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WOW! It’s been a crazy few weeks. Beginning of this month we moved into new offices on Long Street, then we had our BWCOM quarterly report back to Media24 and they are over the moon with us and finally yesterday - I received the most exciting news!
I have been nominated for ICT Young Entrepreneur of […]
My first Tech Leader post is up - Twitter downtime - Could Google help Twitter scale? - read the full article here.
I had a thought on Twitter a few days ago: Could a Google acquisition of Twitter help the service scale? Or is it not an infrastructure issue but more a platform issue? Twitter has […]
It’s been a good few weeks regarding personal and Blueworld press - here’s a list of press from our Blueworld mobile wap site launch and other snippets of press.
SA networking site on the go
allAfrica.com: South Africa: Blueworld Launches Mobile Platform
SA networking site on the go: Sci-Tech: News
Blueworld launches mobile platform
ITWeb :Who’s who in the Web […]
Here’s the clip of the Heavy Chefs session two weeks ago featuring myself and Eric Edelstein. Thanks again to Fred, Mike and the rest of the Ideate/WWC guys for considering me for the talk.
Really enjoying Friend Feed and the services they allow you to aggregate - subscribe to my friend feed
I’m aggregating my shared items on google reader, my tweets, delicious bookmarks, youtube favourites, diggs and a few others.
Just took collection of my 16gb iPhone. “Why not wait for iPhone2!?!?” - I hear you ask - Well, it’s gonna be crazy expensive and I got a great deal with the 16gb.
Hard work pays off and I’ve been spoiling myself lately with new toys.
Here’s the iPhone on my desk
3G iPhone fan
If you follow me on twitter you might know about this already - I got myself a new set of wheels - Astra OPC Turbo . Stock standard the car pushes out 182 KWs and 365 NM of torque. 18′ wheels and full body kit also standard.. She’s a dream to drive each day!!
Check out […]
I’m speaking tomorrow at the Heavy Chefs event with serial entrepreneur Eric Edelstein. I will be talking about our experiences with Blueworld - marketing the networks, best practises we found, user experience enhancement, aggregating content from vottle and 24, the 24.com acquisition and some future prospects and projects.
From the HeavyChefs blog
Great news (although a little […]
Bandwidth Blog posted breaking news today about the Afrigator beta 2 launch. CEO Justin Hartman was kind enough to give us the scoop. Congrats once again to the entire team - Mark, Stii, Justin and Mike. Read it here
I’m hosting two events next week Saturday - Early in the morning Zoopedup.com car club will be gathering at DynoTech dyno tuning centre to run their cars on the dynometer and measure their power on the wheels - Now thats niche! (; You can check out more details and RSVP on Facebook.
Then later in the […]








