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Nations wrestle with internet age
The UN digital divide summit in Geneva has made political leaders consider the internet ...

UN summit pledges net for all
Delegates at UN's digital divide summit agree on principles of web equality, ...

Cyber threats risk net's future
Developing nations are grappling with how deal with security threats as more and ...

Iran defends web control
Iranian authorities have defended the country's web censorship rules at the ...

Annan calls for web to widen
Most websites are irrelevant to the real needs of people says UN secretary general. ...

Hi-tech medi-truck heads to Africa
A monster all-terrain truck has been kitted out by a Russian group to deliver medical ...

Time for the 'real revolution'
Technology needs to be relevant, cheap and useful, argues SciDev.net's David ...

Cbeyond to pay $2.3M to settle class action
Cbeyond Inc. reported Friday it reached a preliminary $2.3 million settlement agreement ...

WordPress creator to speak at local tech seminar
WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg will be a keynote speaker at technology seminar ...

Tech research at UT in line for $2M in funding
The University of Texas at Austin may be in line to receive $2 million for multifunctional ...

SteelCloud to offer shares
SteelCloud Inc., which sells mobile software to government and commercial customers, ...

Former Missouri Rep. Steve Brown surrenders law license
Former Missouri Rep. Steve Brown voluntarily surrendered his law license this week, ...

Lockheed Martin donation to boost Web site for women entrepreneurs
Lockheed Martin Corp. has donated $30,000 to Baltimore organization Multinational ...

SAIC wins Marine Corps contract
Science Applications International Corp. won a $22 million delivery order from the ...

MetroPCS Wants to Deploy LTE in 2010
Prepaid phone company MetroPCS says it hopes to deploy LTE, the next-generation wireless ...

Why Amazon Will Make or Break Twilio
Its true that Twilio just named successful Silicon Valley prognosticators Founders ...

Who Says Flock Switching to Chrome? Not Flock
Flock, the four-year-old Redwood City, Calif.-based browser maker, according to a ...

SpinVox Will Transcribe Your Skype Voicemails & Send You a SMS
I am a pretty big fan of services like Got Voice and SpinVox that essentially take ...

Tough Times Call for New Entrepreneurship Efforts
Conventional wisdom says now is a great time to start a business, but the economic ...

Jon Stewart: Forget Twitter, Try Grunter
Watch & Enjoy the video. (via)

Where In The World Is Innovation
This Innovation Heat Map crafted by McKinsey and the World Economic Forum maps innovation ...

Cleantech Collective Open for Business
File this one under self-serving if you like, but I feel a little like a proud new ...

Can Social Media Save Red Herring?
Red Herring, the tech industry’s essential source for Silicon Valley venture capital ...

How to Be a Successful Blogger: The Scrupski Rules
Susan Scrupski, one of the brightest (and nicest) people Ive met in my Enterprise ...

Living the Social Media Values at SAP
Its a cold day in hell pretty rare when a large company invites bloggers to sit ...

PR and Social Media: Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?
Jimmy Breslin’s famous query about the hapless 1962 New York Mets seems apropos of ...

Deborah Weil and the Art of the Fake
The rapid ascension of social media as a force in marketing and public relations ...

Social Media Bites Whole Foods CEO
Now we know why Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has starting updating his blog again ...

Who makes more money than me?
Doing my usual Facebook maintenance tonight and I see another intriguing advertisement. ...

I want my stimulus: but is it Jeff or Kevin?
While getting my nightly dose of Facebook, I came across the following two ads on ...

Privacy Issue or Feature: Unpleasant vs Pleasant Surprise
Being in the identity space, and having a product that manages peoples identity, ...

Dick Hardt joins Microsoft
No joke. Yes, I am joining Microsoft. For those with questions, I hope to have answered ...

Canada vs US: Identity and Voting
Like many other Canadians, I have been entertained by the reality television series: ...

Facebook Connect update
I have heard a number of great things about Dave Morin at Facebook and have been ...

