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ages to clean up, signed: Martha the tea lady]
NEW! Mission Possible from National to
International
This
session will focus on how to successfully grow a company and expand
into the international arena. Ahlvarsson will share his
experience during the last 7 years and provide insights
and tools that have worked in taking companies international.
Lead By: Ola Ahlvarsson.
Participants: <..>
Real World Stuff
So you are a techie/hippi/etc, but you were always interested in
how real stuff works
Face it, you always wanted to know how an engine works, like a real
car's engine, or a train's engine, stuff like that. Well I know I
do. So I read about it and here I am willing to put it into
practice, by trying to explain it to a bunch of people who know
nothing about it, and would really like to get the knak on this
one.
I will also try to demonstrate a small-scale Stirling-Engine I'm
currently building from Cherry-Coke Cans.
Lead By: Ohad Pressman.
Participants: <Shimon Schocken, Erez Chocva. Gadi
Shimshon..>
NEW !!!
Standarts? In Israeli mega-sites?
Most of the major Israeli websites don't support the W3
standards. I have started a project regarding this issue. I have
some ideas on how to change this situation (Prior to concurring and
enslaving the world), that I like to share and get your worthy
input. I do believe that this issue can be addressed from
more then the "it's a Firefox vs Explorer geek thingy"
perspective.
Lead by: Gadi Shimshon
Participants: Dvir Volk, Jordan Lewinsky, Ido Amin, Yaniv Golan , Ofer Shani
A world without
"barriers"?
Listen, I've just invented a mobile
phone with a negligible radioation. You can too!
Inventing such a phone is essentially a matter of a simple thinking
exercise, would you believe it? How can great ideas be born and
make it to the real world if they don't have what VCs call
"barrier"? Are those good ideas doomed? Postponed? So, what if your
great idea can change the Internet? The communication scene?
Lead By: Alon Gal.
Participants: <Ami Kassar...,Erez Chocva, Ushi Krausz,
Yaniv Golan
>
NEW
!!! show me
the trafficccccccc!!
Sometimes, its not enough to build an amazing site, with
brilliant features and great interface - if u can't
drive traffic into it - all your work goes down the drain.
Almost every web based product/service/tool - needs traffic as
humans need air to breath. This discussion is all about
sharing different views, ideas and techniques of driving
traffic into websites. Among other topics, we'll deal with (feel
free to add more topics):
The blogosphere as a marketing tool,
Technorati, Social networking marketing, buzz agents
Viral marketing and applications, content syndication, rss
measuring tools, reporting standarts, Google analytics, Alexa,
...
The upsides and downsides of SEM
Do search engines still do the job (in the age of brilliant SEO
specialists)?
Lead by: Ofer Shani
Participants: <guys, let's join forces and
share our knowledge about this> Noa Bichovsky, Ola Ahlvarsson,
Gadi Shimshon, omer malchin
The internet and the human condition
Attention Management and the desperate information age
individual.
The ever expanding influx of information is threatening to drown
us. As we surf into the 21st century, we face information overload
from an ever expanding list of sources: from main-stream media
outlets through blogs, wikis and social networks, to thousands of
RSS feeds. How are we supposed to survive? In this session we will
discuss attention managers, attention management and attention
overload. Or not.
Lead By: Jordan Lewinski.
Participants: Michal Rinott,Cristiana Falcone, Scott Spirit, Yariv
Nachshon, Maya Lotan, Ami Kassar, Yael Sahar, Ushi Krausz,Erez
Chocva, Neora, Roostam Tiger, Yaniv Golan
- p.s: Jordan. couldn't ressist...the answer called CAP
-continuous partial attention (ami).
