By Gregory Levey

The Israeli government is deploying new tactics to deepen ties with American youth and evangelicals.

For the moment at least, the state of Israel has 553 friends. One of them is Leonardo DiCaprio.

The 20-something Israeli official who is showing me Israel’s new MySpace page, however, says she isn’t sure if the link to the [...]

Web-savvy criminals have turned Israel into the world’s highest ranking source of malicious Internet activity per user, security experts have told The Jerusalem Post.

From July through December 2006, 9 percent of all such activity could be traced back to Israel. Taiwan came next with 8%, while Poland and the US tied at 6%, according to [...]

I feel sick to my stomach when I see a multi-billion giant like Microsoft using “children refugees” as a cover up to market their latest web 2.0 businesses called live.com! While doing my search for my previous story, I came across a press release by UNHCR which said: “Microsoft launches “Click for Cause” initiative to [...]

This article is in response to the question posted by a new site just launched today - Love to Lead - where:

Each week for the next 16 weeks L2L will pose a question designed to stimulate debate between bloggers. Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite article and the blogger whose post receives [...]

It was July 2005 when first published some information about the deployment of a new weapon in Iraq called “Active Denial System weapon.” The weapon was deployed in Iraq for testing free-fresh-flesh-samples (to make “Fried Chicken”). This weapon fires a 95GHz microwave beam at “rioters” to cause heating and intolerable pain in less than five [...]

I just ran by Quantcast, which is still on beta but providing some interesting stats that some bloggers might like to check.

If your blog is lucky to be profiled, you can see some fine statistical analysis that estimates some figures about your visitors, like, their age, gender, ethnicity, even education and income.

The statistics also estimate [...]

Netscape, the brand that kick-started the dot-com boom only to lose the browser war to Microsoft, launched its latest reincarnation today with a portal focused on community-driven news. It�s not exactly a Digg clone. Submitted stories are voted on in much the same way, and the more votes a story gets the higher it appears [...]

Flickr is blocked again in UAE? I just heard that from SC. This is also confirmed here and here.

What the heck is all this about? Since I lived in UAE for few years, I know that Etisalat have this sort of stupid unexplained actions.

But anyway, may this slow down the UAE spam on Flickr [...]

Just got this from official Google blog; they announced Google Base. They say it is an extension of their existing content collection efforts like web crawl, Google Sitemaps, Google Print and Google Video. On the other hand, I also came across Google Analytics, which actually monitors your site visitors and promises you to watch how [...]

Man gets his Google search history submitted as evidence in murder trial.