http://www.charlnorman.com Charl is a partner in BWCOM (pty) ltd a social media company focusing on building and maintaining web technologies such as social networks. Charl is also the publisher and editor of numerous blogs including CarBlog and BandwidthBlog. Wed, 14 May 2008 19:47:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 http://www.charlnorman.com/2008/05/14/afrigator-beta-2/ 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 ... http://www.charlnorman.com/2008/05/11/my-upcoming-events/ 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! http://www.charlnorman.com/2008/04/30/vernon-koekemoer-vs-techno-viking-viral-vid/ Just a quick note that I will be doing my "Building and Managing Social Networks" talk at Cape Town's 27 dinner this coming Sunday. You can RSVP here http://www.charlnorman.com/2008/04/25/27-dinner-talk/ 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 ... http://www.charlnorman.com/2008/04/12/24com-and-bwcom/ I'm doing a small talk about building and managing social networks next week at Dave Duarte's Technomadic Markets course at the UCT Graduate school of Business. Other speakers include big names such as Mike Stopforth, Vincent Maher, Eric Edelstein, Paul Jacobson, Tyler Reed, Alan Kent and offcourse Dave Duarte. Nomadic Marketing ... http://www.charlnorman.com/2008/04/11/technomadic-markets/ Just got my latest t-shirt from Startup Schwagg and it's the best one yet - USTREAM - you can check my other startup t-shirts here and here. ... and Foxinni playing Wii in the Blueworld office when he's suppose to be working d: http://www.charlnorman.com/2008/04/11/monthly-startup-schwagg-t-shirt/ I just uploaded my Springleap video interview onto Blueworld. Eric Edelstein 'surprised' me at our Blueworld offices in Cape Town. I gave a short tour of our offices, introduced the brains behind Blueworld and answered some of Eric's questions on how I won the competition. http://www.charlnorman.com/2008/04/10/my-springleap-video-interview/ 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) http://www.charlnorman.com/2008/04/05/top-startups-article-republished/ Did you know Mark Zuckerberg allegedly verbally agreed to sell Facebook to Yahoo! or Friendster tried to acquire Facebook for $10 Mil? Check out these interesting early Facebook history facts - With millions more users, Friendster attempted to acquire the company for $10 million in mid 2004. Facebook turned down ... http://www.charlnorman.com/2008/03/28/facebook-facts/