December 2008
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Tweeting for the last time in 2008. Happy New Year!
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Cuil Fail: Traffic Nearly Hits Rock Bottom →
Uh, told you so! (see my prediction on July 30 2008 - “Not So Cuil”)
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How South Africans use Google
by Steve Mathew
Google has just announced their 2008 Zeitgeist, and like most years I am as perplexed as ever.
In case you’re not sure what Google Zeitgeist is - it’s the top search phrases for the year across the world. (And most years the list includes all the usual suspects - Britney, Paris Hilton and Brad. Except this year. Yep, at last, they don’t feature in the top 10....
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10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy
“In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and ethicist Stephen Post have studied people all over the world to find out how things like money, attitude, culture, memory,...
WatchEverything you always wanted to know about Google…But were afraid to ask.
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Getting Real About Agile Design
“Agile is here to stay. The economic difficulties of the past months have finally put waterfall out of its misery; now more than ever, long requirements phases and vaporous up-front documentation aren’t acceptable. Software must be visible and valuable from the start.”
If you’re doing any software development at your organisation - you best read this article, soon!
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OpenStreetMap →
A very good street mapping site. It’s free, user generated, and has pretty good street maps of South Africa - at this stage, better that Google Maps.
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OpenStreetMap - this is a very good street mapping... →
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“2008 and 2009 will be another two of those years where everyone believes the sky...”
– “If Only I Had Been Around in 2008”
November 2008
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