In the past year, The Internet Vigilantes have become an
increasingly apparent force. Ranging from the obvious,
such as consumer groups, to the less obvious man-hunts and spam
fighting. Since the last Kinnernet, a Korean woman has had her dog
poop on subway and refused to clean it up. The ensured, blog-based
(wo)man hunt made such a splash around the globe that it got its
own wikipedia
entry. An Israeli company called Blue Security offers the
(highly
contorversial ) opportunity to take spam matters into your own
hands and spam the spammers in yet another display of Internet
Vigilante. Eden
Shochat will dissect these examples and open the stage for
discussion by: Yariv Nachshon, David Aronoff
The decline of broadcast television and the rise of
web-based personalized video delivery are around the
corner. Why settle for unsolicited trash also known as
TV programming when one can pick and play any video contents
of one's choosing, any-time, any-place? Come join me in celebrating
the eminent demise of conventional TV and cable and speculating
about the post-broadcast brave new TV world. Lead By: Shimon Schocken.
Participants: nimrodlehavi, Ayelet Yagil, Gil Rimon, Eden
Shochat,Cristiana Falcone, Scott Spirit, Mark Bernstein, Ami
Kassar, David Aronoff, Yael Sahar, Jonathan Seelig, Ushi
Krausz,Erez Chocva,Yariv Nachshon, Nish Bhutani, Yaniv Golan, Ori
Birnbaum, Ola Ahlvarsson
NEW
!!! The
Science of Ripping Off People (or: The Economics of Making
Money from People's Ignorance and Irrational
Decisions)
A good product is worthless, advertising can be useless, a brand is
a much greater force once you understand what's behind
it. This lecture will condense Yochai's popular MBA course
into one lecture full of high level state-of-the-art economics,
MADE EASY.
A revised and improved edition to the lecture from Kinnernet 2004,
given again at the audience's request.
Lead By: Yochai Rafaelli
Participants: Ohad-P, Gadi Shimshon, Roostam Tiger, Yaniv Golan
NEW !!! Why user generated content sucks (and editorial content
blows)
- Web2.0(tm) is all about user generated content, communities,
blogs and such. Clearly user generated content is partly
responsible for the way the web is today. But is the hype
justified? and what is the right balance between user generated and
editorial content on the web? Can a mainly editorial site even
survive?
- Lead by: Dvir Volk
- Participants: Gadi Shimshon, Lior Katz, Ido Amin, Yaniv Golan , Ofer Shani, Ola Ahlvarsson,
omer malchin
The coming disruption of traditional book
publishing
The book publishing industry including fiction will soon face
disruption like that currently experienced by telcos. The
cost of online distribution is near zero. Blogs are the new
platform for online books (blooks). Online
promotion - especially through the blogosphere - is both cheaper
and more effective than traditional publisher promotion.
Amazon will sell the works of any author - self-published or
not. Print-on-demand makes out-of-print obsolete. The
"long tail" is threatening to wag the dog. How will it pay
out? What is happening and what needs to happen? what are the
implications?
Lead by: Tom
Evslin.
Participants:nimrodlehavi, Ayelet Yagil, ErezChocva, Scott Spirit,
Mark Bernstein, Shimon Schocken, Ami Kassar, Yael Sahar, Ushi
Krausz, Neora (pls comment on Muglegim
related story (prose)), Yariv Nachshon, Noa Bichovsky,
Social software
Can Social Software change politics? Taking place a couple of days
after the general elections to Israel's 17th parlament, we will
discuss the use of the web generally and social-softwere
specifically in this zone. What worked and how? What didn't and
why? Will the web create an emergent democracy? How is it done in
other countries? More than an ideological debate on 'why did the
guy I vote for lost/won?' it will be a debate on the role of
technology in all of the above.
Lead by: Mushon
Panel Members:
Participants: ErezChocva,Cristiana Falcone, Ami Kassar, mark
pincus, Jonathan Seelig, Roostam Tiger,
Yaniv Golan, Noa
Bichovsky,
Virtual worlds and reality
addiction
We're all gonna die !!! (and be resurrected in Stormwind)
Online MMOs are better than real life in any way , and i'll prove
why...
Also - we're all playing the so-called ultimate virtual game -
money™ (and no, money doesnt exist)
Lead by - Ilan Graicer
Extra footage from World of Warcraft (movies to be shown at
discussion)
Participants : Yael Sahar , Ushi Krausz, Neora, Gadi Shimshon,
Noa Bichovsky, Ofer
Shani
Open Source and the Long Tail of Software
How does the now famous Long Tail relate to software, What does
Open Source has to do with it and how does the world of computing
will look like in 5 10 years - from licenses to services, CORE
(Cost Of REcall) value and a world of ends: discuss, explain,
think, partcipate.
