Last week I attended the excellent Net Prophet conference which is an annual business and technology event hosted by the Ramp Group in Cape Town. I took a fair amount of notes at the conference (something I haven’t done for a while!) and I thought that they may be of interest to people that weren’t [...]

Google has come one step closer to owning every aspect of the Net experience with the announcement of their new web browser called Chrome (link not active yet). Why did Google bother with creating another web browser you might ask? “Because we believe we can add value for users and, at the same time, help [...]

International research agency, Millward Brown, have just announced the 2008 BrandZ Top 100 Ranking of the World’s Most Powerful Brands based on interviews conducted with over 1 million consumers globally. (Un)suprisingly, the top 10 looks like this: Google GE (General Electric) Microsoft Coca-Cola China Mobile IBM Apple McDonald’s Nokia Marlboro Google has firmly established itself [...]

A very positive change took place on The Times site last night. We successfully implemented a customised installation of Google Search on the site which replaced the Search 24 engine that had powered it since launch last year, making us the first major media company to partner with Google on site search in South Africa. [...]

Last year I blogged about my work on a type of 2d bar code symbology called “QR Codes” and announced that this work had culminated in the launch of a commercial advertising initiative known as “TimeCode”. Well, it seems that Google has also caught onto the idea. According to Silicon Valley Insider: Google’s efforts to [...]