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I’d noticed that I’d become progressively less and less interested in Facebook over the last month or two. A bit like LinkedIn – which I discovered, indulged in, enjoyed, and then subsequently forgot, Facebook had somewhat lost it’s luster. From being the first thing I checked the first moment I got online, I was going [...]

I can’t believe I’ve never thought of this / done this before. In the process of catching up on my outstanding RSS feeds I found this interesting post by Adii where he poses the following question to his readers: I’m regularly astounded by the number of you that take an interest in what I blog [...]

You would have gathered that we’ve finally moved into our new offices, and I’m pleased to report that it’s only taken 2 days for us to get our first Loeries!  How cool is that!? Thought I’d take a photo for you to gawk at.   I foresee some trouble trying to display them in our [...]

| View | Upload your own Tom Cruise is hilarious… Hat tip to Thomas Otter for this one :)

While some people had great April Fool’s stories to tell most folks where a little uptight about the proliferation of April Fool’s jokes that dominated the Web. I know for a fact one particular local joke had negative consequences… oops. On the lighter side I found myself in Pretoria on April 1 and discovered this [...]

This from Andrew Crawford, one of our funnier Cerebrans and my official Guitar Hero 3 sparring partner… Ha ha.

Logo Design Trends 2008 10 design trends worth familiarising yourself with, especially if you’re in the Web design space. No surprises here, other than the ’80′s one :P (tags: design logo trends logos inspiration webdesign 2008 branding graphics brand)

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 [...]

This Video Makes Bill Gates Look Cooler Than Steve Jobs The light-hearted, star-studded hat tip to Bill Gates shown at CES 2008 – brilliant! (tags: cool fun funny humor Microsoft music video windows billgates bill gates)

12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008 | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com Dion with another post that is compulsory reading for anyone interested in the evolution of Enterprise 2.0 (tags: collectiveintelligence enterprise enterprise2.0 enterpriseweb2.0 predictions SaaS security trends web web2.0)

seethrough » ten reasons A powerful and opinionated (and tongue-in-cheek) post on homosexuality and gay marriage by my good Methodist minister friend, Barry Marshall. Read it. (tags: homosexuality church Christianity judgement gay marriage)

Facebook To Drop ‘Is’ From Status Updates Ah. It’s about time! (tags: facebook development socialnetworking socialnetwork socialmedia)

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Yum – fish fingers and apricot jam, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth. Every breakfast with Ethan is an adventure…

Bill Clementson’s Blog: Why you should buy an OLPC XO Laptop Makes sense to me… (tags: article blog opensource resource science society technology Charity Hardware computer Linux laptop olpc) Seth’s Blog: Conceal vs. Reveal Cool thoughts from Seth. (tags: communication legal marketing Customer godin)

Intranets in Trouble – Shel Holtz Shel reflects on some revealing statistics about the corporate intranet (tags: intranet communication corporate social web2.0 enterprise2.0)

Voting Irregularities in Weblog Awards 2007? Engadget and Gizmodo Duke it Out Clearly SA is not the only place where blog awards suffer controversy. We need a global IEC for blogging comps… :) (tags: blogging web blogs competition awards) Promote Your Brand on Facebook Fantastic article by the Ideate team on how to promote your [...]

Open Source Mac – Free, Open-Source software for OS X The title says it all… (tags: mac software opensource osx apple freeware free applications Macintosh)

Talent imitates, genius steals: The Future is Open Thoughts from Faris Yakob (who I was fortunate enough to meet today) on co-opetition (tags: trends collaboration competition coopetition)

The Long Tail: The Black Wire and the White Wire Poignant thoughts on corporate IT departments from Chris Anderson (tags: web2.0 security IT longtail policy business management enterprise2.0 networking)

Cherryflava: Future trends in branding Two of my favourite brands in the world have no set CI – and it’s working for them. Missinglink.co.za and the Dave Matthews Band crowdsource and alter their CI on a monthly basis. There’s a case for it! (tags: branding logo CI corporate business entrepreneur innovation identity) Seth’s Blog: The [...]