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What do you get when you pack 1 500 or so geeks into an auditorium, chuck in inspiring speakers, secret performances and a few T shirt guns? That could only be Net Prophet.This year's tech event features personalities and thought leaders like TechCrunch Europe Editor Mike Butcher, PriceCheck's Andre DeWet, former rugby player and entrepreneur Bob Skinstad, FONK cofounder Erik Jan Bijvank and professional speaker slash comedian Don Packett, who will all be sharing the stage with promising startups ...
Space explorer, entrepreneur whizz and the inspiration behind Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark character in Iron Man, Elon Musk took to the stage of SXSW on the second day of the Interactive portion, to field a few questions about his non-stop, ever-exploring life, and addressing the recent controversies two of his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, have experienced.Chris Anderson, ex-Wired editor and author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, asked the questions, ...
It’s not your normal conference that would present you with details on how computer hackers are ridding the world of malaria. I was lucky enough to join the other delegates at the inaugural two-day Wired UK Conference last year and this year’s conference (in a much better location) was equally (if not more) impressive. Not just because it has myriad smart people attending but also because they speak in such a personal way.
The amount of smarts and passion in ...
330 WordPress hackers, fans and the CMS curious made the pilgrimage down to the fourth annual Cape Town chapter of WordCamp, the informal community-driven conference that sinks its teeth into everything WordPress.If you couldn't make it, here's everything that happened on the day in a nutshell. We're told the presentations used by each speaker will be uploaded to the WordCamp site soon, along with video of the event.Event organiser and founder of WordPress development company LightSpeed, Ashley Shaw, kicked things ...
So then, do link sharing on social media services like Twitter, Facebook and Google+ actually have an effect on our posts' search engine rankings? Sure, it's now become standard fare for Google and Bing to show us articles shared by our friends, but what happens beyond our social graphs? That's a question Neil Pursey, an SEO guy and owner of SEO agency WebGrowth has been trying to answer. Pursey presented his findings to a packed audience at WordCamp Cape Town ...
Prominent technology and innovation conference Tech4Africa has announced its theme for 2012: "Unlocking the next billion consumers".If that sounds familiar, it's because the term "next billion" been popping up all over the tech world in the last year or so. When Nokia launched its Asha range of low-end phones last year, it targeted them at "the next billion internet users". Payments giant MasterCard meanwhile is betting big on mobile in a bid to capture as much of that next ...
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