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?

12th April, 2009 – 10:01 am

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 […]

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A nerd’s definition of ‘beautiful’

3rd April, 2009 – 12:16 pm

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 […]

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My first Nerdicle is online

25th March, 2009 – 1:46 pm

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 […]

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5 steps to (potentially) winning a Macbook

3rd March, 2009 – 10:15 am

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 […]

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Google give “checking the surf” new meaning

3rd February, 2009 – 11:51 am

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 […]

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HOW TO: Set up a rockstar video blog

26th January, 2009 – 12:42 pm

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 […]

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5+ Websites for daily inspiration and fun

15th January, 2009 – 10:15 am

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 […]

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HOW TO: Track the sports score using Twitter

13th January, 2009 – 8:42 am

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 […]

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