Innovation

The blunt truth about the future of Wikipedia

2 Comments 31 March 2010

This is a guest post by LocalList founder Jason Adriaan. Wikipedia sits proudly amongst the likes of Yahoo, Bing, Google and others as one of the largest websites on the Internet in terms of traffic. It is run on a creed of non-profit and charity, it literally reeks of good intention. Unfortunately Wikipedia has unwittingly [...]

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Social Media

Entrepreneur State of Mind – The New Dork

1 Comment 10 March 2010

Everyone who listens to commercial radio or watches any music channel on TV has heard the Jay-Z feat Alicia Keys track entitled Empire State of Mind. If not, here it is in all its 29million plus views glory. Now the geeks over at Grasshopper have put some effort into the parody called The New Dork [...]

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Innovation

Pivot, Microsoft’s new data visualization tool

1 Comment 05 March 2010

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 [...]

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Cape Town, Innovation

Innovation Fair Cape Town

No Comments 04 March 2010

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 [...]

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Innovation

Recognizr: Facial Recognition Augmented Reality

3 Comments 23 February 2010

Here’s another glimpse into the future of your Google Android Mobile phone brought to you by TAT running on top of TAT Home, the 3D Android interface. This silent demo of Recognizr is mind boggling. Imagine being able to recognize your contacts just by their faces and then showing you all their social networks and [...]

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Google, Social Media

And the Google Adwords voucher winner is…

2 Comments 06 February 2010

On Thursday,  We ran a competition to win a google adword voucher worth R700 and promised to announce the winner  by  Friday @ 15H00. However, We decided to extend the deadline for an extra day. Now, Before the winner is formally announced, let me first explain how the  selection came about. Random.org allows you to [...]

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Innovation

This is #01022010

No Comments 01 February 2010

Many of you have been waiting for this since the first day of writing about the palindromic launch today, 01022010. All this time it has been visible on every single post page of this blog. What is this you may ask? Well it’s something old, to us anyways, and we’re looking at it with a [...]

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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 [...]

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Innovation

What’s your 1 prediction for 2010?

3 Comments 18 December 2009

It’s that time of year when everyone starts making predictions for the year ahead. Your Web AddiCT(s) asked the other AddiCT(s); featured on the blog roll. So what did Dave Duarte, Max Kaizen, Mike Stopforth, Saaleha Bamjee-Mayet, Charl Norman, Christopher Mills and Defza think will be the in thing of 2010? Here’s the list…

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