Eric Edelstein

I posted a quick comment about facebook being down a few minutes ago, and the emails and IM’s have been flying in with all sorts of comments!!
The funniest came from Catherine:
Ha ha ha that post was so funny, you sounded like a heroin addict who was waiting for his dealer to give him more and [...]

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Are the Facebook Servers taking Strain? I’ve seen Facebook getting slower and slower over the last few days, and now I got this message when logging into Facebook…
Facebook Login
Hey, your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.
A few hours!!!! How [...]

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Today I finally got to meet the legendary columnist & wannabe blogger, David Bullard, when Gavin met me at the Cape Town Book Fair which ended today.
David Bullard was managing a panel along the lines of “Does the South African wine industry have anything to worry about?” (seems like they have a vast number of [...]

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It’s time for Internet Entrepreneurs to get together!
This month is a LITTLE DIFFERENT!
1. Different day - Due to demand, Coffe Club is on a Wednesday instead of Thursday this month
2. GUEST SPEAKER - Henk from Skyrove - more about that below…
Date: Wednesday 20th June
Time: 18:00 (6pm)
Venue: Extreme Hotel, Corner New Church and Bree [...]

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Just read an interesting article on Moneyweb.
The world today - Is a global economic crash possible?
I read a couple of the lines a few times. This one in particular stood out:
American federal debt stands at $9trn (it was $16bn in 1929) it is no longer self sufficient in energy and imports over 60% [...]

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The Favicon for Wikipedia

looks very similar to
Woolworths South Africa’s Logo.

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Move over Digg and Delicious - here comes Google Web History.
I don’t know why they didn’t do this ages ago, although the privacy issue is going to become a HOT topic again.
When searching google you can now “note this” and the google web history will take note.
Meaning you can remember sites you thought were interesting, [...]

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Eve Dmochowska just asked me to spread the word that the first Open Coffee club in Joburg is happening this Thursday at the Hilton Hotel Coffee Lounge in Sandton @ 7.30 (well, it is a Coffee Club so a Coffee Lounge is a great choice).
The Cape Town coffee club has had 2 successful meet-up’s to [...]

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