I’ve been lending a hand to my brother to get a business idea out of his head and into the ‘real world’. It’s an interesting concept called “The Productivity Paradox”, a notion he has been talking about for some time already, which he now wants to turn into something more tangible. Disclaimer: There are certain […]
Alan Alston
Alan is co-founder and creator of micro-site builder Tank: a simple content-management app geared towards making the internet a better place, one site at a time.
He kicked off his internet career at Armadillo Interactive, and was one of the original members of Ogilvy Interactive in Cape Town. He spent time at Radarboy Studios 'doing cool stuff', and joined Tinderbox and type01 just before the crash. Together with a couple of fellow re-trenchees he formed Six Million Dollar where they developed many sites and apps in the years following. After a stint at Generator Communications he paid his dues by building social investment platforms and marketplaces for the greater good.
He is now involved with Tank full time: he reckons he has executed enough ideas for other people; it's time to execute a couple of his own. Tank is the first web-app from 'thisarmy': a development house that builds stuff that builds stuff.
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Help us find a name for a feed reader
After a couple of weeks of development we’re putting the finishing touches on a brand-spanking new feed reader: yes, the internet does in fact need yet another feed aggregator! If you have time to spare please check it out and let us know if everything works anything breaks. We now need a name for the […]
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Blood and water, trees and forests
I’ve promised myself never to go on too much about social apps, but there is one app that I’ve fallen in love with, and I’d love to share it. I signed up to Geni purely by chance — I think it was to check out the flash tree visualisation — and my affinity to the […]
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This marks the first time I use WordPress, ever.
Thanks Nic for inviting me to blog on Techleader — appreciate it. I’ve been considering what a good enough first post would be (there are a couple of ideas that didn’t make it saved elsewhere), and when I was sent the log-in details to Techleader, I realised I’ve actually never used WordPress, not personally and […]