Monthly Archives: October 2006

Oct06
16

Google Calendar Pissing Me Off

Posted in Web 2.0 and Social Media

Ok, I took a leap of faith and decided to move everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, online. Email, docs, calendar - and pretty much all with Google. Because I like Google.
Anyways.
It’s really embarrassing and furstrating trying to book appointments with clients on the phone and continually having to wait for Google [...]

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Oct06
16

BarCamp Durban

Posted in Life, etc., South Africa

We’ve had successes at BarCamp Cape Town and BarCamp Johannesburg. Now Edrich de Lange is organising the next instalment of the BarCamp movement in DURBS - YAY! Sun, surf and social software.
The lads look pretty organised and I think this’ll be a cracker. I want to encourage the Jozi lot [...]

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Oct06
15

links for 2006-10-15

Posted in Random Thoughts

How to get StumbledUpon
Great post from Pronet Advertising with advice on how to use Stumble Upon to increase traffic
(tags: StumbleUpon socialnetworking socialbookmarking web2.0)

Rhythm Records Online Music Store - South African Music MP3 Downloads and CDs
Online shop dedicated to South African music downloads. Still not comprehensive enough for me but a step in the right [...]

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Oct06
14

SlideShare Rocks My World

Posted in Web 2.0 and Social Media

SlideShare is a social network-based hosting and sharing service for PowerPoint, Open Office and Keynote presentations. You can upload slideshows of up to 20 Mb, share them with a link or even embed them in your blog. Shows that are already on SlideShare can be tagged and commented on.
I uploaded the slideshow [...]

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Oct06
14

Larson Lambastes Fans

Posted in Random Thoughts

My friend Graeme Codrington is a Gary Larson fan. Few smart people aren’t Larson fans. The Far Side cartoonist has kept many a toilet-ridden geek entertained (or at least this geek when he’s toilet-ridden) with ingenious single panel illustrations and captions.
Recently Graeme got an email from his hero - wow! [...]

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Oct06
14

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Posted in Random Thoughts

Jerry Bowles points to the launch of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, a “new research center whose goal to understand how to harness the power of large numbers of people—connected together through Internet and other technologies —to better solve a range of business, scientific, and societal problems.”
From the Center’s homepage:
While people have talked about [...]

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Oct06
14

links for 2006-10-14

Posted in Random Thoughts

Dennis McDonald on - Managing Technology - Using Technology to Bridge Generational and Other Gaps
Dennis with a nice aggregation of posts that seem to be pointing to tech helping to cross demographic divides
(tags: generations tech technology)

Enterprise Web 2.0 » Where is the Business Value in Enterprise 2.0?
Jerry examines the business case for Enterprise 2.0
(tags: enterprise2.0 [...]

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Oct06
13

My Top 10 Non-South African Blogs

Posted in Marketing, Advertising and Branding, Web 2.0 and Social Media

I recently put a list together for a client of my 10 recommendations for marketing / consumer-related blogs (there is a business in building custom rolled-up feeds for corporate clients - geeks take note). This is partly a reincarnation of that email. It also harkens back to a convo I had with Rich…! [...]

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Oct06
13

Friday 13th

Posted in Life, etc.

Was not a good day for the Stopforths. Actually, it wasn’t a bad day, it just started of crappy. E fell and cut his forehead open on the window sill. Off to the hospital and three stitches later he’s happy as a lark, but I’m feeling terrible.
Not nice watching a [...]

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Oct06
13

Where the Hell is Our Dodgeball?

Posted in South Africa

Would someone smart and resourceful please get their asses into gear and do a dodgeball in South Africa?
This is what it does: (from the site)
The idea is simple: tell us where you are and we’ll tell you who and what is around you.
We’ll ping your friends with your whereabouts, let you know when friends-of-friends [...]

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