Archive for November, 2006

Tech 4 Africa - Creating momentum

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

And so it begins….
Almost surprisingly, the feedback has been along the lines we were expecting:
people would be willing to go to JHB,
wanna know about stuff around web2.0 primarily,
want to hear international speakers, and
think the conference would benefit the African web community.
On top of that, we’re getting some good coverage on the blogosphere so far:
Update as […]

Web, Web 2.0, Business, Technology, Blogging, Development, Open Source, Web Standards, Technology for Africa, Conferences, Projects | No comments

Xona.com - Domain Hacks

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

_ Xona.com - Domain Hacks. Hat tip to Ido.

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Tech 4 Africa - Starting to get talked about on the blogosphere

Monday, November 27th, 2006

We have finally got the site up and running and are getting some really positive feedback from the web commuunity. Not just in South Africa, but in other parts of the world as well.
The guys at cowboysengines wrote a pretty cool article about the conference idea and they are giving us some solid support!
Please visit […]

Web, Web 2.0, Technology, Software, Blogging, Web Standards, Technology for Africa, Conferences | 2 comments

The value of user data

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

During my morning feed reading I have again been reminded about how valuble a critical mass of users can be. Flickr have launched a camera finder section on their site, which identifies what camera is used to take a digital photo. This data is extremely useful to the camera industry, flickr users and photograpers.
The “Flickr […]

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Islandoo - Apply for Shipwrecked

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

_ Islandoo - Apply for Shipwrecked
Hat tip to Tim

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Building for the web is like building a house

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Over the past few months, I have been working a a number of quite different projects. But, even though the projects have been different from one another, I have encountered the same problems on each of them.
The problems I have encountered generally relate to project requirements and client expectations. What I have realised is that […]

General, Web Standards, Projects, Requirements | No comments

MiniBar - London

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

If you’re into the web and all it’s opportunity, then get your glad rags on and go to MiniBar - London… There’s a post on TechCrunch UK too.

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The Joy of wireframing

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Yesterday and today I was in two meetings which were wireframe sign-off and iteration meetings, and I have to say that the work put into doing the wireframes has really paid off. Both clients are happy that their needs are being understood and met, and one client even expressed joy at having something that […]

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Tech 4 Africa - Technology conference

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

With the onset of an extremely cold snap of weather on the 1st November, I am longing to go back home to soak up some rays from the hot African sun during Christmas time.
Instead we will be hard at work in a cold and gloomy London, which is really not as bad as it seems. […]

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