Tag Archives: Startups

24.com and BWCOM

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 [...]

Blueworld updates

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 [...]

Tagspage SA launches

TagsPage.co.za launched recently which is part of a global network of tag pages. This new style of ‘web directories’ allows you to specify a keyword which discribes your site and then link it to your web address. This type of directory was famed by Alex Tew when he created the “Million Dollar Homepage” and sold [...]

Photobucket out of space, Myspace

Myspace has been a source of traffic for various social start ups such as Photobucket, Slide and even Youtube. The video sharing site gained millions of visitors from their embeded videos on Myspace’s user profiles. If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether it’s Flickr, whether it’s Photobucket or any of the next-generation [...]

MK.tv’s WOELAG interview

I appeared on channel MK TV's new hip hop and car show WOELAG. They interviewed me on our automotive social network Zoopedup.
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ICT Young Entrepreneur of Africa

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.
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