2010 January | Web AddiCT(s);

MXit Evo for PC features

7 Comments 29 January 2010

The evolution of MXit IM client continues with MXit evo. This Windows MXit pc client has been design epsecially for those of you who want to stay in contact with your MXit peeps when you’re at your computer. Herewith follows the features of the new MXit PC clients as well as a link to download [...]

Mobile Phones

HTC Hero users. I need your Help!

4 Comments 28 January 2010

Got to MIH SWAT this morning to find an HTC Hero on my desk. Another phone that runs Google Android. So now the collection of mobile phones that run Google Android are the OpenMoko Neo Freerunner (win one here), Samsung Galaxy Spica (win 3 here) and now the HTC Hero. This is where I need [...]

Twitter

Twitter single purpose tools

No Comments 26 January 2010

Maybe you’ve just started using twitter or are still trying to find the benefit of using it. Here are some tools to measure your twitter activity. Twitter Sheep Enter your twitter username to see a tag cloud from the ‘bios’ of your twitter flock. See the tag cloud of everyone @rafiq follows on twitter here. [...]

SEO

101 SEO Common mistakes

7 Comments 25 January 2010

Over at Dave Naylor, Paul Capenter shares 101 SEO common mistakes. Here is listed 10 of my favourites of the of the 101 SEO common mistakes. Don’t believe everything you read on SEO blogs Treating onsite SEO as a ‘one-off’ project without a plan to regularly review the site – especially if your site has [...]

Open Source Web

Local Mirror for TED talks

No Comments 23 January 2010

After Jason Adriaan’s guest blog post about Local List, Your Web AddiCT went over to ISlabs to see what was new and this idea from Charl van Niekerk immediately caught my attention:

Innovation

New Local List project conceived at Geek Retreat

8 Comments 22 January 2010

This is a guest post by Jason Adriaan. Jason Adriaan, is a young online budding entrepreneur and founder of locallist.co.za powered by ISLabs. Jason currently studies at the University of Cape Town but originally from a small town called Hankey 75km from Port Elizabeth. Through Local List he aims to bring broadband connectivity to people [...]

Mobile Phones

Win 1 of 3 Samsung Spica’s running Android

4 Comments 21 January 2010

You Web AddiCT has been using the Samsung Galaxy Spica running Google Android for just over a month. They’re letting it out into the wild with the SamsungSpica.co.za competition where you can win 5 nights with 5 of your friends somewhere in Namibia. The runner up prizes, one of 3 Samsung Galaxy Spica’s is what [...]

Africa

Twitter SMS notifications for Africa… no, the wwworld

7 Comments 19 January 2010

Some ideas are easier to implement than others. A short while ago the wwworld SMS mobile app idea was shared with you with as much detail as possible. The idea behind wwworld SMS: a mobile application that’ll allow a user to send SMS text messages via the web using your mobile phone in the form [...]

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