Birthdays
I’m not very good at the whole birthday thing. I normally forget birthdays or at best wish the subject on the right day of the wrong month, or vice versa. I was born on my mom’s birthday, and she is a twin, so there’s three of us on one day in our family which at [...]
Read more →Cyn-In: Web-based Collaboration for the Enterprise
Cynapse, a development firm based on India, has announced the upcoming launch of their ‘flagship’ product, cyn.in. First impressions indicate that cyn.in intends to marry SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and Web 2.0 value propositions in one easy-to-learn interface, aimed at the enterprise. Nifty. From the email I received from Cynapse: cyn.in (pronounced “sign-in”) is a web based [...]
Read more →BarCamp Jozi Roundup
BarCamp Jozi 2006 has come and gone, and besides it being in the middle of a particularly hectic couple of weeks for me, I really enjoyed the experience. The venue, Sci-Bono, was a brilliant find (credit to Armand) and really set the tone for a relaxed vibe, high-level thinking and great networking. From Sci-Bono’s website: [...]
Read more →Lunch at BarCamp
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lunch at BarCamp, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth. Lunch, BarCamp day one. Took forever to get meal but was well worth the wait. Or maybe I was just really hungry.
Read more →Paper-based Wiki
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Paper-based Wiki, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth. Inspired by BarCamp Jozi and BarCamp London!
Read more →Sci-Bono inside
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sci-Bono too, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth. More of our BarCamp venue – note the Cheetah jet hanging from the ceiling in the far corner…
Read more →Sci-Bono: BarCamp Jozi Venue
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sci-Bono, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth. This place rocks!
Read more →BarCamp – our original venue
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Eek – our original venue, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth. Arrived at BarCamp and got stuffed in the back somewhere – yuk – so moved to the first floor which is [...]
Read more →Sabinet Conference – Mossel bay
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sabinet Conference – Mossel bay, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth. Welcome to all Sabinet delegates. Please post any questions in the comments section!
Read more →TechCrunch Features Synthasite
TechCrunch, the Web 2.0 startup blog, recently ran a feature on IncuBeta‘s Ajax ‘website builder’ Synthasite. I spent some time at IncuBeta HQ last week meeting the guys and getting a look at Synthasite – it is a powerful app and has enormous potential, with some amped business and programming minds behind it. I think [...]
Read more →View from Diaz
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } View from Diaz 2, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth. Staying at the Diaz Strand Hotel. You gotta love South Africa…
Read more →Content on the Fly
By reading the first three or four post on this page, you can get a pretty clear idea of what my blog is about. If you read on and explore a bit, you’ll start to understand what I do and how I do it. If you explore further you’ll discover where I get my ideas [...]
Read more →Identity Crisis
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Identity Crisis, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth. It’s an HP notebook with standard edition Apple cult member sticker. Spotted at Gloria Jean’s in Nelson Mandela Square
Read more →Google Office… Not!
I hung back on posting about the recent announcement of Google Apps for Your Domain – apparently also known as Google Hosted Communications Services – Google’s latest offering. Now that most of the hype has subsided I want to make a few comments. First, for those of you who like me don’t always get these [...]
Read more →Eish, Workstation v. 0.0213 Beta
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } eish, workstation beta, originally uploaded by Mike Stopforth. Descending into chaos…
Read more →Andrew’s Comrades Journey
I’m one of those wannabe South African’s who desperately wants to run the Comrades Marathon, but will probably never ever get around to it. If I ever do, I’d like to make a half decent effort and finish under ten hours, but for this long drink of water it’ll take some training and a shipload [...]
Read more →Vincent Maher Pisses Me Off
Because he is smart enough to “make up a little something in the Web 2.0 style” during his lunch break, and produce NewzBubble. NewzBubble aggregates feeds from MoneyWeb, M&G, IOL, News24 and iafrica.com (with more to come) and shows prominent tags from those feeds as large, mobile and oddly engrossing bubbles for your mousing pleasure. [...]
Read more →Monitor Your Brand Online
MarketingProfs has a great thread of 23 things to track online if you give a damn what people are saying about your company, brand, employees or even you… Here they are for your reading pleasure: 1. Company name (in Google, BlogPulse, Technorati, etc.) 2. Company URL 3. Public facing figures 4. Product names 5. Product [...]
Read more →Happy Spring – Neotel (THE SNO) is Here
I’ve been overwhelmed at the veritable tsunami of Happy Spring messages I’ve received today. Either it’s a passing fad or I’m a lot more popular than I remember being last year. Today also marks the 12th Anniversary of my First Kiss. You don’t care a dog’s blister for that, though. What you WILL care about [...]
Read more →It Only Takes a Spark. Sometimes.
I spend a great deal of time and effort telling clients (corporate ones) that they’d “better watch out” for the effect Web 2.0 is having on consumers. “It’s all about scalability!”, I yell from the podium. “You claim to be customer-centric, but do you mean that? Can you really act on that?” I ask. The [...]
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