First came the promise of the OLPC, then came the Asus Eee PC, and life got good. Now that Pandora's box has been opened, a hell spawn of so-called netbooks are flooding the market creating confusion, and completely eroding the good work done by the ...
Inspired by Rudoph Van Den Burg's riff on Jeremy Clarkson's TopGear Cool Wall I thought a Cool Wall for the South African telecommunications and Internet community might be fun to do. For those who haven't seen it, the TopGear Cool Wall ranks automo...
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...
Although difficult to define accurately, alternative media can be seen as the use of tactile and non-mainstream media options in an effort to reach the increasingly elusive and all-important consumer.
On hearing the word "alternative", the first ...
SiloBreaker reports on an interesting fibre-optic deployment in Ottawa where 400 homeowners are being allowed to buy their own last-mile fibre.
The idea that every home or business could come with a "tail" back to a common multiprovider service ...
According to the Young Digital Mavens survey conducted on around 1 000 American and 1 000 Chinese youths, aged:
Millions of young Chinese are embracing the internet as a discreet space for their thoughts and emotions -- almost five times as many Chi...
We come out of a tradition of Enterprise 1.0, these days sometimes known as “old-school business”. Then the focus shifted to social networks and Enterprise 2.0 was born. Now people are talking about Enterprise 3.0, which includes Software-as-a-Se...
Context is a hell of a thing. That point was driven home to me today when Muti deleted a link without explaining how or why the post was deleted. A social book making site inspired by reddit and Digg but dedicated to content of interest to Africans o...
On Twitter today, Web Goldenboy Charl Norman posed the question: "When will Twitter innovate?"
(Watch this video if you're unfamiliar with Twitter)
I suspect that Charl means to ask when Twitter will add more features, such as those seen in Plu...
It seems like everyone is practising a little search-engine optimisation (SEO) these days. While you might have the basics covered, do you know where SEO is heading? I've been optimising websites for search engines since the late 1990s and this has g...
