Charl Norman is a web entrepreneur behind local social networks Blueworld and Zoopedup, he also owns a network of leading blogs including Car Blog and Bandwidth Blog, writes for tech and auto publications such as Leadership mag, guest lectures at UCT/CPUT and does the occasional public speaking event. More >
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.
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 2.0 Zoo?
Blueworld: South Africa’s Social Network | White African
Popularity: 13% [?]
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 can’t always control these things.
Popularity: 16% [?]
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.
Popularity: 23% [?]
Here are some of the most popular posts I published on Bandwidth blog since its launch one year ago.
South Africa’s top startups to watch (Was published in print)
Afrigator beta launched (Was picked up by ReadWriteWeb)
24.com launch Laaik.it social media aggregator (Breaking news)
The offices of todays internet companies (Reached the Digg homepage)
Microsoft wants Yahoo – $50 Bil (Bandwidth Blog’s best rumour published of 2007)
Popularity: 27% [?]
I’ve had a good week with attending my first 27 geek dinner which led to me writing the Afrigator Beta launch post on Bandwidth Blog. The post was picked up my bloggers and news publishers across the web and resulted in a healthy chunk of traffic for Bandwidth.
Here is some of the sites I found mentioning Afrigator, myself and Bandwidth blog. Thanks to the Afri guys for building such a hot beta application which made it easy for me to write a good review.
Highest praise for Afrigator by top global tech blog
Afrigator: The Best of African Social Media, in Real Time
International blogs: Afrigator covers Africa
Measuring the African Blogosphere | White African
Now with all the buzz around Afrigator and my blog post doing the rounds on other blogs I made it onto Techmeme which showcases blog posts that other bloggers are talking about and linking to – this resulted in more traffic, huge traffic in fact.
Popularity: 16% [?]
I was interviewed by John Webb from Carte Blanche about a website I started (and forgot about..) www.powerloss.co.za
The episode was about the recent power outages
Popularity: 15% [?]
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.
