Quite often one hears the argument that this or that technology may work wonders elsewhere, "just not in my company or industry". The problem, one hears, is that "we're too boring for Facebook", that "our customers aren't mobile and print their email...
When we were children the standing joke was that the kids had to set the video machine for their non-technical parents. We’d grown up with video machines, while for our parents they were still new-fangled devices. Fast forward to today and consider...
And as an avid Facebook user these things really get on my nerves. I think the points should become part of acceptable internet behaviour on social-networking platforms. Listed in no particular order.
1) Avoid attention-seeking posts
I’m real...
After all the euphoria, back-patting and chest-thumping of the MWeb uncapped DSL offering, which spurred on other ISPs to follow suit, we are now going through the first major test of what happens when real service delivery (this time not the governm...
By Wogan May
Pretty much since its inception, Facebook has been embroiled in privacy disputes -- and a quick look at the scoreboard makes it easy to see why. The stories range from parents grounding their kids, to people losing their jobs over the...
By Yoav Tchelet
Last week at Facebook's f8 conference in San Francisco, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced details of what may cement Facebook's place as the de facto social operating system for the internet.
Zuckerberg has had grand ambitions for h...
South Africa is abuzz with tales of "controversial social networking platform" Facebook and the group "Ek laaik nie n houtkop nie sou what".
Ok. So, people, catch a wake up. This is social media. We've taken a soapbox, amplified the volume an...
They are in your Facebook, mining your data ...
The issue of privacy on social networking platforms like Facebook has been discussed at length before, and dismissed by most as merely drivel from paranoid folk. My take on the issue has always been ...
I've promised myself never to go on too much about social apps, but there is one app that I've fallen in love with, and I'd love to share it. I signed up to Geni purely by chance -- I think it was to check out the flash tree visualisation -- and my a...
I've been fairly cynical of some South African businesses' recent forays into the world of social networking -- specifically Facebook. It's a helluva cluttered environment to play in, with an audience that ranges from 12 to 70, demographics from pink...
