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newsgeek have managed to set up (almost) free tickets for the new Transforms movie  for this Thursday (25-06-09).Well done news geek! . There are limited tickets so go and get them fast!  each ticket is only 10 NIS in order to to prevent no-shows. Get your tickets here.

About the movie:

When the first movie came out, I didn’t bather to see it. Only after allot of recommendations I saw it. It was a fun movie which I enjoyed very much and the winner formula for a winner action movie: effects, hot girl, romantic background story, car race or in this case robot race :).

After enjoying the first movie, I was so excited when the second transformers came out. The new Transforms is fun and I recommend going to see it. It really takes your mind of things (I got my first police report on the way to the movie, and didn’t think about it the entire movie!) over all, it was a bit over doing it: 2 hot girls, really great effect with allot of fire,  more transformers, great soundtrack and an intense relationship. through out the entire movie there was the big questions of who will say “I love you” first…o. and I forgot,  some great desert scenes with the hot girl running… and yes, I as a girl really enjoyed it

MobileMonday TLV  are giving away a *free* entrance to the IMA’s Mobile Advertising Conference.  This is the second time they are having this conference, the first one was great (you can read about the first conference here).The ticket is worth 390 NIS + vat. full Agenda here.

In order to win a free entrance you need to fill out a feedback form about Mobile Monday TLV. The winner will be announced on the 22nd of Jun. (you need to have been in our events to answer it).

As the concept of Social media grows so does the concept of Social Marketing. Yesterday I  attended a one of a kind dinner at Forelin, which is a chef seafood restaurant. The event was called “Eat & Twitt” and the purpose of it was to promote the restaurant and their new summer menu. This is the first time this is done in Israel, and I have not heard of a similar event done abroad… The event was organized by Liat Vardi–Bar, the talented  “out of the box” thinker I know and love and promoted by Yosi Tagori, which “invented” the concept of #fiddme on twitter.

The guest included magazine and blog writers that are related to the food  and restaurant industry and twitter geeks which tweeted the entire dinner.

In addition to the wonderful dinner served, there were different wines from Agur winery, and a lecture about food photography techniques, and there were even give always: a cooking book from selected chef  restaurants.

This is the second time I attended  Forelins private room and enjoyed it so much. I love the setting and the service there! was one of the more fun events I have been to lately, waiting for the next one. Thanks Forelin!

For more pics:http://picasaweb.google.com/jasmineah/EatTwitt#

tweeting about it:

Below are all the interesting events - at least the ones I find interesting. If you think I forget something, please feel free to email or tweet me.

After a long time of no women events, we are planning a women only event for entrepreneur women.

The goal of the event is to unite women in the Hi-Tech industry and create an inspiring and supportive platform for women entrepreneurship.

The event is of the F5 – Refreshing women’s venture group and will take place this upcoming Sunday, in the private VIP room at Foreline restaurant in Tel Aviv (there is free parking!!).

The event will include dinner and a lecture “My entrepreneurship experience and about leveraging new media to live a LIP (location independent professional) lifestyle." by Maya Elhalal, which will share with us her experience.

There are limited places, so RSVP ASAP on the Facebook Event here.

Yesterday I attended TheMarker annual web convention, Com.vention09. when I arrived, a girl approached me and informed me that Pelephone are giving away the Palm. As I’ve been awaiting for the Palm Pre, and knowing that it will distributed via Pelephone, I got super excited and even ready to buy it! When I got to Pelephones stand I asked about it, and after taking a good look at the phone  I said; This is not the Palm Pre!

Well, it seems that Pre and Pro sound rather similar. After explaining to the sales person why this phone is not the Pre, he said, “Yes, the Pre will only be available in September”  and explained how good is the Palm Pro. Since I was there already, I played a game. I was impressed that Pelephone had such a big stand, and thought to myself that its probably due to the new technology they are marketing : High Speed GSM, which is actually HSDPA (where did they get that name!?!).

