On Twitter today, Web Goldenboy Charl Norman posed the question: “When will Twitter innovate?” (Watch this video if you’re unfamiliar with Twitter) I suspect that Charl means to ask when Twitter will add more features, such as those seen in Plurk, where you can add pictures, videos and see responses to your ‘plurk’ (equivalent to […]
Henk Kleynhans
Henk is a Computer Scientist and Internet Junkie turned Social Entrepreneur. He heads up Skyrove, Africa's largest WiFi Sharing Community. He's managed to drop out of both Med School and Mensa and in his free time he likes yapping about how solar powered robot slaves are the 'next big thing'.
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How to surf secretly in Firefox 3
Those of you who use Safari might already know about the PornPrivate Browsing button. You simply click it and while the feature is on, you will leave no trace. No cookies, no temporary files and no awkward link history popping up when you type in URLs in the address bar while someone is watching over […]
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Why programmers must do customer support
It dawned on me recently that programmers also do customer support. They have to help end-users get online at WiFi Hotspots and they need to help Hotspot owners set up new hotspots and help process payments to them. These tasks lie primarily with our technical division and accounting, but we rotate incoming phone calls to […]
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GeekRebel guide to online TV
I don’t have a TV at home, so I consume a decent amount of bandwidth watching TV shows and YouTube videos. Here’s how I go about it getting loads of entertainment without a DsTV subscription: 1. StumbleVideo: I don’t spend that much time on YouTube itself. Rather, I watch video clips on StumbleVideo. StumbleVideo offers […]
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Why market leaders don’t innovate
“Radical innovation never originates with the market leader” — Jim Utterback, MIT Did you know Mitch Kapor tried to license 1-2-3 to IBM for $3,5-million in the 1980s? They told him that hardware was a multibillion-dollar industry, and that the market for PC software was only a $50-million industry. IBM later bought Kapor’s Lotus Development […]