ANC Youth League (ANCYL) firebrand Julius Malema went viral on Twitter on Friday, as internet users in South Africa and around the world poked fun at the controversial youth league leader with the hashtag "#JujuFriday".At one stage, according to WhatTheTrend.com, #jujufriday was the second most popular Twitter trend world-wide, before it was eclipsed during the late afternoon.The hashtag was created in response to the ANCYL's bizarre and laughable threats to close down the micro-blogging network last week as a ...

Congratulations to Stacy Goddard (@Stace_87) who won the BlackBerry Torch 9800 Smartphone from Nashua Mobile!Memeburn and Nashua Mobile would like to thank everyone who participated in the #MyFuturePhone competition on Twitter. The competition is now closed.new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'search', search: '#myfuturephone', interval: 6000, title: '', subject: 'Win a Blackberry Torch 9800 Smartphone', width: 650, height: 300, theme: { shell: { background: ...

In my opinion, The Social Network is a great movie. Director David Fincher has cleverly taken Aaron Sorkin's screenplay and converted it into a riveting drama which highlights the rise of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, the world's most popular social network. Zuckerberg is portrayed as an eccentric genius, a geek in every sense of the word, complete with social inadequacies and a train-smash relationship with his girlfriend, Erica Albright. But gone are the days when rejection meant going out, getting ...

Old Spin Guy, the ZANews puppet of President Jacob Zuma, posted his first video response online to 5FM's controversial morning DJ Gareth Cliff early on Friday morning. Pulling no punches, the President starts off by calling Cliff "@poster boy, white-supremacist" before launching into his tongue-in-cheek character assassination.Social media seems to be the designated playground for political commentary in this day and age, as the release of ZANews latest video coincides with #Jujufriday, an extended day-long attack by Twitter users ...

Let’s get right to the question you’re begging to have answered. Because if you’re not asking it, you’re probably already into iPhones or Blackberries or some other hippy-open-whatchamacallit-wotsit made by HTC. The question on everyone's lips is, of course: "Is the Nokia N8 any good?" Which really means, "Should I, as a Nokia loyalist (or disenchanted refugee from some other phone that’s just pissed me off one time too many) buy one, and keep the torch burning for the clever ...

Love it or hate it, Big Brother remains one of the biggest television success stories ever in Africa. The fifth season - Big Brother Africa (BBA) Allstars - drew millions of viewers across the continent, keeping them glued to their seats from July to October this year.By the end of the fourth season in 2009, the show had amassed a respectable fan base of over 100 000 Facebook users. But when BBA Allstars hit TV screens, the fan numbers ...

The "YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011" is looking for South African musicians to audition online for a collaborative orchestra where amateur musicians can share their knowledge and experience of making music with the support of some of the world’s leading classical artists.Musicians selected for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 will be invited to a week of rehearsals and master classes at an orchestra and summit at Sydney Opera House in March, 2011, culminating in a performance conducted by Grammy ...

YouTube said Thursday that 35 hours of video are being uploaded to the video-sharing site every minute, up from 24 hours per minute in March.Hunter Walk, director of product management at Google-owned YouTube, said the number of uploads to YouTube has more than doubled in the last two years.The rate of 35 hours of video per minute works out to 50,400 hours of video every day."Another way to think about it is: if three of the major US networks were ...

Google Instant Preview is a relatively new feature on the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). When a user hovers over a search result, Instant Preview displays a large image preview of the webpage that a search result will link to. It sounds simple, but it adds a whole new dimension of information for searchers deciding on what search result to click through to, and could have an immense impact on the way sites are designed from this point onward.The ...

Cuba's state-run media and bloggers are not amused at "Call of Duty: Black Ops," a new videogame in which the player can join a secret operation in the 1960s to assassinate former leader Fidel Castro."What the United States government did not manage to do in 50 years, now it attempts to accomplish by virtual means," said comments Wednesday on the website Cubadebate, where Castro regularly publishes opinion pieces.The site was referring to the numerous plots to kill the Cuban president, ...