BarCamp Johannesburg
Recently our Capetonian neighbours held BarCamp Cape Town, and by the sound of things it was a rip-roaring success (read Conrad‘s succint round-up and linkage here). Inspired in part by their efforts and the ever-nearing reality of BarCamp Earth (being held at the end of this month), a few of us Jo’burgers have clubbed together [...]
Read more →Sunday Times Flirts With Multimedia
Kudo’s, as Matthew says, to the Sunday Times for boldly going where very few, if any online publishers have gone in SA. They’ve constructed (with the help of the folks at Rhodes University’s New Media Lab) an intuitive, simple and effective site that should attract plenty of attention with its 2010 leaning. Only one question [...]
Read more →IBM Puts Dollars Behind the Crowd
IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano has announced what he calls an Innovation Jam – an attempt to come up with new business and product ideas by leveraging the collective intelligence of IBM’s 100,000-strong crowd. According to Yahoo! Business, IBM has “used these online brainstorming sessions to mine for new business opportunities in 2001, to exchange ideas [...]
Read more →Have PSP, Will Play!
I was given a PSP (Playstation Portable for the technologically challenged) yesterday – lucky me – and I’m pleased to report that my gadget repository is now almost complete. Just eyeing out a new cellphone, but that can wait. A month or so. Problem is, it came minus a battery charger. I learnt in the [...]
Read more →The Essence of Business Blogging
Miguel and Rafiq continue to suprise me with great references and exciting new content. They are explorers unparalleled. One such recent addition to my reading list is a post entitled The Sudden School of Zen: The Essence of Business Blogging taken from Stowe Boyd’s Freshbooks Blog (as an aside, this blog has to be one [...]
Read more →WordPress 2.0.4 Released
‘Scuse the techie post, but if you’re a WordPress user (that is, if your blog is built on the WordPress platform, like mine), you may want to check out Matt’s announcement. Some highlights of the latest version: * Security fixes * Over 50 bug fixes And that’s about it. Lovely.
Read more →Ravi Does Us Proud
I got a really cool surprise travelling back on the plane from Cape Town last week. I was sifting through the content on my iPod and suddenly, somewhere between Rage Against The Machine and Red Hot Chili Peppers, appeared the name ‘Ravi Naidoo‘. Now I’ve spoken about Ravi in this blog before, but had no [...]
Read more →A Delicious Fetish
Joshua Schachter once sent me an email. At the time, I had no idea who he was – his response had come from a request I’d sent to the del.icio.us ‘support team’. Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site, I needed some help figuring out how to use it (being new to the concept) and support@del.icio.us [...]
Read more →What is Web 2.0? (or Web 2.0 for Beginners)
* This article was published at the Biz-Community portal on the 8 August 2006 [Link]. I’m sure there are plenty of you out there that, like me, hate jargon. Jargon alienates people. It generally makes those that are ‘insiders’ feel they’re pretty smart, and those that are ‘outsiders’ feel pretty stupid. So when you, like [...]
Read more →There is No Loyalty
Jason Calcanis is a smart dude. In his quest to make the new Netscape the ultimate Digg killer, he’s offered top Diggers, Newsvine users, Reddit dudes and others the opportunity to become professional social bookmarkers, at $1000 a month for their efforts. And it’s working. They’ve already hired 3 of the top 12 Diggers, the [...]
Read more →The MXit Frenzy
* This article was originally published in my Citizen column on 4 Aug 2006 [Link]. If your home is blessed with humans crossing the chasm from childhood to adulthood and you have not yet heard of MXit, you’re not paying enough attention! MXit is a clever piece of technology developed by local firm Clockspeed that [...]
Read more →Brick Walls and Yindees
Undoubtedly the highlight of my long overdue trip to Cape Town yesterday and today was a dinner with my (up until very recently) digital friends at Yindees yesterday evening. I learnt some stuff. Tania loves Bladerunner and her dad is in the amateur porn business. Rafiq suffers from OCP – Obsessive Compulsive Photography – and [...]
Read more →Paramount Needs Transformation
Remember Snakes on a Plane? Well, you wouldn’t. Snakes on a Plane, a movie successfully marketed in the US by ordinary citizens through social media for the better part of this year, still hasn’t been released. That’s right, with all the hype and buzz around it, it is a full-fledged web meme and not a [...]
Read more →Caffe Neo
Situated directly opposite the lighthouse in Moullie Point, Cape Town, Caffe Neo is a revelation. They have thought carefully about how to sink wells that attract the most networked, interesting, talented, bright individuals in the Mother City – and it seems to be working. Sink wells? The story is told: Some years ago a person [...]
Read more →GTD #1 : Roman’s Salad Secret
Getting Things Done – GTD. It’s actually a very popular web meme, with a very popular blog attached to it (Lifehacker). I personally find it really difficult to complete, well, anything. I prefer rather to have a hundred tasks going simultaneously and never finish one of them. Which has it’s problems, you see. So my [...]
Read more →The Myth of Free and Open Source Software
The Myth is that open source is cheaper. Many of you who read this blog will know that already – many of you won’t. The original allure of open source is undeniable. “Good quality software that can do the job of my current applications for little or no cost!? What a deal!” However unless you [...]
Read more →Crime Doesn’t Pay. Or Does It?
* This article appeared on my MoneyWeb blog on the 26 July 2006 [Link]. Let me begin by saying that I have never been a victim of violent crime in 25 years of living in South Africa. A Golf I once owned did get broken into overnight. My childhood home in Johannesburg was invaded and [...]
Read more →Dell Responds. Eventually.
Dell have started a blog. It’s called one2one – Direct Conversations With Dell. Many would argue that this move is in direct response to Jeff Jarvis‘ much publicised Dell Hell, which had a significant impact on the Dell brand, or perception thereof, in the blogosphere. I like what they’re doing. They’ve already taken a bit [...]
Read more →Love Him or Hate Him?
Zinedine Zidane. Zizou. I’ve always been a huge fan. Like Adam Gilchrist and his bat, Zizou has always used his boots to do the talking. Or so it seemed. I know it’s old news now, but this nifty little pic from Splattermail had me chuckling about it: To be honest, I still love Zizou. And [...]
Read more →Presentation Players
When Google snatched up online collaborative word processor Writely, and followed it up closely with the launch of Google Spreadsheets, my attention was immediately diverted to the startup that would provide the foundation for a powerful, functional web-hosted presentation application. In our business keynote presentations are not only a revenue stream but a fantastic way [...]
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