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Mary Meeker files: we are entering the age of the reimagination of everything

Once a year, all of the tech world stops to listen to what influential analyst Mary Meeker has to say. According to Meeker, current…

Screw innovation, the New York Times need to focus on TBD

The New York Times Innovation Report has been ripped to pieces by many brains in the media world but the issues are the familiar…

Break. Make. Create: Your survival depends on it

Embracing a creative ideology and accepting that creativity is a value driver has always come easy to me. However, finding empirical evidence on the…

This new Google experiment lets you program a quantum computer

Quantum computing has been promising a lot for a couple of years now. For the average person though, it’s all a little bit difficult…

JJ Abrams is giving you the opportunity to be in the next ‘Star Wars’ movie

Always wondered what it must be like to be behind the scenes on a mega sci-fi movie watching aliens go by? You may have…

Julian Assange: Bitcoin could establish a new global consensus [Net Prophet]

“Bitcoin is the most intellectually interesting development in the last two years,” said Julian Assange via a WeChat Livestream at Net Prophet — the…

The future of online shopping: customer control and offline [Net Prophet]

“A new retail is emerging — it is consumer driven and tech-enabled,” says Jody Ford, VP of eBay Marketplaces. As our world keeps evolving…

Not all traffic is created equal – a guide to ecommerce

While recently preparing a report on the annual traffic to a large corporate website, I had many opportunities to pause and reflect on the…

3 things ISPs need to learn from petrol stations

Recently, I wrote a post about Koos Bekker and MWEB’s decisive masterstroke over South African Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and this post is meant…

The end of the website

Having been involved in this industry for a very long time, I have the benefit of a long and wide perspective of the business…

Open is the new black

Open is a paradigm shift about how society is organised around simple rules that enable distributed co-operation, which breeds innovation and creates value. Open…

5 tips about the e-commerce gold rush

It’s a brave world out there for the intrepid that roll the dice in the hopes of cashing in on the ecommerce 2.0 goldmine….

Why PayPal sucks and Kwedit doesn’t

One of the biggest factors, apart from bandwidth and audience size, that’s restricting the development of the internet and the emergence of startups in…

Open Calais joins DocumentCloud initiative

Thomson Reuters today announced that it has joined forces with two dozen world-leading publishers on the DocumentCloud initiative. Funded by the John S. and…

SA study: More people banking with their mobiles than PCs

According to respected market research organisation World Wide Worx, the number of people banking from their cellphones has exceeded that of people banking from…

The future of social networking – a concept investigation with Augmented Reality

Here are some concept designs that myself and ace designer Philip Langley put our heads together to create. It’s an investigation into how social…

Media? What's that?

There is so much confusion on the future of media, journalism and news — demonstrated with utmost clarity (or lack thereof) here in a…

You can't wrap fish & chips in pixels

This is the second Prezi presentation I’ve done, first introduced to me by Phil Barrett of Flow Interactive via a post on Life Hacker….

A collection of quality articles on the future of journalism and media

Some good reads on the future of journalism and media: News Flash From the Future: What Will Journalism Look Like? Can Computer Nerds Save…

The future of media and other questions

Answered some questions for an article recently. Thought I’d publish them here too: What do you think the future of news organizations will look…

Survey claims 80% of SA users shop online

A survey by Master Card claims that 80% of South African users are shopping online. CDs, DVDs and VCDs” emerged as the most sought…

A vision of 2019: Interface eye candy

It’s a vision of the future from Microsoft Office Labs. If you’re into interfaces and devices — and how they may look in the…

The Era of the Device-Scroller Is Officially Here

South Africa’s AI-Fintech Moment Is Here

Keyboard and Mouse or Controller The Right Choice by Game Type

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel