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 [...]

Last week an exciting new tech publication, initially aimed at a South African audience, called Memeburn launched. The brains behind Memeburn is Matthew Buckland, a well-known figure in the online media industry who recently became self-employed after leaving 20fourLabs which he started after joining Media24 a couple of years back. Earlier this year, Matthew asked [...]

Let me start off by saying that the inaugural Geek Retreat that took place this past weekend (19-21 June 2009) at the beautiful Elephant Sanctuary in Hartebeestpoort wasn’t so much about geeks, Internet professionals, tech journalists, and entrepreneurs getting together and having a good chinwag over a single malt and blazing bonfire as it was [...]

Earlier today, Internet researcher and commentator, Arthur Goldstuck, presented the findings of World Wide Worx’s much anticipated “Internet Access in South Africa 2008″ study during the keynote of the Networkers at Cisco Live! conference which finished today at the Sandton Convention Centre. Amongst the highlights were the fact that the Internet user base in South [...]

Having studied and worked in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa for close to 7 years, it undoubtedly holds a very special place in my heart. I truly believe that it one of the most beautiful and diverse regions in Southern Africa and it’s surprisingly underrated as a tourist destination, even amongst many South [...]