Ning has a new CEO that decided it makes perfect business sense to cut their free social networks and only have paid for social networks in the future and the Internet goes “Bye-bye Ning!“. The free networks cost them money in resources and support. By cutting their free offering, they can effectively cut their staff [...]
I found this article on UX Magazine very interesting. It is about the flow of information and how it changed from broadcasting to networked. Broadcast media structures take one critical thing for granted: attention. There is an assumption that everyone will tune in and give their attention to the broadcast entity, even though that was [...]
Chesscube, a Cape Town based start-up just announced they received a whopping $1.25 million in second round funding. That is great news for the guys and I’m happy for them. Chesscube is a great online chess playing community with more than 650 000 users in 207 countries. I registered a couple of months ago on [...]
If you log into Facebook today, you’ll see that they’ve announced that they reverted back to their old Terms of Use. Pressure, boys, pressure… Get it right next time, okay? Our stuff is our stuff. No matter how lame or great. It is not cool simply claiming rights on it, okay? Over the past few [...]
This is what I read between the lines when it comes to big brands. Like @fearsumm one day said: “I can read between the lines. Even if it is only one line, I can read between it” Last week, Coca-Cola had a hissy fit about Jason Bagley running an “official-looking” site (mycoke.co.za) without their involvement. [...]
Right, this feature actually used to be (in some obscure way) in Afrigator, but was dropped. Don’t ask why. Seriously don’t. When we ran Afrigreater, Jeanette Verster said she’s love a way to find friends in Afrigator, but the feature was lacking. Well, now its back and SO much better! Let’s say I’m searching for [...]