Any bets on me getting a new DVD?
I bought my daughter the DVD of 'Finding Nemo' a few months ago (not sure when?). As all well watched DVD's are destined to do, this one cracked, and is no longer playable. So here's my theory on DVD's you purchased legally, breaking: I've paid for the right to watch...
Toilet humour
Hat tip to Brad Feld for this gem. Actually, for both - the iLoo (or toiletMAC, or PowerPOO) on the left and now the RSStroom Reader (shown on the right). This nifty idea from Engadget (which is obviously a bit of a hoot), might just work, according to the technically...
What an experience
I had lunch with Rich and Dave today. I'm writing about it, because lunch is probably the first thing I'm going to forget. Rich and Dave are from Missing Link (one could even make a case for them being the 'missing link'). They're just 2 parts of the team that buzz...
iPod war heating up
The patent dispute between Creative and Apple over the music navigation system on portable players is old news. Creative boss Sim Wong Hoo has told the BBC he plans to "pursue aggressively" a US patent it owns on a system used to navigate music on digital players. But...
“Podcast” declared ‘word of the year’
This could be seen as another post giving you amunition for why you need an iPod for Christmas, or it could be an illustration of just how important social software has become. The New Oxford American Dictionary has declared 'podcast' as word of the year, and will add...
"Podcast" declared 'word of the year'
This could be seen as another post giving you amunition for why you need an iPod for Christmas, or it could be an illustration of just how important social software has become. The New Oxford American Dictionary has declared 'podcast' as word of the year, and will add...
They rule
Amazing web site based on Social Network Analysis
Finishing Well – Boomers want to leave a legacy
I was recently recommended a book that sounds fantastic (its on my Christmas stocking filler list). Its "Finishing Well" by Bob Buford (Integrity Publishers, ISBN: 159145395X). (Purchase it online at Amazon.com or Kalahari.net). It is written from a Christian...
Customer service Mike’s way
There's a young guy named Mike who heads up the Braamfontein Tempest/SIXT car rental office. He used to be based at Johannesburg International. He was moved to Braamfontein as part of a promotion? (Imagine what happens when you mess up?) Anyone who's used Tempest/SIXT...
Customer service Mike's way
There's a young guy named Mike who heads up the Braamfontein Tempest/SIXT car rental office. He used to be based at Johannesburg International. He was moved to Braamfontein as part of a promotion? (Imagine what happens when you mess up?) Anyone who's used Tempest/SIXT...
Why you need an iPod for Christmas?
I just had a birthday. My amazing wife bought me an iPod Video. It replaces my iPod mini that's given me hours of amazingness. I used my iPod mini for mostly travelling by plane to escape the mind-numbing experience of airline travel. As I discovered PodCasts I spent...
For the hang of it
It's a question I get asked often. Sure, the Web is evolving into a platform for ordinary people to share information with just about anyone who'll look or listen, but why put information out there if you're not making money off it? Why have a personal blog if people...
How do you remain “cutting-edge”?
Yesterday I attended a presentation by Prof. David Block on the Power of Vision. He gave us a wonderful metaphor when thinking of what it means to remain at the cutting edge as a business. He asked us how much TNT it would take to move a sand dune in Namibia? The...
James Blunt releases latest video on mobile phones first
England's latest singing sensation may just be rescuing the single, by bringing it right up to speed with the latest technologies. James Blunt's latest video, "Goodbye My Lover" was released for mobile phones exclusively on 21 November. This was done to customers of...
Is Telkom taking on Google and Skype?
So Telkom has a VoIP solution called TelkomInternet Communicator. But here's what I don't understand.... * It's essentially the same product as Skype or Google Chat. Why are they doing this? Did they pay someone to develop a product that is the same as Skype? * While...
The dawn of the iPub
I'm always on the look out for new ways people are viewing and using the world (paradigm shifts). In a world of discontinuous change they're happening all around us. It's in these spaces that we see new innovations as people's minds are opened up to possibilities...
Get outta the way, here comes Google
Like me, you're probably bored of another Google 'the destroyer' story. But I found a great few paragraphs on Wired tonight outlining some of Google's expansion and a brief summary of what they're up to and who's in trouble if they manage to Googalize the world. Click...
Internet driven Hugs – anyone want one?
If you've read what we have to say about the Connection Economy then you'll know that we're moving toward the 3rd human frontier. At the end of the Industrial era we'd mastered the physical, we're currently mastering the mental and we're now entering the frontier of...
An idea: Free airlines
I have been on too many planes in the last 7 days. Probably a total of 40 hours actually sitting in the plane, let alone the airports and taxis. While doing so, I was reading an article about how TiVo 9and similar technologies) are causing great concern amongst...
The World is Flat in Open Source
Social software (see http://www.tomorrowconnecting.biz for a full introduction) is the set of technologies allowing people to collaborate online. Wikis are online tools that allow any registered users to update, add or delete content in a document. All changes are...