iVillage Commerical

I thought this was really funny...


Also, there's a really funny video segment on the iVillage website -- it's called Daily Blabber -- she's pretty tough ... a little like Perez! Take a look at the one about Jennifer Aniston's nose job ...

News from Israel

I lived in Israel for 6 years before I moved to California -- so this blog will include news from Israel from time to time.

From BBC News:
Three dead in Israel suicide bomb
A suicide bomber has killed three people at a bakery in the southern Israeli town of Eilat, police say.

Premium Wireless Service BEST IDEA EVER!

Okay you have to look at this website. Its a company called VOCE and they offer premium wireless service meaning you basically have a concierge service 24/7 for ANYTHING you might need!

It's a bit pricey -- $200 flat fee and a $500 one time membership fee but you get unlimited domestic calling and messaging, unlimited 411, a new phone every 12 mos. at no charge, etc.

They have a VOCE Boutique and the rest is at Neiman Marcus. I just think it's a genius idea ... read some of the testimonials!

Myspace Hackers

So I have a myspace profile -- together w/ the other Billion people out there! Anyways, for the past few weeks I kept getting locked out of my account "due to excessive failed logins". So it made me think -- why would people want to hack into your myspace account? I mean there isn't any real important information on there about me. It doesn't have my address, my phone number, no credit card info, etc.

The way I found out I had people hack my account was seeing a bulletin about how people had hackers in their friends list. So I went into my friends list and loandbehold I had about 12 hacker profiles. The way I knew it was hackers was b/c their profiles said "this profile no longer exists" which means myspace cancelled their account (I think).

So I guess I wanted to post the question of WHY do people want to hack into other people's profiles? Sometimes they will even corrupt/change your profile for you. Some will attach some virus thing so that your account becomes contaminated if you look at a hacked profile. Any thoughts/insights?

Moving Away from Hardware?

An interesting article from Forbes.com on open source information storage -- a move away from hardware toward a more mobile information storage/access.

Investing through Social Networks

I heard about this on a Podcast (I can't remember the name) and this site is basically an Investing version of a Social Network Site. People basically share their investment recommendations with other members of the site. The goal of this company is to help people invest better by having access to relevant information without having to spend hours searching for it. I though this was an interesting approach to online communities. Check it out!

http://socialpicks.com/

City to Trump: You're fined!

Donald Trump has officially taken the saying "No such thing as bad publicity" to whole new level. A lawsuit over a Flagpole?!

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/19/trump.flag.ap/index.html