A few minutes ago on Mac Appstorm, David posted a competition where readers can win one of two copies of Tweetie, a Twitter client for OS X, or a copy of DevonThink Pro, an application used for filing and organising documents, as well as aiding in the creation of a paperless office environment.
According to the blog post, the competition works as follows:
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OK, so April is coming to a close. That doesn’t mean that April Fools has to end. I think the team at Zoopy would agree.
Earlier today, the team at Zoopy.com, a South African social media community, launched a new campaign called “Framed“. This campaign enables users to prank their friends, neighbours, family or random strangers (be nice) and upload their videos onto Zoopy.com (tagging them “Framed”, ofcourse), while the Zoopy community users rate and comment on their pranks. According to the website, “The top 5 pranksters will win R15k, R10k, R5k, R3k and R2k! 5 random voters will each win R1,000 Look & Listen vouchers!”.
Visit “Framed” over here. Now play nice, people. 
“Africa’s talking, are you?” – the Afrigator slogan, the company that has (a few minutes ago) released it’s new product, Gatorpeeps, an African micro-blogging platform similar to Twitter.
Gatorpeeps has some really nifty features, including hashtag (#) communities, allowing easy categorising of “peeps” (“tweets” on Gatorpeeps) as well as streamlined searching on various topics through these hashtags. The service is automatically available to existing Afrigator users (a convenient aspect to encourage existing users to adopt the service), and has a clean and clear interface for working your way around Gatorpeeps.
I’m excited to see the progression of this service. Many kudos to the Afrigator team on an awesome job of Gatorpeeps. One feature I would like to see on the service would be more Ajax-like functionality (for example, loading the @username into the “peep” box without reloading the page). This is not so much a feature as much as an enhancement. All in good time hey.
For more information on Gatorpeeps and what others have to say about the service, Bandwidth Blog and Mike Stopforth’s blog have posts discussing the service.
See you in Gatorville!
Jeepers. One post in and the mini writer’s block seems to have vanished. Awesome! Anyways, the topic at hand…
I got a Moleskine. I’ve heard people raving about these for ages and thought I’d do some research and maybe get one. The fact that they look awesome definitely played a role in this as well. When I saw them on display at the shops earlier today, I knew the time was right.
For those who don’t know, a Moleskine is a type of diary/journal/notebook/creative writing or drawing book that is said to allude to the journals written in by such creatives and history shapers as Hemmingway, Picasso and van Gogh. According to the Moleskine website, the journals were produced by a small bookbinder in Paris for over a century and were supplied to stationary shops, frequented by creatively avant-garde individuals of the time (the full history can be found here and is supplied in the back of your moleskine). Continue reading
Lately, I’ve been overcome with a writer’s block, of sorts. It seems to be easing off now, (hence this post is actually coming to fruition ). The main cause of this writer’s block was the inability to think of a topic to write about for my latest nerdicle. I thought through all the potential areas of discussion, and nothing jumped out at me. And then, it dawned on me…
Why not write about writer’s block?
And so I did. My latest nerdicle, found here on Nerdmag, discusses 5 ways to eliminate writer’s block, on both a large and a small scale. I’m keen to read your thoughts on it and on the topic in general.
Is it not going against the core purpose of Twitter to use the service as a group account (for example, an account for one’s company)? Does it really achieve the return that the company is looking for in terms of interacting with their market? Do Twitter users catch on to this and not interact with the account? How do you know who you’re talking with, if it’s a corporate account? With some celebrities who tweet, they’ve hired a “Twitter PA”, as it were, to tweet for them.
Using a Twitter account isn’t the same as having your biography written for you. Twitter users want to interact with other Twitter users, as is the core functionality of the service. I’d rather interact with a user who has a personal account, who I happen to know is the CEO of or is working at a certain company. That way, if you have a query for that company, you know who you’re talking with and are also aware that the person works for the company. Brands, bands, companies, etc sign up on Twitter looking for that “personal connection” to their market. For that “direct access”. How does signing up a Twitter account for your brand do this? Or, for that matter, does it do this at all?
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Since my previous post on South African bands on Twitter, I’ve been contemplating drafting a list of South African bands and musos that tweet. After reading Anna’s blog post on the topic, listing South African music industry Twitter users, I’ve decided to draft the list. Twitter is an amazing service that can assist bands in connecting with their fan base, finding out what their fans would like to know, and sharing information with their fans, potential fans, other bands, etc. If used correctly, the technology can assist bands greatly in growing their fanbase. So, without further ado, here’s the list: Continue reading
I believe this question to be pertinent, of late. Why aren’t more South Africans on Tumblr? It seems like the service hasn’t really taken off here. The microblogging – come – blogging – come – information sharing service is the perfect way for inexperienced internet users to be introduced to the web and concepts used throughout websites that they will most likely end up using most frequently. Here are a few of these concepts. Continue reading