Passport vs OpenID vs Facebook Connect
My post yesterday on Facebook Connect raised a few eyebrows. I had a few discussions ...

Resurrecting the Blog and moving to overseas
Whoa, my blog is still alive! Even after I havent fed it in such a long time. Thats ...

Why not treat yourself like an RPG Character?
If you dont play video games that much, RPG stands for Role Playing Game. RPG games ...

Creating the Culture. My Vision for this Space
I initially started this blog as a personal journal, which then evolved with my resolution ...

Life Lessons from an "Old Guy"
I found out about this blog post from readsaid. Old guy thinking is a brilliant post, ...

Great Article on Perspectives
I read a deep and insightful post today from Life 2.0 called Perspectives on Psychotherapy, ...

Interrupt your thoughts
Let me just tell you one thing first. This is easier said than done. There is a great ...

Been quiet in this space lately
The key to personal development, or any sort of life skill for that matter, is consistency ...

query.dropSlideMenu.js
dropSlideMenu is my attempt at building a simple (single-level support only), yet ...

Favourite South African logos: Part 3
This post is the third installment in a series, featuring my favourite South African ...

Hermit Crab

Defending IE6
Lately I've noticed an increasing trend among web designers/developers who are proudly ...

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: a collection
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, the anime music video produced by Daft Punk and ...

Favourite South African logos: Part 2
This post continues where Part 1 left off, a little later than I was planning, but ...

Favourite South African logos: Part 1
This post has been a while coming. I was initially planning to feature about 10 of ...

Dell's Adamo Laptop: A Looker, but Light on Power & Speed
This is my review video of the Dell Adamo laptop - please check out my unboxing ...

Photography Blog Review the Canon PowerShot SX20
www.photographyblog.com

Money No Object? Check Out The JVC 4K DLA-RS4000
www.engadget.com

Stupid Gadget Friday - USB Motorcycle Helmet Humidifier
www.techchee.com

And the Winner for Cutest Windows 7 Ad Goes To...
www.youtube.com

Intel's Core Family is a Happy Family
www.tomshardware.com

Audio Compression Comparisons
nigelcoldwell.co.uk

A2P SMS: The Economics of SMS (Part 2)
In short, while a P2P SMS could cost 2p or so, an A2P SMS costs much lower (probably ...

A2P SMS: The Economics of SMS
As many of us have noticed, SMS is not carried on the same channel as Voice. What ...

A2P SMS: The Types of SMS (Part 2)
Continuing with the four types of A2P SMS: Business - Promotional: These are ...

A2P SMS: The Types of SMS
Let us dig a little more into A2P SMS. There are four types of A2P SMS: Consumer ...

A2P SMS: The Business of SMS
In this series, I will discuss the opportunities around A2P SMS. I have written earlier ...

Blog Past: India Post: Ideas for Tomorrow
In 2003, I did a presentation on what India Post (our postal department) can do. ...

Weekend Reading
This weeks links: On Cisco: from The Economist. [Mr. Chambers] wants Cisco to ...

Microsoft Takes to the Airwaves for Windows 7
First ads debut for the upcoming operating system.

Dell's Super-Thin Adamo: Lost in the Mix?
From the blogs: Despite Dell's efforts behind its sleek new notebook, it was Apple's ...

Google Talks Up Micropayments for Web Content
Often at odds with news publishers, the search giant pitches them a variety of options ...

Salesforce Pops After Winning Over Skeptic
Wedbush Morgan analyst bumps up the on-demand software provider's stock following ...

Twitter Updates Usage Policy, Still Open to Ads
Microblogging firm says it's still considering an ad-based revenue model, but looks ...

Apple Updates Snow Leopard With Security Fixes
New patches fix security issues in both new and old versions of Mac OS X.

FCC Chair Pledges New Media, Web 2.0 Push
Genachowski talks up ongoing efforts to bring the FCC into the Web 2.0 era.

