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Michelle Atagana has a Masters Degree in New Media and Journalism, her thesis focuses on social media technologies in the South African journalistic space with some focus on the public sphere. She has been hanging around the Internet since she was 11 back in proper Netscape days and even found a way to get not one, but two degrees out it. She blogs with moderate regularity and tweets with alarming consistency and works tirelessly at memeburn.com.Mich also sometimes writes for CNN on tech and startups in Africa.
From the mind of a 19-year-old to the world's most popular content management system (CMS) -- WordPress has done some serious growing up in 10 years. Used by major publishing houses such as CNN and the New York Times and influential blogs like TechCrunch, the CMS has making publishing easy for a decade.When we chatted to the platform's founder Matt Mullenweg two years ago, he spoke about the future of WordPress, early mistakes he made by “trying to do it ...
The world is obsessed with the ability to touch things. As a society, we are more willing to pay for something we can physically connect with rather than what we cannot.This is according to Erik Jan Bijvank, co-Founder of FONK, an Amsterdam and Cape Town based agency that is dedicated to helping their clients disrupt their industries with multi-touch devices.Bijvank, speaking at this year's Net Prophet conference, discussed the tangible experiences that must occur in the digital world. He reckons ...
The latest craze in the world of tech is to build a version of Silicon Valley in different regions. Africa has its tech-infused locations that begin and end with the word "silicon". Do they really need to recreate what the Americans have done though?TechCrunch's editor-at-large, Mike Butcher doesn't seem to think so. Butcher suggested to the Net Prophet audience that another way could be conceived when building a tech ecosystem."We cannot reproduce 50 years of work. You just can't ...
Yahoo! is buying things like a boss. Following the Yumblr! deal it seems everyone's favourite ailing internet giant is spending some of that awesome money it has.The company has announced that it has acquired PlayerScale, a Silicon Valley-based company that makes software infrastructure for cross-platform gaming.The four year old company isn't a tech industry maverick, it's not sexy like Tumblr or Instagram but according to the company they make things easier for game developers.How? By giving "publishers ...
Yahoo has officially announced its acquisition of blogging platform Tumblr for US$1.1-billion cash. The news was first broken on Twitter by the Wall Street Journal, seemingly confirming rumours of the buyout, which have been floating around for a few days now from Kara Swisher and the AllThingsD crew.It's not all great news though as it seems nearly 72 000 Tumblr users have moved their blogs to rival platform WordPress following the rumours, according to WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg.Mullenweg, wrote in ...
Things are stirring in the house of Yahoo! According to multiple sources, the Silicon Valley veteran is in talks to buy popular social blogging platform Tumblr for a staggering US$1-billion.Yahoo! CFO Ken Goldman, is cited in AllthingsD as expressing the need for the company to be "cool again". Goldman was speaking at JP Morgan’s Global Technology conference earlier this week. The CFO was very explicit about the company's shortcomings and how to fix it, reports AllthingsD."One of our ...
Every year it's the same thing: I say I am not going to let myself get caught up in Magnum's elaborate web-infused campaign racing across the internet. Every year I fail because the games get more addictive.The first year you had the race across the web collecting chocolate bonbons in search of the ultimate pleasure. That was fun. Last year it was a race through the streets of New York also in search of the ultimate pleasure. Now Magnum's ...
Google reportedly wants to take on Spotify. The news, which was first reported on The Verge, says that the internet giant is planning on rolling out a subscription music streaming service as early as this week at the company's I/O event.The news is hardly surprising as Google signed a deal with Warner Music for two streaming services last year, one tied to YouTube and the other to Android Music.Citing people familiar with the matter, the New York Times ...
Most would think that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had a bitter relationship until the end. But that just isn't true, as the Microsoft founder tells 60 minutes, during an interview in which he describes his last visit to the late Apple co-founder.Gates grew emotional talking about his last visit with Jobs before his death. According to the personal computing billionaire, the visit ended on a "forward-looking" note."He showed me the boat he was working on, and talked about ...
