GeekDinnerWinner
Dave pulled off a beaut last night as approximately fifty of us Relished our collective Geekiness. Stormhoek (Graham is the charming young gentleman in the foreground of the picture) supplied the wine and an inspirational story. Jonathan Cherry of the mini-blogging-empire Cherryflava told his story and encouraged us to de-mystify the blogosphere for “the rest [...]
Read more →Aargh
Yes, there is some broken stuff on my site but I haven’t the time nor the tech inclination to fix right now. This is a plea for help – I need a plumber and while I’m at it, possibly an extreme makeover. Anybody want to make some spare change? Mail me pleeeeeaaase.
Read more →Ubuntunet – A Web Presence for Small Businesses
Blogger and all-round nice person Kerry Somers has launched Ubuntunet – “a site dedicated to showcasing small business and professionals for visitors seeking shops and services in South Africa that are neither contained within a physical shopping mall nor large enough to warrant an expensive advertising budget”. This is a cool niche – I get [...]
Read more →Cherryflava Media Launches Jetstreaker Celeb Blog
The latest addition to Cherryflava‘s blog network is Jetstreaker – “a South African celebrity gossip magazine for the jetset elite”. Designed by Damien du Toit, the site is world class and well written – a worthy addition to Jon’s subversive-quest-for-world-domination :). Jon – how about organising some JS tee’s for purchase on the site? It’s [...]
Read more →An Apology from Tegan
On Wednesday I wrote about an email I had received from a Pagleflakes employee (Tegan) that had felt a bit like spam. I wasn’t particulary pissed off about it, rather pointing to different marketing approaches and the fine line between proactivity and spam in the world of Web 2.0 uber-competitiveness. It turns out one or [...]
Read more →The Digital Citizens Indaba on Blogging 2006
I’m off to Grahamstown on 14 and 15 September to participate in Africa’s first Digital Citizens Indaba on Blogging. Nifty! It’s a phenomenal programme – well done to the guys at Rhodes University’s New Media Lab – and the speaker line up include the likes of Ethan Zuckerman, Alec Hogg, Matthew Buckland and Vincent Maher. [...]
Read more →Thoughts on 24.com
A month ago multi-national media monolith Naspers announced the launch of 24.com. From the press release: In what is being heralded as the biggest online launch since the advent of the Internet in South Africa, Media24 has merged its digital arm with MWEB Studios, the division responsible for the development of web-based services, to create [...]
Read more →Survivor South Africa Blog
If I had the time, I would set one up. Not because I love Survivor (which I do), and not even because I love South Africa (which I do), but it would be a way to make some pocket change pretty quickly. So, if YOU want to set up a Survivor South Africa blog and [...]
Read more →How I know Netvibes is Winning
Copy of spam an email I got from Pageflakes this morning: Hi, my name is Tegan and I am part of the Pageflakes team. I have visited your Blog and noticed that you offer a RSS subscription service to your users. May I suggest that you add the Pageflakes RSS subscription feature, too? You can [...]
Read more →A Geek Dinner of Cataclysmic Proportions…
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu Collective Intelligence in South Africa 2.0!! Stormhoek, the official Web 2.0 wine, has kindly offered to sponsor wine for the upcoming Geek Dinner to be help at Relish in Cape Town on the 30th August. From the Geek Dinner Wiki: It’s going to be an informal geeky-get-together, wine sponsored by Stormhoek (the [...]
Read more →Snowball 2.0
I marvel at this web thing. I just discovered while browsing through TechMeme that Dan Farber is the latest blogger to comment on the deletion of the Enterprise 2.0 Wikipedia article I put up a week or two ago. Now I’ve had my rant on the subject. I’m just keen to trace the events that [...]
Read more →Marketing Genius
Rod Boothby points to Phill Ryu, an 18-year-old Apple evangelist, developer and marketing phenom (it seems). Phill has a creative and brave idea for innovation – get people to make a fake version of your next product. As an example, Phill ran a contest to get people to design fake screen shots on the next [...]
Read more →Writely Back in Business
Ah – Writely, the much talked about web-based word processor, has finally decided to open registration to the general public for the first time since Google bought it (reports Lifehacker). From the Lifehacker announcement: For those of you unfamiliar with Writely, it’s a saucy little web-based word processor that lets you share and collaborate (in [...]
Read more →Search Engine Optimisation for Blogs
Ok, I know Rafiq and Miguel are the Search Engine Optimisation demigods, but I reckon I’ve beaten them to finding this nice post on SEO from Pronet Advertising (another blog with a really nice design and layout) and for that I’ll pat myself on the back. The post is aimed specifically at TypePad / Movable [...]
Read more →Dell Hell
I use the post title Jeff Jarvis made famous with a sympathetic tone. Dell, despite all its efforts to engage customers more authentically, is facing another PR nightmare. They’re recalling 4.1 million laptops because faulty Sony batteries are causing them to explode in mid-conference. Mid-meeting. Mid-whatever. That can’t be pleasant.
Read more →Stop ‘googling’ says Google
I don’t get it. The day my company name evolves into a verb is the day I dance naked on the N3 with a bottle of champagne tucked under my left arm. Can there be a more significant hat tip to a product? I PODcasted today. I GOOGLEd “narrow minded bureaucracy” this afternoon. Can I [...]
Read more →South Africa has its own Digg!?
I’m a bad South African geek. I’ve only just discovered Muti, South Africa’s version of Digg.com. Nifty! Have I been under a rock? Did anyone else know it existed?
Read more →Enterprise 2.0 Evolution
I’m not sure where I first heard the phrase Enterprise 2.0. It struck me immediately as a great way to express what I’ve been trying to say to South African corporations for the last year: Web 2.0 is having, and is increasingly going to have, and impact on your people, and therefore on your bottom [...]
Read more →Michael Arrington et al on Web 2.0
Michael Arrington, who writes the monster-blog TechCrunch, recently released this video on what Web 2.0 might mean. At least to Silicon Valley startup CEO’s…
Read more →Logo 2.0
Hee hee. Rafiq points to the Web 2.0 Logo Creatr, a bit of a parody on all the rather generic-looking Web 2.0 logo’s populating the Net. All fun and games…
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