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

Before someone (Nic) calls me out on this - 4 Bandwidth Blog posts at the top of Muti.

It was not planned - thanks to Rafiq (chilling at my pad as I type) and Justin for submitting the posts.

Why did it take so long? I get hundreds of application, event and group invites daily. It’s the downside of whoring using Facebook.
Ignore all requests -

Suggesting friends to newly accepted friends -

Also found this on Delicious yesterday - The shy Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook
My Facebook profile, add me!

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 […]

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 […]

Some tips and info on how to go about getting your blog posts featured on the Digg homepage

Digg’s algorithm accounts for recent participation rank of user and followers.
Frequent success makes subsequent success more difficult. Take a few days off sometimes.
Get a quick succession of diggs from “high-value” users.
The number of diggs needed to reach the […]

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 […]

I attended my first 27 Dinner amongst the Bentleys and gold diggers at Primi Melrose Arch last night and had an absolute blast. I rocked up quite early as I was anticipating bumper-2-bumper traffic coming from Sandton which was not the case. I cruised to the venue and walked into a half empty Primi […]

…check top right - theres a “I like” icon and a X to close the feed. I guess if you ‘like’ a particular news item they will show you more of that.. or less if you close it.

More here

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 […]