About Me

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 Oak Park, CA where I live with my wife and three young boys.

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

Career:

Currently I am the Vice President of Products at Snap Technologies, the company behind Snap Shots and Snap.com

Prior to joining Snap, I worked in various product development and management roles for small and big companies such:

  • Spark Networks – where I helped many singles find their soul mate (as Vice President of Product and Project Management)
  • ICQ/AOL – part of the ICQ mobile team I was in charge of bringing Mobile Instant Messaging solutions to over 20 carriers worldwide
  • eMobile (rest in peace) – where I was part of a team that built one of the first Mobile Multimedia Communicators running on Linux, the Galleo
  • Contact Networks (rest in peace)
  • Amdocs
  • Tefen

I am also an adviser to several online & mobile media companies.

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

Teams I just can’t stand (don’t expect to see link love here):

Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israeli Football)

Manchester United (English Football)



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14 Responses to About Me

  1. Avigdor says:

    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

  2. CeciliaJones says:

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

  3. ELI says:

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

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  4. ?? says:

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    think you can get Cherokee on the iPhone?

  5. 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 ….

  6. gideonm says:

    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

  7. gideonm says:

    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?

  8. haroldrhode says:

    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.

  9. jaymeydad says:

    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.

  10. haroldrhode says:

    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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  11. haroldrhode says:

    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.

  12. jaymeydad says:

    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.

  13. haroldrhode says:

    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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