- Our founder, Eyal Hertzog, remains an active, engaged Metacafe employee – now serving as Chief Creative Officer, based in our Palo Alto headquarters.

- The Metacafe audience has actually grown quite significantly — 60% according to comScore, from January 2008 to January 2009, when the site attracted 46 million unique monthly viewers worldwide, 11 million of them in the U.S.

- This makes us the largest consumer web site — with traffic that is entirely organic — to ever come out of Israel… something we’re very proud of.

- This also makes us the world’s leading independent online video site. We’re actively defining and delivering a new entertainment experience through online video, and we’re enjoying success in making this a real media business supported by Fortune 1000 advertisers.

Google Search on the algorithm called NNMF (non negative matrix factorisation), with tons of them on the internet that are available in many languages (Matlab, Java, C++, etc…). There are different variants of NNMF available and they differ only in their accuracy. Some are more accurate than others. I can’t list them all here, since the TechCrunch spam-filter will block any message that contains more than 3 links I think. NNMF is a dimensional reduction algorithm, ie, it reduces the massive original dataset into a smaller subsets, where classification are then applied to the smaller subsets. You can also use NNMF for text-search engine, which is popular in its application in search engine.

Once you get the NNMF from the internet, then look at the following papers which are freely downloadable (PDF) of how to apply them (NNMF algorithms) to image databases:

1)
Classifying Faces with Non-negative Matrix Factorization

2) Incremental Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Face Recognition

There are more papers on application of NNMF for face-recognition from different authors that are available from the internet, just Google for those. Remember, just drop a question to the authors of those papers I cited above, since their email addresses are available in their respective publications if you want to find out more about their papers and how NNMF is being used. Don’t hold back, they will help you out, even request their codes, where in my experience, researchers/authors are always genuine.

There are also more dimensional reductions that are available for use in face-recognition today such as ICA (independent component analysis), just Google for those free codes on the internet and also research papers on the use of ICA on face recognition.

Cheers.

Forget about MetaCafe. I’ve got a better example for you.

http://www.Hevre.co.il was the very first university social networking site. It was before Friendster, before MySpace, before Facebook. It could have been Facebook. Tons of features, quite OK execution but zero understanding of the US/European markets.

That’s the story of many of the Israeli tech startups. Lots of innovation, sometimes they’re 2-3 years ahead, but when it comes to rolling it out globally they just suck.

That’s actually the story of the Israeli VCs. They’re simply not connected to the Valley. If I were an Israeli start-up, there’s no way I would choose and Israeli VC. But then you get the culture gap which means that Israeli start-ups can’t really get into UK/Valley VCs either. Quite a vicious circle I guess.

Just combine all the disparate MyHeritage domains. eg. myheritage.co.il myheritager.fr etc.

I wish Ancestry would go away, seriously. This company has issues.

And while Metacafe certainly lost the blessing to YouTube, a reporter comprising a catchy title and stating populist ‘facts’ based on Kinnernet gossip is simply irresponsible.

Kudos, MyHeritage!

Good Luck Gilad and the team

The Templars were indeed crusaders so you have a point.

… ummm, I think you mean a 1,000-year old house?

Like saying that a post about MySpace vs. Facebook is ignoring Classmates.com…

http://www.alex...om+ancestry.com