Lead by: GBY
Participants: [ Shimon Schocken, ... ]
Web 2.0 Killed the
internet!
- Blogger/.Mac/Zazzle/RSS/(and more...) - and how they're
killing the real internet spirit
- Did the ease of content publishing kill the spirit of
innovation?
- How the
McInternet (blogger/israblog/flickr Etc.) did affect the
gourmet menu of private web sites?
- Are bloggers just a horde of zerglings rushing over our land?
- Is cyberpunk dead
Lead by: Ziv Pugatch , Ilan Graicer ++
Participants: Yael Sahar, Lior Katz
Web 2.0, Net 3.0 and Meme
3.5.
- The Web 2.0 moniker is the driving force behind the current
crop of net startups. What stands behind the web 2.0 buzzword, is
it here to stay or are we just waiting for the next meme to
surface. we will start with a review of the origin and present
condition, and go into a group discussion about the
future.
Plus, an optional bonus short presentation: "How to make your
site web2.0 compliant in less then one day
Lead: Jordan Lewinski
Participants: Uri baruchin (web2.0
cheat sheet) nimrodlehavi, ErezChocva, Cristiana Falcone, Scott
Spirit, Lior Katz, Neora, Noa Bichovsky, Ola Ahlvarsson
- How to recognize the Next
- Killer
App(TM)
- "What's Wrong" or how
have we, as an industry, failed, missed the target, and looked
under the lamp, instead of where we should really be
looking. See the What's Wrong Page for more
information.
- Full Time blogging- a possiblity in Israel?
- The last year has seen a large growth
in the number of indipendent bloggers using systems like WordPress.
Since any income will now go to the blogger and not to the blogging
service, the question is: are we going to see Israeli bloggers make
their blog their dayjob? Is there the will, and more important- the
means for such a thing?
Lead by: Shoshannah
Participants:
- The Browser- reloaded.
- If you look at it, the web browsers
haven't really changed since the days of mosaic, athlugh the web
changed a lot. What was once a tool for viewing static documents is
now a platform for running applications, managing (and wasting) our
time and a general interface to a increasingly complex cyber world.
So- apart from tabs an built in IM: what really needs to change in
browsers? Are they still fit for the job? Should tommorow's
browsers be different? In what way?
Lead by: Shoshannah
Participants: Ami Kassar, Yael Sahar, Yaniv Golan
- My Avatar and Me.
- Social hierarchies in online
communities and the contribution of the classic RPG model ala
Gary Gygax to the development of MMOGs. What
constitutes the online "you"? What is your online worth within your
online community where virtual resources are unending? Can our
online entity be defined as a very elaborate character
sheet? Can the machine really replace the DM (or at least one
that is worth a damn)?
Lead by: Ronen Raz
Participants: 
Ilan/Zinta, Yael Sahar, Jonathan Seelig
(knowledge of old school D&D is preferred, but is not
necessary)
- The Future of Musical
Expression : how can technology be used to produce devices
that allow music playing and manipulation to be more intuitive than
ever ? what is "intuitive music manipulation" anyway ? This
discussion will be followed by a garage
workshop where we will try to implement some of our
ideas.
Lead by : Eyal
Shachar
Panel members : Michal
Levi, Shira
Miasnik
Participants : Guy Vardi, Ayelet Yagil, Gil
Rimon, On, Eden, Michal Rinott,
Yael Sahar
- The future of dating. As we continue to
lose privacy on the web and leverage this hugh marketplace of
people to meet, how does it change the rules of
'dating'. And as people break relations and turn back to
the web to find the "Next one", what can be done to address this
situation? - Led by Yariv Nachshon with
participation by Mark Tebbe (early project manager of a major U.S.
dating site and creator of successful US-oriented dating business),
Hagai Tal (Former Marketing Magnager Spark Networks)
- Taking the desktop to the Web
- can the vision prposed by Sun Micro a decade ago ("the network is
the computer") finally come true? what benefits does it bring
to users? what technologies can make it happen? - lead by
ORI SOEN. Participants:
Yaniv Golan , ..
