2006 4
I am in Japan
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About to drink my chai…
2006 2
Ehud Olmert´s Tragic Mistake
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Before last summer Hezbolah was a minority force in a Lebanon. Before last summer most Lebanese saw Hezbolah as group of fanatics funded by Syria and Iran who could not be trusted to rule Lebanon. But Nasrallah, working jointly with Ahmadinejad and Bashar Al-Asad outsmarted Ehud Olmert and thanks to his naivete have now placed Hezbollah at the center of Lebanese politics.
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2006 1
Yossi Vardi Comes To FON
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Today Yossi Vardi, the renowned Israeli VC who backed many well known companies, including ICQ, came to visit me at FON. Yossi is intelligent, creative, funny and has a natural understanding of the Internet.
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2006 1
FON Is Looking For Retailers Around The World
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As you can see we sell the Fonera for $29.95/euro 29.95. The La Fonera so far only retails in China, anywhere else in the world we sell it over the internet and we are getting around 2000 orders per day up from 150 orders per day in September.
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2006 30
FON Improves WiFi Log On
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What would you think if each time you turn on your GSM/CDMA mobile you had to choose and setup the antenna you are loging in? Well that ease of use that allows our grandmothers to use the mobile is what FON is bringing to ALL wireless devices, Game Consoles, MP3 players, Wireless Phones, you name it…
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2006 30
Entrepreneurs and Priests
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Today Expansion, Spain´s equivalent of the Financial Times, has a poll among university students whose results I found surprising. In general, I believe that somehow I can understand and predict how people in Spain think. Here, had I been confronted with the questions beforehand, I would have failed miserably. Students are asked to rank ocupations from the most trusted to the least trusted.
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2006 30
Eric Baker of Viagogo
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I had dinner twice last night in London. One was organized Goldman Sachs, who represented me during Ya.com’s sale to T-Online, and the other by my partners, in FON Index Ventures.
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2006 29
Christina Domecq Introduces Spinvox
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Met Christina Domecq for the first time this morning in London. We met at the lounge of One Aldwych, one of my favorite hotels in that city. Must say I was impressed by her company Spinvox and by her.
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2006 28
Design Barriers China vs Europe
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This is how most people download Skype in Europe. Now this is how most people download Skype in Taiwan one of the countries with the highest Skype density in the world.
As we go global with FON and prepare for our 2007 look, a look that will go from emphasizing the FON revolution as we do now, to emphasizing the FON community features, we are running into difficulties with the way Chinese people show their web sites. Take a look at PC Home one of the most popular web sites in Taiwan and compare it say with Yahoo, one of the most popular in the world. When I do this I see a stylistic barrier, I see a clear difference in how web sites are designed for Chinese people compared to Americans or Europeans.
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2006 28
Blanquefort Becomes First FONero Town In The World
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Blanquefort, a beautiful small town near Bordeaux has become the first FONero town in the world.