At the end of the convention, I went up to meet a friend near the Pelephone stand, One of the girls told me I can play as much as I’d like (woohoo). surprisingly enough, I had won! I was shocked, I have never won before. I went to get my prize, and found out that in order to get my prize I need to sign up to Pelephone for 36 months and pay 70 NIS per month!!!, which is 2520 NIS!!!, doesn’t sound like a prize to me!. After talking a bit with the sales guy he said the problem is that I have a different operators phone and that I need to have a Pelephone subscription in order to be legible for the prize. sounds fair enough. As Pelephone charges me for some unknown reason for the past two years, I was actually happy.  I have two numbers subscribed to Pelephone, which I haven’t been using for periods of three and five years yet they’ve been charging me 60 NIS per two months. As me being one of those costumers that don’t want to wait 2 hours on the phone, I just let them charge me 30 NIS a month. finally I thought it was worth it. I could get the phone for 30 NIS a month, and still keep my Orange number. But it seemed that the ONLY package I could get in order to receive my **FREE* phone was the  70 NIS or up packages. It was to expensive to get the free mobile phone. I would actually prefer not to win a FREE phone and get all disappointed. After this incident, I’m going to wait on the phone how ever much it takes and cancel my 2 subscriptions to Pelephone. Although it does say on the small print that you need to subscribe to Pelephone, it does make you feel stupid that they make you pay a big amount and change your subscription package to a more expensive package. Shame on Pelephon!

a crazy week of events is ahead of us.  even if you are not going to CTIA, there are allot of hi tech related events this week! (if you are going to CTIA, look below for my recommendations)  I don’t know if its because the Kinnernet camp or because the upcoming holidays. anyway, below you may find a list of upcoming events so it will be much more easier to track and not miss on something you would like to attend:

 24/3:  GarageGeeks hosting Allen Hurff from MySpace: although this event was yesterday, its worth mentioning it in the list, Allen gave a great lecture about Open Platform, Open Social and Open ID and got me thinking….

25/3 Pre-Kinnernet Get Together: a get together with the Kinnernet participants from Israel and overseas. the event will take place in Uptown (formerly Galina Beach Club), from 20:00 to 22:00 and is hosted by Genesis Partners & 013Netvision. first free drinks are free. to RSVP: http://prekinnernet2009.eventbrite.com/

26/3-28/3 The annual Kinnernet camp: Will take place at  the see of Galilee. for more info: http://2009.kinnernet.com/

29/9 COM.Vention09: The annual Internet convention of TheMarker. the convention will have two tracks; International track which will be in English and include speakers from the Kinnernet Camp, and an Israeli track, which will focus Israeli scene. For more info and registration: http://conventions.themarker.com/article.asp?rId=138

29/3 Entrepreneur  Day: The first day (out of two) of the Entrepreneur Day, by MIT forum.  You will be able to hear about new strategies for Starting Up, Using IP for converting ideas into businesses and much more. For more details: http://www.mit-forum.org.il/events/event.aspx?id=72

29/3 Post Kinnernet Party, hosted by the GarageGeeks. the event will start at 19:30 in the Geek Garage (40 Hapeled St, Holon)

30/3 Tel Aviv branch of the Startups and Societal Ventures Network. Speakers are not yet published. The events will start at 18:00 and will take place at HP Offices, Raanana: http://www.meetup.com/SSVNetworkISRAEL/calendar/9904102/?a=ce1p_grp

30/3 GarageGeeks Sessions: Creative Commons Think Alike. The garage is busy this week! for info about this session: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=65575522591

31/3 Breakfast with Jeff Pulver: The breakfast is from 8:30 to 10:30, and will is held at ZOA House - 1 Daniel Frisch Tel-Aviv

31/3 Techonomy: Right after Jeff’s breakfast and in the same place! comfortable! The event will showcase new innovative startups that are aiming to change the way we think about Web2.0. The event is free but you need to RSVP at: http://techonomy.eventbrite.com/

31/3 Yahoo! Developer Session: The session is hosted by the.co.il’s and will discuss Yahoo! Developer Network and Open Strategy. The events starts at 19:00 and is at IDC.