- Intellectual Property & and the
moral issue:
- following the Israeli scriptwriter
strike against the HOT cable company, I hope to get some answers to
intriguing questions: Most of the anti-royalties thinkers say it is
impossible to maintain the current IP system - but is it Morally
right to get money from something your father has written or
invented? Are royalties good for art and culture or only for the
artist's wallet? Can art be economically quantified?
Lead by Gil Rimon
Panel members: Hanan Cohen
Participants - Neora, Yaniv Golan , ...
- podcasting anyone ? (suggested by Eyal
Shachar, don't expect me to lead this, i haven't got the slightest
clue. will be participating willingly, thoug) (From the
success of Madonna's confession podcasting, avertised on my space,
to the potenitial of videocasting this format deserves attention
and why not a daily feed from the camp? Cristiana Falcone) Scott
Spirit
- SWARMS - The main theme of the discussion
regarding SWARMS, will be about the insights that we can learn from
mother nature and apply into engineered SWARMS. Following an
introduction, the forum participants will discuss various ideas
regarding Real World SWARMS. [Arik,are you referring to
http://www.swarms.org/? - some
background would help...]. http://www.swarms.org is one good
source. Also stuff on "Ant Colony" / "Ant Colony Optimizaion".
More stuff in : http://www.swarm-robotics.org.
Lead by : Arik Yavnai
Participants: Eden Shochat, Yoram Avidan
- Is there a viable business model for offering open
source websites for small organisations? - As a consultant
to small and medium size Third Sector organisations, I feel they
better get a website built on open source applications. The problem
is that currently there is no business model that can make this
more profitabble for the providers WHILE making it cheaper for the
organizations. In this discussion I want to bring together the best
thinkers (available only on Kinnernet) and bang our heads together
on this issue.
Lead by: Hanan Cohen,
Participans: Ushi Krausz
following the Israeli scriptwriter strike against the HOT cable
company, I hope to get some answers to intriguing questions: Most
of the anti-royalties thinkers say it is to maintain the current IP
system - but is it right to get money from something your father
has written or invented? Are or only for the ? Can art be
economically quantified?Lead by
- This discussion is intended to brain strom on the linkage?
between the mobile (cellular) space and the internet, addressing
issues such as content, mobility, business models, advertisment and
culture. Is there such a thing as "mobile internet", Will we watch
a movies from a 2" screen?...
Lead by : Gilli Cegla,
Participants: Cristiana Falcone , Scott Spirit,Yariv Nachshon , Ori
Birnbaum
Wireless
Internet Vs. Cellular
Can WiFi networks be an
infrastructure that can compete with Cellular?
Will WiMax compete with cellular, or is it a cellular
technology?
In this open discussion we will consider how wireless internet
technologies can become a competitor to cellular, and under which
scenarios. What are the main barriers, and who are the companies
that are in this space, and more...
Lead by: Elad
Barkan,
Participants: Tamir Scherzer, Roy Klieger,
- Technology and Finance. Investment and Trading in
the Internet Era. This will be more of a
brainstorm/discussion. We will focus on changes, challenges and
opportunities Internet brings to investment industry, both
corporate and private. We will start with short introduction and
then open a discussion trying to get answers to the questions like
"Will corporate investment vanish soon?", "What new business models
may be employed using Internet?", "Will markets eventually become
efficient?", etc.
Lead by: Roostam Tiger and Eden Shochat
Participants:
- Technology and Finance. Making Money As You
Sleep: Algorithmic Trading - background, practical
guide and the state-of-the-art survey. Computer-automated
investment and trading: "This can't be done", "Everyone is doing
it", "I have constant 30% yearly gains" and other popular
sayings - what's behind them? What was done, what should be done
and what should not be done. Ideas are mostly welcome.
Lead by: Roostam Tiger
Participants:
- Cool Science. Paradoxes Are Good For Your
Business: An exciting interactive journey to all kind
of paradoxes, their solutions and valuable lessons from them: how
not to trust your intuition and convince your
investors/board/clients of anything you desire :).
