People who play — and work — in the online space are so scared that they might be caught addicted to a has-been technology that there is a race to proclaim “The next bubble!” or “The next Facebook!” or, if they really want page views, “Why Google is near its end!” Yawn. Can we enjoy […]
Eve Dmochowska
Eve Dmochowska spends her day playing on and with the Internet, and thinks it is a rather fun way to make money.
She is the founder of Crowdfund, a crowd sourced fund to help local online startups get off the ground, and of the Geekspace, Joburgs first hot desking space for geeks.
She is also the co-founder of The Broadband Bible which helps SAfricans find the perfect ADSL plan and the Airtime Bible, which compares the costs of cellphone contracts.
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Pass the eggnog, I’m sick of Christmas already
I’ve heard of Christmas in July, but Christmas in October is pushing the limits of reason. There are houses on Duncan Street in Pretoria that have neon reindeer, Santas and elves, lit up like a bordello. Yesterday my radio was playing Last Christmas by George Michael, and you can buy Christmas decorations at Game and […]
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Innovation to the top — climbing Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair
Bern Goosen is a South African quadriplegic, and tomorrow he will begin his third attempt to mount Kilimanjaro. In a wheelchair. He won’t be pushed. He won’t be carried. He will use his brute strength to get there, and you can watch it all on your computer. Thanks to the collaboration of local technology companies, […]
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Innovation to the top — climbing Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair
Bern Goosen is a South African quadriplegic, and tomorrow he will begin his third attempt to mount Kilimanjaro. In a wheelchair. He won’t be pushed. He won’t be carried. He will use his brute strength to get there, and you can watch it all on your computer. Thanks to the collaboration of local technology companies, […]
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SA’s top 51 blogs
These are the blogs that make it into the top 100 000 ranking on Technorati. They are competing with about 70-million other blogs, so being popular or widely read only in South Africa is not likely to get them this ranking. In other words, these are more than likely blogs that have a worldwide readership. If […]
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SA’s top 51 blogs
These are the blogs that make it into the top 100 000 ranking on Technorati. They are competing with about 70-million other blogs, so being popular or widely read only in South Africa is not likely to get them this ranking. In other words, these are more than likely blogs that have a worldwide readership. If […]
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Dying to live
Randy Pausch is dying of pancreatic cancer. In fact, he only has about two to four months of healthy life left. He is a professor at Carnegie Mellon, and recently participated in the Last Lecture series. The Last Lecture series is an US initiative, run by various universities who invite their best professors to give […]
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How much is a blog worth?
There is a blog up for sale, at auction, and I wonder if you can predict how much it will sell for. (I am not going to give out the URL, because I don’t want you to see what the current bid is, but if you think you might want to buy it, give me […]
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Online hiding holes vs the law
VideoProfessor sells computer training videos, mostly through late-night infomercials. Like most companies, it offers a money-back guarantee, but there seem to be endless problems with overcharges, upsells and unclear terms. Some customers got a little fed up and posted anonymous, negative comments on websites such as Infomercialscams.com. VideoProfessor did not take kindly to this, and […]
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Are we all part of a computer game?
It’s more than likely. No, really. Nick Bostrom wrote an excellent paper on this, and let me tell you: it isn’t just a new plot of a Hollywood blockbuster. I have summarised (greatly) the key issues as they are presented in the paper, but I strongly suggest you read the full paper before you dismiss […]
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Steve Fossett, Amazon.com and some extra cash for you
Steve Fossett is a millionaire adventurer who disappeared with his plane, somewhere over the Nevada desert. You want to help find him? Head over to Amazon.com. The online books-and-everything-else seller has a rather nifty, but not well-known, service. It is called Amazon Mechanical Turk and its tagline is “Artificial artificial intelligence”. Basically, it is “a […]
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Can the UN control online privacy?
Every time you use your credit card online, the number is parsed through six countries. Many of those countries have no policies at all when it comes to privacy in general, and certainly no policies when it comes to privacy in the internet sphere. Google’s privacy chief, Peter Fleisher, addressed the United Nations Educational, Scientific […]