Go2web20 TechBites 06/04/08 - It's all about Israel's High-Tech Industry

From time to time, I like to gather interesting news to one post, for an easy & quick reading - Certainly not something that you can do in 140 characters...

Since I live in Israel, and so much going on here lately, I'd like to dedicate this post to updates and news from Israeli-based startups (or related to Israel), that built for a global audience.

Collarity (based in SF & Israel), aims to improve your website's monetization performance by delivering more relevant site search results and content recommendations - both driven by the anonymous behavior of your website's audience.

Their new feature suggests relevant video content from the search box itself, meaning, you start to write your query, and you get results based on the community choices, or your search behavior:

The unique search engine can be found on MyFox, and Ynet (Hebrew) - but for the video experience, go to Fox on Demand, or Collarity site.
Pixsy already announced partnership with Collarity, but I don't see the video feature in their site yet...

The WeFi software automatically detects and qualifies all WiFi access points within range and connects you to the spot with the best Internet connection.
With the new Twitter mashup, WeFi members can enter their Twitter ID on their profile page, and start getting automatic updated sent to their Twitter feeds whenever they get connected in a new location.

fring 3.35 for Nokia S60 devices is out - Improved stability, made voice quality, added speakerphone for Symbian 9.2 and enabled file transfer from Yahoo and Skype. Get it here: fring download. Also, check fring widget page if you want to share fring mobile with friends.

Pageonce, your personal internet assistant that allows you to manage all your accounts from a single secure site - Now open to the public.

BrainDamage claimed to have built a computer that understands context.
The main product called Noesis, and it's a language independent search engine that emulates natural thinking and is able to understand the idea behind your search question thus find relevant answers only.
Jeff Pulver met with the company in Israel, and was very impressed by their product - You can read the full story on Jeff's blog.

YouFig offers a rich set of features for community owners to manage their own communities and for members to collaborate and network.

The new "Summon all collaborators now" link on the list of collaborators, allows you to summon all offline members of the workspace, letting them know via an email notification that their presence is required at this exact moment in time.

The new Bubbles is desktop client that connects you with your favorite web applications: Flickr, Zoho, Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo!, Netvibes etc., and enables you to get notifications from these sites, to your natural work environment - your desktop.

Goodies:

IncrediMail released a Facebook application called HiYo Wall. It's basically a light version of their new messenger program: HiYo. If you're using any kind of wall it lets you add lots of cool graphics into it (Outside all other wall functionality). Personally, I hate all those annoying Facebook walls, but OK... this one is somewhat cute.

Nana10 is a news portal in Israel (Hebrew only). The reason that I mention the site here, is for the cool music playlist they have published lately, and can be viewed by everyone. Most of the song tracks are in English so you can all enjoy them:
The 80's - The 90's
The cool player powered by MTV Israel and of course based on TVinci technology.