Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

I don’t think the DA get’s it…

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

With their shiny new website and all, the DAhas been trying to engage more and more with social media. One of those means has been Helen Zille's Twitter account. It's nice and all getting updates from the leader of the opposition. But Twitter is meant to be about conversation - with ...

Online news in South Africa

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

I don't know if it is just me, but I really do think that local news sources just don't get it right. While parading new media sources such as video, their websites are still badly structured, suffer from a lack of constant new content and, most annoying of all, all ...

Confessions of a net libertarian

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

[caption id="attachment_38" align="alignright" width="199" caption="From Andréia on Flickr, licensed by CC Attribution 2.0 Generic"][/caption] The New York Timses has a great summary of the mess that is the Australian internet censorship proposal.What interested me most is the following: But ethics professor Clive Hamilton, in a column on the popular Australian Web site ...

AfriGreater?

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Considering the growing disillusionment with Amatomu along with my liking of Afrigator yet frustration with it - AfriGreater December is just what I needed. The problem is quite simple: it's just way too difficult to find new content. Put bluntly - everything is a bit of a mess and it's hard ...

Why I’ll use Facebook connect

Monday, December 1st, 2008

As Techcrunch reports, Facebook Connect is going live soon. I've written before about how I think decentralised social networking is the future - and this is obviously counter to that. Single propietry login provider? No thank you. Yet I can see how this will fit perfectly into one of my ongoing ...

Big players are playing with OpenID

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Update: these two blog posts make it seem as if Google's way of doing things are more legit than I thought - bit if that is the case then I have to wonder why there is so little information around about the changes to OpenID. I don't have much time for ...

Google Mobile Advertising

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

As discussed by Rowan Polovin on Tech Leader Google has started advertising their mobile search in some South African newspapers. There isn't really much to say about it except that I find it pretty interesting - considering the latest ZA Tech Show podcast with the head of Google SA.

How to build a decentralized social network

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

I really like OpenID. Not that the opportunity to use it presents itself often enough at this stage - but it is still great. You see the thing I like about OpenID, Jabber, RSS and all the other web standards is that they all present a lot of potential - ...

Keeping it in open

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

All the problems with blogging I talked about in the beginning are returning - and I am working against them, beginning today with another post. Seeing Matthew Buckland's post about decisions being made about their redesign of the Mail & Guardian website reminded me how interesting the whole process has been ...

Google Docs offline: pretty cool

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Google Docs Offline has finally been enabled for me and after 1 minute of trying it out I'm very impressed and I think I may just find myself using the service a lot more. Some thoughts: Formatting needs to improve, as has been said by others Inserting images while offline is needed I ...

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