http://www.kobimarenko.com Kobi Marenko's Blog Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:46:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been a long time since I last posted staff to this blog. Looks like the Web 2.0 phenomena and my new baby tom made me a little bit tired but now I am back. After more than a year of development we, at logia group, released the first ... http://www.kobimarenko.com/8hands-mobile-went-live/ Microsoft announced today that Windows Live, and especially the Messenger & Hotmail services will be part of Nokia's next handset. Nokia is the leading handset manufacture of the world, with strong aspiration to be an internet player as well. With this deal, I think Nokia's strategy is becoming quite clear: to ... http://www.kobimarenko.com/windows-live-inside-nokias-handsets/ One more sign that Facebook is growing in a way that might put the domination of MySpace on hold is a new study by Comscore . According to the study, Facebook achieved 270% growth in the last year and MySpace only 72%. 114M people were visiting MyApace on the ... http://www.kobimarenko.com/facebook-is-going-up-and-up-and-up/ It's been a while since I last wrote. It's so hot here in Israel that I can't even connect the words into one sentence... I wanted to announce that 8hands, our amazing social network aggregator, is gaining more and more users and popularity. We are now supporting MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, ... http://www.kobimarenko.com/its-summer-time/ Nokia announced today the acquisition of Twango: a photos, videos & music sharing site. Last September they bought Loudeye, a company that provides music services especially for mobile phones. With a market cap of $113B they are looking on Google's market cap, $160B – after the last stock fall, and ... http://www.kobimarenko.com/nokia-against-google/ A day after Google missed Wall Street's predictions and finished a quarter without growth in the advertising business, the company is making one more step to conquer the internet. The company announced today that they are willing to pay $4.6B for wireless spectrum in order to have the ability to ... http://www.kobimarenko.com/google-is-making-the-last-step-to-conquer-the-internet/ Ok. It's been a while since my last post. Lots of work, business trip to the affiliate summit in Miami. Since I last wrote here, I added about 30 new friends to my Facebook buddy list. Facebook grew dramatically in the last few months and there is a reason why ... http://www.kobimarenko.com/facebook-is-the-future-myspace-is-the-past/ For all of the journalists, bloggers, analysts and commentators that say we are in a "bubble 2.0" : please take a look at Alexa. Among US top 100 sites, 18 !!! are web 2.0 sites that didn't even exist in 2003. In less than 3 years, about 20% of the ... http://www.kobimarenko.com/its-not-a-bubble-%e2%80%93-its-a-new-economy/ I was wondering: can the mobile really be a tool for blogging? I can't see myself writing a full post from my mobile phone. Why should I? it's not convenient and it will never be. When I think about mobile blogging, Twitter comes to mind, along with a picture or ... http://www.kobimarenko.com/mobile-blogging/ The headline of this week's Economist cover is "Israel's wasted victory". 40 years after the Six Days War, the magazine analyzes the history and gives his amazing, new and brilliant conclusion: Israel has wasted the victory. Can something be more obvious than that? Since Israel's great victory on Egypt, Jordan ... http://www.kobimarenko.com/daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/