Charl Norman is a web entrepreneur behind local social networks 
Mentions in the media over the past two months Brainstorm magazine – I’m featured with my BWCOM business partner Bradley Voges as well as Adii Rockstar and mobile prodigy Tyler Reed. Leadership magazine with Rob Sussman CEO of Integr8-IT and Adii Rockstar of WooThemes fame
Monthly Archives: June 2009
20fourLabs blog launches
June 13, 2009 – 2:16 pm
A new innovation unit has launched within 24.com called 20FourLabs. My company Blueworld Communities will be working together with Matt Buckland (lab master) and his team to build audiences and technologies for 24.com. 20FourLabs is a start-up research and development division within 24.com focusing efforts on rapid, agile web development and innovation. Our aim is [...]
300 Young South Africans: Technology
June 12, 2009 – 2:26 pm
I made the list of Mail and Guardian’s 300 South Africans to watch in technology To be described as a visionary, a marketing genius and a Web 2.0 guru at 24 is quite impressive, but then Charl Norman did start young. He launched his first website while still in high school. Now, at 24, he [...]
Seacom cable
June 1, 2009 – 10:41 am
I attended the Seacom cable launch in Durban with my fellow digirati last week. Some of the key points – They had pirate issues when laying the cable The cable is 40 days to completion 1.28TB/s capacity (our current infrastructure can’t handle these speeds) The cable links Africa to Europe and Asia (via the Middle [...]
Photos from my trip to Silicon Valley for the MIH Tech conference.
I appeared on channel MK TV's new hip hop and car show WOELAG. They interviewed me on our automotive social network Zoopedup.
I have been nominated for ICT Young Entrepreneur of Africa 2008. Now to even be nominated is a great honour for me seeing as last years winner of the award is internationally renowned Vinny Lingham.
