Web Application Design, Development & Innovation in Cape Town

Are you following so many people on twitter that it has become really hard to keep track of conversations that you’re actually involved in? With Conversationlist the problem of not keeping up to date with the twittter users who matter to you is automated. What is Conversationlist? A conversationlist is your attention transformed into a [...]

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What does a  $10 Million Lightbulb , The AIDS Vaccine and The 3-D Camera all have in common?  They were all hatched in 2009! Despite all sorts of economic turmoils , The year 2009 had also some success stories.  A comparatively more positive year  2009 has been to last year interms of both recovery and [...]

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IBM has launched th Cape Town Africa Innovation Center on September 17, 2009. Silicon Cape grows. So far Silicon Cape sports… South Africa’s top Bloggers Amazon’s cloud computing was built here. South Africa’s top online news source (news24) Mark Shuttleworth started here. Vinny Lingham’s clicks2customers, incuBeta and Yola MIH SWAT labs Afrigator and Adgator IBM [...]

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After the HD vs Blu-Ray disc format wars were over, Blu-ray emerge the clear winner, however soon to be replaced by HVD, but that’s another story. Anywho, it seems we have another technology war upon us, also in the entertainment industry, but this time televisions. The war this time is between Laser TV (currently backed [...]

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

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I’ve been pretty quiet lately, so I thought I’d post a little update about what I’m doing. I’m now expat Capetonian living in Bristol, UK and working with a rapidly growing new company, XMOS. XMOS is a (re)evolutionary fabless semiconductor company that’s doing some pretty cool stuff. XMOS is the creator of Software Defined Silicon [...]

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In the 09 micro-predictions for South Africa in ’09 post #2 was “MXit shall offer peer-to-peer micro-payments (Transfer Moola between contacts), become more ’social’ & adopt QQ monetization techniques.” Imod churned out a series of FNB posts that reeked of advertorial type, paid-for-posts, they weren’t though. One of them mentioned being able to purchase MXit [...]

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Its a wristband with 4 LED lights… It is also a battery to charge your ipod or cell phone you wear around your wrist. More of us are not wearing watches on our wrists any longer thanks to always being around technology. Your computer tells the time. Your mobile phone tells the time. Your iPod [...]

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What is next? In the spirit of 2008′s 140 character craze the following 9 predictions for South Africa online in 2009 have all been written in 140 characters. Feel free to add your thoughts on what you expect in 2009 in 140 characters or less by commenting or writing a blog post of your own. [...]

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