Mike Stopforth

A little alliteration on a Sunday evening can do wonders for the soul.
Eric Edelstein, Internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist-of-note, sent me a Facebook message to ask if I’d help spread the message about a new initiative he’s pioneering in the Your-Mother City.
It’s called CoffeeClub (or opencoffeeclub) and hails from the States. [...]

The 10 Largest Social Driven Sites
MacManus’s 10
(tags: social network networking socialnetworks socialnetworking web2.0)

The Next Net: Is Apple Slipping?
What do you think?
(tags: Apple iPhone iTV development Leopard OSX)

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Racing, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth.

He’s getting soooo big.

If you’re sick of hearing about Afrigator, um, get over it.
Today Erik of White African interviewed me about Afrigator and some other stuff for African Signals, his new project (very cool indeed). From the African Signals site:
African Signals is an internet video news channel that will highlight interesting technology stories from around [...]

You know you’ve been busy when you read that your latest project has been voted into the top 20 on KillerStartups.com… on someone else’s blog
So what you waiting for? Get over there and vote us into the top spot!
Update: Or you could just vote by clicking on the plus sign [...]

Justin does it again.

A really cool development thanks to the ongoing hard work of my Cerebra partner Dave Duarte is our recently announced collaboration with the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business on an executive programme called Nomadic Marketing.
From the site:
Time magazine announced that the person of the year is “You - the ordinary user of [...]

Trying to make sense of the Semantic Web | Gino Cosme
Gino speaks Plain English. Yay.
(tags: semanticweb Web3.0 web2.0)

Apparently, that which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.
Crap.
Once again I may be flying by the seat of my pants here but I’m convinced that what you NAME your product, service, company, child, whatever - could have a lot to do with it’s success. I think [...]

Even Justin and I have been overwhelmed by the amazing response to Afrigator, the social media aggregator for African digital citizens.
Thanks to all of you who have sent us valuable feedback and suggestions - please keep them coming. When you rush like we did to get a service up and running you’re likely to [...]