While it's only lunch time here on the East Coast, over in Israel, our startup exhibit hall/beach party - MashBash Tel Aviv - is kicking into high gear. Our friends at Flixwagon are broadcasting live in the videos embedded above - tune in for coverage of the festivities and interviews with some of Israel's hottest Web startups. Special thanks to Sharon Kuper, who has been a huge help in planning an event taking place 7+ timezones away from us!
We'll have more coverage of the Israeli startup scene over the next week, as our own Adam Hirsch has been busy conducting interviews along with the help of Ayelet Noff ("Blonde 2.0").
Meanwhile, here are the exhibitors and sponsors you'll find at tonight's event:
Yedda (an AOL company) provides publishers and content sites with its Ask & Answer platform for increased user-engagement, reach and ad revenue.
The Sun(TM) Startup Essentials program is designed to help startup businesses off the ground by providing access to industry-leading systems at deep discounts, free world-class software and web-based training, discounts on partner hosting services, and more.
Copenda, a unique social people search engine, allows users to cross-search leading social networks to find their friends, singles for dating, people with similar interests and more.
HooQs is a personal mobile media service that lets you publish and share video and music channels for cellphones and receive personalized media recommendations.
Outbrain provides bloggers, media companies (news/magazines), blog networks, rss readers and other publishers with a free rating and personalized content recommendation widget.
Qoof is the Home Shopping Network for the Internet that bridges the world of online video, E-commerce, and Direct Response TV.
Sightix: Social search and mapping engine that delivers individually ranked & personally actionable search results based on user’s circle of trust.
Mashable will spend time in Israel interviewing key Web 2.0 startups, active Israeli technology corporations, the venture capital firms behind the big Israeli funds and a few big names along the way.
Exclusive Guest Writer for Israel Media Tour
"The new landscape of social media is allowing all of us to better interact, share, and communicate our messages around the globe. The Blonde 2.0 blog focuses on the Web 2.0 communities and tools that allow us to do just that."
MashBash Tel Aviv and Israel Media Tour Media Partners
"TheMarker is a financial and business media group which includes a daily financial newspaper, monthly magazine, Israel's leading business website and largest business and networking social network – TheMarker café. TheMarker Com.vention is the largest and most visited Internet and new-media conference in the Middle East."
"The.co.ils is the leading blog dedicated to Israeli startups, entrepreneurs and Web2.0 trends. It also organizes Web2.0 events such as TWS2008."
"Founded by Nick O'Neill, The Social Times was created as a way to leverage social technology to build the social web industry."
"GarargeGeeks is an Israeli based not-profit physical and virtual space for innovative and creative people to introduce, network, expose, create, brainstorm, innovate and build."
"Jewneric, a Jewish blog, brings together a global community of diverse personalities to create a new forum for the Jewish voice."
"Started in 2005 by Eze Vidra, [VC]Café covers early-stage startups and venture capital news with a spotlight on Israel. "
Exclusive Video Partner
"Flixwagon is fueling a revolution in life broadcasting by enabling anyone with capable 3G/Wi-Fi mobile phone to broadcast live videos to the internet from the palm of their hand. With Flixwagon you can broadcast to family, friends, and/or the entire world. Also, you can easily upload videos to your favorite social websites, blogs, and engage with friends during or after a broadcast. And of course, all broadcasts are saved for later viewing."
Public Relations Partner
360° Digital Influence is a global word of mouth marketing discipline with a methodology for identifying and engaging digital influencers and activating networks of people to share and recommend products, services and issues. We create engaging experiences designed to promote awareness, brand loyalty, advocacy and conversion.