October 2008
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Oct 30th
Margaret and Helen's Blog
Margaret and Helen - the blog everyone is talking about (and reading). It’s a total hoot. Don’t read it if you happen to like Sarah Palin or even, heaven forbid, think McCain is a winner.
Oct 30th
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Oct 29th
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Oct 29th
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“Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of...”
– Jerry Seinfeld
Oct 29th
Oct 28th
Dear Google & Apple, in case you handn’t noticed we use your products in SA too. Please lift your stupid restrictions on iPhone apps for SA.
Oct 27th
“In the past when you got a note back from your bank saying “Insufficient...”
– me
Oct 24th
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“Google just announced their 3Q results — and they are good… posted $4.04...”
–  Google beats Wall Street estimates, share price skyrockets | Googling Google
Oct 16th
What If You Ran an Ad, and Nobody Saw It?
I stumbled over this article today doing research for a client: (I have BOLDED the juicy bits - read the full article here) Jacob Jakob Nielsen knows web users. The Nielsen/Norman Group, which he co-founded, has tested thousands of sites. It’s watched more than 3,000 users try to perform tasks online, even following their eyes to see where they look. And he has some frightening news: ...
Oct 16th
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Oct 15th
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10 billion photos on Facebook
Whoa! That’s a big number. Facebook just reached this milestone last week. (Acually it’s really 40 billion photos - as they store 4 different sizes for each image - thumbnail, list image, gallery size and actual size.) Here’s some other scary stats: 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site every day They have just over one petabyte of photo storage They serve...
Oct 15th
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Oct 9th
Zimbabwe's annual inflation is now 231-million % -...
“Zimbabwe’s annual inflation raced to a record 231-million percent in July, up from 11,2-million percent the previous month, deepening a severe economic crisis, official figures showed on Thursday.” Source: Mail & Gaurdian Deepening a severe economic crisis. No kidding! I mean what does 231 million percent mean? In lay-mans terms, that’s 632,000 percent per day....
Oct 9th
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Oct 8th
“It’s much better to be vaguely right than precisely wrong.”
– Pierre Wack, the guru of scenario planning
Oct 8th
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Oct 7th
Adspend: SA Internet Advertising expenditure has...
According to the latest Brewer’s Droop, Neilsen is reporting that South African Internet expenditure has grown by 51%. Radio by 16%. Print by 11%. Share of the advertising cake is: TV 40% Print 38% Radio 13% Outdoor 4% Cinema 2% Internet 2% Direct Mail 1%
Oct 6th
Seth's Blog: Nine steps to Powerpoint magic →
Oct 6th
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“The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.”
– Willem de Kooning Quotes
Oct 6th
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Oct 4th
Steve is in iPhone 3G paradise :-)
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About Us Information on Websites
Whilst I don’t always agree with usability guru, Jakob Nielsen - in this case I do like his summary on the dreaded and much discussed “About Us” pages in company websites. I am quoting from his full article: We recommend providing About Us information at 4 levels of detail: 1. Tagline on the homepage: A few words or a brief sentence summarizing what the organization does. ...
Oct 1st