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My top startups article was published in Intelligence magazine last year. It was quite popular and has been republished by Leadership magazine in their April edition. Click the graphic below for the scan (avg quality)

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I just published a post on Bandwidth Blog about 24.com and photos of their offices. They have a really stylish office space -

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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 […]

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The referal traffic to Bandwidth Blog after my successfull Digg post (500 Diggs) has continued to rise. All the Digg traffic came and went after a few days but the referal ripple effects are still being felt. Many bloggers have picked up on the post and linked to it. Traffic from other social media aggregators […]

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Update 2 - BandwidthBlog suffered at the hands of Digg and was down for 2 hours. I finally got it back up around 3am. Exciting hitting the front page - the digg count flies - 55, 59, 67, 87, 110, 150 .. in a matter of seconds 
UPDATE - My article made it to the front […]

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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 […]

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An article I wrote a few weeks back on Bandwidthblog about South Africa’s startups to watch was published this past week. I was privileged enough to get the article published in the November issue of Intelligence Mag. The article came out really well and will surely mean some exposure for the startups profiled. Click on […]

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Just wrote a post about the new version of Yeigo due to be released sometime this week. Support local startups go get Yeigo! Read the article here.
With Yeigo 2.1 you can make WiFi calls to anywhere in the world, it’s like Skype on your phone but uses 90% less bandwidth (which makes it a chunk […]

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Myself and a few others have been interviewed in the latest ‘Your Business’ magazine. They did a feature on young online entrepreneurs and sent me a few questions to answer mainly about my startups and seeking advice for up and coming entrepreneurs.
Article below - Just waiting for my copy of the mag to be posted […]

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I honestly didn’t see this coming, but Business 2.0 is to close after the October issue. I really enjoyed the mag and even subscribed to it at a stage
TechCrunch states…
There previously has been some rumors that Business 2.0 would be taken over by a new publisher, however it appears that Time has decided to kill […]

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