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Entries from June 2007

Apple iPhone Launches but not in South Africa

June 29th, 2007 · 24 Comments

Apple is launching their iPhone today in the United States. I remember reading that the iPhone doesn’t have 3G, but it has pretty much everything else including an iPod.
One day we’ll be able to carry around 1 item, rather than a phone, digital camera and an iPod, and that time got a little closer today.
Unfortunately, [...]

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Tags: mobile

eSquared in THE TIMES

June 28th, 2007 · 5 Comments

eSquared is in THE TIMES today - the daily “Sunday Times” newspaper. Thank you Sunday Times. Thank you David Bullard. Thank you Carly Ritz. Thank you Colin Daniels. Thank you Shaun Philips. Thank you Gregor Rohrig. Thank you Tanya Johnstone. Thank you…

(I don’t know if any of these people had ANYTHING to do with the [...]

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Tags: esquared

Thank you Dave Duarte

June 28th, 2007 · 17 Comments

It’s about to turn 1am and I’m pretty tired, (which is why i’ll get a pic up tomorrow - I don’t have the energy to upload to flickr (or myvideo, or zoopy!!) - or ALL 3 - and I DEFINITELY don’t have the energy to link to all the people and company’s I might or [...]

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Tags: 27

Toastmasters Speech 1 - 1975

June 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I don’t know why I was so nervous for my first Toastmasters speech. The whole day I felt nauseous, and the minute I finished doing it, I felt a rush of Adrenalin which didn’t leave me till about 4 the next morning!!
I highly recommend Toastmasters, and the Ersnt & Young Toastmaster club I’m part of [...]

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Tags: speaking · toastmasters

22 Hour Flight to Meet Robert Scoble in 20 Minutes

June 26th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Minute 1: Read blog posting on Plaxo being dead

Minute 3: Read comments on same blog
Minute 4: Saw the following comment:
tibby.dude said… Plaxo ain’t dead yet … Scoble seem to think they are doing interesting stuff.
Minute 4.5: Think to myself, been hearing about Scoble [...]

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Tags: bloggers

The Vinny Lingham Challenge

June 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Are these pics both of Vinny Lingham as I’ve been asked to believe?
Slightly “wiser” Vinny Lingham on the left, and a “younger” Vinster on the right?
I’m not convinced!
Congrats Comp-sci Fly-guy - it’s not all of us who make page 79 of the July issue of GQ, in a feature article sitting on pages between Mark [...]

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Tags: entrepreneurs

Initial Zoopy Thoughts

June 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I realised earlier today that I’m a big “LOUD MOUTH” for supporting South African start-up’s, and yet at the same time, most of the time I spend on the net (other than local news sites) is on the international sites - google, facebook, flickr, youtube etc etc
So I’m going to make a concerted effort not [...]

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Tags: 2.0 · south africa

idols4.co.za Reaches Number 1

June 25th, 2007 · 5 Comments

A close friend of mine, (who will remain nameless, unless he / she asks me for a link back, in which case i’ll edit and disclose!) is the MASTER of SPIN, HYPE, PR, MEDIA FRENZY.
They know how to get people excited about their products launches, and it’s a BEAUTIFUL CIRCLE (far better than a vicious [...]

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Tags: south africa · websites