old men on benchBlogging and building iPhone apps have really been interesting in terms of people I reconnect with over the years.

Way back in 2004, I reconnected with a friend from High School. We reconnected after learning he was working at Did It, back then. His name was EliFeldblum and he now runs a successful SEO company in Israel. Has a family with kids and everything. We haven't talked for about 10 years and then bam, all of a sudden, we are now connected again. We now touch base regularly, via email and so on.

This happens every now and then. In fact, Danny just blog about how this happens all too often in the Facebook World. I am sure, almost everyone on Facebook has experienced this.

But what I find very interesting, now that we have built a niche for ourselves in iPhone Apps for Jews, well, mostly. So through these apps, I am connecting with people who know people that I know. But I am also reconnecting with folks I lost touch with. First it was someone from Baruch College, that I took a bunch of classes with. Then it was a few others. But recently it was someone I went to elementary school with and haven't really seen since.

Eliyahu Fink has recently started a blog and wrote about the iPhone Siddur. Eliyahu Fink was the son of my elementary school's principle. He is in law school right now and is also a part time Rabbi for the PJ Center in Venice, California. We connected via the iPhone stuff and through blogging. I spoke with him for a bit the other day and it was nice to catch up.

Blogging, development and the social aspect of the web not only helped me with business, and making new friends but has also helped me connect with old ones.