Saturday, September 02, 2006

MetaCafe and Jajah, A Conspiracy?

Few days ago I posted a footage video showing the barbaric Zionist settlers in Hebron. I uploaded the video file to Google Video, YouTube and MetaCafe. I got the film live on YouTube straightaway and in a couple of hours on Google Video. In regard to MetaCafe, they sent the film to a number of their reviewers somewhere on earth to check the content of the film and either recommend it or reject it.

Few minutes after submitting the film I received the following email from one of the reviewers:

you have received a reply to your item on: Palestinian Students Under Occupation - Hebron

spearhead wrote: occupationrelative term i presume there was a jewish settlement in hebron since -800 B.C that ended in 1921 in a mascare the arabs of hebron did at the jews but lets call it occupation the arabs were there first...

p.s. try to find a palestinian before 1930 it didnt exist because it was invented than in order to take away the little land the jews has(21000 square kilometer is isreal - 96000 square kilometers -jordan -4.5million residents 4 million of whom are so caled palestinian which one should be palestine?)

A couple of hours leter I received another email from a different reviewer that reads:

you have received a reply to your item on: Palestinian Students Under Occupation - Hebron

Teddy_bare wrote: well i guess we were watching different videoscos i saw the IDF and Israelis police force intervene on at least 12 occasions and moved their vehicle to block the stone throwers. In addition, in crowd control situations the police face the trouble makers which is exactly what they were doing, pushing the israeli kids away from the Muslim children. BTW this is what kids do to children from different schools thru out the world. As for fixing the step, you are living in a third world county, try going to some other middle eastern countries and find perfection. You are the racist here by mis labelling your crap. """"(:)@

I became suspicious of the kind of reviewers MetaCafe is selecting. Finally few days after submitting the film I received the following wonderful email from MetaCafe themselves:

Your submitted item Palestinian Stu...- has been rejected due to the following reason:Item was found unsuitable for MetaCafe. The item was found unsuitable for MetaCafe by members of the MetaCafe community. The item might contain pornographic, revolting, hate or malicious content.Your item will not be distributed to the MetaCafe community. We encourage you to take a look at our tips page. Good luck on your next submissions!Thank you for being an active MetaCafe community member!

Don't be surprised, yes it was rejected although till now I can't categorise it in any of the mentioned categories (pornographic, revolting, hate or malicious content). To cut the long story short, I then came to find the big secret behind MetaCafe on their website (or at least was looked like a secret for me):

Metacafe's headquarters are based in Palo Alto California with development in Tel-Aviv Israel.Founded in July 2003, Metacafe is funded by Benchmark Capital and Accel Venture Partners.

Benchmark is an Israeli firm based in the "Israeli" city of Herzlyia and has offices in the Silicon Valley and London. This is the list of companies Benchmark has founded, funded or acquired:

1-800-Flowers
7Digital
Abaco
Abrizio
Accept.com
Adimos
Alacritech
AllPosters.com
Alphyra
Ambarella
AOL*
Approach Software*
Ariba
Art.com
Arteis
Aspendos
Atmosphere Networks
Atrica
Avamar
Avvo
Axiom Legal Solutions
Azuro
Bebo
Betfair
Blazent
Blue Coat Systems
Blue Lane Technologies
BridgeCo
BridgeSpan
Broadbase Software
Business.com
ByteMobile
C-Port
Cas Services
Catapulse
Codemasters
CollabNet
Comcore Semiconductor
Critical Path
Crossgain
Decru
Digital Fuel

