June 2008
40 posts
Puma promotes biking with i-Cycle movies →
With pertrol going up another 80 cents per litre this week, cycling has suddenly become rather trendy. To promote their association with the two-wheel revolutionary movement, Puma have…
Best Wishes to Bill Gates →
Best Wishes to Bill Gates, who retires from Microsoft today. As the wealthiest man in the world Gates serves as a strong example for what the rich ought to do with their wealth. The $37.5…
Moo Does Business Cards at Last →
Many web workers have gone the non-traditional route with their business cards, and opted for the cute, colorful Moo cards instead. Well, very soon you can have your Web 2.0…
The Universal Edit Button →
When the web was first conceived, it was intended to be a read/write medium. Right now, wikis are the best implementation of that vision: web pages that are easy for people to edit directly from…
Ubuntu Book Third Edition
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Another year has past and another edition of the Official Ubuntu
Book has been finished and will be released soon. Over the last two
years, the two previous editions of the book have grown…
Erik Hersman’s AfriGadget.com Named One Of TIME... →
My good mate Erik Hersman is passionate about techology and passionate about Africa. He has combined these brilliantly in the recent past in the shape of projects like Ushahidi and AfriGadget….
46 Marketing Mistakes Your Company Is Probably... →
One of my professional speaking colleagues, Erik Vermeulen, forwarded a very cool email newsletter to me the other day. Normally that would tick me off but the newsletter, produced by Scott…
WatchFirefox Mobile Concept Video on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
ISO suspends OOXML while considering Appeals →
According to a press release the International Standards Organisation has suspended publication of OOXML as an ISO standard during the appeal process.
According to the press release four…
BMW's fascinating GINA Light Visionary Model... →
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BMW presents GINA, a new take on car design, materials, and flexibility. The GINA replaces the traditional metal/plastic skin with a textile fabric skin that’s pulled taut…
OmniFocus for iPhone: Location-Aware Contexts and... →
The Omni Group - OmniFocus for iPhone and iPod touch [Disclosure: I’m a consultant on the OmniFocus project. You can blame me for having requested any of the features you don’t like.] Oh, man….
Netbooks pre-loaded with Ubuntu →
The Canonical OEM team has been approached by a number of OEM’s who want to sell netbooks (small, low-cost laptops with an emphasis on the web) based on Ubuntu. Almost universally, they’ve asked for…
Core does it yet again →
Core aka the guys who bring in Apple products into South Africa is a company I have a torrid relationship with. I generally consider them my least favourite and most incompetent company in South…
Leaning Into the Blogging Dip →
Do you sometimes feel like you couldn’t possibly write another blog post, even if it was a case of life or death? Does the constant grind of writing to a schedule feel like it’s wearing you down?…
Did Bush Greenlight an Israeli Attack on Iran? →
The former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer was recently in Israel for the 60th Anniversary celebrations at the same time that President Bush was there. He has some disturbing…
Wiki for listing legitimate uses of P2P →
Alarmed that Bell Canada is throttling and degrading P2P traffic, David Fewer and some of his friends have created a wiki to list “all of the legitimate things that P2P can and is doing. Kind of a…
How I Use Amazon S3 →
This post suggestion has been sitting in my Skribit account for a while so I thought I would finally address it. S3 is Amazon’s developer-aimed online storage solution. In recent years,…
Screencast Introduces New Mozilla Firefox 3... →
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish →
Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience, and Micheal Lopez, Web Designer You may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to…
“I can’t stress this point enough: the ShareAlike clause of the CC licenses and...”
– iterating toward openness » Blog Archive » Noncommercial Isn’t the Problem, ShareAlike Is
WatchInterview with Vernon Koekemoer …
Oh brilliant! He really is from Brakpan and a technical writer to boot!
Newbie's Guide: FriendFeed →
FriendFeed is a powerful service you can use to follow all the public online activity of your friends. It takes all your friends’ activity on Twitter, Digg, del.icio.us, Flickr…
Freedom of Speech, Not Freedom From Consequences →
Somewhere along the lines during the evolution of the modern perception of the First Amendment rights, we’ve collectively lost sight of what that means, and what differences between Freedom of…
Instant Messaging Proves Useful In Reducing... →
Big surprise? [from Instant Messaging Proves Useful In Reducing Workplace Interruption from ScienceDaily] Employers seeking to decrease interruptions may want to have their workers use instant…
WatchJack Dorsey Presents Twitter on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
SA Blook, Introduction →
Introduction Welcome to the SA blook, a collaboration between South African bloggers with a strong belief in the future of our nation. Essentially, it is a book, originally published online and…
SA Blook, Chapter 11: “The role of the younger... →
This is my contribution to the South African Blook Project. Many thanks to Darren Gorton for give me the opportunity to be involved in all this.
We definitely didn’t create apartheid…
SA Blook, Chapter 9: Making the most of SA’s... →
SA Blook, Chapter 9: Making the most of SA’s creative talent and abilities: The greatest resource possessed by a nation is the imagination of its people
It is no secret that South Africa has…
SA Blook, Chapter 4. The importance of each... →
Go back and read Chapter 5.
Writing is a passion for me and one that has taken me to heights that I haven’t even begun to consider. I love it. I love it almost as much as I love South Africa. However…
SA Blook, Chapter 7: The importance of technology... →
Technology and globalisation go hand-in-hand. Globalisation unleashes technology, which in turn drives companies to plan production and sales on a global basis. Technology changes the work we do and…
SA Blook, Chapter 8: Building brand South Africa →
To be successful a brand requires strong leadership, well-defined values and benefits and a credible communication strategy. Brand evangelists exist and the most well loved brands have…
SA Blook: A Piece of Significance →
Contents Introduction 1. The new South Africa - is it real? 2. Is SA rich or poor? 3. What the world thinks of South Africa and what our global opportunities are 4. The…
SA Blook : Chapter 13 : We are African →
SA Blook Chapter 13 : The role of collaboration in South Africa’s growth. We are African “It often takes a major shock to force a society to confront challenges it has been…
Why aren’t we all using Linux? →
Before I begin I want to point out that I want you all to know that I am not one of those Linux fanboys who live in their parents basements surrounded by old hardware that’s running a command…
Clearing the air with Twitter (40) →
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Yesterday Evan Williams wrote me an email telling me he wasn’t blaming me and trying to clear the air. I said “can I come over?”…
