Archive for June, 2006
South Africa heading for economic crisis?
0 Comments Published by Gareth Knight June 27th, 2006 in Africa, South Africa, Diaspora, Sustainability, Triple Bottom LineAn interesting train of thought over at www.southafricandiaspora.org/, about a possible looming economic crisis.
Personally, my take is that if your growing midlde class spending power in a growing economy is coming from people in the goverment sector, financed by debt, and your education success rates are not growing correspondingly, then you’re in for a […]
Newsvine grows and updates
0 Comments Published by Gareth Knight June 27th, 2006 in Web, Technology, Applications, AnnouncedI’ve been watching Newsvine for a while now, more out of interest and curiosity to see how it would develop than anything else (I’m not a user as yet), so this was good to receive:
Everything’s Faster –
From loading the front page to writing an article, performance improvements over the last few months have resulted in […]
Software development jobs in Cape Town
2 Comments Published by Gareth Knight June 27th, 2006 in Business, Software, Technology, Applications, AnnouncedOpen Box Software are actively recruiting for people in their Cape Town office, so if you’re looking for something, or you know of anyone that is looking for someone, then please either get in touch directly, contact me directly, or forward this post on… Don’t be shy - they’re a stable, great company that […]
Web 2.0 London BBQ thanks, Flickr photo’s, and the next one
4 Comments Published by Gareth Knight June 26th, 2006 in Web, Open Source, Technology, AnnouncedJust wanted to say thanks to everyone that made it to the BBQ on Friday night! - had a cool time and was great to meet so many new people! (If I met you for the first time, please send me your details so I can add you to the mailing list!)
The photo’s are on […]
Web 2.0 London drinks and BBQ tonight - open invite
3 Comments Published by Gareth Knight June 23rd, 2006 in Web, Wordpress, Design, Development, Business, Open Source, Software, Technology, Applications, Web Analytics, Announced, AccessibilityIf you don’t know already, there is a Web 2.0 BBQ happening in South West London tonight, open to all (not axe murderers please).
The weather is awesome, the can-can girls have confirmed their appointment, the fridge is cold, and the BBQ is ready to go…
Roll on the evening!
On a related note, I got an email […]
New niched blogging service…
0 Comments Published by Gareth Knight June 22nd, 2006 in Web, Business, Software, Technology, Applications, AnnouncedDave has launched Poraqui.com… one less vertical to occupy, or alternately, compete with…
user generated content, niched verticals
_ http://www.rssping.com/
Looks interesting - hope they get somewhere with it
RSS, ping, specification d.Construct 2006 Launches!
3 Comments Published by Gareth Knight June 22nd, 2006 in Web, Development, Business, Software, Technology, Applications, AnnouncedAndy Budd has sent a heads up of the next d.construct conference:
Further to my hints a couple of weeks ago, I’m pleased to announce the official launch of d.Construct 2006.
If you’ve not heard of d.Construct, it’s a low-cost grassroots web development conference we run in Brighton. The conference is all about web applications and web […]
Making digital headway in 2006
0 Comments Published by Gareth Knight June 22nd, 2006 in Web, Design, Development, Business, Outsourcing, Technology, ApplicationsJust posted another piece over at Lemon Foundation on how businesses should be going about finding their digital suppliers… Here’s the intro:
It’s becoming apparent that the digital arena is starting to pick up, certainly much more than it has year by year over the last 4 to 5 years. Businesses are starting to […]
Mediatemple (mt) launches an ad network geared towards the design community…
Vantageous is an advertising network & site representation company focused on placing campaigns with influential creative industry web publications.
Which is interesting in 2 ways:
1. The design portal community seems to have slowed down a lot in the last year or two - why is that? […]
Web 2.0 startups in the UK and startup questions to consider
4 Comments Published by Gareth Knight June 22nd, 2006 in Business, SoftwareJust posted something on start-up questions to consider over at e-Consultancy, which looks at the things you should be thinking about when you’re doing a web 2.0 startup, or startup of any sort for that matter…
Here’s the intro for ya:
There’s a pretty great post on Particletree about the kind of questions VCs ask […]
Some more on web 2.0 and user generated content
0 Comments Published by Gareth Knight June 21st, 2006 in Web, Design, Development, Business, Technology, Applications, Marketing, Useability, Search EnginesI’ve been writing a bit on user generated content (waiting for editorial consent!) lately for e-consultancy and there seems to be a real thread moving around the blogosphere where the emphasis seems to be on real writing for real people, not writing for the sake of advertising clicks or for what you think your audience […]
Web 2.0 London / blogging / Geek / Suits / Normal people - drinks and BBQ - open invite - 23rd June from 7pm
1 Comment Published by Gareth Knight June 21st, 2006 in Web, Wordpress, Design, Development, Open Source, Software, Technology, The browsers, Applications, Web Analytics, Marketing, Useability, Search Engines, Announced, Ubuntu, AccessibilityJust a friendly reminder for this Friday:
The next BBQ is this Friday on the 23rd June, same time and place as the last one:
http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2006/05/23/geekbbq-tomfoolery-in-london/
Upcoming.org -> http://upcoming.org/event/80247/
Address is: (now withheld to protect privacy
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=sw19&om=1 (also to protect privacy)
Open invite - everyone welcome. Please forward to anyone you know interested in Web 2.0, geekery, blogging, being […]
Added some photos to Flickr this morning, all from 2001 - some good wildlife shots, a solar eclipse taken from Johannesburg, some from the Otter Trail, a few from Graskop (nice old skool look), and from Pilgrims Rest (old mining town in SA).
South Africa, wildlife, solar eclipse, otter trail, PIlgrims Rest, photography
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