Archive for 'social media' Category
Facebook and Community Marketing
14 February 2008383 Friends on Facebook. And let me repeat, I don’t just accept anyone, 99.9% of my friends on Facebook are people I “actually” know and have met at least once. We have actually spoken in person, went to school, went to shul, went to chul, played poker, went skiing, went to school, (elementary through college), […]
Microsoft Offers $44.6B for Yahoo
1 February 2008I actually saw this coming. You can read more about it at Yahoo News here: http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080201/microsoft_yahoo.html.
Running my own Internet company since 1997 and working at a hi tech Internet software company since 1996, I have been around the web for a while. Before Google came along, there was Yahoo, Netscape and the “not stupid” Microsoft.
Years […]
Snow in Jerusalem
1 February 2008Snow in Jerusalem Israel and latest Facebook updates… 360 friends as of today. I am surprised as I do not accept anyone. I only accept people I have a REAL connection with. On the other hand, I accept ANYONE into linked in but I am on both for business anyway… I always have lots going on so […]
Keeping Up With Facebook
15 January 2008I refuse to admit that facebook is getting the better of me. Even when I should be updating my own blog I STILL update my FB account. Its just I KNOW that my 339 friends will mostly see my FB update but won’t go to my blog. Um - so this is a call out […]
The Suburbs and the City
3 December 2007Living in New York City, Boston and Jerusalem over the past 20 years has influenced the way I view the world and how I work. Commuting from Queens into Manhattan was annoying since I was in a 2 fare zone and it took me over and hour to get to work. When I moved in the […]
bni, business network international new york city
27 November 2007Raphi is back from BNI, in the NYC office, back from the Javits setting up for tomorrow’s NY Xpo trade show, off to lunch with Fred Ross at 4starcleaning.com.
It was great to see all of my friends and colleagues at BNI Chapter 12 at Club 101 this morning. I gotta say that when you are […]
I Broke Facebook
21 November 2007Whenever something isn’t working online I get a kick out of saying or hearing “uh oh. I think I broke the Internet.” But today I think is equally as funny since I thhink I broke facebook. I mean, it isn’t working. I mean, I can’t update my “what the hell am I doing right this […]
balancing work and play
15 November 2007Latest FB update: “Raphi is working now, but drinking lots of wine later tonight at Andrew Treitel’s Beaujolais Nouveau in Tel Aviv. He better eat something healthy beforehand”
…trying to get as much work done today as possible but its Thursday and tomorrow is Friday and Shabbat and I have 15 websites to update, a meeting […]
why do people blog? and facebook
14 November 2007I just updated the “what is raphi doing at this moment” feature at facebook.
“Raphi is updating JerusalemRealEstateGuide.com & other real estate websites. Finally going to plunk down some real shekel for a nice big plata for shabbat. Now THATS hot.”
As I have written in my previous posts, I actually appreciate the fact that facebook has […]
FaceBook vs OpenSocial, Social Media Optimization, SMO
11 November 2007My latest post at facebook. I really have to thank FB for getting me back into blogging. It was necessary for my business and they forced me to do it. In addition, it’s increasing my links to my websites so I am pretty happy about it.
Someone on the SMO -Social Media Optimization Facebook has all the […]