Ross Allchorn

Subsequent to a talk we gave recently on the state of eCommerce in South Africa, it made sense to collate some of the key points of the presentation into a single infographic. Of particular interest to me, was the fact that while retail growth in SA is currently around 6%, online retail growth is more […]

Sending email broadcasts — on the surface — should be one of the simplest and most straight-forward processes. The digital equivalent of stuffing a couple hundred or thousand (or even tens/hundreds of thousands) of letters into envelopes and posting them off. Without the arduous task of printing, folding, inserting and licking, and the time/cost associated […]

This post is born of my curiosity about something quite obviously apparent in the photography industry at present. As more and more cameras are produced, of course the prices get lower, and the entry level cost for aspiring photographers becomes easier and easier to attain. All in all, this shouldn’t be a bad thing, and […]

This story has captured my interest mainly because most people commenting on the post (link expires February 16) seem to be fairly misinformed about what is considered fair play on the web and the law. To summarise the story it goes something like this: A fairly well-known and prolific blogger registers the domain name www.mycoke.co.za. […]

A quick mention this so you can be one of the first to dive in and test drive Google’s latest release on their ever growing list of wares and services. The new browser by Google called Chrome was officially announced on Tuesday, September 2 2008. Featuring some really useful and slightly different ways of operating. […]

Recycled information seems to be the nature of the blogging world. Be that as it may, not everyone feeds off content from the same sources, and sometimes things you would have wanted to know slip through the cracks. Today they announced on the WordPress development blog that they have re-launched the theme directory. Now, since […]

The famous Australian based web community site Sitepoint, originally founded in a roundabout way in 1997, launched its “new look” front page this week. A pretty mixed response it has received, and as I often tend to do, I’ll try to remain as unbiased and neutral on the topic for the time being. For those […]

Since this is my first post on Tech Leader, I thought I couldn’t go wrong with a top ten list. Don’t worry, I’ll try not to do it too often. This list of software consists of tools I use almost every day. Some of them are better than their proprietary counterparts, and others are just […]