Dror Feuer

My name is Dror Feuer, and I write for a living (if you can call that writing/living). This is my Blog.

Some of you might remember me as “Captain Internet” (which I was from the first issue, in 1997, to 2000). It was a long time ago, but I still enjoy the (too big?) credit. That’s the reason Yossi Vardi invited me here.

After the Captain, I tried to cross the road to where the money is, and worked in two start-up companies. It didn’t work out, but I learned a lot.

Both were quite revolutionary, I think. The first one was “Free My Vision”, where we tried to develop software that can block TV commercials and replace them with your own content (such as music, movies, etc.), something like Napster meets Tivo. I worked there as a content editor. It didn’t worked out, and we all got fired.

The second company I worked for was “Artificial Intelligence”, a company who tried, and still trying – how modest – to create computers that can think and talk (which is the same thing). There, I worked as an “Interactive Content Editor”. Which was the coolest job ever – I was the editor/father of the chatterbors, developed their character, wrote them jokes, etc. It was great. You can talk to ALAN, one of the chatterbots. Tell him I said hi…

After 9/11 the company was closed, but it still operate as a research group. I miss it, and I miss the whole field of AI.

(During that time, I wrote in TheMarker.com, both the site and the magazine.)

After that, I took my compensations and went to India for 6 months, where I learned the art of letting go.

I wrote a book – “Zadok in the whirls of passion” – which not many people bought. You can read samples here.

Now I write a weekly column in “Time Out Tel-Aviv” (“life according to Dror Feuer”, a collection of my columns. Is now for sale), and I am the editor of “42 maalot”, a monthly magazine in Tel-Aviv. Plus, I try to write my seconds book, which is not easy.

Recently I came back from 3 months in Africa, where my and my love went to volunteer with an NGO. Galit worked at the clinic (she’s a doctor), and I was teaching in the secondary school. It was a huge experience.

My email: dror_f@netvision.net.il