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Microsoft, Yahoo search deal faces DOJ scrutiny
Microsoft will have to provide additional details about the search agreement, which ...

DOJ Expands Review of Planned Microsoft-Yahoo Agreement
Microsoft today confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice has asked for more ...

Google Helps Users Jump Ship to Rival Web Services
In a move that flouts common business logic, Google is making it as easy as possible ...

Justice Department further probing Bing-Yahoo deal
The U.S. Department of Justice has furthered its investigation into the proposed ...

Yahoo: Share sales, tax bills, discontent - what's going on?
Earlier this week we reported how new Yahoo boss Carol Bartz had sold more than $2m ...

Facebook Open Sources ?Tornado? the Engine That Drives FriendFeed
When Facebook acquired FriendFeed back in August, the big question was, what would ...

Al-Qaida Web sites down ahead of 9/11 anniversary (AP)
AP - A U.S.-based group monitoring militant Web sites said Friday that jihadist forums ...

Twitter opening up to advertising (AFP)
AFP - Twitter, the micro-blogging platform which has attracted tens of millions of ...

Google's search box gets bigger (AFP)
AFP - Google just got bigger. Not the company, but the search box on its home page, ...

FCC launches social networking sites (Reuters)
Reuters - The Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. agency that regulates the ...

Baidu unfazed by Google's China inroads: CTO (Reuters)
Reuters - China Internet search giant Baidu Inc is likely to maintain its search ...

Google Helps Users Jump Ship to Rival Web Services (PC World)
PC World - In a move that flouts common business logic, Google is making it as easy ...

Microsoft, Yahoo Search Deal Faces DOJ Review (PC World)
PC World - A Microsoft and Yahoo search deal, announced in July, will face an in-depth ...

Turning Security & Privacy into a competitive advantage
Many Chief Security Officers supporting Financial Services today are delivering empirical ...

Venture Capital Investments in NYC Skyrockets 40%
When startups think of VC investments they’re first reaction is not typically “New ...

A Startup Kinda Guy – Craig Mundie
More than a few of my emerging ISV company are asking me – what will Microsoft be ...

From startup to super star, it pays to be NICE –
I had a unique opportunity to speak at Omni Resort & Hotel in Orlando FL, for NICE’s ...

Microsoft Windows CardSpace enabling ePayments
Windows CardSpace enables users to provide their digital identities in a familiar, ...

How does a startup become an industry success?
Easy - demonstrate enterprise capability solving real business problems, integrate ...

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic iSync Plugin
Last night I decided to hook up the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic which I received from ...

Nokia and their disruptive model for the music generation
On Thursday Nokia South Africa announced their new Comes with Music range of mobile ...

TechEd Africa 2009 Summary
TechEd Africa 2009, Microsoft’s pinnacle conference that attracted more than 2000 ...

My thoughts on the TechEd Africa 2009 Keynote
A couple weeks back I was contacted by Eben De Wit who is the Microsoft Developer ...

My presentation at the MIH Media Lab Entrepreneurship Workshop
This morning I delivered the following presentation to the students of Stellenbosch ...

Should companies fear Social Media?
In the last week or so theres been a huge furore in the South African Social Media ...

CAPTCHA A sure-fire way to lose customers
A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the ...

Will organizational leaders accept the evidence about incentives and creative work? ...
Daniel Pink, author of the excellent Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind, has ...

Nip it in the bud or wait for the crisis
Twenty five years ago I was running an internal project for the consulting arm of ...

Tech Support Cheat Sheet
Tech Support Cheat Sheet Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:00:00 GMT Theres a striking ...

links for 2009-08-20
YouTube Social Media Revolution This is essentially a follow on to the excellent ...

Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Meadows, Donella From time to time, I recommend ...

links for 2009-08-11
Portals and KM: Another Enterprise Blog and Wiki Success Story from Traction â ...

25 Words on Social Media Wisdom
Liz Strauss offers up another of her provocative challenges; to craft 25 words of ...

Palm Pre gets a Google Voice App
Sure, well admit it: there might not be a whole lot of apps available right now ...

