Mike Stopforth

Nominations are open for the 2007 South African E-Commerce Awards. The awards are sponsored by Jump Shopping and I’ve been asked to judge - nice one.
Send in your submissions now!

There’s a theme emerging from my conversations with clients, fellow marketers and consumers. It’s becoming more and more apparent that the tools available to us for market segmentation perhaps omit a key characteristic of the evolving digital citizen that we would do well to take note of.
In South Africa one of our [...]

Thanks for all your submissions in our quest for the ugliest website in the world. You can see all the submissions (some absolute classics in there) in the comments section of this post.
Please cast your vote (not anonymously) here by pasting your favourite URL below in the comments, I’ll collate all of them and [...]

As you know, I love sport. When it comes to motor sport, I’ll watch the World Rally Championships or even the A1 Grand Prix long before forking out the time to watch the soap opera that has become Formula One. It’s seems each year I watch Formula One there are more rules, more [...]

Excellent blog post on design principles for Web 2.0
(tags: design web2.0 tips resources blogging)

Normally when a big sporting event is one, like the Cricket World Cup earlier this year and the Rugby World Cup happening at the moment, I’m guaranteed to find an iCal calendar to subscribe to at one of my favourite resources, iCalShare.
However, for the Twenty20 World Cup, I came up short - clearly not mainstream [...]

Help us out dudes. Cerebra is growing at a rapid rate (by the way, look out for our new website launching soon) and we’ve run out of space in our little office at 101 11th Str, Parkmore.
We’re looking to move into some nice, funky space and if we need to share it would be [...]

Exclusive: Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview
Looking forward to del.icio.us2.0 going public… here’s Mike Arrington’s review
(tags: del.icio.us Delicious web2.0 Preview tagging technology tech)

I’m going to try my hand at sports writing over the next few weeks. Perhaps just to deal with the emotional rollercoaster I’m bound to endure - if tonight’s opening match of the 2007 Rugby World Cup was anything to go by.
The Pumas won it at the anthems. There was something about the [...]

Eat an eagle’s egg at 5000ft, munch raw zebra flesh and guzzle laaaaarge worms, thanks to Bear Grylls. I thought Discovery was supposed to be educational? Barf.