BloGiza

We're in The Marker

The Marker approached me a little while back and asked to republish the series on Explaining VCs for The Marker online in Hebrew.

The first installment is up and can be found here:

http://hitech.themarker.com/tmc/article.jhtml?ElementId=skita20080901_51984

The others will follow soon, as will the next installment of the series here.

Introducing: Blogiza on Tumblr

As promised last week, we here at the BloGiza labs have been toiling on a new, fun feature. Over the past year, we have been running a feature called "The List", which collects interesting articles on the high-tech/VC world and presents them in a hand list format.

Having recently discovered Tumblr (which inhabits the space between blogging and Twittering), I've decided to spin off The List as a standalone property.

The new The List can be found at: http://blogiza.tumblr.com

It will be updated on a regular, ongoing basis instead of once a week like the old The List. You can also choose to get the new List by RSS using this feed.

Check it out and let me know what y'all think

New feature coming soon

The List is undergoing some interesting changes and will be up in its new incarnation soon.

Stay tuned.

Meet me at the Blogference

Next week, the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya is hosting an international conference on the subject of blogging. The conference will be held on July 1-2 (that's next Sunday-Monday) at the IDC campus. It will cover a wide range of topics both academic and practical.

The program features an impressive list of guests from abroad. Participating will be the great Om Malik, as well as the guys from Ask a Ninja, Jessica Ann Coen (late of Gawker), and Andrew Baron and Joanne Colan from Rocketboom.

I will be hosting a workshop/panel on the second day of the conference (Monday July 2). The subject of the workship os how VCs and startups can use blogging among other things to communicate between them. Joining me will be Aner Ravon (co-blogger of De Gardener), as well as Etay Naor and Tzvika Bessor who, among their various pursuits, are also in charge of the Internet.

The entry fee for the conference is quite low, so I invite everyone out there to come and see.

... And We are Live

After a few months in beta, BloGiza is now up and running for the world to see!

As noted in our mission statement, we intend this blog to be a dialogue with the world: each other, our colleagues in the venture and high-tech community, and most of all the entrepreneurs who drive this industry.

New features will be added regularly, as well as new voices. Be sure to come round regularly.

Mission Statement

Welcome to the Giza Internet Team's tech blog.

This blog is designed with a few purposes in mind. First and foremost, we hope it will serve as a tool to connect with entrepreneurs and techies, a way to share our personal views about the rapidly changing (and converging) Internet/mobile/IPTV world.

We hope we have something to contribute to the big discussion out there; we know we have a lot to learn. As such, the blog will help us focus and clarify our own thoughts, filter the signal from the noise, and help drive our decision processes better.

In time, we hope that people will comment and start a real discussion, so that we can gain insight from the blog as well as present our own ideas.

The blog will focus on a number of related issues:

• Web 2.0 for all its different variations and meanings
• Interesting developments in mobile content and services
• New media (IPTV, the "third screen" concept,  and other convergence issues)
• Gaming and other fun technologies