Rumor: HTC Hero update tomorrow to improve performance, improve camera
It's looking like the latest version HTC Hero firmware will be coming out tomorrow ...

First Look: Motorola’s new Android-powered CLIQ + MOTOBLUR
The highly anticipated Motorola announcement has come and gone. After all the dust ...

The iPhone Gridiron Throwdown: EA’s Madden NFL 2010 vs. Gameloft’s NFL 2010
Holy Mother of Football Heaven. Talk about a head-to-head matchup. Gaming heavyweight ...

CrunchDeals: T-Mobile myTouch 3G for $99
Oprah! Oprah! Oprah! Thanks to the queen of daytime television, you can get the ...

Video: Motorola’s new UI for Android, Moto BLUR
The first footage of Moto Blur, Motorolas just announced social-network-centric ...

The Motorola Cliq: An Android smartphone powered by the social media star, MOTOBLUR ...
The Cliq might be the first Motorola device with Android, but with a 350-person ...

Buy Two Books, Get the Third Free!
Buy two books direct from O'Reilly and get the third free by using code OPC1 in ...

New! O'Reilly Photography Learning Center
The O'Reilly Photography Learning Center is an evolving resource of tips, tricks, ...

O'Reilly Authors Get Jolted
O'Reilly authors won three of four Jolt Product Excellence Awards. The winners are: ...

The Largest MySQL Gathering on Earth
With over 110 sessions and speakers, the MySQL Users Conference is chock full of ...

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Need I.T. Career Advice? Ask Trish.
In her new "Dear Trish" column, O'Reilly Learning Guidance Counselor Trish Gray ...

RSS=Roberts Stuff is Saved (will it do the same for CNNs Twitter account?)
Ive been taking lots of bashing for not backing up my blog. I deserved that. Or ...

I dont feel safe with Wordpress, hackers broke in and took things
A few weeks ago some hackers broke into my blog here (this was before 2.8.4 was released). ...

How can we help you build your business?
Yesterday Rackspace launched a cloud app partner portal called Cloud Tools. Thats ...

RSS: interesting or boring? (Hint @marshallk and @louisgray, were not normal)
Marshall Kirkpatrick takes on the RSS is dead meme, started by Steve Gillmor, but ...

The new way to look like a dork with an iPhone: Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality apps are about to become the HUGE rage on the iPhone. Why? They ...

Real time comments will piss off pro bloggers (at first)
Last week I sat down with Disqus CEO, Daniel Ha. Heres that video where he explains ...

SaaS meets Virtual Goods
Yola is known as a “Software-as-a-Servi ce” business – which basically ...

Social Media (re)evolution!
I found this video on my good friendRyan Spoon’s blog. Definitely needed to ...

ChessCube raises $1.25m VC funding
It’s great to see other young startups raising money in this tough economic ...

Cover Story : Entrepreneur Magazine – July 2009
I’m honoured to be this month’s cover story in Entrepreneur Magazine ...

Endeavor Keynote: Reid Hoffman
I’m at the Endeavor conference in Miami and today’s keynote speaker is ...

Yahoo to shut down Geocities
The world surely has changed since the heydays of the late 90’s. It’s ...

Freemium models will weather the downturn
There are two models for any online business, either the user pays or someone else ...

The Web And Rewarding Expertise
On the Web, you (“you” being a designer or developer) can pretty much do whatever ...

On The Web, More Isn’t Only Less, It’s Actually Nothing
There is always news. Regardless of how newsworthy particular information is, ...

Why Do We Love Rounded Corners? The Answer!
Nearly four years ago, I asked the question, and attempted to answer: “Why do we ...

What I Need…
Know what I need? I need some way to cherry pick the 20 or so Boing Boing posts ...

Elsewhere Links Are…Elsewhere
Y’all may have noticed that basement.org’s elsewhere links have dried up a bit these ...

