About Me

October 3rd, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

Background:

I was born and raised in a little village in Israel. I studied Industrial & Management Engineering & Information Systems Engineering and graduated in 1997. In 2003 I moved to Los Angeles where I spent seven years. In the fall of 2010, I moved back to Israel and I founded a new company, Hitpad.

I have a broad experience and understanding of Internet and mobile consumer applications and services. Some of the areas that I have mastered during my career include search engine development, advertising networks, contextual technologies, community creation and management, online personals, subscription/paid content web sites, web usability, customers’ life cycle management, mobile entertainment & instant messaging.

Career:

  • Co-Founder & CEO, Hitpad
  • Vice President of Products & Operations, Snap Technologies, the company behind Snap Shots
  • Vice President, Product & Project Management, Spark Networks (parent company of JDate)
  • Director of Wireless Accounts, ICQ Mobile at AOL – in charge of relationships with 20 mobile operators worldwide
  • Sr. Product Manager, Galleo (formerly e-Mobile) – where I was part of a team that built one of the first Mobile Multimedia Communicators running on Linux, the Galleo
  • Software Engineer, Contact Networks
  • Sr. Software Engineer, Amdocs
  • Engineer, Tefen

I also severed as an adviser to several online & mobile media companies including MoMinis, BabyFirst.TV, Amadesa and ZIM.

Additional information can be found on my LinkedIn page.

Interests and Hobbies:

  • Music – I enjoy listening to many genres, attend live shows and I play the drums and a have basic guitar playing skills which I hope to improve when I will have some spare times.
  • Sports – football (aka soccer), swimming, skiing, mountain biking
  • Technology -  mobile, social application & online communities, search, usability

Contact:

Email: jayblog {at} meydad {dot} com

 

Online Identities:

My Twitter page

My Posterous where I post photos, videos and songs I like

My Flickr page

My Last.fm page

My Teams:

Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israeli Football)

Hapoel Holon (Israeli Basketball)

Liverpool (English Football)

LA Lakers

LA Dodgers



  • Avigdor

    Can I use the stream Israeli radio on MP3 players or some Cellphones beside iphone and ipodtuch?
    I live in NY, I am israeli.
    My email is avi145@yahoo.com

  • CeciliaJones

    Great background – in your experience what is the best web-based project portfolio management software app to use?

  • ELI

    Its very nice of you to write from were you coming.
    yours links help me a lot to hear glgalaz .

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  • http://www.facebook.com/dotan.spiegler Dotan Spiegler

    A new app – Israel Radio on the AppStore !

    listen to live music from israel on your iPhone

    HomePage: http://web.me.com/dotan0509/IsraelRadio/Downloa…

    Articles :
    1. http://www.ipsf.co.il/forum/t16227/
    2. http://www.iphoneil.net/?p=24488
    3. http://www.iphoneblog.co.il/2009/09/blog-post_1…

    and many more ….

  • gideonm

    Hi Jay
    I wonder if you can help me- in the past i had the above with the following Israeli stations:

    Galatz
    Radio Lelo Hafasaka
    Reshet bet Reshat Gimel
    Somehow I can't find the stations and when I put the urls it's not functioning
    Could you please advice?
    Thanks
    Gideon

  • http://www.meydad.com jaymeydad

    As far as I know these should be working:
    http://www.meydad.com/2009/11/28/listen-to-more…

  • gideonm

    thanks. but how do i install the links inti thr FStream?I tried to do it manually as follow: i go to favorites put a name then the url
    What do i wright in the format and in the bitrate?

  • haroldrhode

    Please… I love your Israel Radio app. But could you add Radio Kol Chai? I spent this past Shabbat in Philadelphia with it's Business Manager – Chana Bar-Sela. I asked him why we couldn't get Radio Kol CHai through the Israel Radio App. He responded that they would be happy to do this, but hadn't been approached. His email is libi@93fm.co.il. His cellphone is +972-52-335-2797. He's in the US with an Ethiopian Israeli Choir for the next few days. Thanks very much, Harold Rhode (+1-202-256-6766) or email: hrhode@verizon.net.

  • http://www.meydad.com jaymeydad

    I just checked and Radio Kol Chay is one of the stations that the app
    VisualRadio offers. Just search iTunes for this app and install it.

  • haroldrhode

    Thanks, but I much prefer to use your app. It's easy to use and works very
    well. I tried to VisualRadio one which is much more complicated. Yours
    makes more sense.

    Would you consider adding Radio Kol CHai to yours?

    THanks,

    Harold Rhode

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  • haroldrhode

    Please… I love your Israel Radio app. But could you add Radio Kol Chai? I spent this past Shabbat in Philadelphia with it's Business Manager – Chana Bar-Sela. I asked him why we couldn't get Radio Kol CHai through the Israel Radio App. He responded that they would be happy to do this, but hadn't been approached. His email is libi@93fm.co.il. His cellphone is +972-52-335-2797. He's in the US with an Ethiopian Israeli Choir for the next few days. Thanks very much, Harold Rhode (+1-202-256-6766) or email: hrhode@verizon.net.

  • http://www.meydad.com jaymeydad

    I just checked and Radio Kol Chay is one of the stations that the app
    VisualRadio offers. Just search iTunes for this app and install it.

  • haroldrhode

    Thanks, but I much prefer to use your app. It's easy to use and works very
    well. I tried to VisualRadio one which is much more complicated. Yours
    makes more sense.

    Would you consider adding Radio Kol CHai to yours?

    THanks,

    Harold Rhode

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