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Google Summer of Code congrats to Charl van Niekerk

6 Comments 12 April 2007

Charl van Niekerk has been accepted for the Google Summer of Code. Here is a little snip of his application. Find out more at Charl’s blog. Congrats Congrats Congrats Charl! Currently, the web can be a real challenge to those living with disabilities. Screen readers, Braille displays and other accessibility tools convey data but yet [...]

Open Source Web, Social Media

a call from Dell’s Mobile brand mananger

2 Comments 05 April 2007

As you already know Dell made a little oops on their website with the free notebooks. They put the 2.0 toolsÃ‚Â in place to listen to what you & I have to say. Dell have started to listen, they’re about to launch a new range of notebooks running some flavour of Linux, Ubuntu, SuSE, Red [...]

Innovation, Open Source Web, Social Media

TED Talks everywhere

No Comments 31 March 2007

TED Talks everywhere Originally uploaded by Rafiq Phillips. Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales’ TEDTalk at the New Media presentation at UCT Graduate School of Business.

Open Source Web

Here come the Dell Linux desktops, laptops

No Comments 29 March 2007

Dell revealed today that it will be releasing select desktop and notebook systems with pre-installed Linux as an option in the coming weeks. These will be real, live Linux systems that you’ll be able to call up and order, just like any other Dell product, according to the article. No word on what distributions will [...]

Africa, Blogging, Open Source Web

iBlog.co.za – Free WordPress blog South Africa

11 Comments 23 February 2007

Hi Rafiq, Saw your interview on whiteafrican.com- nice! Am just dropping you a line to see how things are going. And to ask, if you have a spare moment, to check out the newly redesigned and developed iblog.co.za. I notice that the k53 blog hasn’t been updated in a while and was wondering whether that’s [...]

Innovation, Open Source Web

Local Open Source Brilliance

5 Comments 18 February 2007

Mike Stopforth posted a blurb about FreeGeek and asked… What a great idea. So whoÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s going to do it here? Mikey, its already being done. Where do you think Your Web AddiCT comes from? If it wasn’t for initiatives like the Shuttleworth Foundation’s Schools’ Linux User Group would I be typing this right now? Let’s [...]

Open Source Web

What is FOSS?

No Comments 14 January 2007

We’ve been on a mission to tag/categorize Your blog posts written by Your Group of Web AddiCT(s); Your Web AddiCT added the FOSS category. Miguel asks, ‘What is FOSS?’ Even though you’ve been using FOSS, we use FOSS everyday yet many people do not know what FOSS is. FOSS according to wikipedia. FOSS is an [...]

Blogging, Cape Town, Google, Innovation, Open Source Web

A glass half-full of lessons learnt via RSS.

6 Comments 12 January 2007

Is the glass half-empty or half full? If you’ve experienced a GeekDinner in Cape Town or Jozi your glass would be half full of ideas, the other half full of Stormhoek, coffee or juice in my case.Some of you have been following the Geekdinner Soapy that has been unfolding in your RSS feeds. The first [...]

Blogging, Google, Innovation, Open Source Web, SEO

Innovation Porn with Nikki Friedman

2 Comments 09 January 2007

Bru & Boegie, you can move your face a safe distance from your monitor, no Nikki’s not taking her clothes off. After re-reading Henk’s post about Entrepreneur Porn, with Henk’s permission, I’d like to start referring to brainstorming sessions about Innovation as Innovation Porn. Lesson learnt from Innovation Porn with Nikki Friedman: This is an [...]

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