Mike Stopforth

Congratulations to Melissa Attree, who I think did enough to win the ticket to New Media Marketing 2008. Vincent did the same and as a result Bev is going - very cool!
Thanks also to Jonathan Bydendyk for participating.

FriendFeed is on the lips and fingertips of the world’s most popular bloggers and social publishers.
I fell in love with it in 15 seconds. Why? Because I could understand what it did and how I could use it in 6 seconds. FriendFeed is a bit like Twitter or Pownce except that it [...]

I must confess I’m pretty excited about the upcoming New Media Marketing conference being held at Gallagher Estate. Not only was this a great event last year, the line up for this year at the networking opportunities presented by the conference are fast positioning it as a highlight on the local Web-related conference circuit.
The [...]

The official opening of Google’s South African headquarters made tech news headlines locally and got many of us geeks, I’m happy to admit, pretty excited. However subsequent media briefings have left some of us a bit frustrated.
Google is an exciting company - arguably the most intriguing company of my generation - and [...]

Muti is a social bookmarking website for Africans (it’s currently dominated by South Africans though).
Social bookmarking works like this: if I find something on the Web I am particularly intrigued by - be it video, audio, image or an article - I can submit the URL (Web address) for that item to a [...]

As you know I’m lucky enough to be in Las Vegas at the Microsoft MIX08 conference. Last night I joined the Microsoft guys for a superb meal at Morel’s, after which Grant Shippey decided to try our luck at a little gambling. We hit the roulette table, and to cut a long story [...]

Well, it wasn’t a keynote, strictly speaking. It was a real conversation between two interesting guys who are passionate about what they do. And as soon as you can go watch it on the MIX08 site. Because it’s worth watching if you’re interested in the Web at all.

Guy Kawasaki (who, you must [...]

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This video of the Web 2.0 business model panel was taken by Duncan Riley from TechCrunch yesterday. It’s well worth a watch with interesting discussion and comments from Australian Chris Saad (incredibly smart founder of dataportability.org), Tim Kendall from Facebook, Loic Le Meur of Seesmic and Bryan Biniak, founder of Jacked.

What are your comments [...]

I haven’t had much to say about the South African Blog Awards this year, mostly because it seems apparent that anyone who associates themselves with the damn things gets lambasted by all and sundry in a matter of nanoseconds. Bottom line - in SA facilitating the blog awards is like coaching the Springboks - [...]