Cape Town

This is very cool. The city of Cape Town is currently hosting four international travel bloggers and their itineraries are being guided by Twitter.The initiative, which is the brainchild of Cape Town tourism, invited people to participate in the campaign by sharing tips for the bloggers' itineraries using the ...

Hey guys, what’s better than growing a beard? Growing one digitally, of course. But how would one go about doing that? Enter the world’s first fully interactive growing billboard.The billboard appears on the corner of two streets in central Cape Town and is presented by Bronx, “makers of the ...

The team who brought you the Rebecca Black Braaiday parody are back - and this time, they've set their sights on car guards.Derick Watts and The Sunday Blues posted the video for The car guard song yesterday, and their #carguardsong hashtag trended on Twitter in South Africa today. The song is a parody of ...

The world's most famous online retailer, Amazon.com, is gearing up for a big launch in Cape Town, with bigwigs flying into the country from the States.Among the executives will be Marc Onetto, Amazon's Senior Vice President of Operations and Customer Service. Onetto will be joined in August by members of ...

Travel in emerging markets is rising rapidly. Business men and women are constantly chasing the next big thing in these markets. The need for quick and easy internet access is a growing demand. You need to know how to get to your hotel, how to get around the city. You ...

The highly successful non-profit global set of conferences, TED has spawned a program of 'local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience' - called TEDx - and it's coming to Cape Town.The event, named TEDxCapeTown, will combine TEDTalks video and live speakers to ignite engaging, deep ...

I ♥ Cape Town, the official Facebook fan page of Cape Town Tourism, is celebrating a milestone after hitting the 100 000 fans mark in just one year. The page proved to be a powerful tool to convert visitors here for the World Cup into "Cape Town Fans" ...

Pics by Tino KreutzerDan Gillmor, author of We Media and acclaimed citizen media advocate, was in Cape Town to speak at the University of Cape Town's Business School about the publishing revolution of the digital age, also known as Citizen Media. Gillmor is co-founder of Dopplr, a social networking service ...

I had a feeling this would be the end result. At first there was co-operation and pleasantries exchanged between the media publishers and Google, and then it all went sour. Online publishers and newspapers appear to be heading for a face-off with search engine behemoth, Google.On Thursday, online publishers ...

It's been a cool year for the Web in South Africa.Year of the blog? We saw the arrival of two blog aggregators Afrigator and amatomu.com, and there was talk of a third. The former was recognised by CNN as a major web startup outside the US and also received mentions on ...