The awesome gunship from Transformers… it’s real.

  • Come Again?

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    Orthodox Jew to lead NY Arabic school | Jerusalem Post

  • Facebook and the Work/Life Balance

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    Continuing on from yesterday, I was going to go on a rant about my personal thoughts on social networking – mainly related to the difference between professional and personal social networks. While some look for a one-stop shop, I am quite happy having one social network for professional needs (LinkedIn) and one for my personal…

  • Thunderbird would be great, except for…

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    Spam Filtering – The junk mail control, a Bayesian filtering implementation – sucks. Messages that I mark as not-junk continually get put in the junk folder. It just doesn’t work. With the rise of crowd powered technologies Calendar Integration – Is a start, but it’s still pretty poor. The UI for it is ugly, when…

  • On Facebook and Friendship

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    There’s a hole-in-the-wall vegan restaurant near where I went to college in Maryland. I went there a few times with friends and family. It was a decent place to eat, however one particular trait of the owner drove me absolutely insane. He always addressed me as “friend” time and time again. I passed this off…

  • BarCamp DC Wrap-Up

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    Attended my first (as well as DC’s first) BarCamp. It was an awesome experience. Not only did I learn a lot, but I met a great crowd of people. It was fascinating to discover a small but thriving community of similar web-heads, and would kill to do the things some of them do. Who knows,…