As my partner, Aaron Katsman, wrote about yesterday, IOI is spending two days at the President of Israel Shimon Peres’s Facing Tomorrow conference.

Before I write about how U.S. President George W. Bush addressed the delegation of businessmen/women, philanthropists, state leaders and ex-state leaders, I wanted to say that you can get a feel at these type of feel-good, semi-self congratulatory events regarding who’s hot and who’s not. While casino mogul and Forbes Top 10 holder Sheldon Adelson (LVS) walked the floor as did luminaries like Henry Kissinger, Elie Wiesel, and Bank of Israel’s Stanley Fischer, when Google (GOOG) founder Sergey Brin entered the cocktail room, the whole room hushed as bigwigs jostled to get close to him. Interesting. He’ll be participating on a panel tomorrow entitled “The Revolution of the Internet and the