And the winner is …
“Locification”
The team, headed by Uri Yahalom, has developed the concept of an easy to use SDK/toolkit to ease the development of mobile apps that use location based services. The rest of the team consisted of (in no particular order) Jonathan Mor, Gitay Shafran, Vova Feldman, Vladimir Pavlenko, Oren Shtark and Roman Levin.
You can see videos of all the presentations on the newsgeekcoil.
I’d like to thank all the participants who came and supported the event. A very special note to all the mentors and judges who took from their own personal time to make this event as solid as it was. And last, but not least, to the Young Adults Center ( מרכז הצעירים) who voluntarily let us take over their facility from Wednesday to Friday.
See ya next time.
SW Haifa presentation schedule for 18/11
Starting at 13:00 sharp we will begin the 11 presentations. Each presentation will last 5 minutes and will be followed by maximum 5 minutes of interaction with the panel of judges.
The following is the order:
| Start | Project name |
| 13:00 | Video Chef |
| 13:10 | Seemple |
| 13:20 | Pick It Up |
| 13:30 | collecTVise |
| 13:40 | Vicoboo |
| 13:50 | Bartterz |
| 14:00 | Wherenty |
| 14:10 | Locification |
| 14:20 | Visual Comments |
| 14:30 | FollowApp |
| 14:40 | Where Is It? |
At 14:50 we will coalesce in the foyer and make a presentation to the winning team.
The 10 (now 11) groups working at SW Haifa
Check out the new names (great imagination!):
| Project | Description | |
| 1: | LOCIFICATION | Toolkit to help build location based mobile services |
| 2: | collecTVise | Sharing of live music streams |
| 3: | Vicoboo | Visual cookbook application |
| 4: | Commentivity | Adding visual tools to internet talkbacks (e.g. color) |
| 5: | Where Is It? | Location based service to help you find places |
| 6: | Pick It Up | File sharing application for students |
| 7: | Video Chef | Interactive, step-by-step cooking |
| 8: | Wherenty | Universal Warranty Application – tracks your warranties |
| 9: | FollowApp | Reconnecting to friends via automated SMS |
| 10: | Seemple | Distribute presentations in real-time to mobile devices |
| 11: | Batterz | Trading my junk for your junk |
Startup Weekend Haifa kicks off with 125 attendees and 45 pitches
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What a great start to the Haifa event:
couldn’t have expected anything more. |
And here are the pitches:
| # | Description | Name |
| 1. | Crowd Source Price Comparison | Itai Klein |
| 2. | Just In Service | Rami Gazit |
| 3. | Media Search | Kobi |
| 4. | Distribution Org Tools | Ala Shban |
| 5. | Sleeve | Ido Volff |
| 6. | Web Tool Builder | Gitay Shafran |
| 7. | Video Chef | Menachem/Adio |
| 8. | Proximity Toolkit | Jonathan Mor |
| 9. | collecTVise | Avi Kalvo |
| 10. | Awesome Player | Sharon |
| 11. | iChef | Nadav Carmely |
| 12. | 100 Friends | Igor |
| 13. | U.W.A. | Eran |
| 14. | Smart Tab - performance toolbar |
Barak Duek |
| 15. | WIM | Itzik Ventura |
| 16. | Transfer to mobile | Avi Shefy |
| 17. | Appetize | Michael Lishipski |
| 18. | Location Based Notification | Uri Yahalom |
| 19. | Books ‘Round Us | Sharon Ainspan |
| 20. | Social SMS Tool | Maayan |
| 21. | Social Breakfast - meeting w/ coupon application |
Yaacov |
| 22. | Spec Rocket - assist to designer tool |
Sagi |
| 23. | Visual Furniture tool - mobile app to visual new furniture in your home |
Gilat |
| 24. | Junk for Junk - trading your junk for mine |
Oz |
| 25. | Hitch Like - Waze add-on to help hitchhikers |
Erik Zaadi |
| 26. | Blue Connection | Moris |
| 27. | The Zone | Gabriel Deutsch |
| 28. | AR Game - portal to help gamer developers |
Eran Mizrahi |
| 29. | Where Is It - locator tool |
Shahar |
| 30. | Ideas Query - portal to help startup ideas |
Anat |
| 31. | Project Natan | Natan |
| 32. | Urban Gardening - to bring gardens to unused urban spaces |
Ilya |
| 33. | Visual Talkback - add visual queues to web talkbacks |
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| 34. | Inter-met - portal for the departed |
Itay Eshet |
| 35. | Visual Cookbook - mobile app to provide visual cooking aids |
Ilan Harel |
| 36. | Social Booking | Ehab |
| 37. | Shush Me - mobile app to automatically silence mobile |
David Shkolnik |
| 38. | Coup-In | Shai |
| 39. | Face Cinema - stop video and allow search on picture element |
Ariel |
| 40. | Reputation Commando - protect your reputation on the internet |
Sammy |
| 41. | Voice/Song based game | Pulenko |
| 42. | Mobil membership card - to get rid of the many membership cards |
Yanir |
| 43. | Mouse on mobile - use your mobile phone as your mouse |
Alex |
| 44. | Has the bus passed - transportation tool to assist bus travelers |
Zvia |
| 45. | Smart presentation - share presentation on mobile devices in RT |
Hanan |
Mobile Peer-To-Peer SDK @ Startup Weekend
We’d like to present you w/AllJoyn. AllJoyn is a Peer-to-Peer open source framework which takes care of most of the heavy-lifting when building P2P applications like multi-player gaming, social media sharing and multi-user productivity tools.
AllJoyn simplifies the P2P connectivity to create a better UIX by providing the following:
- Easy discovery among devices
- Pairing – Simplified group formation
- Low latency communication
- Bearer independence (users can enter and exit without disrupting connectivity)
- Security
- Multi platform (OS and device type)
- Multi radio (WiFi, Bluetooth)
AllJoyn will enable the developers @ Startup Weekend to concentrate on the essence when developing P2P applications.
You can read more about the framework @ Qualcomm’s Innovation Center developer web site or download it from here.
