Tag Archives: innovation
Afrigator Launches Gatorpeeps

Afrigator Launches Gatorpeeps

Posted 25 April 2009 | By Mike | Categories: Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Web 2.0 and Social Media | 9 Comments

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 [...]

Knowledge, Perspective and Institutionalism

Posted 15 July 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Entrepreneurship, Random Thoughts | 5 Comments

One of the most inspirational characters I’ve ever met is a guy by the name of Rich Mulholland. Rich runs two companies, Missing Link and Thunk!, the former being a ‘presentation strategy company’ and the latter a ‘perspective lab’.  Rich’s story is an inspiring one – having progressed from rock band roadie to uber-successful [...]

Not So Lively

Posted 09 July 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Web 2.0 and Social Media | 4 Comments

Carl sent me a link to Lively today – it caught my attention immediately. My first thought was, this is what Second Life should’ve been. The fact that it’s unashamedly a Google product helped a bit too.
All the site tells you is that you can “Create an avatar and chat with your friends [...]

Erik Hersman’s AfriGadget.com Named One Of TIME Magazine’s Top 50 Sites Of 2008

Posted 17 June 2008 | By Mike | Categories: Entrepreneurship, Web 2.0 and Social Media | 2 Comments

My good mate Erik Hersman is passionate about techology and passionate about Africa. He has combined these brilliantly in the recent past in the shape of projects like Ushahidi and AfriGadget. He’s been rewarded for his outstanding efforts by having AfriGadget named as one of TIME Magazine’s 50 top sites of 2008 alongside the likes of Yahoo! Answers Health.com, Mint and more.