Mike Stopforth

A short post to say thanks for Dave and the rest of the Cape Town geeks for welcoming me at the 27dinner - despite a really negative experience of Kulula (which broke my heart ‘cos I’m a big fan) at O R Tambo, it turned out to be a really awesome evening.
I sat [...]

Vincent Maher » Bloggers will pay half-price to attend 2nd Annual New Media Marketing Conference
Good news for SA Bloggers, and judging from the line-up this may be the best New/Social Media conference to date…
(tags: conference southafrica socialmedia web2.0 newmedia)

Facebook Gets More Orderly: Multi-Tab For Profiles
New features for Facebook - part of what I enjoy about [...]

It’s less than a week to go before I board a plane for Las Vegas (Viva) and MIX08 - “an intimate opportunity for cutting-edge technical, creative and business strategists to engage Microsoft in a conversation about the future of the web”. I’m going only because the kind folks at Microsoft SA arranged to drag [...]

My mate Patrick recently extended me an invite to join his pool in Sport24.co.za’s brilliant new online sports prediction game SuperBru. Hesitant at first, it took me some time to register my account and get started, but I’m so glad I did.
First up it’s an awesome site. Everything works nicely, it’s powerful, easily [...]

We’re at the Forum, The Campus in Bryanston listening to Google SA Country Manager Stafford Massie introducing the morning’s events. Guest speaker is Douglas Merrill, CIO and VP of Engineering for Google.
I’ll be updating periodically as the morning progresses. Damn, 3G died on me.
Here are my notes:
Douglas is giving us a general introduction [...]

A while back Justin submitted Afrigator’s 27dinner Beta launch ‘pitch’ to the Vator.tv / Demand Media Challenge where we stand a chance to win a few really cool prizes, not least of which a trip to pitch the site to some very smart investor type people.
If you like what we’ve done with Afrigator, please help [...]

A friend just sent me a mail saying that I’ve come across as a bit ‘tired’ in the last while (in terms of my writing on this blog). Sorry if things have been a bit sporadic and drab but there have been three big things happening in my life recently that I guess can [...]

In January last year Dave Duarte and I kicked off the 27dinner social networking movement. From the start my idea was to create a space and a culture that encouraged people from diverse sectors - business people, advertising people, geeks, techies, entrepreneurs, investors, artists, etc. - to come together once a month to share [...]

I’ve been picking up on a vibe lately (summarised by Jon Bishop in his recent post) that there is a perception that an elitist sect of South African bloggers believe that they are in “some sort of special members only club and ignore people they don’t know”. While I’m sure there is some truth [...]

Try as I might, I have not been able to get into Twitter. And I believe I should be trying simply because of the significant impact the app has had on the social Web community in the last few months. Most headlines have been dominated either by the explosions of Facebook or Twitter. [...]