Mike Stopforth

Easily my favourite business + tech blog, B2Day (of Business 2.0 magazine) recently featured Stormhoek (the official unofficial Web 2.0 wine), and seeing as tomorrow is D-day for our inaugural Stormhoek Jozi Geek Dinner, I thought it uber-fitting that I mention the feature on the eve of such a prestigious event.
The article tells succinctly [...]

Did you know that…
“…that the Seven Deadly Sins are both seven and deadly? Whoever has the highest five-sin combination is immediately struck down.”
So says the Uncyclopedia, a satirical, laugh-it-off rendition of the ever-popular Wikipedia (and quite timely considering the recent muttenrings around Wikipedia’s future and the emergence of ‘competitors’ like Citizendium).
Very cool indeed.  Over 19,000 [...]

Because I can’t do anything in half measures I’ve timed my attempted migration from PC to Mac (which has been painless, except for some niggles which I’ll list later) with a migration from desktop applications to web services. Practically, that means switching from Outlook to Gmail and Google Calendar, Word to Writely, Excel to [...]

I met two inspiring young talents at the recent Digital Citizen’s Indaba on Blogging - Carly Ritz and Gregor Rohrig. They’ve created a really nifty online resource called Jo’s Toolkit - an ‘essential journalism toolkit for student and grassroots journalists’.
The site recently won the non-profit category in the Highway Africa New Media [...]

Brilliant - thanks Armand!

Click on the video to start it.

We’ve got about 60 names registered on the wiki - today is the last day to add more names or invite more people, at 5 tomorrow I’ll close off registration so we have a number to submit for catering. Yum.
Go add your name now!

A while back I got a mail from the very lovely Jacqui Uitzinger of Apple IMC in response to a Citizen column I wrote about my obsession with my iPod (yeah I’m so mainstream - stick it). In it she asked whether I’d consider switching to a Mac notebook (been a PC user all [...]

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Moo: Flickrize your business cards
I heart the flickr API
(tags: flickr cards photos businesscards)

inkling
Web-based prediciton markets service
(tags: PredictionMarkets markets web2.0 collaboration trading enterprise2.0 socialsoftware)

Webkitchen | Software | Deeptag RSS browser
Here’s one to watch. Deeptag is a great concept.
(tags: RSS browser Web2.0)

inkling offer hosted prediction markets for everyone from the individual to academic institutions and corporations.
Prediction markets (according to the wikipedia article) are “speculative markets created for the purpose of making predictions. Assets are created whose final cash value is tied to a particular event (Will the next US president be a Republican?) or [...]

Niall Cook has created Cogenz, a social bookmarking tool designed for the enterprise. Now it’s no secret (especially after BarCamp Jozi) that I think del.icio.us rocks but apart from dogear (which has been around a while but is not to my knowledge available for use yet) I have not yet seen anyone doing anything [...]