Mike Stopforth

Rod Boothby points to Phill Ryu, an 18-year-old Apple evangelist, developer and marketing phenom (it seems).
Phill has a creative and brave idea for innovation - get people to make a fake version of your next product.
As an example, Phill ran a contest to get people to design fake screen shots on the next OS/X [...]

Ah - Writely, the much talked about web-based word processor, has finally decided to open registration to the general public for the first time since Google bought it (reports Lifehacker).
From the Lifehacker announcement:
For those of you unfamiliar with Writely, it’s a saucy little web-based word processor that lets you share and collaborate (in real-time) on [...]

Ok, I know Rafiq and Miguel are the Search Engine Optimisation demigods, but I reckon I’ve beaten them to finding this nice post on SEO from Pronet Advertising (another blog with a really nice design and layout) and for that I’ll pat myself on the back.
The post is aimed specifically at TypePad / Movable Type [...]

I use the post title Jeff Jarvis made famous with a sympathetic tone. Dell, despite all its efforts to engage customers more authentically, is facing another PR nightmare.
They’re recalling 4.1 million laptops because faulty Sony batteries are causing them to explode in mid-conference. Mid-meeting. Mid-whatever. That can’t be pleasant.

I don’t get it. The day my company name evolves into a verb is the day I dance naked on the N3 with a bottle of champagne tucked under my left arm.
Can there be a more significant hat tip to a product? I PODcasted today. I GOOGLEd “narrow minded bureaucracy” [...]

I’m a bad South African geek.  I’ve only just discovered Muti, South Africa’s version of Digg.com.  Nifty!
Have I been under a rock?  Did anyone else know it existed?

I’m not sure where I first heard the phrase Enterprise 2.0. It struck me immediately as a great way to express what I’ve been trying to say to South African corporations for the last year: Web 2.0 is having, and is increasingly going to have, and impact on your people, and therefore on [...]

Michael Arrington, who writes the monster-blog TechCrunch, recently released this video on what Web 2.0 might mean. At least to Silicon Valley startup CEO’s…

Hee hee. Rafiq points to the Web 2.0 Logo Creatr, a bit of a parody on all the rather generic-looking Web 2.0 logo’s populating the Net.
All fun and games…

Recently our Capetonian neighbours held BarCamp Cape Town, and by the sound of things it was a rip-roaring success (read Conrad’s succint round-up and linkage here). Inspired in part by their efforts and the ever-nearing reality of BarCamp Earth (being held at the end of this month), a few of us Jo’burgers have clubbed [...]