I do get tired of the frantic "trending" that occurs at the beginning and end of every year. Hence, I tend to sit back, take it all in and try give a summarised, more considered view a month or so later. Call it cutting through the clutter, if you wi...
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...
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...
The race to own the social profile
Companies, brands and start-ups are waking up to the fact that there's a really easy way to disintermediate service providers. Own the social profile, not the mother brand. Look what Mint.com is doing in the US f...
I've often commented on the vacuous nature of social media. Echo chambers and shallow content -- its like "small talk" on a volume never before experienced. Why, just yesterday a friend of mine and I did a little experiment to attract attention on Fa...
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...
Mybroadband reports on how the ratio of mobile broadband in the UK has exceeded that of even Wifi:
"Point Topic’s recent survey of mobile broadband users shows that the UK mobile phone companies have managed to grow their market share to 47% of us...
This is a theory I'm hatching ... Would appreciate some feedback. The premise: trying to look forward and predict what will happen in the adoption cycle of social media. It is, of course, only when we look forward, that we can invent truly differenti...
For those of you who don't know, twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and receive other users' updates, known as tweets. Tweets can be seen as text messages which move between users' computers r...
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...
