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10 massive tech trends that will shake up India this year

When it comes to tech, India is a country of contradictions. It’s home to massive companies like Wipro, Infosys, and TCS, it’s responsible for…

Detection and treatment: the real spaces for innovation in healthcare [Wired Health]

Over 300 attendees crammed into the very apt Royal College of General Practitioners in London for the inaugural Wired Health conference last week. Content-wise…

Set your face free with Mink: the world’s first 3D makeup printer

Buying makeup can be an absolute nightmare, especially for those of us that just don’t fit into the limited selection of foundation and eyeshadow…

‘Take action now’: Bitly warns account security could be compromised

Fan of link shortening service Bitly? You’ll be greeted by something other than your most recent links and stats the next time you log…

Use this browser extension to replace Julius Malema’s face with photos of rescue pets

Tired of looking at shots of Jacob Zuma? Perhaps the numerous photos of Helen Zille on the campaign trail are getting too much for…

South Africa votes: 7 digital tools to help keep you informed ahead of May 7

South African citizens are heading to the polls on 7 May. Let’s be honest, while democracy and the functions of inner-government are incredibly important…

Perpetuating the IT, business divide: an insider’s perspective

As an active participant inside the South African SME IT industry for 20 years, I feel that I am allowed to reflect on how…

Ten more web trends for the future

The good folks at Read/Write Web (still my most favourite website) had such an outrageous response to their first post on “10 web trends…

Will Facebook eventually replace the Windows & Mac desktop?

Had the privilege to meet up with Saul Klein, E-commerce VP at Skype and founder of the Open Coffee club, who was in the…

Digg's new Arc is serious eye candy

Just noticed this latest widget from Digg, called the Arc. It’s a graphic representation, like their swarm, stack and BigSpy, of who is selecting…

The converging media company

Who would have thought newspapers and magazines would start producing their own radio and TV programmes? Who would have thought radio stations would become…

10 Future Web Trends to watch

It’s a web 2.0 world these days. I never thought I’d use the term so frequently and freely, but it does encapsulate a new…

Prediction: Newspapers face pricey future

In a recent Associated Press article European editors were interviewed about where they see the future of the newspaper. In the face of declining…

Digital age challenging the establishment

Read Duncan McLeod’s piece on his FM blog, “What the heck is going on?“. He sums up something I have been mulling for sometime…

Newspapers RIP? Not really.

Duncan Mcleod from the Financial Mail wrote this doom ‘n gloom piece on the end of newspapers. It’s actually one of the better pieces…

SA's online newspapers set to grow

Francois Nel from the For the Media blog pointed me towards his blog recently (pretty good, I must say). This post in particular caught…

Website consumption patterns are changing. Remember when the main way to surf a website was via its homepage? Well, that was the old days. The rise of super-fast, super-efficient search engines mean that users are increasingly accessing websites via deep links that bypass their homepages directly to a website’s articles. It’s essentially a backdoor into your website. Search engines aren’t the only ones to blame. Bloggers generally link directly to the articles they are writing about, ignoring homepages. RSS feeds, which allow users to subscribe directly to article feeds, are also responsible for the decline of the homepage. So what does this mean? Paradoxically it is both a problem and an opportunity for publishers.

Scoop: New "Web 2.0" recruitment site launches in South Africa

Here’s a scoop for ya. I’ve just been alerted to what looks like a new and pretty serious “Web 2.0” entrant in the South…

Technology shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite?

Saw Mike Stoporth’s article on Bizcom in which he had this quote from Rupert Murdoch, talking about the internet: “To find something comparable, you…

Surviving the great dot.con

As Google embraces the stock exchange, many dot.com kids are rubbing their hands with glee at what could signal a return of the good times. Matthew Buckland has been through dot.boom and dot.bomb and spent lots on expensive therapy to forget it all, but here he reminisces.

The internet goes from free to fee

If only the internet had been invented by a businessman. It’s a common lament of internet publishers who are buckling and wheezing under the financial strain of running unprofitable websites

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