Cyberdov Life in Riverdale, NY

February 14, 2011

Micromarketing with IP addresses

Filed under: Business — cyberdov @ 6:33 pm

Interesting – and a little spooky:

Chris Golec, CEO of Demandbase said he thinks online b-to-b marketing today is being delivered with a sledgehammer when a dart is all that’s needed.

To help b-to-b marketers better target their potential customers, his company has developed a Web-based technology that tracks IP addresses and matches them to specific companies.

This allows marketers to recognize the company, department and even customer status of a website visitor in real time. Using this information, a marketer can then “provide a whole different Internet experience,” Golec said.

(Hat Tip: http://www.btobonline.com/article/20110214/EMAIL06/302119984/micromarketing-with-ip-addresses)

February 13, 2011

YU Seforim Sale

Filed under: Torah,Uncategorized — cyberdov @ 8:50 pm

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I came away with a couple of gems:

“An Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew: Etymological-Semantic and Idiomatic Equivalents with Supplement on Biblical Aramaic” (no kidding!), and

“A Historical Atlas of the Jewish People” – a beautifully laid out volume which brings historical trends to life.

Also picked up some volumes I was missing from the Encyclopedia Talmudit and the Bar-Ilan Mikraot Gedolot Tanach. All told, a worthwhile trip!

February 10, 2011

Program for Jewish Genetic Health launched

Filed under: Family,Genetic Testing,Uncategorized — cyberdov @ 10:06 am

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YU has (finally) partnered with AECOM and Sue’s genetics screening lab at Jacobi Hospital. The ribbon cutting ceremony was yesterday. Congrats Sue!

See http://blogs.yu.edu/news/2011/02/07/program-for-jewish-genetic-health-launches/

February 2, 2011

From the Desk of Bob Mankoff (The New Yorker)

Filed under: Humor — cyberdov @ 4:56 pm

Just finished a third round of ice-pick work to make our driveway passable – it was a solid sheet of ice this morning. So I definitely appreciated Bob Mankoff’s quip:

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about climate change. Like how I’d like to change New York’s climate to San Diego’s.

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A Good Translator Makes All the Difference

Filed under: Reading,Uncategorized — cyberdov @ 3:52 pm

I have always loved Chaim Grade’s books – although I have only read them in translation. The Jewish Review of Books had a piece this month by Curt Leviant, one of his translators. Enjoy!

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Translating and Remembering Chaim Grade

by CURT LEVIANT

This past year marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of Vilna’s greatest sons, the Yiddish poet and novelist, Chaim Grade. Born in Vilna in 1910, Grade died in New York as an old man, at the relatively young age of 72.

I translated three of Grade’s most important books. In doing so, I came to understand that this actually required knowledge of four languages: not only Yiddish and English, but also Hebrew and Jewish. By Jewish I mean knowledge of the cycle of Jewish life from birth and bris through bar mitzvah, wedding, and end of life; the Shabbes and the calendar of Jewish holidays; a familiarity with Jewish liturgy, ritual, and customs; and a working knowledge of some of the basic texts of Yiddishkeyt.

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