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Henk Kleynhans (CEO of Skyrove) and I once met for coffee at Sandton City while he was up from Cape Town to talk about our industry, our respective businesses and life in general. We hit it off straight away – he’s a smart, likable guy. Somewhere during our chat, he has since reminded me, I [...]

This blog has been up and running for some time now. Fundamentally it’s a channel to redirect people to other projects I’m involved in – Afrigator, Cerebra, 27dinners and my speaking and writing gigs. The site is up for a bit of a rethink and refresh – one of the key decisions I have to [...]

Without a doubt the coolest part of my ‘job’ is the people I get to meet on a daily basis. Last Thursday I had lunch with Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons. She inspired me to not only share with what it is that she does, but also share the many interactions I get to [...]

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.

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 as my [...]

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 bear in [...]

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 [...]

Everybody wants to know more about Microsoft Surface, but Sarcastic Gamer took it upon themselves to do a parody of the hyped product. Brilliant… Microsoft have consequently adopted sarcastic gamer as product evangelists… well done :)

After a very hearty breakfast and many cups of coffee, Hans Verbeeck (Developer Evangelist for Microsoft EMEA) welcomes us with some opening remarks. MIX08 is about bringing influencers together to share announcements and get feedback. Together@MIX08 (today’s pre-conference event) is a value-added ‘package’ for international MIX08 delegates. w00t – We’ve just been given very sexy [...]