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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Ronaldinho out Assulin In? Meet The New Leo Messi!

April 22, 2008 – 3:21 am

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Israeli young football player Gai Assulin is going places, no doubt. His coach in the second team of Barcelona talks about it, the first team’s president counts on it, and his family, that has already rejected some very tempting offers from other teams, simply knows it. The dream seems closer than ever - an Israeli football star in the first team of Barcelona, one of the leading football clubs in the world.

Assulin is currently living with his father, Eli, in the center of the Catalonian city. Seeing his son playing in the "Camp Nou", maybe the most famous football stadium in the world, was his dream ever since his son’s coaches told him, when the talent was only 10 years old, they have never seen such a potential. In 2003, when Gai was only 12, his father contacted the person in charge of recruiting new talents to Barcelona, and offered his son to take for the annual young talents’ tournament in neighboring Andora. The Spaniard, who has seen a talent or two in his lifetime, watched the Israeli child dribble and kick the ball, and had only one request from his men - bring this child to Barcelona, as fast as you can.

 

Last year, Gai received offers from leading clubs in the English Premiership, including Chelsea and Arsenal. It seems like the Catalonians had no real reason to worry. Although they have lost some young talents in the last couple of years, Gai and his father had no intention to leave Barcelona for money. It seems they have made the right choice: the young Israeli star graduated from Barcelona’s youngsters’ team and joined the second graduate team in the third league of Spain. Gai, the youngest player in the league, is already considered to be one of the best players in his team. In fact, he even played for the first time with the first team in September in the Catalonian cup. Surely he can’t forget these 45 minutes, playing next to some of the biggest football stars in the world.

Soon Gai will have to make a big decision regarding his future. Gai was recently called up by the Israel national football team for their friendly match against Chile. He debuted for Israel by replacing Yossi Benayoun in the 78th minute of the friendly. By playing in this match, he broke Ben Sahar’s record for youngest national team debut by 195 days.

By Iob | Posted in News, Sport | Comments (0)

Making Social Games And Social Community

April 16, 2008 – 12:44 am

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While it seems like there aren’t many fresh-minded, dynamic and young spirited companies left around, a new young and decisive start-up named FUN Development Games arises and does some great stuff.

FUN launched their new website and product this week. The product – a social gaming platform, offers some good and innovative news to the players on the net. it’s free- to- use, download- based and therefore faster and more stable than other web-based games, holds a large variety of games (which grows rapidly since the guys in FUN are constantly working on new games), very user friendly, multi –lingual (for the moment English and Hebrew) and enables a huge number of players to meet up while playing.

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The company’s offices are located in the eastern industrial park of Hod-Hashron near Tel Aviv. Among its employees you may find developers, graphic designers, content and marketing personnel. Co-Founders are Avi Kenigsberg and Ran Sibony.

Kenigsberg, the product manger and CEO of the company, owns a vast experience in network game development. Among other companies he worked for, he was one of the three co-founders of InterLogic , the company behind the brands Play65, Gammon Empire and Play89 –all websites and application which changed the way the gaming world looked like. After starting it, Kenigsberg became the CTO of InterLogic, which was sold 18 months after its establishment.

Kenigsberg claims, that even before he started-up FUN, he knew exactly who would join him and work in it – the best people in their fields. The company, according to him, is aiming at being the leading site for interactive games. From his experience, the innovation brought by AllFun is huge – all that is left is discovering it.

Sibony, VP Marketing and Business Development of FUN, has a long term experience of business consultants and development as a senior business consultant of ZOOZ and also owns a business consultant firm. The majority of his efforts is now invested in promoting AllFun and distributing it over the net. According to him “AllFun is the hottest new thing in the gaming world. Players are constantly looking for a place to play, with friend, on-line, everywhere and for free”

Sibony says, that so far the company has used owners’ finance, and now after launching, it is about to search for fund raisers, mostly for marketing and development purposes.

The people in FUN believe that in a short while, they will reach the critic mass of players, so that you will always find someone to play with on AllFun. To keep up the high quality of the product and most importantly, the good spirit – the company’s employees are spending much time on playing. What a way to go through a work day!

By Iob | Posted in Hi-Tech, Start-Up, Web 2.0 | Comments (0)

A New Bewitched Road In Israel Has Been Found

April 1, 2008 – 12:48 am

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The First Bewitched Road In Jerusalem. Thanks To Dribal.com (In The Photo: Road No. 1 To Jerusalem, And Road 38 Is The Bewitched Road)

Would you believe it if we told you that there’s a certain spot in Israel, that if you drive your car there and leave it in Neutral or just release your foot from the breaks, despite standing downhill, your car will start moving backward?

And would you believe us when telling you that there is more than one such spot in this enchanted country?

Well, for all your doubters, you’re welcome to try it yourselves, and drive either to road no. 65 in the lower Galilee area at the north of Israel, or to a small road in Jerusalem, located under the Armon Hanatziv Promenade in the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood of Jerusalem. Both of these “bewitched roads” will provide you with a similar thrill – having your visual and physical perceptions conflict.

Of course there’s a scientific explanation for this bewitched roads phenomenon (there always is, isn’t there?). The explanation lies in an optic illusion caused by the physical features of the landscape around these roads. Whether it’s a hill, a mountain, a valley or a building that is situated near the road, when looking at them and comparing them to the road it appears to extend in a certain slant. But the actual slope, compared with the actual terrain, is spread the other way around.

We’re sorry if we’ve disappointed you, those who prefer to believe there’s still some magic left in this world of ours. But whether you’re a believer or a down-to-earth realist, you’ll still like to see it for yourself and put your perception to the test. Make sure you include the lovely Galilee road or the small Jerusalem neighborhood in your Israel road trip, to enjoy a bit of magic as experienced in one of these bewitched roads.

By Iob | Posted in Humor, News | Comments (2)
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