Mike Stopforth

Buzzword time. Forgive me. Let me explain.
I love to create stuff. It’s an obsession. I derive great pleasure from putting ideas out, experimenting with them, and seeing if they take or not. For every success I have hundreds of failures, but fortunately people remember the successes…
So I’ve being considering some of [...]

Hee hee… Afrigator Addict indeed.

Thanks Groogle!

Vinny Lingham, the catalyst behind the South Africa’s most successful Search Engine Marketing company, IncuBeta, announced at the recent 27 Dinner in Jozi that he is focusing his energy in the next while on his “Dreamweaver within a Web browser” application Synthasite, while remaining a director at IncuBeta. Read his post with details on [...]

I’ve worked in the parts / repairs trade, and it’s not all that glamorous. And then, out of the blue, you find a company who figures out how to use the Web to be a Purple Cow in their industry.

Enter Pat’s Garage - they fix Honda’s. It’s a phenomenal site with phenomenal ideas, [...]

The 27 Dinner movement continues to grow in momentum after the success of the last event in the Your Mother city.
27-5 Jozi is upon us and there are still a few spots open if you want to put your name down. The time and venue of the event has shifted around a little (no [...]

I enjoy good comedy. Good British comedy more than great American comedy (there are no good SA comedians), but every now and again I discover a new comedic treasure and, well, then I laugh.
Thanks to the social wonderment of StumbleVideo and YouTube, I have recently been introduced to Demitri Martin, who is one funny [...]

When we launched Afrigator - Africa’s first social media aggregator - a month and a bit ago, truth be told, we knew there was much we had not had enough time to perfect. However, the decision between it not being perfect and us losing out completely was a no-brainer.
So ever since we [...]

Yesterday my wife phoned a local, small-ish pool company to request prices that we could compare to the much larger Penguin Pools before we make a decision regarding who is going to help us install the time consuming headache happy new addition to our little home.
The conversation went something like…
Wife: “Hi, I’d like to get [...]

Dave Duarte Marketing Geek - iCommons Partners With Bloggers
Dave is helping iCommons come up with some innovative ideas to leverage the blogosphere for exposure and fundraising. Ain’t he clever?
(tags: iCommons SouthAfrica blogging bloggers Summit DaveDuarte)

stii.za.net » Blog Archive » The AMA Wordpress plugin released
Stii makes another mod to Tyler’s plugin
(tags: Afrigator aggregator plugin Stii)

stii.za.net » Blog Archive » The AAM plugin modified
Stii adds to Tyler’s WP plugin
(tags: WP plugin Muti Afrigator Amatomu wordpress)

Last.fm Launches Video - Aims To Be The MTV Of Web 2.0 Age
Next big thing?
(tags: video music web2.0 lastfm last.fm internet mtv)

Tectonic: ITWeb to pay bloggers for content
Tectonic on Regasek’s My Digital Life concept
(tags: SouthAfrica ITWeb [...]