We were looking for keywords around games (speleteje) in Afrikaans for the South African market, and Google offered some potential keywords that we may want to look at. As you can see they have a fairly reductive perspective of games vs the apex of Afrikaans culture;Steve Hofmeyer ,religion and the bible , high school, recipes […]
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for the geek who has everything
a plant that twitters when it needs water, has too much water and gives you a new follower. its the gadget that fills the empty void in your life a pet/child/a new season of battelestar galactica would fill. buy it now
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cultural nuances and communication
Having worked in Europe for seven years I thought that i understood how to deal with different cultures. in the online/games industry people are pretty relaxed too, so you don’t expect scorchers to come across your desk. I received this one yesterday from a German company. Hello Brendan, It has come to our knowledge that […]
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CSA OK
Image via Wikipedia We’ve just finished our first vegetable csa here in cape town. A csa (community sponsored agriculture) is the ultimate in food box dorkiness; you pay upfront for the farmer to buy their raw materials, which they dispatch to you (if their crops are successful) and you get whatever they’re growing. There are […]
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new twitter spam
so i’ve stopped following the polite practise of autofollowing someone if they follow me on twitter. there is a lot of crap out there, and i suffer through enough already without having to plough through unneccesary spam. my modus operandi is to search through people’s bio, if that appeals and their first page of tweets […]
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excessive advertising
i was browsing the interwebs and i came across this page; i don’t think i’ve seen such excessive advertising/lack of focus on usability in a while. You can just see the header above the fold, however when you go further down the page they have four large modal blocks within the content, keyword ads within […]
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Mxit
This post is more for the benefit of my non-South African readers, South Africans would be aware of the phenomena. I had a meeting with some guys from Mxit yesterday. Mxit is a very interesting product. Its a social network/instant messaging platform for your mobile phone that has 14MM users in South Africa (around 1/3 […]
Image via Wikipedia One of the more interesting presentations I saw last week was from Sophie Stuart who runs mobile for Hearst in the US. One of the better overviews she gave was about how to kickstart your mobile strategy. This was for the neophyte (and directly focused on having a large amount of content […]
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media 24 conference
i’m headed into day 2 of the media 24 conference, and i’m pleasantly surprised at the quality and slickness of the program for an internal event.not only do they have a very ugc conference site which details the program, gives you an opportunity to feed back on questions to ask the ceo, but also has […]
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Zappo’s & Amazon sitting in a tree
Image by Javier Ruata via Flickr I decided not to be the kind of blogger that checks their rss feed, sees what is on there and then responds to something that’s in the news. Firstly, I’m not as good as the big guys out there for whom this is their bread and butter. And also […]
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