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Muhammad Karim
The eventual chaos of an overflowing desk and the lugging around of a ton of books and papers in the library is the bane of every student doing a research article, dissertation or thesis.
Cue Mendeley.com.
Mendeley.com is a research tool which ever... |
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Views: 194 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, February 19th, 2010 | Tags: academia, articles, dissertation, Mendeley, research, technology, thesis, web 2.0
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Muhammad Karim
No, this is not an unsavoury campaign in any way. It is, however, a very noble and innovative campaign aiming at raising money for Breast Cancer Research. Tweet for Boobs is a US-based initiative in which Twitter users can use the tag #tweetforboob... |
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Views: 588 | 3 Comments » | posted on Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | Tags: breast cancer research, charity, South Africa, tweet for boobs, Twitter
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Minnaar Pieters
Today Google released enhancements of two of their products which seems pretty normal by the looks of it. However, these two updates were targeted primarily as a move to trounce Apple. These two applications are Picasa (a free photo managing an... |
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Views: 1503 | 4 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Apple, geotag, Gmail, Google, iPhone, Picasa
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Mandy de Waal
Mandy de Waal speaks to The Internet & Social Media Guy, Andy Hadfield about online banking trends.
What's the biggest challenge facing banks in this country and the world over? Simplicity.
As the world and the internet become more compl... |
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Views: 224 | No Comments » | posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009 | Tags: Andy Hadfield, bank, banking, brand, branding, Hadfield, internet, reputation, sales, social, social conversation, social media, social network, social networking, social web
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Francois Botha
It's no secret that the web has opened up an exciting world of information. Curiosity piqued? Type it into Google, hit enter and et voila, instant knowledge. But that frontier has been pushed even further with a new web application that makes systema... |
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Views: 357 | 4 Comments » | posted on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | Tags: Google, statistics, technology
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Minnaar Pieters
Twitter is a microblogging platform that has recently grown at an incredible pace, with more than 10 million current users. It is one of those ideas that are hard to understand for someone who has not used it before (that someone can be anyone).... |
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Views: 1676 | 16 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 | Tags: celebrities, John C Dvorak, social network, Twitter, Twitter grader
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Reader Blog
Submitted by Kate Elphick
Even the most removed business from the global market is starting to feel the bite of the global economic meltdown. This year is going to be a challenging year for many South African businesses. Most companies are looking... |
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Views: 598 | 4 Comments » | posted on Friday, April 17th, 2009 | Tags: cloud computing, enterprise 2.0, network, Web 2.0
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Andy Hadfield
It's been a long time coming in this country, and another proud move towards a true virtual community.
Today, FNB launched How Can We Help You, a niche social network centred on financial content. And I'd like to think we really are first to marke... |
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Views: 597 | 3 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 | Tags: banking, community, finance, fnb, niche marketing, social conversation
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Andy Hadfield
I've been catching up on my RSS feeds lately. A new thing for me. It has actually been a fairly disappointing experience. Well over half my RSS feeds are truncated, forcing you to click through to a site. I tend to browse most of my feeds using Googl... |
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Views: 206 | 8 Comments » | posted on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 | Tags: Google Reader, RSS, RSS reader, truncated RSS
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Dale Imerman
The social media buzz is barely dying down as more and more mainstream companies jump on the well-oiled bandwagon that has been created in the last couple of years. There is, however, one problem the social media gurus never told us -- harnessing the... |
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Views: 344 | 2 Comments » | posted on Friday, February 20th, 2009 | Tags: applications, blogging, corporate, employees, mobile, Office, open source, social media
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