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 ...
We’re talking Search Wars: What does it mean to you?
On Monday Robert Scoble wrote what I thought was a brilliant thought piece on Microsoft potentially buying out Yahoo!, and concurrently also Facebook. Scoble’s take on the matter was that sh...
So here we are, 2008. We have Google, Flickr and Facebook. We have YouTube, MySpace and Twitter. We have more IM clients than you can shake a stick at, and enough Web content to sink a flotilla or two. How, I ask you, is anyone expected to cope? If y...
It's still startup frenzy on the web (2.0) these days. If you haven't read this before -- here are the 15 startup commandments -- a good read for those doing startup web companies. The author is Mark Fletcher (www.startupping.com), founder of Bloglin...
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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Driving around a typical Johannesburg suburb, the most eye catching thing is that every house is surrounded by a wall at least 6 feet high. And these walls are decorated with electric fences or barbed wire. Their electric gates let in only the right ...
It's very tempting to think that your piece of software is very unique. In fact, why would you have a need for this software, if someone else thought about it already?
As the old saying goes: "There's nothing new under the sun." And it's quite tru...
Have I allowed myself to become outdated, irrelevant, inconsequential and stuck in a dark corner of the early 2000s? Has technology passed me by and been handed on to a younger generation of smart, happening geeks?
My friend Vincent called me up s...
