Arb Thoughts, Innovation

What do the Cricket World Cup, Cellular Communication & Credit Cards have in common?

3 Comments 25 April 2007

Cricket World Cup: Today South Africa play Australia in the ICC Cricket World Cup semi-final. For those of you who are stuck in your cubicle, infront of a monitor and will not be able to enjoy the Cricket World Cup semi-final on TV. You can get live cricket scores via RSS or Jabber/Google Talk instant [...]

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Arb Thoughts

Apply to do a 3 minute talk at TEDglobal2007?

No Comments 18 April 2007

Ememka popped the TED Gloabl 2007 fellows an email. Dear TED Global Fellows, The clock is ticking and the conference is just over 7 weeks away. This is a quick check to see if you have something wonderful, ingenious, powerful or hilarious that could be shared from the TED stage in 3 minutes. For those [...]

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Arb Thoughts, Innovation

Sharing an idea with Dell’s Mobile Brand Manager

5 Comments 17 April 2007

What usually happens when Your Web AddiCT shares an idea? Blank stares that remind me of the geeks listening to marketers at BarCamp Cape Town day 1 or marketers ‘listening’ to geeks at BarCamp Cape TOwn day 2. Or the familiar sound of, ‘That’s never been done that way before.‘ A familiar echo since pre-primary. [...]

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Arb Thoughts, Innovation

Internet Banking in January 1900?

1 Comment 04 April 2007

Hi,     Wednesday, 04 April 2007 17:28:53 Welcome to Standard Bank Internet Banking. Your last visit was on Monday, 01 January 1900 01:01:01 Lets say there was R1000 in the account the last time we logged in on 01 January 1900. How did we log into internet banking in January 1900? How [...]

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Africa, Arb Thoughts, Mobile Web

The True Test of Mobility

5 Comments 03 April 2007

Woot! Tomorrow I’ll be leaving for a 5 day trip canoeing on the Orange River. I’m really excited, as I’ve never been canoeing before, and it’ll be good to get out, as I’m usually stuck indoors in front of my laptop, but I’m also a bit nervous leaving the office, especially in a time now [...]

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Arb Thoughts, Blogging

April Fool Jokes for Geeks

3 Comments 01 April 2007

I was thinking, since it’s April Fools day today, I’d do a top 10 list for jokes geeks can play on other geeks. Pretend you have the wrong IM window open and Twitter some provocative messages to all of your friends and followers that was meant for someone else. Change the Geolocation data on all [...]

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Arb Thoughts

Open Source Interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales by Matthew Buckland

No Comments 31 March 2007

Mail & Guardian Online’s Matthew Buckland is about to interview Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales and wants YOU to ask the questions in true wikipedia style. The question is what questions do I ask the old boy? Can I have ideas? Can I put some of your questions on this blog post to him? Let me [...]

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Arb Thoughts, Blogging

Why Standard Bank changed their tagline.

8 Comments 30 March 2007

Simpler. Better. Faster. Yeah right. At 10:55 am Your Web AddiCT received the following message Please collect your renewed Standard Bank card at N1 CITY Branch with your ID. If you have collected, thank you. That card being a Mastercard, the key indgerdient to purchasing anything online. Discovered my curreent card was expired when playing [...]

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Arb Thoughts, Blogging

Does Blogging do to the Web what Pro20 is doing to Cricket?

3 Comments 25 March 2007

Almost everyone watched the FIFA World cup. Many South African’s watch the ICC Cricekt World cup. Many local bloggers watch & blog about the Cricket World Cup. After watching the Proteas VS Aussies encounter yesterday, congrats Australia, it suddenly occured to me: They’ve gone and taken the Pro20 style of playing and extended it to [...]

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