Rants and Ramblings from a Dot Com Junkie

Last year PayPal partnered with FNB and launched in South Africa and the whole industry was going insane at the possibilities tech entrepreneurs might now haveto do business online. Little did anyone...

Last night I while looking through twitter for some SXSW tweets I came across an interesting game that was being played by folks running up to the event. Aftersome playing around I with it I am now...

A little more than 10 years ago the bottle water craze took South Africa by  storm and I remember my dad laughing at the notion of buying bottled water  considering it was coming out of the tap for...

              Radio stations really need to start rethinking their business and how they deal with the online aspect of it. In recent years we have seen locally that radio stations like 5fm...

The internet is filled with billions of people who refuse to pay for anything. They want everything for free. So then what we do is fill our sites with ads because its the only way we can pay for...

WikiLeaks as an organisation is straight out of a comic book, it has highly educated and skilled people working for it from top secret locations all around the world, it is out to change the world...

The South African online tech community is a very small one, and everyone is friends with everyone else. Every time a new site is launched the community, in a mix of blind patriotism and the fact...

In 2006 I loved Digg, In 2010 I rarely even log in. The same applies to Reddit and Del.icio.us and dare I say it Muti and my very own bookmarks site over at Local List. Social bookmarking is a stale...

In my high school days a bunch of my friends bought World of Warcraft and most of them still play it on a daily basis. Some of them even bought virtual goods, which I at the time thought was insane...

Apple might have eliminated the issue of coding for various hardware configurations by just having a standard hardware configuration for all iPhone but they have absolutely failed in so many other...

Good morning, how's the coffee? Yesterday I wrote about reducing your business idea to a 30 second viral pitch. Today I'd like to focus my thoughts on creating a viral application. Seth Godin says...

The Goal with this is to reduce your complex ideas into a simple digestible story that can spread from one person to the next. Three quick stories:Isaac Newton, sits under a tree and an apple falls...