Ely Rosenstock's Blog

It's great to watch technologies develop from something that is cool but useless into something phenomenal. There are two really cool technologies that keep getting better and better but have yet to be real useful to most people. The first is facial...

I remember those days back on the playground in 3rd grade where everyone wanted to be cool. If you got into an argument with someone bigger than you, you had three options. Try to outwit your opponent and win the argument (or the fight depending on how...

We have our first guest writer on Crastinate.com. Due to the sensitivity of the information being provided all names, including that of the post author, have been changed. Or as the guest author, Brad, put it, "names have been changed to protect the...

Last year I took part in the Microsoft MBA Digital Market Competition. The competition was set up by a few MBA graduates who work at the search division at Microsoft in New York. The competition required the creation of a marketing plan around two of...

The movie "Happy Feet" is on the television as I write this post. For all that don't know, "Happy Feet" is a kid's movie about penguins (I won't go into details). Anyway, there was just a scene where all the penguins follow each other off the cliff into...

With the popularity of Twitter (aka microblogging) growing daily, I've heard many people discuss the end of the blog. The theory is that the blog will become obsolete as people start getting their user-generated content and news from Twitter, Facebook,...

I spent most of Day 4 and 5 strolling the streets of Tel Aviv. It's an incredible city with the old-style culture and narrow walkways of a city built centuries ago directly next to 21st century highrises and the vibrancy of New York. I also spent a little...

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Founded in 1924, the Technion is one of Israel's, and the world's, top colleges that focus on technology. The blogger delegation spent the morning getting acquainted with some very cool technology that is being...

We spent most of the second day at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. For all those that don't know, the Weizmann Institute is one of the world’s leading multidisciplinary research centers. Nanotechnology We met with Professor Ernesto Joselevich who...