Last year, with the closing of Pownce, I tried to speculate who would close next hinting in the direction of Jaiku. Google is cleaning house and are in the process of shutting down some of its properties. No, Jaiku was not canned to my surprise! Instead they are porting Jaiku to Google App Engine and [...]
Pownce is officially over tomorrow. Dead. Killed. Twitter is king of the micro-blogging sites and it just makes one wonder “Who is next?” If we look at these interesting little Alexa graphs, it is evident just why Pownce croaked, but then you throw Jaiku in the mix and a sort of interesting story unfolds. Lets [...]
Hashtags.org died. With it’s death it seems the need for hashtags for Twitter also died. Or did it? Some people were quite vocal that it is dumb to still use hashtags. It is NOT! Hashtags sure as hell is very much needed! Lets look at an example: I did a search on twitter for COPE, [...]
I’ve been in this industry for ages. I once was a support guy, you know, that guy people love to hate! Ever since the focus shifted to the user in the Web2.0 landscape, support has changed significantly. Why? People can voice their frustrations almost anywhere. Whether it is on a blog, on twitter, on a [...]
If you follow Afrigator on Twitter (and if you don’t you should!), you would know that we tweet a blog post from African blogs once an hour. In the past, all we did was to take one random post the last 24 hours and spit it out. The problem with this was that it was [...]
Must be… just yesterday I was bitching about the price of petrol being so much more over here in South Africa than in our landlocked neighbor Botswana. Next minute, BANG, they announce a price cut to bring it into line with our beloved neighbors. Seriously though, like every single year in the past, they drop [...]