On Tuesday, the Reddit team announced that it is releasing its source code to the public. For those of you who don’t know what Reddit is, it is a hugely popular Social News site, much like Digg or our local Muti. This is an outstanding move in that users not only drive the content on […]
Stii Pretorius
Stii is lead developer at Afrigator.com and a couple of other projects. He is a constant learner and loves experimenting with anything new or old. Loves anything super geeky. A devoted husband to a super wife and to two aspiring young geeks in the making!
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Plurk, the new Twitter?
Another new micro-blogging platform called Plurk has stirred the social scene the last couple of days. Basically, they are doing exactly the same thing as Twitter, only they’re looking, uhm, cooler. That, and their IM updates seem to work. My initial reaction was “Oh wow! Bye, bye Twitter! Hello, Plurk!”. Then sensibility kicked in big […]
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Microformats explained
One thing that always gets me and turns my world upside down and inside out, is when people talk about things as if they assume you know exactly what they are talking about. Ninety percent of the time, you don’t know and feel to stupid to ask, so you simply let it slide. In all […]
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What is the “Next Big Thing”?
The past two years we saw the rise of the social networks. A new site sprouts up at least once a week. If you read what some of the early adopters are saying, you get the feeling that people are tired of signing up for every new service every time. It is fast becoming hard […]
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Social media confronts xenophobia
In the last couple of days, xenophobia reared its very ugly head in South Africa. Senseless violence and atrocities are being committed against other human beings. There was an outrage in the media, and blogging individuals made their opinions heard. It was especially multimedia by The Times and the Mail & Guardian that had the […]
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Get me those page views, baby!
Mr Stupi Tidiot is hell bent on boosting his page views and unique visits to his site. See, he’s got Google Ads plastered all over the show and depends on it. He writes a bunch of crap, but he sure as hell don’t care as long as he gets them visitors, baby! It will make […]
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The best way to Twitter
Twitter is a weird service. It is simple to use, yet difficult to explain to someone. To explain it best is to say its like Facebook, but Facebook without everything but the status updates. Yet, if someone said to me “Twitter or Facebook. You can only keep one.” I’d say without ANY hesitation “Twitter, thank […]
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All the rage regarding Web 2.0 – so what exactly is it?
I’ve been fascinated by the term Web 2.0 since the phrase was coined. So were a lot of people from all different camps. Is it a design style? Is it development methodologies? Is it the way users interact with platforms as a service? The democratization of data? API’s? Social Networking? Eeeeeek…! Where does it begin […]