Eric Edelstein

Jacob Zuma has just been elected leader of the ANC, the ruling party in South Africa. The owner of JacobZuma.com must be smiling…
Update: Just read an article at BusinessDay - appears the JacobZuma.com domain is owned by Jacob Zuma
Further Update: Just looked at the whois for the JacobZuma.com domain and noticed the following:  [...]

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Only those with their head in the clouds, would not have heard about the nail biting race between Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma for leader of the ANC.
It’s been a fascinating few months watching the ANC succession race develop - the new elected leader of the ANC will (unless some dramatic events unfold) assume the [...]

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Lets do Lunch, Dave.

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“Bonds are trading like recession is becoming likely,” independent economist Robert Brusca wrote in a note to clients after the Fed move.
In the US, the stock market fell sharply yesterday after the FED cut interest rates by a quarter percent, when the market was expecting a more aggressive approach - the feeling is that the [...]

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I received an interesting email earlier with some Facebook stats - this info ISN’T VERIFIED, but still makes for fascinating reading…
NUMBER of Facebook users in South Africa? 677 880
PERCENTAGE of South African’s using Facebook? 48 577 000 South African’s - 1,395% use Facebook

South Africa has the 9th largest number of Facebook users in the WORLD.
The [...]

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The Sunday Times produced their annual South African Rich List last weekend, and I thought it would be fascinating to see which of the richest have Facebook profiles, how many have set privacy on their Facebook Status’s and how many you can go in and see details of…
I’ve written many times of using Facebook for [...]

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There have been a lot of Internet Marketing conferences lately. One of the interesting ones I managed to catch recently was the PublishOnline 2007 conference in association with the Online Publishers Association.
One of the reasons I enjoy going to the Internet Marketing conferences is to catch up with the other guys in the industry. I [...]

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Speculation is flying that Li Ka-shing, one of the wealthiest guys in Hong Kong, has taken a 0.4% stake in Facebook, the social networking website for $60 Million. If the technology blog report is correct, the deal is being done at a $15 Billion valuation for Facebook.
Li Ka-shing’s company’s [...]

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