An Argument For Building Attractive Things
Here’s a rule of thumb that applied to both people and design experiences: The ...

Praying To The Wrong God
Let’s go back to the year 2000 for a few minutes. The music industry is in turmoil ...

An electrical circuit that runs entirely off power in trees
You’ve probably already heard of the idea of harvesting electricity from body ...

Brown University economists measure GDP growth from outer space
For many developing countries, the data for measuring economic growth is unreliable ...

'NanoPen' to write a new chapter in nanotech manufacturing
Among the top challenges facing the commercialization of nanotechnology, is to produce ...

Researchers bring the sounds of ancient instruments back to life
A team of researchers is reconstructing the sound or timbre of ancient instruments. ...

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LEGO toys and Shrinky Dinks aid in development of microfluidics
The field of Microfuidics poses challenges to research labs, such as funding for ...

Machine learning coupled with 'rich interaction' may make computers a partner, not ...
Researchers at Oregon State University are hoping to improve artificial intelligence ...

The creative dimensions of luxury
Life is an intellectual quest filled with fashion, culture, creativity and passion. ...

Digital inspiration
This beautiful film is an inspiring work of art proving that theres so much more ...

BlackBerry
BlackBerry is one of the world's leading cell phone and smartphone brands. We have ...

Destiny Man
Destiny Man is a men’s magazine in South Africa combining business, fashion and lifestyle ...

NokiaConnected
We conceptualised, designed and custom-developed a youth-focused social media website ...

DestinyConnect
When Ndalo Media first enlisted our help to research, conceptualise and manage the ...

Measuring Influence on Twitter
Marketing on Twitter is largely about influence, unless you simply want to use it ...

3 Simple Tips to Help Busy People Get Into Social Media
Fast Company recently published an article called The 10 Commandments of Social Media, ...

Opting Out of Telemarketing
Recently Ive been getting almost daily calls from telemarketers offering me mainly ...

Mobile Marketing in Action
Some of the best clips that I use for teaching are actually adverts. The following ...

20 Ways to Evaluate Contributions to a Corporate Social Network
From what Ive seen, the main objectives of online social networks in companies are: ...

Decision-Making Biases
While there are many rational reasons for people to choose to buy a particular product ...

The Business Value of Social Gestures Online
So much of what drives social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook basically ...

No iPhone in SA on 22 Aug?
Dosent look like SA is being added to the mix on 22 Aug. Apparently 20 or so countries ...

iPhone in SA?
Vodacom have opened bookings for the iPhone 3G for the South African market Seems ...

iPhone coming to SA Official
Its official the iPhone is coming to SA! Vodafone have signed an exclusive agreement ...

One lucky SA person will get to drive the Renault F1 Car
The company i work for has put together an awesome new reality series offering one ...

iPhone and Vodacom?
Yup its been ages since I did a blog post, but id rather blog when I want to say ...

First working iPhone in South Africa!
Yup you guessed it unless im wrong, this is the first working iPhone in SA! Im ...

Iphone First impressions
Yup thats right- I managed to get my grubby mits on an iPhone from the 5th ave Apple ...

Apple iPhone: An artists new best friend
Not only has the Apple iPhone revolutionized the way we work and communicate on the ...

How a simple geek gathering could make the South African Internet better
Let me start off by saying that the inaugural Geek Retreat that took place this past ...

Western Spaghetti
I just love this clever video created by Adam Pesapane, a digital artist in New York ...

SA will experience strong Internet growth over the next 5 years says goldstuck
Earlier today, Internet researcher and commentator, Arthur Goldstuck, presented ...

The influence of mobile phone technology on media & politics in South Africa
A few weeks ago, myself, Matt Buckland (24.com) and William Bird (Media Monitoring ...

SABCnews.com relaunches but with no breaking news
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) recently made a grandiose announcement ...

Lara Croft flys in from a deep, dark jungle just to meet me!
Ok, might as well come clean!!! Alison Carroll, AKA Lara Croft, was recently in ...