Shuly Galili and Brian Solis (friends of ours) want us to spread the word on this year’s IsraelWebTour and was wondering if you could help us spread the word about the event and also if you can attend.

The tour is coming up from April 20-23 with a semi-public showcase in Palo Alto on April 22nd.

The California Israel Chamber of Commerce (CICC) is pleased to welcome this year’s exciting Israeli start-ups selected to participate in the third annual IsraelWebTour from April 20-23, 2009 in the Silicon Valley.

The tour selected the final Israeli start-ups comprising a wide range of technologies and business models ranging from content creation and syndication to the semantic web, rich media and the social web. The WebTour brings these innovative companies to the Silicon Valley to spark opportunities for growth, partnership, and collaboration with leading technology leaders.

Throughout the tour the participating companies will meet with leading industry players, investors, customers, and strategic partners in a mix of targeted meetings, roundtable discussions, and networking events.

The participating companies include (listed in alphabetical order):

Conduit, www.conduit.com
Conduit provides website syndication solutions for web publishers by creating a direct, always-on connection between publishers and subscribers. More than 180,000 publishers have joined the Conduit network worldwide, including Fox News, Lufthansa, Major League Baseball, Greenpeace, TechCrunch, Softonic and organizations in 180 countries around the globe.

ContextIn, www.contextin.com
ContextIn’s proven proprietary multi-lingual semantic algorithms significantly increase relevancy and targeting to deliver the most valuable, targeted advertising inventory and traffic quality. Our algorithms have been proven to maximize both relevancy and monetization for Ad Networks, Advertisers and Publishers alike for increased ROI.

EyeView Digital, www.eyeviewdigital.com
EyeView Digital provides a complete rich-media solution for your website. EyeView developed an advanced rich-media conversion platform that includes a number of products dedicated to conversion, creative services, and consulting services.

  Footbo, www.footbo.com
Footbo is the place for football/soccer lovers world-wide. Headquartered in London, UK, Footbo is the leading international social media platform with an exclusive focus on soccer. It combines the concept of social networking with the world of soccer to provide fans with a one-stop platform for all their soccer needs.

SemantiNet, www.headup.com
Semantinet is pioneering the development of “Top Down” Semantic Web technologies. SemantiNet’s Headup Semantic Web plugin, currently available as an addon for Mozilla’s Firefox browser, presents you with textual and rich media content related to the objects and terms it identifies on the pages you browse. Headup not only identifies these objects but has a basic understanding of the relationships between them.

SundaySky, www.sundaysky.com
SundaySky enables publishers to quickly, easily and cost-effectively infuse their website with video clips. SundaySky’s DynamicVideo™ Platform allows mass generation of always up-to-date video content, while leveraging existing content repositories. Videos are personalized for each user, interactive, and are intricately linked the site the user is viewing, even if that site is totally dynamic.

Superfish, www.superfish.com
Superfish has developed a unique, first of it’s kind, 3D object recognition engine to bring high-accuracy visual matching, browsing, and comparison into the world of search engines. The company’s unique IP puts together machine vision, machine learning and advanced search algorithms to allow for users to intuitively find similar objects visually.

SweetIM, www.sweetim.com
SweetIM is focused on delivering fun content and self-expression tools. SweetIM products are intended to allow users to upgrade their social engagement, by offering fun content and an add-on for IM, webmail, and social networks that is easy to use. Through these tools users are sending daily over 6M flash animations, games and video to each other.

Triond, www.triond.com
Triond offers a new approach for user generated content. Triond publishes, distributes and monetizes users’ content over a network of niche websites. This way users get to focus on the content creating process, while leveraging the service in order to get more readership, recognition and revenue than they would if they were to publish individually.

WorkLight, www.myworklight.com
WorkLight enables businesses to reach customers, employees and partners securely in they places they frequent. The flagship product, WorkLight Application Platform, securely syndicates enterprise applications in a multitude of consumer online channels, such as widgets, social networks, personalized homepages, iPhone applications, blogs and RSS feeds.

Here is a highlight video from last year’s event visit