Archive for 'South Africa'
The meaning of it all, in XML
Here’s a relatively new web service for publishers and developers that’s a different spin on the semantic web. Amplify is mostly a semantic web service, although it tries to differentiate itself from other semantic services by saying it focuses on understanding content rather than classifying content — which is what the semantic web has been […]
Click on headline link to visit matthewbuckland.com for full article
New launch: Book publishing 2.0
Wow, this looks interesting. A new social media platform called Crink or “Creative Ink” has just launched, enabling amateur, budding and experienced authors to publish, sell, buy and market their books online. It allows authors to create social networks, personalised online shops, groups and forums around their interest areas and books.
Customers can order books from […]
Click on headline link to visit matthewbuckland.com for full article
SA bank claims 1-million mobile phone banking users
Absa, the country’s largest retail bank, says it’s one of the first banks in the world to notch up a million cellphone banking customers, prompting it to call “2009 the year for Cellphone Banking”.
It was the first South African bank to introduce Cellphone Banking services in the year 2000. Absa says that over the last […]
Click on headline link to visit matthewbuckland.com for full article
Rhodes University: My alma mater
I must say, I’m particularly proud that I went to Rhodes University. I have such amazing memories of studying and partying there. It’s an unusual campus, away from the big cities, situated in a small, relatively isolated town called Grahamstown. What this means is that most students live in residences and there is a tremendous […]
Click on headline link to visit matthewbuckland.com for full article
Everything is amazing, nobody is happy
Hilarious… and too true. See myself in this video. (Received via Facebook from a friend.)
tags: crazy
Potentially related posts
No related posts.
Click on headline link to visit matthewbuckland.com for full article
Musings: The 24.com blogs revamp
Here are some designs and thoughts around the new look 24.com blog platform. The designs are by Philip Langley, with Alistair Fairweather in the driving seat.
Our musings:
1. Less 24.com, more individual blogger. More blog-like 🙂
2. More viral, using contact and social network mining. Help bloggers build audience.
3. Rigid templates for best practice, yet open to […]
Click on headline link to visit matthewbuckland.com for full article
Why Obama Needs A Special Envoy to Africa (and not just George Clooney)
SA political party launches impressive, Obama-esque campaign site
The Democratic Alliance (DA), a local opposition party, has impressed with their new online strategy. Clearly inspired by Barack Obama’s web innovation, the political party has launched two websites, although only just squeaking in two months before national elections kick off. The sites are: a social media-type campaigning site, “Contribute to change“, (built on BuddyPress […]
Click on headline link to visit matthewbuckland.com for full article
The social network approach to viralising your articles
One of the key viral elements of content websites, such as news sites, are the “email to a friend” links you see on many articles. Personally, I don’t use these, but I know they’re valuable: there’s a type of user that religiously use these links as a way of sharing. Obviously they introduce new traffic […]
Click on headline link to visit matthewbuckland.com for full article
Synthasite gets $20-million smackeroos
Synthasite, the site that creates sites, has just received $20-million more in funding. It’s been the worst kept secret in the industry, but now it’s official. The site is also about to undergo a name change to secure a much shorter, four-letter .com domain — but this is yet to be officially announced.
One of the […]
Click on headline link to visit matthewbuckland.com for full article
