The Impact of Social Networking on the Value of Information
Last week I was invited to present a lecture at the University of Johannesburg by the Department of Information & Knowledge Management where I am an alumni as well as currently registered for my Masters degree in Information Science. Contact Andrea Ferreira if you would to be added to their list for similar seminars held […]
Facebook vs MySpace debate keeps moving ahead
Facebook has experienced phenomenal growth in South Africa over the last few months. As recently as early May there was only 25,000 registered users in the South African network on Facebook and that has exploded to over 120,000 as of 2 July. That’s over45,000 new users per month for the last two months. Now I […]
MySpace sends missing childrens alerts
Popular online social network MySpace will begin sending online alerts to users in certain US regions to help find missing children, as part of an expansion of plans to expand safeguards for users. MySpace struck a partnership with the National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children to enable MySpace Amber alerts, a programme between the […]
Protecting Your Kids from Cyber-Predators
In America the website MySpace is having a similar impact to MXit in South Africa. In fact its amusing to me both start with “M” 😉 Anyway I will be drawing more and more comparisons between MySpace and MXit going forward. As I keep saying none of these issues are new and originated on the […]
Google wins MySpace deal
I’ve been on MySpace for a while now and you can connect with me on my profile if you are also on MySpace. MySpace is the biggest phenomenon in the last two or three years and its growth is increasing at levels not seen since the early days of the Web (circa 1996). And now […]