Lead by: Roostam Tiger
Participants: Ido Amin
On line Education -
How are we (not)
teaching?
Various bodies and organizations within the educational system
(both curricular and extra-curricular) are trying to merge
education and learning content, with innovative IT tools.
Many programs have failed as a result of the tendency to simply
duplicate concepts and methods that were more suitable to existing
communication tools (classroom – television – radio
– books etc.).
During this workshop, we will present various innovative models
implemented at Tel Aviv University, which break the dichotomy
between reality and media tools, in the service of education and
academic experience. In addition to presenting existing models, I
would like to present my wildest dreams for new models, and to
receive your feedback.
Lead by: Ushi Krausz
Participants: Neora (see above entry on open source for education
project in israeli/arab schools, shall we join the two?)
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How to prove that you have no
sister or better yet
How to avoid having a sister to begin with.
The good guys' guide to survival in the jungle of privacy and
security warriors. Why do you need an integrity assurance
officer on board from the first day of your start-up? It's a wild
world out there so you better be prepared.
Lead by: Idan Feigenbaum & Ariel
Yarnitsky
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-
IT and Peace - Is a Virtual youth
movment possible? What does it
mean
-
There are alot of talking and ideas concerning IT,
Peace and social organizations, especially the concept of
"Youth Movment". We would like to think together, whether
it is possible, and what can be done, since we r working now on
such model for some middle east countries.
Lead by Zika Abzuk and Ushi Krausz, Yaniv Golan
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The “Minority Report Society”? A Paradigm
Shift in Policing
Society
Lead by: Nimrod
Kozlovski
In the “Minority
Report”, society in the year 2054 no longer has murder as the
Pre-Cognitive (Pre-Cogs), floating genetically modified humans, can
foresee the future and alert the system about a crime even before
it happens. The Pre-Cogs are hailed as the perfect technology
–never wrong in predicting a crime and see nothing but the
crime. The human cops are sent to apprehend the identified
“criminal” before he acts, and the Pre-Cogs’
vision serves as the evidence that the crime has been
prevented.
Science fiction? Don’t be
too quick to
answer!
Contemporary society is
experiencing a paradigm shift in policing. We are changing from the
common law enforcement system, which reacts to a crime after it
occurs, to a proactive system of policing. There are several
proactive policing tactics that all share some common principles:
shifting the initiative from the criminal to the policing force;
gaining access to operational intelligence prior to the commitment
of a crime; getting control at effective intervention points for
policing activity; and, crime-oriented policing that is tailored to
the patters of a particular
crime.
Digital proactive policing is
using experience gained in the field of artificial intelligence to
construct predictive models about criminal and anomalous behavior,
or profiles of potential perpetrators. There patterns are run
against voluminous data about routine activities, which is
collected without any particular suspect or criminal in mind. These
models are used to prevent fraud, spam, securities manipulations
and many other crimes and currently are examined as a solution to
terror.
The discussion will try to
explore the scope of change in policing and understand its effect
on the information society. What it is like to live in such a
world? How the shift to a proactive policing may change the digital
environment?
- Large scale
innovation
- Hard core web tech
- The media is the media
- Thinking people, Thinking machines
- Voip and video conferencing
- Faith in user interface
- Online Music
- Online Games
- Changing the net?
- Security and privacy
- P2P Architecture And Infrastructure
- Robots
- Visual Arts
- internet enhanced collaboration
- Wireless communications
- Smart(?) home
- Art and Technology
- E-commerce
- Animation
- Robotics
- The future of online music
- INFRASTRUCTURE
- To chat with him is to know him? Or is it? Virtual versus
physic
- The Future of Entertainment
- Cellular content
- User Exprience
- Design
- Privacy
- SPAM and its long term influence on the NET
- Add here a new category for discussion:
- This discussion
is intended to brain strom on the linkage? between the mobile
(cellular) space and the internet, addressing issues such as
content, mobility, business models, advertisment and culture. Is
there such a thing as "mobile internet", Will we watch a movies
from a 2" screen?...
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