This monkey goes to Boxee

I guess that after 6 years of mono contribution during my time at Mainsoft.com;
Mono, is an addiction hard to overcome.

Working with plaYce.com an in browser 3D geographical games company, mono was chosen for cross-platform game scripting engine.


Now, "Carried away by the moonlight shadow", this monkey goes to Boxee.tv the social media center.

Lost in Conversion?

Lost in Conversion? Unleash the power of web analytics to improve conversion rates.

Web analytics and conversion optimization is probably the biggest untapped opportunity within online marketing, particularly in a time of economic downturn.

Within this GarageGeeks session, you be exposed to best practices and new developments in measurability, user behavior analysis and proven conversion rate tactics.

Conversion is the New Black!
Itai Levitan, Co-CEO and Daniel Waisberg, Head of Web Analytics, easynet search marketing http://www.easynet.co.il

Google Analytics & Website Optimizer an Overview
Nir Bar-Lev, Head of Analysis Products, EMEA at Google

From Porn to AI in 20 slides.
Rafael Mizrahi, http://www.Feng-GUI.com

Reveal the mystery of what visitors are doing inside your webpage
Dr. Tal Schwartz, Founder and CEO, ClickTale
http://www.clicktale.com

NuConomy - next generation personalization and advertising platform based on advanced user level Analytics.
http://www.NuConomy.com

Session Summary
Itai Levitan of easynet search marketing.

- Mingle and Mangal

The event will take place on Thursday, March 12th, 20:00, at the GarageGeeks HQ (Hapeled 40, Holon).

Digital Innovators Summit

Feng-GUI is invited by the 'New Media' Sector at the Israel Export Institute to present at the Digital Innovators Summit, Berlin.
We will be presenting at the "Innovative Companies: Analytics and Ad Management" Panel, with Microsoft Advertising and ClickTale.


VDZ, the Association of German Magazine Publishers, along with
www.emediasf.com and CeBIT are hosting the "Digital Innovators Summit" which bring together dynamic companies to present their digital media concepts and offerings.
The conference will be held on March 3-4, 2009 at the Deutsche Telekom Conference Center, Franzo"sische Strase 33a-c, 10117 Berlin, Germany.

Feng-GUI welcome the "Digital Innovators Summit" participants.
You can access the Dashboard using the Feng-GUI XNIP-Code (as username/password) found at the summit program.

Mozilla SDK hall of shame

I use FireFox on daily basis, but this goes way beyond my acceptance as a developer.

The following is taken from Mozilla SDK:

The samples may not build any more on all platforms. There are plans to clean up the sample plugin situation - better organization, updated build systems, get them building on all platforms. However, even if one cannot build the samples they can still be very valuable as code references.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Plugins/Samples_and_Test_Cases

GarageGeeks Sessions: Developing Mobile Apps

GarageGeeks are happy to invite you to a session about: developing mobile apps.

Whether you have your own site, simply an idea for mobile app or interested to learn about new trends in the mobile development world, this session is for you.
We will discuss mobile development platforms with emphasize on Windows Mobile, iPhone and fring.

The sessions will include live coding demonstration and real world case studies.
Agenda:
Windows Mobile: Every developer is a mobile developer
- Avner Mor, GM, Telecom and Mobile Services, Microsoft R&D
- Guy Merin, Dev Manager, Windows Mobile, Microsoft R&D

Developing community mobile applications with fring API
- Avi Shechter, Co-founder and CEO, fring
- Itamar Kunik, API Team Leader, fring
- Alexander Zaidelson, Mobile Product Manager, Wefi

Developing for iPhone - First steps
- Gershon Kagan, iPhone consultant

** Don't forget to update the wiki http://wiki.garagegeeks.org with
stuff/food/drink that you will bring.

When: 15/1/2008 at 20:00
Where: GarageGeeks, 40 Hapeled St, Holon
See you there!

mono song by Shlomi Saranga

This is for all you mono guys out there.

New Song of the Israeli singer Shlomi Saranga - Mono, on his way for his next album, based to be a mix between Hebrew & Greek songs !

Cloud and Grid computing session

In this Session event we will learn about Cloud and Grid computing, the new platform for software developers.
Pay per Use for on-demand software services.

November 27 20:30
GarageGeeks HQ

speakers:
* Avner Algom, CEO of IGT (Israeli Grid) www.grid.co.il
* Nati Shalom, Founder and CTO of GigaSpaces
* Moshe Kaplan, Founder, Rocketier
"how with 10 bucks NRE and Cloud computing you can build a start up and start running it"
* Shlomo Swidler: Developing on Amazon's EC2 Using Open Source Solutions

מדוע
מייקרוסופט http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx
גוגל http://code.google.com/appengine
סיילספורס http://www.salesforce.com/platform
ואחרים מציעים פלטפורמות פיתוח מבוססות ענן?

המודל הכלכלי של תשלום עפ"י שימוש חוסך הרבה כסף לצרכני שרותי התוכנה ומציע למפתחים פלטפורמות יעילות וזולות לפיתוח ופירסום של שרותי תוכנה באינטרנט.

בערב זה נלמד מהו מחשוב עננים, מדוע זה קורה עכשיו, וכיצד אנו יכולים להרוויח מתשתית פיתוח זו.

GarageGeeks hosting Yahoo! BOSS

The GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage party:
GarageGeeks hosting Yahoo!
"who's the BOSS"?



Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) Hack Day is making its way around the world and its coming to Israel!

You are all invited to learn about BOSS technology, ask questions and meet a group of Yahoo's leading product folks headed by:
- Bill Michels, GM of Yahoo! Search BOSS
- Ronny Lempel, Head of the Yahoo! Haifa Research Lab
- and lead BOSS product managers and engineers

The event will take place on Wednesday November 5th, 20:30, GarageGeeks HQ (Hapeled 40, Holon).

Yahoo! will also be hosting an extended developer-focused BOSS Hack Day on Nov 6th. For more details, please go to http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1223198. For more info on BOSS here visit http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/.

** Don't forget to update the wiki (http://wiki.garagegeeks.org/) with stuff/food/drink that you will bring.

Garagegeeks is sponsored by Giza VC and Carmel Ventures

[Tele]Vision! II a different viewing perspective

The GarageGeeks sessions with Jeff Pulver and Dror Gill present:

[Tele]Vision! II a different viewing perspective

Following the success of the first [Tele]Vision! session held on April 2007, we will once again bring the best brains together to find out where TV is headed. The format of the session will be quite unique: Each presenter will talk about a topic for 5 minutes, and then lead a Q&A session and discussion for another 5 minutes. There will be no pitching and no company presentations, only pure vision and audience interaction. A peek into some of the topics:

- TV Gets Social (Again)
- From YouTube To Prime Time: It's All About Telling a Story
- Internet TV: Who Sells The Popcorn?
- Over the Top TV: Delivering Content to TVs over the Open Internet
- Investor Perspective: What it Takes to Start a New Media Company

The event will take place on Thursday, December 18th, 20:30, at the GarageGeeks HQ (Hapeled 40, Holon).

Meet France Telecom and Orange Developers Community

GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi hosting: Steve Glagow, Vice President of Orange Partner will discuss the program and tools available by Orange for its developers community. This is your chance to meet some of France Telecom members.
27 August, 20:00
GarageGeeks HQ, Holon
Please update the wiki (http://wiki.garagegeeks.org) with food/drink that you will bring and how you can help.