1/4 Entrepreneur Day: The second day of the Entrepreneur Day, in this day there will be a highlight on getting Investments. for more info: http://www.mit-forum.org.il/events/event.aspx?id=74

1/4 The Annual Morrison & Foerster IP Seminar: at this event you will be able to learn about he emerging marketplace for Intellectual Property. The event will take place the Hilton Hotel and is from 9:00 to 14:00. Registration: http://snurl.com/cfc79

1/4 IMA’s Knowledge Cafe: The topic is: “Cybercrime Threats: From Internet to Mobile”. the event will take place at Sun’s offices, from 13:30- 17:30. for agenda: http://www.imaworld.org/?CategoryID=520 for registration: http://www.imaworld.org/?CategoryID=521

Let me know if I forgot something.

If you are planing on going to CTIA I recommend going to:

MobileMonday @ CTIA Wireless 2009:http://www.facebook.com//event.php?eid=68414518125

The Mobile Mashup: The Glitterati After Party at CTIA hosted my MobileMonday New York: http://mashupctia09-fbnews.eventbrite.com/

Caroline’s WIP Jam: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148397450064, I attended twice and was super inspiring!

WIP Jam After Party:  http://wipjam.com/2009/03/wip-jam-after-party-at-ctia-wireless-in-vegas-april-2/

The Mobile Monday Peer Awards where held during the MWC 2009. Different MobileMonday chapters from all over the world sent their chosen startup. Each startup had 3 minutes to introduce themselves. My favorite presentation was by Jaime Lanchares, Unkasoft CEO.  In his presentation he “talked” to his application and demonstrated what the application can do…  I recommend you have a look at his presentation . The Tel Aviv chapter sent Fring, which started as a mobile VoIP client, and enhanced to a mobile clients that allows various ways of interactions with your contacts. There were three award categories; jury award, audience award and the chapter award. PopCatcher won the jury award,  Unkasoft won the audience award, as I said before the presentation was amazing! Fring won the chapter award and also got second place in the jury awards.

following the presentations there was a cocktail party, where I got the opportunity to meet some very interesting  people…

last week we  had the 4th MoMo TLV event. it was in Tel Aviv, at the Mandy’s.

The event included special guest from abroad and was full. this was the first time that we actually had a waiting list. Orange handed out some very cool beer glasses and books (beer and books go great together). There where allot of women. This time I counted 14 women, which 4 of them, not including me were blond.  I was very happy to know, that the blond women where not only smart but in a high managing position. for example  Nurit Roth, Co-Founder and Director at 3DVU and Tami Bronner, CEO of Cellerium . girl power! or even better, blond girl power!

Michal Carmi, Tripletec CEO - another smart blond

In addition to the speakers, Eero Bragge, Senior technical consultant, from forum Nokia attended and was nice enough to let me ask him allot of technical Symbian related question, even though a day after the MoMo TLV event he was the key lecturer of the IMA technical session. as always we had refreshments and a fun atmosphere..

for more pictures please visit our picture album

Next week, there are three mobile events. the first is the September Mobile Monday Tel Aviv (MoMo Tlv) event, and the theme is "Global mobile Partnership". for this event we have some special guest from abroad; Bill Gajda, Chief Commercial Officer, GSM Association, Stephane Gantchev, Head of Orange Trial Factory, Orange-France and Gian-Luca Cioletti, Head of BizDev EMEA,  Forum Nokia. the event will be on September 15th in Tel Aviv and as always will include free drinks and refreshments. for more info and registration visit http://momotlv.eventsbot.com/

The second event, is a technical workshop that IMA are organizing with Forum Nokia. it’s on September 16th morning. it will include Nokia’s tools and SDK’s, development platforms such as J2me, Symbian, flash, widgest etc. The latest on S60 Platform, location API’s and much more. all sessions will be presented by Eero Bragge, from Forum Nokia. for more info please visit: http://www.imaworld.org/?CategoryID=459

The third mobile event for next week is the GSMA Global Competition, where the winner of the competition will be announced. this event is with Carmel Ventures and is on September 16th, after the forum Nokia session, so if your quick you can make them both…. for more info please visit http://www.carmelventures.com/Event.asp?Pid=0.51.543&id=539