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Monthly archive June, 2008
New Web Addresses to cause confusion among users
Today I read a post on the New York Times website about a revolution in the availability of new web addresses or what is called domain names in the Internet industry. This shift in the policies from ICANN is going to open up a hornets nest if you are trying to decide which type of domain name to register between the multitude that's already available.
Domain names is the glue that makes the Internet work. The basic idea is that instead Read More → The beginning of MXit spam and chain letters
I have been getting more and more of these types of messages sent by my friends on MXit. Maybe they do not realise its spam or chain letters. The same types of chain letters that are sent around the global a gazillion times a day by innocent, unsuspecting people who believe they are doing a good thing. Simply put these messages are a hoax in 99.999% of the cases. Even if that little girl or little boy really looks Read More → CS Lewis estate scrambles to take Narnia.mobi domain from Scottish family
This is an example of how parents are getting involved in the online world in a positive way. The results are not entirely unexpected because of the value of the Narnia brand after the success of first 2 movies. The CS Lewis estate is doing what it is meant to do in term of protecting the intellectual property. They along with Disney who released the movies own the narnia.com domain and now they are after a lesser know or Read More → Fake Breasts….who really likes them?
A question for guys and girls....
There are two girls sitting at a bar. Both are attractive. The only difference is one has natural small breasts like those of Keira Knightley (an A cup maybe smaller). The other has giant fake boobs. Which one would you take? See what we found...
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Join me at 7th annual iWeek conference for Internet industry insiders
I have already registered for the 7th annual iWeek conference. Join me at this 3-day conference (at no cost to you) because it is the fastest way for you to get more familiar with the Internet industry. Go here to read my blogging from iWeek 2006 where Mark Shuttleworth was the keynote speaker and attracted more people in one day that attends the entire iWeek conference over the 3 or 4 days it normally runs.
Anyway here is the message from Read More → Konnects? No! please not another business social network invitation
John Wilson wrote a great little rebuttel for joining Konnects, a new business social network. He aptly calls it a poor LinkedIn clone. After ignoring previous requests I had to write about this because the person who invited me to join I hold in high esteem: Stan Relihan. In the past I have praised The Connections Show podcast hosted by Stan Relihan here because of the high quality of the guests interviewed and how Read More → Non-verbal communication rule fallacy
I have abused this rule in almost all my talks! So I am guilty as charged.
You may have heard people saying what you say only contributes to a small percentage of the impact of your communication and that how a person says what they say has a far greater impact. The rule, which is and has been promoted by many speakers and trainers states that 55% of the meaning of communication is body language, 38% is in tonality, and 7% rests in the words themselves.
Where did this rule come from?
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Why blogging from your phone in South Africa is not there yet
A Question from a Reader:
Hola Ramon! I got a few problems regarding my new blogging and email site, 24.com, which I struggle just to open my emails both on my phone, using Opera Mini, and on my PC, which I understand is way slow to connect to the 'net even when I use Opera(which is faster than Windows Explorer) because the phone I use(as a modem) to connect is not that fast because it's only 3G, not HSDPA. It was even slower when I was trying to open my emails at Gmail that it ate all my airtime up and Read More →
Who's who in the non-white Web 2.0 South African Zoo
Mandy de Waal, a freelance journalist, wrote this article on ITWeb, which I found very offensive. The main reasons I found it distasteful is the most obvious one i.e. it is simply an example of lazy journalism. She interviewed 11 people, all white, who their Web 2.0 dream team is. Maybe if she asked one non-white person she could still have made her point without having to call it a white boys club.
Anyway here's my dream team of non-white web 2.0 or social media experts...
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