How AI will kill dating services
One of the most popular services online, from the beginning of the internet, has been dating services. I recall that already in the late 1990s, when the internet had a low reach of just...
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How AI can help environment aid
Following a discussion with some friends, which wondered how AI could help environment aid, here are some SaaS and startup ideas that utilize AI to address environmental problems, categorized by the three R’s: Reduce,...
Natural Language Models Don’t Really Have Common Sense
We all know the famous Wason selection task, a psychology puzzle developed by Peter Cathcart Wason in 1966. The task is designed to test a person’s ability to apply logical reasoning. Here’s how it...
The AI Paradox
If at some point AI is so smart that it would be capable of everything, would it be able to create a task so complex that even the AI will not be able to...
Why surveys are the best way to make mistakes
If a flight ticket to Mars cost $100, would you join the journey? I’m sure most of us would answer “yes” to this question. Does it mean that we have now validated a...
Installation of RoundCube mail client on Linux
This is a step by step tutorial for installation of your own RoundCube mail client, it is in continue to my recent Postix server installation post. [Download DOCX version] [Download PDF version] Install...
Collaboration: the one thing that all startups need to improve and do
Last week, I sent a quote to a large European client for Facenition, our startup. I wouldn’t have known about this RFP (Request For Proposals) if a Berlin startup, which operates in the same...
How to prepare the best startup pitch for investors
Surprisingly enough, most of the pitch documents that I’m getting are done really badly, or are not good enough to attract investors’ attention. Some of those startups have a calibre of mentors and advisers,...
Bookmark of recommended channels
List of youtube channels which I’m following, mainly for educational purposes – from Noble prizes to online courses by Yale, Stanford and Harvard University: Science Noble prize lectures: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/ Noble prize youtube channel:...
Some SEO tips and good practices
This article is written for the reference of our content writing staff, as we employ in iBronto few content writers and manage some blogs for clients and ventures. It is meant to be a...
Steve Jobs and Apples “amazing” geniousity: Macbook usability issues
We often hear about Apple’s renowned UX/UI experience. However, there are several lesser-known bugs and design flaws in macOS that can lead to a frustrating user experience. Here are some of the issues that...
How to add an iframe popup to your blog (without any plugin)
So you want an iframe popup maybe – for registrations or privacy / cookies alert window? Here is a short code snippet that can make it happen. Just add this code snippet to a...
Startups documents – templates pack
This is a live blog articles in which I will share all sorts of startup documents templates. You need to let me know if anything else is interesting you. Note – they fit with...
Startups need (not) to learn from chimpanzees
There are two major differences between us humans and chimpanzees, which are giving us a huge advantage over them. Startups and business people can learn a lot from this observation. Chimpanzees are highly intelligent:...
Object Oriented Programming is usually not the best choice, especially not good for startups
Have you ever tried to tell a beginner developer, that Object Oriented programming (or any other tech which is in the main stream opinion) is bad? Young students are finishing university and automatically doing...
Goodbye Google – how and why to get off Google Products
Google is a very problematic company, in all levels: they spy after users[1], they use dodgy techniques and they don’t follow our society code of conduct (the laws)[2]. In many countries they are fined...
Add a new sender domain to an existing POSTFIX mail server – a step by step guide
In this guide we will add, step by step, a new domain sender to an existing POSTFIX mail server: say your existing server is sending emails on behalf of example.com domain [the manual to...
Build your own outgoing mail server on Linux
This is a step by step guide how to build Postfix as an outgoing SMTP Mail Server Ubuntu 18.04 / Debian 9.9 Stretch Setup. [Download PDF version] [Download DOCX version] Postfix is a Mail Transfer...
Some tips on how stop feeding the Google and Facebook monsters
And… if you are thinking to start using a Mac’intosh, here is my opinion (read below). In January 2014 I built Palrobot, a Facebook app which reached more than 4.5 million users within a...
