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The five rules for building an online community

I found a piece by Guy Kawasaki which really got me thinking. It perfectly illustrates the disjunct we find between the allure of social networks (and my new obsession — niche business networks) and the practice of implementing them. Many companies think that building a virtual community is as simple as throwing up a cool […]

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Gunfights and Twitter – an African perspective

Isn’t South Africa just the most fun? We live in a land that is marked by one of the most incredible digital divides. Forget Third World South America, or Middle Africa. That’s different -– technology just never got off its feet and it’ll take many years, plenty discarded US laptops and OLPC’s from heaven before […]