Mike Stopforth

If you’ve found your way here from DEMO - either from our panel discussion or from a random business card exchange - nice to meet you.
I have a handful of links you may want to check out…
I’m co-founder of Afrigator, Africa’s social media aggregator and the CEO of Cerebra, South Africa’s only dedicated, specialised social [...]

Highlights from the 3rd session, first morning session on day 2…

1. BitGravity
Affordable, high-definition video live. A Flash-based service for big media and the enterprise.
2. Xtranormal
High novelty component animation publishing tool (can create and animate Avatar with text instructions) for a range of uses.
3. HubDub
News aggregation meets prediction markets. [...]

Alright in the interest of saving my energy for the jam session tonight, I’m going to highlight only the products I particularly enjoy in this session…
1. Voyant
This self-funded DIY financial planning solution was extremely well presented, without a doubt the most complete presentation so far. Although I don’t see it being something I [...]

Reading through the attendee list at DEMO08 is like reading a who’s who of tech news and innovation and more importantly, venture capital and investment. It is tech/web startup heaven, all jammed into two days. Sitting in front of me are Walt Mossberg, popular columnist for the Wall Street Journal and Stephen Wildstrom [...]

It’s 4am, Tuesday 29 January in Palm Desert, California. Forgive me if I’m getting it wrong but I have seen numerous signs in the last day or so that read Palm Desert, Desert Springs and Palm Springs. Much confusion.
The trip here was painfully long, but generally ok. I flew with Virgin Atlantic [...]

In new media / Web 2.0 / social media terms, the words ‘4th Annual’ are pretty exceptional. Very few things - apps, campaigns, services - last for long at all so I’m pretty proud of our very own South African blog awards and that fact that despite some resistance to the process last year, [...]

Recently we discovered that our very own Zoopy had struck a deal with mobile giants Nokia to be able to publish mobile content directly to Zoopy from selected Nokia handsets.
From the exclusive release:

Nokia and Facebook are working on porting the social network on to Nokia handsets in a major way, we have learned. The Facebook [...]

Robby Kojetin is a friend of a friend who has taken on an enormous task - to climb Mt Everest in order to raise funds for CANSA (the Cancer Association of South Africa). I’m not sure if his plans are to summit but as I understand it he’s taken a flag up with him [...]

A couple of days ago I wrote about a newfound commitment in the Stopforth household towards a greener way of life.
I also asked in the article if a gifted designer-type would consider putting together a badge I could stick on my site to show readers I give a bit of a damn, and Jonathan Bydendyk. [...]

Afrigator has finally launched out of private Beta and is looking pretty cool methinks. We’d love your honest and critical feedback as always.
Justin has written a more detailed post, with a list of all the new features and things, on the Afrigator blog. Check it out!