Web Application Design, Development & Innovation in Cape Town

To date, there has been no extensive analysis of South African Twitter usage. Fuseware has profiled millions of tweets from South Africa and tens of thousands of users to better understand the South African Tweeter. We have aggregated this information into dozens of graphs and word clouds for easy reading and dissemination. This information is [...]

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Create your profile on the Silicon Cape Social Network Invite your friends to join the Silicon Cape network Tag Posts on your blog, pics on Flickr or any Social Media site with siliconcape. Embed the Silicon Cape badge on your blog or website. Update your location on twitter to Silicon Cape What are you waiting [...]

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After successfully raising over R600 000, last year, Autism Western Cape are on another interesting awareness and fund-raising campaign. This time instead of being locked up in a make shift jail cell for over 74 days. This year Gerhard Pieterse plans to climb Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain peak in Africa.

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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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Make a date in your diary for 19 September 2009. CLUG has plans for a Software Freedom Day Party. The plans are: Spend a day fixing up our Freedom Toaster and have a bit of a party. There are a whole pile of things that need to be done, so you don’t need any insane [...]

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Vinny Lingham first wrote about Silicon Cape in blog post at the start of 2009, in which he highlighted the challenges and opportunities for the Western Cape technology fraternity. Paul Graham (Founder of startup incubator, Y-Combinator, based in Silicon Valley) also wrote a post about recreating Silicon Valley. He’d like us to really open the [...]

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To: The City of Cape Town The new, proposed graffiti by-law criminalizes all forms of public art and violates our personal right to freedom of expression on private property. It makes no distinction between vandalism and public art that is done with the permission of the owner of the property. The by-law will soon be [...]

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Vinny Lingham continues to inspire, forging ahead with Synthasite and receiving an additional $20 million in funding… To all my friends, family & colleagues, Today, I’m proud to announce that Reinet Fund has just invested $20 million into SynthaSite, securing our future and enabling us to continue to build our business model and product offering. [...]

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I live 2.5 km (1 kilometer = 0.621371192 mile that makes 2.5 km = 1.55342798 miles) from my office. Left home at 8:05 am and only got there at 8:30 Only realised it was the start of the new school year after finding myself idling in the fast lane. It’s official, everyone’s back at work, [...]

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