israel is weird in that sense, it’s funny because it shows a clear lack of understanding of the market. the way i look at it, web is just another platform. and right now its the hottest, most interesting and most impacting platform.
it has the same interesting chalenges as other platforms have.
it makes repetitive things easier, there is a lot of mind power going into the underlying platforms that run this
they deal with big problems (e.g. millions of users, lots of data, relationships)
i think that it’s a fatal mistake, i had this myself as well, looking at web-programming as some sort of degraded level of programming
gil-ad> but here nobody tries to push a web site with millions of users
well i guess its a chicken and egg problem, that plus israelies don’t understand content and users, only technology, in a high level i mean.
so at the end its just hard to find experts in these fields in israel, which is a shame.
i wonder if it may be jeopardizing the israeli hitech industry in the long run, making it focus more and more on stuff like communications, hardware, etc. and less from the consumer world which now exists almost entirely on the web.
