Google Plus (G+) is a major foray by Google into the world of social media. The platform takes the best of Facebook and Twitter and slaps it into one. I affectionately call it TwitFace.
And while a small group of techy South Africans have gotten r...
You sit down to enjoy a cup of coffee with a friend and at one point or another your friend needs to dart off to visit little girls’ room. You know they will only be gone for three mins but for some strange reason you think and feel as though those...
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...
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...
Here is a letter I sent today to Apple's European customer-relations representative. Core buys their stock from Apple Europe so they seem like the right people to contact. I hope I get feedback.
To whom it may concern
I am sending you this em...
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)....
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 first came across Twitter, the micro-blogging service, in 2006 when I was living in San Francisco. Up until quite recently I resisted using it for the simple reason that I didn't think I needed to. I was also worried about the concomitant informati...
