Eric Edelstein

The December issue of Entrepreneur magazine has a nice feature on TrafficSynergy.
The view in the background is of Cape Town, looking towards town and the harbour. Unfortunately Table Mountain is just to the left!
The bridge we’re standing on is the one along the M3 going towards the Southern Suburbs - if you’re travelling along the [...]

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The calender is getting really full these days. Eran flew out of Cape Town at midday today and isn’t getting a chance to relax, as tonight is 27 in Durban and JHB, and Eran has asked to be the keynote speaker @ 27 Durban to discuss our cell phone portal Mobile-QandA.com
We spent some time @ [...]

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The Tshirt site is coming along FANTASTICALLY and is on track to go live in just under 3 weeks! (our new logo will even be ready by the end of the week!)
We’re featuring a Tshirt done by a celeb - and for the first month we’ve chosen a WELL KNOWN BLOGGER - i’d consider this [...]

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Tomorrow I’m attending the Publish Online 2007 conference in Cape Town.
The Publish Online 2007 is in conjunction with the Online Publishers Association.
There is an interesting line up with 3 sessions…
Session 1 - Ten Years of Web Publishing in South Africa - Where to next? 
Alan Hammond, Robin Parker, Matthew Buckland and Charles Talbot
Session 2 - Online [...]

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Google has been experimenting with the search results lately, and now they have made a change to the Google Contextual ads (Google Adsense) which on the surface looks like a tiny change, but will most likely LOWER the click through rates of Google Adsense ads on websites which earn their money from Google Adsense.
Google has [...]

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How is this for an amazing Internet Story that got buried deep in sports section of free daily newspaper “The Times”.
MyFC is an Internet company that charges it’s members R500 per year with the objective of buying a football club and the members have the say in how the club is run.
What’s so amazing about [...]

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Sky this morning mentioned SeaCom. Now I’ve heard rumours for a long time of another pipe being laid under the ocean connecting South Africa with the rest of the world.
The result - MORE BANDWIDTH! CHEAP BANDWIDTH (well, if I can believe the Sky reporter)
I heard rumours over the last few months that the SeaCom project [...]

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How did I make over $200 on Sunday from a VERY NICHE site?
A few years ago I had fun setting up websites across a whole range of industry’s.
One focussed on Dandruff - specifically a Dandruff Cure information site. I named it DandruffDirectory.com and it was simply a resource directory for Dandruff, Psoriasis, Eczema, Hairloss, Acne [...]

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