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 >
I attended the Seacom cable launch in Durban with my fellow digirati last week. Some of the key points -
They had pirate issues when laying the cable
The cable is 40 days to completion
1.28TB/s capacity (our current infrastructure can’t handle these speeds)
The cable links Africa to Europe and Asia (via the Middle East) - time to [...]
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.