Drive Diagnostics
Dropshop
E-Loan
eBags
eBay
Encompass
Engim
Entrisphere
Epigram
Epoch Partners
Equinix
Figleaves
FilesX
Finjan Software
Friendster
Funtactix
Gaia Interactive
Galyan's Trading Company
Genesys Telecommunications Labs
Get2Chip
Globoforce
Good Technology
Gourmondo
Handspring
Hyperic
i-Cue
iCompression
Icera
Infinera
Ingenio
InnerWorkings
InStranet
Integra5
Jamba Juice
JAMDAT
Juniper Networks
Kalido
Kalpana*
Kana Software
Kontiki
Legato Systems*
Linden Lab
Lovefilm International Limited
LucidEra
ManiaTV Networks
Matrix Semiconductor
Mazu Networks
Metacafe
Metaweb
Mirage
MonoSphere
Mu Security
MySQL
Nanosolar
NASN
NaturalMotion
Neartek
NetXen
Newbay
Newnham Research
Newport Media
Nexagent
Nordstrom.com
NorthStar
Ofoto
OmPrompt
Openet Telecom
OpenTable
Oplus Technologies
Orbian
Orchestria
Palm Computing*
Pageflakes
Panaya
PeopleSupport
Picarro
PictureVision
Potbelly
Privia
Proofpoint
Prosper
Pure Atria Software*
Pure Digital Technologies
Qlusters
Rambus*
Rawflow
RaySat
Raza Microelectronics
Red Hat Software
RemarQ Communities
Resolute Networks
Ricall
RouteScience
ScanSafe
Securify
ServiceSource
Setanta
Shasta Networks
Shopping.com
Siliquent Technologies
Silver Peak
Skybox Security
SnapTrack
Splashpower
Sulake
Synopsys*

Tabula
Tellme
TeraChip
Terracotta
Tropos Networks
Unicru
uShip
Vivecon
Vontu
WeeWorld
when.com
Wink Communications
WorldWinner.com
Xeround
Xignal
Xoomsys
Yoox
Zillow.com
Zimbra
Zipcar
zipRealty
Zopa

 

It won't be hard to notice the big names in the list. This incident reminded me with another similar incident I read about few months ago. In October 2005 an Israeli firm, Sequoia Capital, acquired Jajah, the very promising web-activated VoIP telephony company, and moved their development centre to "Israel", a scenario photocopying MetaCafe's.

We already know how far the Zionists have gone in controlling the media worldwide, and in my own understanding I cannot exclude the above acquisitions from their surroundings. I might be mistaken on this, but even though, prevention is always better than cure.

Oh by the way, speaking about the media monopolisation, has anyone ever wondered why has Al-Jazeera International missed three launches so far? Here is the answer:

http://www.allied-media.com/press/article_Al%20Jaz...

http://www.nysun.com/article/29061

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/63903.htm

4 comments:

umkahlil said...

Another brilliant post. Thanks for the work on this one.

Samer Marzouq said...

Metacafe has an interface in Hebrew, I guess it is targeting Jewish and its not logical to put such clips.
Thanks for sharing it.

Frederik | Jajah.com said...

Dear Jabal,

I'm sorry to hear this and I'm surprised at the answers you received.

I don't want to get in any political discussion and I don't have enough background knowledge.

But I can assure that Jajah is not involved into any "conspiracy" or political discussion. Sequoia Capital is a US venture firm and has invested in Jajah, it's still an Austrian company. The simple reason why we have a development team in Israel is that Yair Goldfinger (founder of ICQ and board member of Jajah) knew a couple of excellent engineers from his former ICQ times and so we started to built up the development team in Israel and that's where it still is.

Best regards from Mountain View,

Frederik

Talia Klein - Metacafe Community Manager said...

Actually, the fact that Metacafe is based in Israel has nothing to so with anyone who is funding us - we were founded by Israelis.

I'm sorry to see you think this is some big conspiracy against Muslims, but if you search the site you will see we do not have any videos that are hateful towards any people - including muslims. I can't tell you how many videos I have personally removed for being entirely too controversial and hateful towaards any people.

Metacafe offers interfaces and videos in many differnet languages, not just Hebrew (and Japanese).

We are not targeting religions or nationalities - we're targeting people who want to watch cool video clips.

I'd like to point out one very important fact: anyone can be a Metacafe reviewer - you just need to download the application and sign up. As such, we have reviews from literally all around the world and of probably all relgions. When videos are uploaded to Metacafe, they are automatically sent out to a deisgnated number of RANDOM reviewers who watch the video to let us know if it contains any content that Metacafe doesn't approve of, such as porn, extreme violence, illegal activities, etc.

The reviewers take our place as Metacafe workers, since we cannot possibly view thousands of videos a day. They ensure that no illegal videos of any kind make it to the site.

Feel free to open up the discussion on our forums. As one of the moderators, I can tell you that we have people from ALL around the world, even there on the forums, and they can attest to that.

 

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