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Some good news for the SA tech people out there
_ Financial Mail - Here comes Neotel
SA’s second fixed-line network operator was meant to begin operating in May 2002, when Telkom lost its statutory monopoly over fixed-line telecommunications. Six years later, the company - known now as Neotel - will finally launch its services […]

OK, so this has become somewhat of a labour of love the last month or so, where I’ve snuck bits of time here and there to get this to a point where I’m happy it makes sense, and there’s not much more I can add to it now…
Please check it out, let me know what […]

This is the first draft of the content from the core conversation panel I did at SxSW earlier this year. When it’s done it will go up as a PDF and a blog post. I’m posting here so that I can start getting feedback if possible; and have kept things numbered for easier […]

Spent a lot of today working, so not as much detail as yesterday
Scaling boot camp was pretty interesting and some new ideas coming out of that. Key take homes were:

understand what has to happen in order to go into “scaling mode” - what are the red flags?
don’t scale until you have to
know […]

Great post from Peter about what’s going on in SA… recommended reading.
_ Run for the hills, the country is falling apart
Going to have a good old rant, it has been a while. For all the new people – this happens every now and then, I have a really good self-righteous rant about something. Don’t be […]

My good friend Peter has just gotten off his arse and done his blog up all nice and proper, with content and all. Of course it took me ages to get the server sorted out, install the blog engine, and theme and some photos, but who’s counting? I humbly recommend reading him if […]

From Tim (he who has no blog or site or anything to point to):
_ Business Day - News Worth Knowing
THE price of international bandwidth will plummet 80% when the Seacom undersea cable goes live on June 17 next year.
Seacom will be the first of several proposed cables to finally reach African shores and local universities […]

If you’re interested in population ecology or population dynamics or just sustainability, then you might find this interesting…
_ Population size of the Earth now vs population size over history
If you add up the total number of humans who have ever lived and compare that total to the number of people walking around on the planet […]

It’s been 6 years and 10 days since I arrived in London as a wet behind the ears South African 20 something looking for a red carpet, and I’ve been thinking about the different ways I could write this blog post as a battle worn 30yr old Londoner who dreams of Africa, but ‘cos of […]

Check this out - great idea!
_ Community Guy - Jake McKee » Community Contest 2007: Putting Others First
It’s Day 3 of our quest to learn about the impact of sharing on communities. We’ve learned the value of trust and we’ve been reminded of the importance of opening ourselves up, so what’s next?
Great results come […]

Right now there are lots of proud moms and pops here at our Putney offices! Today we’ve just released our first public version of Kindo [www.kindo.com], along with some nice improvements to our baby:

Pruning is better (and you can use your keyboard to move your family tree around)
Invitations are smoother (and we’re playing nicer […]

Check it out:
Community Guy - Jake McKee » Community Contest 2007: Learning to Share
Any robust community is all about sharing; it’s what powers the group. Without an open exchange of ideas, content, and kind words, you don’t have community you merely have a group. Sharing is the social glue that creates long lasting relationships.
In a […]

Check it out, we’ve added a shop for some cool T’s and stuff for your wearing pleasure…
_ Kindo family shop

kindo, family, shop, web2.0, london, putney

This has been a long time coming, and it feels good to finally get there, albeit with a mountain still to climb!!!
Personal reflective blog post to follow soon…
A little while ago we released an Alpha to a small group of people, to gather valuable user feedback. Thanks to those great people, we’ve had our […]