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 >
Who sticks to their new year’s resolutions anyway? I know I don’t. But after reviewing the goals I set out to achieve in 2009 - Surprisingly, I didn’t do to badly. Here are the goals, those ’striked’ out were obviously completed -
Build a better Blueworld and Zoopedup with strong mobile plays
Get back into Golf
Video blog [...]
Mentions in the media over the past two months
Brainstorm magazine - I’m featured with my BWCOM business partner Bradley Voges as well as Adii Rockstar and mobile prodigy Tyler Reed.
Leadership magazine with Rob Sussman CEO of Integr8-IT and Adii Rockstar of WooThemes fame
This is my 2008 year end post for Blueworld from the BWCOM staff blog
Hey Everyone,
From everyone at Blueworld Communities we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy XMAS and your business a successful new year.
Blueworld experienced a great 2008 and we look forward to continuing this success in 2009. Some of [...]
Updated 06 Aug 08
I’ve had a crazy working week and wanted to share it with you -
Sunday
Zoopedup breakfast run - photos here
Monday
Fly to Jozi, meetings - Absa, Daily Sun, Trigger, Heat Celebrity news and FHM
Public speaking event - 27 Dinner
Tuesday
Meetings - Cerebra and Brandsh, Nashua mobile, 24.com sales and GroupM
Fly back to Cape Town
Wednesday
Start [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Just a quick note to highlight some new functionality we ‘plugged’ into Blueworld today. It’s called Gender Bash and is all about asking the opposite sex a question. The new service has been a huge hit with tons of questions and replies.
genderbash.blueworld.co.za - Have a look, learn something from the opposite sex
Most popular question so [...]
We have added two new areas on Blueworld aggregating some of our user’s data.
Blogs.blueworld.co.za is a summary of all the user’s blogs - Visit
Photos.blueworld.co.za is a summary of all the user’s uploaded photos - This is the biggest area on BW with 100+ photos being uploaded each day firmly cementing us as one [...]
Two of my blogs, DailyGlamour and SA Rugby Blog, is now sporting a fresh new look ‘n feel. The blogs redesign was long overdue so I teamed up with Foxinni to tweak the header’s design and then commissioned WordPress guru Adii to implement the designs.
Daily Glamour
SA Rugby Blog
I’m really chuffed with how the blogs turned [...]
My older brother Andrew’s latest venture is a classy restaurant on the tip of Bikini beach, Gordon’s bay. Naturally, my web design company was commission to take care of the restaurant’s website and logo design.
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.
