Archive for the ‘wordpress’ Category

Why Social Media Will Fail in South Africa

Friday, July 18th, 2008

I stumbled on a very interesting post which is an elaboration on Tuesday's theme, entitled The Internet's Hierarchy Of Needs. The author also superimposes Maslow's Hierarchy of Basic Needs on the internet. As we can see, at the very base of the pyramid is 1. Existence needs: The most basic ...

WordPress 2.6 is out… One month ahead of schedule!

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Matt Mullenweg announced the early release of WordPress 2.6 on the WordPress blog one month ahead of schedule. Here is a video that runs us through the most noteable new features and improvements.

Consolidation of scattered web identities – Friendfeed

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

After a long break from blogging because of project and client commitments (I was Twittering and Facebooking and Friendfeeding and posting to del.icio.us all the time; does that count...?), I have now decided to get a name domain and do a bit of the personal branding type stuff that everyone ...

Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, WordPress, Africa

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

I have found a very good tool in the form of a WordPress plugin called WordBook, what it does is to integrate with your self-hosted wordpress.org blog on your own domain and then also your Facebook profile and mini-feed. This updates all your WordPress blog posts to your Facebook profile ...

Of Rats, Mice and cultural dissonance: Marketing to Chinese in the Year of the Rat

Friday, January 25th, 2008

A lot has happened this past week that could possibly be construed as newsworthy, so here are a couple of things that caught my attention as it was streaming past my consciousness: - The Twittersphere (tm) has been abuzz with the MacWorld Expo and Steve Jobs' keynote clogging up the ...