Online classified job application results in rape and death
Recently there has been a number of reports about a woman who died after being gang raped after she applied for a job at a local Pick-n-Pay via Gumtree. Gumtree is the most popular online classified ad website in South Africa. When comparing it to Junkmail and Vottle.com using Alexa.com rankings you’ll notice they get more traffic […]
Privacy and your identity
Everyone has an identity. You have the person who wakes up in the morning. You have the identity at school, you also have a different one with your parents vs you friends. So what you portray online is yet another variation on these theme. It’s another mask that you are wearing. And this is the […]
Project Natal: The Moment Machines Began to Understand Us
In 2009, Microsoft unveiled a project that felt like it had leapt straight out of science fiction: Project Natal. For most, it was just a new way to play games on the Xbox 360. But for those of us who have long studied the relationship between people and machines, Project Natal was a profound turning […]
Baby shower in Honour of the Door Of Hope Children's mission
After giving it good consideration I’ve decided to support Doors of Hope charity for abandoned infants for the rest of 2011. Something about this baby shower just touched me on a very deep level and I became very emotional reading about what these babies have to endure when their mothers cannot look after them. So after my […]
Short History of Social Media
Amidst the sudden ascent of LinkedIn, Twitter, Groupon, and of course, Facebook, it’s easy to forget that social media actually has a bit of a history going back more than 30 years. Really? Law firm Morrison & Foerster has put together just such a timeline graphic of online communities in its latest issue of Socially […]