On Thursday morning we awoke to the news that Pakistan had blocked Facebook. The reason Pakistan did this was because a fan page appeared on the social network's site called "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!", which advocated that "May 20th 2010 is draw Mohammed day!"This story is singularly defining about how ...

Earlier this year, Miles Young, the global CEO of Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide said: "The great mistake of today's business environment is to believe that digital can fulfil the role of marketing. It will not”.Judging by the barrage of resultant comments, both for and against this profound (albeit somewhat naive) ...

A new South African online-recruitment portal, "developed out of frustration with existing recruitment methods", claims to have developed creative solutions for the difficult task of match-making between employers and employees.Sebenzi.co.za attempts to shake up the existing model, where the power is placed firmly in the hands of the ...

Developing a website on the Drupal Content Management System (CMS) not only means professional, high-quality online products, but it also addresses some very salient business issues when conducting business online.A website built with Drupal is easily updateable, flexible (both in terms of functionality and aesthetics), expandable and wonderfully portable. If ...

What is the point of Foursquare? This is exactly the question that was being asked a year or two back about Twitter. Who wants to know that I am buying petrol at the service station, or that I have just ordered an amazing Doppio Zero pizza. So, I am going ...

Twitter appears to have been embraced heavily by the South African national cricket team, the Proteas -- and is providing the public with an unfiltered window into the mood of the squad.The social networking and microblogging service has been embraced by celebrities and sportspeople across the world who crave ...

While we carry on in our Anglophone world, assuming that English is the general lingua franca of the world wide web, it’s worth pointing out that English accounts for just under 28% in terms of usage in the web as of December 2009.Search interest in “translate” related keywords continues ...

For print newspapers to survive and possibly flourish as digital businesses, some new rules are needed. And they are not necessarily the ones they taught you at journalism school.1. Stop treating your staff like they work in a factory. Traditionally, newspapers have employed skilled knowledge workers and made them function ...

There’s a lot to be said for an instrument that reflects the word ‘Hero’ back at you when you turn it on. It’s a great motivator to go out there and be the best you can be. Clearly, the developers at HTC had this word imprinted on their brains when ...

Microsoft and listed media house Kagiso Media have signed a deal which will see Kagiso Media take over the running of Microsoft's MSN portal, currently the second largest online property in South Africa. The deal is the first step towards localising the MSN portal and giving both parties "a greater ...