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Remembering September 11

1 Comment 11 September 2009

It’s exactly 09/11am on September 11, 2009. To remember those lost on that day and the many lost after that day, every day, in retaliation. Words by Barack Obama… I have something lined up to be published at 09.11pm. What? Stay tuned…

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Pigeon transfers data faster than Telkom

No 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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The science of motivation

No Comments 09 September 2009

In the following TED Talk by Dan Pink he discusses the science of motivation. When solving problems in business, engineering or web wwworking, incentives do not wwwork the way you expect it to. He makes his case where he talks to the the TED audience as if he were addressing a jury about how people [...]

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Off That – Jay-Z/Web AddiCT Mash-up

4 Comments 07 September 2009

Click Play and follow along with the Lyrics. Welcome, to tha, future Hey count me in Find me a niche that’s mine Im so high It’s like the SERPs are mine Yeah Right there Yeah (Verse 1) I’m so tomorrow, post is pre-dated on yesterday which means you on-time than late So even if I [...]

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Jay-Z & predicting a Twitter Trend

No Comments 01 September 2009

Jay-Z’s new album The Blueprint 3 is about to be released and various tracks have supposedly been leaked before it’s official release date. The first track that leaked, Death of Autotune (DOA), poked at rappers making songs for iTunes, ring tones and Synthesizers to alter their voices. The DOA song was the first to start [...]

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Just some cool Friday stuff

No Comments 22 May 2009

I haven’t posted in a while, so I thought I’d share some cool stuff I’ve found the past week or so. I’ve been sharing this through my twitter profile as I find them, but I thought I needed place more emphasis on them. The worlds first battery fuelled by air – Developed at the Chemistry [...]

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Guy Kawasaki defines Innovation

2 Comments 02 March 2009

Innovation is creating something before people know they need it. read more

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c-jump – The Computer Programming Board Game

2 Comments 04 February 2009

This may be old news already, but I thought this was pretty neat. If you want to teach your kids the basics of programming languages like c, c++ and java, check out this board game, c-jump

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Now over a billion internet users

No Comments 27 January 2009

Just saw on Economist.com today, China is the number one Internet user in the world, overtaking USA from just a few months a ago. Interestingly, looking at comScore’s graph below, the top 3 internet users, China, USA and Japan cover 40% of the internet users in the world. Over 1/6th the worlds population is now [...]

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