MIKESTOPFORTH

Justin is, as I write this, launching Afrigator‘s newest innovation to our fellow African geeks at BarCamp Nigeria in Lagos. Gatorpeeps is a micro-blogging platform, not unlike Twitter or Pownce (which died), that makes it really easy for existing Afrigator users to connect with other Afrigator users in 140 characters or less, and with all [...]

The dudes in Cape Town updated me with this news release today – more good news for our baby, Afrigator! Taken directly from the news release: Afrigator shoots up the ranks to take the ninth spot on the Online Publishers Association according to latest stats by Nielsen Online. Cape Town, February 5, 2009: Afrigator Internet [...]

Big news from the Afrigator team today is the launch of AdGator – Africa’s first blogging ad network. We always envisioned Afrigator being a platform that bloggers could not only use to ‘market’ their content but also a source of revenue for them, and finally we have a model that allows us to do just [...]

Yesterday the Afrigator team and I made a big stink about how we thought Regator looked a whole lot like our project.  As is often the case I think we got on our high horses a bit and I regret not doing my homework properly because after Scott Lockhart, founder of Regator, got in touch with us to explain that any similarity betwen the two sites is pure coincidence, I’m feeling rather sheepish and need to retract my previous post.

As Justin has outlined the sites aim to achieve different things and might even be complimentary, who knows.  Either way learn a lesson from me and make contact before mouthing off (one would think I should know better by now…)

Good luck to the Regator team as they grow their userbase off a good start.

On TechCrunch, Mashable and RWW yesterday, the announcement of new blog aggregator Regator.  Here’s what it looks like: Remind you at all of this? Maybe I’m just having a bad day, but it wasn’t even Justin or I that originally picked up on the similarity(ties). It’s all over Muti thanks to Robin Pietersen and there’s [...]

The Afrigator blog announced this morning that a new feature – Topics – would be added starting with a page highlighting social media mentions and conversations around the xenophobia crisis in South Africa at the moment.

So as usual I’m the last person to get around to posting that our little project has grown up again.  But then again I’m the only person who really works for a living :P

Charl Norman scooped the launch announcement this morning, and Justin updated the Afrigator blog with a list of cool features the new version boasts.