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We are the people of the Internet

Comments 10 March 2010

There is a new show starting on BBC entitled Superpower. If this preview is anything to go by I’d love to see it. [via Chris Rawlinson] Here’s an overview of the show.

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South African flavoured URL shorteners

Comments 24 February 2010

Quirk are giving away 50, $50 Google Analytics Individual Qualification vouchers to whoever uses the #QuirkLovesROI hashtag and includes a Web Analytics or Conversion Optimisation tip. This info was found in the Quirk Newsletter which happens to land in your inbox every Wednesday. Thank you Quirk. Something Quirk happened to mention in their newsletter happens to [...]

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FNB Paypal post vanished

Comments 21 February 2010

I wrote a post about FNB and Paypal earlier. It has vanished from this blog. Luckily it was indexed by Google so here it is again: It’s official First National Bank are in talks with PayPal to launch PayPal South Africa. In this screenshot taken by Charl Norman at what looks like FNB’s official site they [...]

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Food, Inc in under 10 Minutes

Comments 18 January 2010

This video summarizes the movie Food, Inc. in less than 10 minutes. Are we what we eat?

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Review of 2009 predictions (What came true?)

Comments 28 December 2009

in the first week of January 2009 we made a few micro-predictions. Seeing that it’s almost the end of the year let’s see what came true… Let’s recap and see how many of the 2009 predictions came true…

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Broadband, a legal right, in Finland

Comments 14 October 2009

The Finnish government have just introduced laws which will make it a legal right for every one of their 5.5 million population to have broadband access. Unlike the expensive 4 mb broadband speed received on the fastest telkom ADSL line locally, by the mid-2010 Finish citizen will be legally granted the right to a one-megabit broadband [...]

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01022010 Update

Comments 27 September 2009

Just though we’d give you a quick update on 01022010. Well there is a whole lot of planning happening, and Google Docs being updated left, left, left, right, left. As the saying goes, “Those who fail to plan, plan to #FAIL!” The feedback received from everyone involved about the new plan has been pretty positive [...]

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Contra Code easter egg on blueworld

Comments 19 September 2009

Remember the old school code video game secret code available Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A. Go to Blueworld.co.za and press on your keyboard: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A and see what happens

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Pigeon transfers data faster than Telkom

Comments 10 September 2009

A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country’s leading internet service provider. Internet speed and connectivity in Africa’s largest economy are poor because of a bandwidth shortage. It is also expensive.

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