Tag Archives: Social Media

Posts discussing various aspects of social media, thoughts around the topic and the tools used within the social media space.

Why aren’t there more South Africans on Tumblr?

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 […]

A nerd’s definition of ‘beautiful’

Recently, after I got a Macbook, I’ve been think­ing a lot about the subtle ele­ments that make work­ing on a Mac dif­fer­ent to other oper­at­ing sys­tems. The icons, the inter­face and the subtlties in the intu­it­ive nature of the sys­tem as a whole. How every applic­a­tion designed spe­cific­ally for OS X integ­rates into the sys­tem, makes use of nat­ive func­tion­al­ity and […]

My first Nerdicle is online

This Monday past, my first “Nerdicle” went online at NerdMag. In this ner­d­icle, I dis­cuss chi.mp, a new social pro­file aggreg­a­tion ser­vice, cur­rently in its beta phase. NerdMag is an awe­some online magazine dis­cuss­ing vari­ous top­ics of interest to nerdy types (and pos­sibly to other life forms)… some ser­i­ous and oth­ers not so ser­i­ous. Click here to read […]

5 steps to (potentially) winning a Macbook

South African media shar­ing web­site, Zoopy, has been run­ning a pop­u­lar monthly com­pet­i­tion to win a Macbook. Yes, a Macbook. All you have to do is invite a few friends and you could be in line to win. What if you have the major­ity of your friends lis­ted on a social net­work­ing web­site? No wor­ries, Zoopy to the res­cue. With […]

Google give “checking the surf” new meaning

While catch­ing up with posts on Mashable, a pop­u­lar social net­work­ing and gen­eral web innov­a­tion blog, I came across an inter­est­ing art­icle dis­cuss­ing Google Earth. The digital earth clone (cre­ated using satelitte imagery) has announced a move to include under­wa­ter feeds in their unique map­ping archi­tec­ture. My first thought, when read­ing this art­icle, was; “what an awe­some way […]

HOW TO: Set up a rockstar video blog

Video blog­ging (‘vlog­ging’, for short) is revolu­tion­ising the way inter­net users access inform­a­tion and inter­act with one another. Watching a 5 minute video clip or tutorial is, for many, easier than read­ing an art­icle that could eas­ily span two or three prin­ted pages. The aver­age inter­net user can now, with a few clicks and an ori­ginal idea, become […]

5+ Websites for daily inspiration and fun

Inspiration is a feel­ing that can arrive in an end­less vari­ety of packages…from neatly wrapped par­cels to boxes burst­ing at the seams to explode. Being at a com­puter for a large part of the day, I find inspir­a­tion in many nooks and cran­nies online. There are a few web­sites that I visit reg­u­larly that I find to be great sources of knowledge […]

HOW TO: Track the sports score using Twitter

Here’s an inter­est­ing para­dox. Sports (lively, act­ive, out­door, sweaty) and Twitter (pro­dom­in­antly indoor, digital, non-​​​​verbal, ‘geeky’). Who ever thought that ‘geeks’ liked sport? It seems that many do. Since the cricket star­ted a few weeks ago, I’ve seen streams of tweets com­ing in from avid cricket fans, com­ment­at­ing on vir­tu­ally every play and shar­ing their thoughts. This […]