Microsoft has invested $240-million in Facebook, resulting in a $15-billion evaluation for the social network. I fear that this might be the beginning of the end of the Facebook mania.
Personally, I would have preferred to see an investment by Goo...
Views: 46 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, October 26th, 2007 | Tags: advertising, blogs, facebook, google, investment, Microsoft, social networking, viral marketing, YouTube
Now is your chance to write a 50 000-word novel with a “fun, seat-of-your-pants” approach to novel writing.
November is “National Novel Writing Month”, and thousands of people from around the world are taking the opportunity to becom...
Views: 72 | 1 Comment » | posted on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 | Tags: book writing, novel, novelists, writers, writing
Here is proof that most education systems are not adequately keeping up or preparing students to deal with tomorrow today. That's almost OK, because students are eventually going to adapt their experience and their educational choice accordingly, so ...
Views: 43 | No Comments » | posted on Friday, October 19th, 2007 | Tags: culture, education, media, schools, students, technology, universitires
If you have a blog or a Facebook account, I’ll bet you have plenty of widgets or applications on your pages. Ever thought of how the developers make money off these little tools? Photobucket sold to MySpace for $250-million, and myBlogLog was rece...
Views: 67 | No Comments » | posted on Monday, October 15th, 2007 | Tags: application, blogging, business models, facebook, myspace, online revenue, social networking
People who play -- and work -- in the online space are so scared that they might be caught addicted to a has-been technology that there is a race to proclaim “The next bubble!” or “The next Facebook!” or, if they really want page views, “Wh...
Views: 13 | No Comments » | posted on Monday, October 8th, 2007 | Tags: facebook, internet, social networking
Bern Goosen is a South African quadriplegic, and tomorrow he will begin his third attempt to mount Kilimanjaro. In a wheelchair. He won’t be pushed. He won’t be carried. He will use his brute strength to get there, and you can watch it all on you...
Views: 37 | No Comments » | posted on Thursday, October 4th, 2007 | Tags: Bern Goosen, Kilimanjaro, mountaineering, wheelchairs
These are the blogs that make it into the top 100 000 ranking on Technorati.
They are competing with about 70-million other blogs, so being popular or widely read only in South Africa is not likely to get them this ranking. In other words, t...
Views: 26 | No Comments » | posted on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 | Tags: blogging, blogs, south african blogs
Randy Pausch is dying of pancreatic cancer. In fact, he only has about two to four months of healthy life left. He is a professor at Carnegie Mellon, and recently participated in the Last Lecture series.
The Last Lecture series is an US initiativ...
Views: 38 | No Comments » | posted on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 | Tags: death, pancreatic cancer, Randy Pausch
There is a blog up for sale, at auction, and I wonder if you can predict how much it will sell for. (I am not going to give out the URL, because I don’t want you to see what the current bid is, but if you think you might want to buy it, give me a s...
Views: 111 | 3 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 | Tags: blog price, blogs, monetisation, selling blogs
VideoProfessor sells computer training videos, mostly through late-night infomercials. Like most companies, it offers a money-back guarantee, but there seem to be endless problems with overcharges, upsells and unclear terms. Some customers got a litt...
Views: 39 | No Comments » | posted on Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 | Tags: free speech, Guy McLaren, media law, new media, online commerce, VideoProfessor
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