A quick idea I thought I’d jot down for Muti, probably South Africa’s most popular social link sharing and voting site.
I imagine that one of the larger problems facing these voting type sites is that once the user has clicked on a link, he’s left Muti and needs to come back to cast his vote. […]

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The guys at Cerebra have launched an initiative with one of my favourite shoe labels Converse (incidentally, my reading glasses are also Covnerse).
I think that the idea around pulling the fans together is great. It’s a niche community that could fill a nice gap.
What I find interesting is that there’s not one picture of, or […]

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[In return for a spare ticket to the New Media Marketing conference 2 weeks ago, I was asked to write a post for the Biz-Community blog. I’ve republished it below..]
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The 2nd Annual New Media Marketing conference, which was held in Johannesburg 25 - 28 March 2008, was a showcase of a few of the top […]

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The lovely Simone Puterman from BizCommunity couldn’t make it today so I managed to get the call up and be the “honourary-substitute-guest-blogger”.
I’ve been supplied with a wifi access voucher, and will be putting down my thoughts on the biz-community blog.
I’ve never really live-blogged anything. I twittered a few events at last week’s Interactive marketing summit […]

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The TED blog posted our advert this past week. I’m hoping that this will tip it over the 1 million views mark.
I believe that this advert and it’s move to youtube played a huge role in the amount of publicity for Theo Jansen, who was one of the stars at TED 2007.

The image below tracks […]

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First off, Merry New Year and all that.
We’re up to 665 members and counting on the Facebook fan page. Here’s some info, useless as well as useful, and a few learnings too..
Some stats
In the last 10 days we’re getting an average of 125 pageviews / day
Sex breakdown: Predominantly male at 84% (no surprise there)
Age breakdown: […]

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My scattered friday afternoon thought goes like this:
One of the main responsibilities of an agency is to share ideas. Most agency websites are fairly flat affairs that either:
a - show off their trophy list,
b - show off their client list (no matter how small the piece of work was that they did for […]

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I’m watching the cricket thinking about commentators and their access to information.
I thought it would be a great tool for them (and therefore the viewers/listeners) if there was some kind of voice recognition system that “listened” to them talking and picked out words as they say them. These words are then searched for on a […]

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Much has been said about Google’s OpenSocial APIs, but for me the fact that it isn’t really a website or physical space is what makes it interesting.
Uno De Waal is someone who’s posted quite a bit about social networking platforms (or social networks) being a fad, whilst the activity of social networking is here to […]

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