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Vince is the CTO and co-founder of Motribe , a mobile community platform. Previously he was the portfolio manager for social media and the commercial manager for mobile advertising at Vodacom, the strategist at the Mail &Guardian Online and creator of Amatomu.com, the South African blog aggregator and analytics system.Before that he was director of the New Media Lab (which he helped create in 1996) at the Rhodes University School of Journalism & Media Studies, the managing director of Digital Commerce, technical director of Bitr8 and a multimedia director at VWV Interactive. At some point during the chaos he also helped found Slip Skateboards , one of South Africa’s underground skate brands. He writes a food blog, is the games editor for Stuff Magazine and produces a weekly techno (dance music) podcast called Beat and Order.
Website: http://www.vincentmaher.com
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