merkal2005: Hi Jacob, please tell us about yourself

jshare: I was born in Montreal, Canada. I studied Computer Science at Montreal's McGill University and received my Bachelor of Science degree there before moving to Israel. After completing my mandatory army service in Israel, I moved to France to join Amazon.com. Over the next 6 years, I moved back and forth between France and Israel while still working in e-commerce before turning towards blogs and social media in 2006 with my own sites such as JobMob.


merkal2005: When did you have your first internet experience? How was it?

jshare: I spent one year of university in Israel from 1993-1994. While there, we had access to email but I didn't have an account since none of my friends or family had them so who would I email? I do remember receiving a copy of Windows Magazine with an article about the World Wide Web and right away I knew it was going to be big.

It wasn't until August 2004 that I finally had a chance to get on the Web. I created my first site after that using Notepad and NCSA's Mosaic, the first browser.


merkal2005: Did you work internet related companies before?

jshare: Since 2000, I have only worked on the Internet. Amazon.com is of course a purely Internet-based company. At my last formal employer, I managed the Internet development team. The company itself was originally a mail-order service.


merkal2005: When did you found Share Select Media and JobMob? What kind of services do you provide at the moment?

jshare: Development on JobMob began in October 2006, I had the idea a few months earlier. The site opened in December but officially launched with a press release in March 2007.

Once I saw the business potential, I created Share Select Media in August of 2007. JobMob continues to grow well and we have also launched another blog in 2008, Group Writing Projects.

Share Select Media's revenue comes from three sources- advertising, affiliate marketing and sponsorships.

The main service we provide is exposure. If you have a product, service, event or website that would interest our large readership, you should come to us.