I recently had a conversation with some people at Google about mobile applications for sub-Saharan Africa. Two key issues emerged: i) South Africa is ahead of the pack in terms of cellphone adoption, coverage and services, and ii) the lowest common d...
The old debate of form versus function (known in modernism as form follows function) is given a new meaning on the web. Here we have the debate about design versus content. My thoughts around this matter relate to whether one or either or both (or ne...
The web is not about technology, it’s about communication. Yet, in the ultimate schema of things, it becomes evident to the end-user only via HTML and clever client-side jinks. Despite our clever plans, middleware, and thousands of hours of social ...
Most corporates have terabytes of unstructured data floating around, which they do not know they have. New legislation is about to make life very interesting in this sphere. The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA or the Privacy Act as it i...
A big chunk of the Internet is free. A very big chunk. But what if it wasn't? What if you had to pay for the services you consume (over and above what you pay for bandwidth)?
Let's ignore, for now, the slightly obtrusive fact that the Internet ...
In my profession I have to analyse a lot of websites on a daily basis. And what I just don’t ever get is the fact that there are still so many badly created websites out there? Not necessarily just from design point of view, but functionality too!
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If we want to understand how communications could change in the next 15 years, we must look back over the same period -- to a time before the cellphone and the internet. Only then can we appreciate and prepare for the potential revolution that still ...
