Did you know Mark Zuckerberg allegedly verbally agreed to sell Facebook to Yahoo! or Friendster tried to acquire Facebook for $10 Mil? Check out these interesting early Facebook history facts -

With millions more users, Friendster attempted to acquire the company for $10 million in mid 2004. Facebook turned down the offer and subsequently received […]

Last week I listed some of the press we’ve received around the new Blueworld launch - today my Cape Times interview was published and can be found on page 6 of the Techno Times insert.
Here’s the article scanned - ‘Blueworld is SA’s own Facebook’ - not the angle we wanted to go with but you […]

I’ve been working hard at generating press around the new Blueworld launch. Sustainable traffic is the biggest issue facing local web startups in my opinion. The press we’ve received so far has mainly been on tech related sites and has helped with industry credibility not to drive users.
I was interviewed by the Cape Times yesterday […]

I’m hosting a party tomorrow at Townsquare in Somerset West, 45km from Cape Town. If you’re in the area you van RSVP here on facebook. I enjoy event promotion and organise a party every odd month. Here’s the flyer -

I mentioned earlier in the week that Bandwidth Blog was nominated for best tech blog and best post on a South African blog in the SA Blog Awards. Another one of my blogs, SA Rugby Blog, has also been nominated in the best sports blog category. If you read some rugga news on SARB this […]

The nominations and judges have been announced for the 2008 SA Blog Awards. Bandwidth Blog is nominated in the “Best post” and “Best Tech blog” categories which is a great achievement for me. I worked really hard last year to turn Bandwidth Blog into the definitive source for local web 2.0 news and scoops. To […]

Blueworld was featured on Carte Blanche alongside Rafiq Phillips in a much debated web 2.0 episode. I made a small appearance with Fariq Rafiq at Cafe Neo in the episode. The Carte Blanche footage is from the Blueworld video galleries.