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Jason Adriaan

Jason Adriaan is the founder of locallist.co.za, founded in 2008, the first local-only internet directory and search engine. In early 2009 he partnered with ISLabs to allow more users to take advantage of their under utilized local bandwidth allocation. Jason is involved currently involved in a number of mobile projects. He is a Computer Science student at UCT.

RECENT POSTS

• Vicus: The story of a YouTube & social media quest

  On Tuesday morning, Memeburn broke the news that we had tracked down the original YouTube viral video featuring Vicus. The events that took place in the days that followed our original post have since given us insight into the competitive world of online talent search, and what viral really means in a developing country like South Africa.The earliest copy of Vicus' video on YouTube was uploaded by Caldwell Caster in May 2010, but it was only subsequent copies of Caldwell's ...

• The quest for ‘Vicus’: Finding a YouTube sensation

  Recently a video of a young South African boy playing guitar and singing "These Arms" by All 4 One went viral on YouTube. Not much later, Sony International sends down a team to South Africa to find the kid and make all his dreams come true.But no one can find him...It's early 2010 and sitting in a little room in Eldorado Park Johannesburg is a little boy with his guitar, playing while a family member pushes record on their cellphone. ...

• Telkom, you had me at ‘Heita’

  Telkom, a company regularly the victim of vitriolic criticism for its monopolistic exploitation of consumers over the decades, might have finally contributed to what we have been craving for years.For the last two years I have been ranting on ad nauseam about trying to bring low cost internet access to more people. My crusade involved informing more people about low cost local-only bandwidth, but the truth was that even with the abundance of free local bandwidth and later with the availability of uncapped ...