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The future of social networking – a concept investigation with Augmented Reality 23 Aug 2010 | 06:10 am
Here are some concept designs that myself and ace designer Philip Langley put our heads together to create. It’s an investigation into how social networking may work in the future, focusing on mobile ...
New Jack Parow video 6 May 2010 | 10:43 pm
Afrikaner-Gangsta** rapper Jack Parow makes me laugh out loud… ie “Ek is America, jy’s Iraq”… I mean, where does he come up with this crap? I wish I had a better handle of Afrikaans, but I manage to ...
Save Cape Town City Ballet! 15 Apr 2010 | 10:08 am
I’m from an artistic family — and I love the arts. My father is an actor, my mother runs a drama company in the Eastern Cape, my younger brother Daniel is a Joburg-based actor and my other younger bro...
Introducing memeburn.com (Really this time) 1 Apr 2010 | 06:42 pm
It’s been an interesting couple of months. I started memeburn in December last year. Funnily enough I did the first install and the first lines of custom code while I was in the inspirational setting ...
#SpeakZA: In protest against the ANC Youth League 24 Mar 2010 | 05:50 pm
Last week, shocking revelations concerning the activities of the ANC Youth League spokesperson Nyiko Floyd Shivambu came to the fore. According to a letter published in various news outlets, a complai...
New pastures, new startup 2 Mar 2010 | 12:40 pm
I’ve resigned as Head of 20FourLabs to focus on building a new Cape Town and Joburg-based startup. I joined 24.com in 2008 from the Mail & Guardian Online, initially as the GM of Publishing and then w...
The Fowl Language ad, by Nandos 22 Feb 2010 | 09:23 pm
With reference to the “Fuck you” by Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Dianne Kohler-Barnard in Parliament last week, the sharp advertising minds at Nandos released this advertisement, which I thought was ve...
Why Google Buzz will work, sort of 11 Feb 2010 | 11:38 pm
So we have another social/microblogging/lifestreaming service, called Google Buzz. It is, without doubt, Google’s boldest social play yet. Despite dominating pretty much all the key areas of the inter...
How to add a Google Buzz share button to your wordpress blog 11 Feb 2010 | 09:09 pm
No doubt we’ll be graced with a plethora of plugins soon, but if you’re keen to add a Google Buzz button to your WordPress blog manually to share content (via Google Reader), here’s how I did it: To ...
Stopshop: A tale of exceptionally good service 3 Feb 2010 | 10:22 am
It’s an unfortunate fact that bloggers/consumers/people rarely write about their good experiences when it comes to service. Maybe it’s because we expect it should be the norm. Maybe it’s because we do...
