We teamed up with Peter from PipersPenthouse to create this viral video featuring two huge viral celebrities - one in South Africa, Vernon Koekemoer, and in Germany, Techno Viking (2mil+ views on Youtube) Blog this!

24.com are now partners with BWCOM. Mybroadband published the scoop - you can catch it here
This is huge for BWCOM and we look forward to collaborating with 24.
Some quotes from the scoop
24.com CEO Russel Hanley says that the acquisition gives the company access to both Blueworld’s established online community and their social networking technology.
Hanley highlighted […]

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 […]

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.

Blueworld launched some much needed functionality today - the ability to invite your friends through your address book - We added all the normal webmail providers like Gmail and hotmail etc but also included the ability to upload your Outlook or Thunderbird address book from your desktop. Nifty.
Heres a screen

On the 31st Oct we will […]

Myself and a few mates have been busy filming a cooking show we call - Crazy Delicious. We spent the past weekend filming all day and night on a farm outside Cape Town. The first two pilot episodes will be splashed all over Blueworld, Facebook and Youtube. I’ve researched quite a bit about video sharing […]

Update 03/07/07 -  Heres the Cape Town auditions footage as promised
We got permission to film video shout outs at the current Idols auditions taking place around the country. This ‘channel’ will form a part of the Blueworld video area for the next coming weeks. With Port Elizabeth already done Blueworld will be visiting the Cape […]

We just finished our BizCommunity press page and was featured on the site’s homepage. Check it here
You can also view it from the BizCom homepage in the special features box.
Update: More press for Blueworld - Here (thanks Tyler) and here (”SA embraces social networking”)

Finally, we have completed development and launched the video sharing area on Blueworld. We now have four areas on the site controlled by the user’s generated content.
videos.blueworld.co.za - Video sharing, mms videos, tag videos, rate and comment on videos
photos.blueworld.co.za - Photos uploaded by our users from their user galleries on their profiles
blogs.blueworld.co.za - Our micro […]