How to configure WordPress to automatically install plugins and themes without FTP
This is going to be a short tip, I just found out (and got annoyed) that the recent versions of WordPress are configured so when you try to install a new plugin or a...
How to earn engagement in Social Media group posts
This article is a bit out of context of my usual subject matters, but since I manage several Facebook groups (like this one) and I usually get lots of attraction when I post on...
How to improve the way you pitch angel investors
While I’m invested in several start-ups, our group is looking for new investment opportunities so I’m being approached by lots of entrepreneurs and startups, usually online. I also joined several investors events in the...
The role of a CTO
In this article, I want to discuss the real role of a CTO—the chief technical/technology officer—especially in startups and small to medium companies. I find the CTO’s responsibility almost obvious from one hand, but...
How come Israelis are so good with startups?
Israel, a small country with very limited resources, is attracting a lot of attention in recent years as it turned to be a well established startup hub. I read many articles and opinions which...
LAMP Stack Server Build Quick Guide
Install Linux Debian 9 (Stretch), Apache2, MySQL 8, PHP 7 on a vanilla (empty) server, a step by step tutorial with screenshots and detailed explanations. Do you want stop being a Google slave or...
Best practice for responsive web designs
So you think you know everything about responsive designs? Brace yourself, I invented a better methodology. Lets start with some code which I implemented in Visual Trivia. This is how my CSS looks like:...
Backend to frontend good practice web development
I dedicate this article to my daughter (16yrs), she is now studying full stack web development on WAMP – Apache, MySQL and PHP on a windows server. The server wouldn’t actually matter to this...
How to control CSS 3.0 Animations with Javascript / Jquery
The situation – lets say you are using a CSS keyframe animation (I will give an example below) and you wish to make it faster and faster, or slower and slower. The problem: there...
How Facebook spy after you even when you are not on Facebook
Mark Zukerberg was under the spotlight for the recent “spying” allegations and privacy breaches by Facebook apps. I was actually surprised that people didn’t know how far goes the online data collection, and how...
Scalable Web by Stateless Development
Scalability is the ability to grow your web service to many users, it requires a special attention especially since recently there is a popular misconception that “if you host in the cloud, your application...
How to prevent Authors from editing or deleting WordPress posts
A quick-win with WordPress – say you hired authors to posts articles on a blog, and have got a process like the following: The authors post their post under “draft” mode An editor is...
How to crawl to millions of Wikipedia pages
Wikipedia is a great resource for content – it has millions of content pages, and they are all free for you to use. Crawling to Wikipedia can be useful for SEO and for improving...
How to change folders of a WordPress blog
WordPress is highly popular and a very useful framework if you wanted to setup a website in literally 5 minutes. However there is a price for that – as WordPress has got some basic...
Build your own Social Share Widget
Do you want to add social share buttons to your website, but don’t want to use cloud services like AddThis? In this post I will show you how you could do it by yourself,...
Facebook Workplace Review
Facebook launched in October last year (2016) the corporate version of Facebook, a genuine and unique version of Facebook for organizations, named “Facebook Workplace“. I have been using Facebook Workplace while developing a prototype...
How come Facebook succeeded where others failed?
Facebook has became a major part of the lives of 2,000,000,000 people, it is the most successful web platform and social media site ever. However, it was not the first one – others were...
Block chain is nice, but not going to “completely change the internet”
We are hearing a lot of noise recently around blockchain, the technology that Bitcoin is based on, and how it is going to completely change the face of today’s internet to “something completely new,...
How to assess the potential of a .com idea/venture?
I have been looking at the evolution of the .com as a .com web veteran to set some high level thumb rules for assessing new ideas. When assesing new ventures, I would take that...
Hashtags scraper apps
This small cool app – “HashLighter“, is a small Chrome browser extension that can scrape hashtags from any website. You can run it on “automatic pilot” mode or just let it collect hashtags as...
Digital properties for sale
Note#1: if you buy anything from the list, you will get a domain name from series A, free to your choice. Note#2: We won’t have time for time wasters – do your own research...