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Clickatell, one of the advertisers here on Web AddiCT(s);, have just turned 10 years old. To celebrate they are giving away 10 000 SMS credits to do with as you please. All you need to do is join their facebook fan page here (currently on 662 fans). Read the terms and conditions.
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Vodacom and RLabs have teamed up to bring you the “Community Information Challenge 2010?. Many people in local communities have mobile phones and use them for voice and text. However, the use of mobile Internet is growing fast and can be used to enhance local communities. The mobile Internet can be used to share many types of information around the globe but there is often difficulty in finding local and relevant information.
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South Africa has a very limited “Angel Funding” network to help online start ups develop prototypes of their products. Most venture capitalists are only interested in investing large sums of money in ideas that have proven to generate revenue. The only way you are able to invest your money into an online start-up in South Africa is if you had a very big amount of it or knew the start-ups and could act as an angel investor. Being an angel investor still required quite a big sum of money. Eve D has just turned South African start-up investing on it’s head with Crowdfunding. Here is how you can get involved…
The web is constantly growing and expanding. That’s a good thing. It means that We have more information and more information sources at our disposal both on our computers and mobile devices. But, what’s going to happen when all this information blows up? (okay, not blow up) but what’s going to happen when it all gets out of hand? Clearly, something needs to be done about these volumes of data that We are subjected to everyday.
Last night I was going through my latest collection of TED talks when I came across a pretty interesting talk by Microsoft’s Technical fellow, Gary Flake showcasing a new application from Microsoft labs named Pivot. If you didn’t know, Pivot is a software application from Microsoft Live Labs that allows users to manipulate , interact with and search large amounts of data.
Indeed, Mr Flake’s presentation was dazzling , filled with all sorts of demonstrations on how people could use information until patterns begin to emerge and then be able to see trends that would otherwise be invisible . He goes on to argue that … “There’s a great need to give people the power and ability to slice and dice , manipulate and extract value out of information..” — that’s where Pivot comes in.
From a user perspective, I am not going to say much — However, I think Pivot is going to change how people perceive and visualise data. Tell us what you think?
Take a look at this TED talk for more on Pivot.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Many times, people living and working under the most difficult and challenging conditions, with minimal tools and capacity, have come up with creative and even innovative solutions to the enormous challenges they face. Organizations and researchers around the world have been equally creative working with communities living in situations of fragility and conflict to find solutions to ensure delivery of basic services, improve governance and create jobs.
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With the huge growth we’re seeing in mobile throughout the wwworld you’d be a fool not to cater for all phones that are able to browse the web. Anything from a Nokia 6110 running Opera Mini to the smarter Samsung Galaxy Spica, HTC Hero or Apple iPhone. Many good Wordpress themes are coded in such a way that they downgrade do the simple text only version of your blog. Due to the high number of tags, categories or ads in your sidebar getting to the unique content when trying to read a post on your mobile phone involves scrolling, scrolling and more scrolling. Thanks to a vast array of Wordpress plugins you are now able to render your blog in a mobile friendly format. MobilePress is one such plugin. Continue reading this article to find out where to download MobilePress and see some screenshots too.
Notice how Facebook dominates the English speaking wwworld.
The Samsung Star Competition has come to an end. It was capped at 100 entries to give the contestants a 1% chance of winning the touch screen mobile phone each. Without further delay it is time to announce the winner. The winner of the Samsung S5223 is…
Win 10 000 SMS credits from Clickatell
Pivot, Microsoft’s new data visualization tool
MobilePress – Make your Wordpress blog mobile friendly
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