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Chrome, you’re here! | Saucy Sourcing

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Chrome, you’re here! September 10, 2008. For my last blog post I thought I might do a little wrap up and give deep, meaningful and quite probably thumb-sucked predictions for the future of open source blah, blah, blah. BUT THEN! But back to the Chrome-ster. And oh the scandalous geek drama that accompanied it! A feast for any development follower. First there were the long circulating rumours about a Google browser. As the ever-faithful wired.com. But Chrome has definitely made me rethink a little of my ...

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Google for president | Saucy Sourcing

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May 20, 2008. Derek Zoolander Or did you think I’d be too stupid to know what a eu-google-y was? With apologies to Drake Sather and Ben Stiller, the writers of Zoolander). A key issue that I have noticed with open source is that it is not aimed at a niche online market. For open source to work effectively it needs to be embraced by a large number of people. The ’sharing is caring’. Idea requires lots of people to share as well as to use. Is on the brink of releasing an analytics system. Of our nightmares...

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Africans are doing IT for themselves | Saucy Sourcing

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Africans are doing IT for themselves. August 23, 2008. One of the things that worries and frustrates me the most about the attitudes of people who live on the very cool continent of Africa is that we have developed a poverty mindset which often causes us to wait around for the Big Bad Developed World to come to our rescue in learning, adapting and providing tools for development. But a bunch of Ugandan students from Makerere University along, with a team from Rhodes University (yay! An article on Tectonic.

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2008 July « Cyberculting

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A blog about Cyberculture and ICTs. Subscribe in a reader. A rape in cyberspace. Fable the lost chapters. The cult of the amateur. Why do people create viruses. Can I make you some bucks? Archive for July, 2008. On July 24, 2008. Yes, I know it’s late, and I’ve been a very bad blogger. But I have returned from my hiatus, and am back! In our lecture today, our lecturer used the term digital narcissism , which has become a huge part of not only cyberculture, but day-to-day culture too. Keen feels that we d...

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The customer could be King again | Social Media

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The customer could be King again. 14 August, 2008 at 3:10 pm. I recently lost my Edgars Cash Card and trudged to the local store to get a new one. The cashier, however, could not track my old card on the system and said it was impossible to transfer my accumulated purchase points to my new card. (Apparently, the card registration form I filled in years ago was not properly captured on their system). But hell hath no fury like a shopaholic who doesn’t get her money’s worth. 722% of respondents research co...

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The upcoming DCI | Mobbed by Mobile Media

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Mobbed by Mobile Media. So as many of you may know the Digital Citizen Indaba. Is coming up this weekend and I shall be lucky enough to attended the event. My New Media class shall be keeping people around the world up to date with the Indaba through the use of social networking. We are going to be doing a range of things like short video’s, twittering. Photographs and running a live blog. I have discussed the social impact. Of applications like Mxit. Response to “The upcoming DCI”. Feed for this Entry.

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Are we becoming a little illiterate? | Mobbed by Mobile Media

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Mobbed by Mobile Media. Are we becoming a little illiterate? Everywhere you turn, every form you fill out and every job you apply for asks about your technical literacy. How good are you on computers and other technologies? Do you know how to use the internet? And what about Excel? But the question is what happened to plain old literacy. This would include using more icon based interfaces, with minimal features, automated phone settings, spoken menus and audio feedback. With mobile phones having such pot...

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2008 September « Cyberculting

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A blog about Cyberculture and ICTs. Subscribe in a reader. A rape in cyberspace. Fable the lost chapters. The cult of the amateur. Why do people create viruses. Can I make you some bucks? Archive for September, 2008. It’s the end of the world as we know it. On September 28, 2008. However, trying to decipher where exactly technology is heading in the next decade or two is difficult. Some people are convinced we’re heading for a fatalistic. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Approach (or for you younger fans out there,.

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How to make a Wiki | Saucy Sourcing

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How to make a Wiki. August 5, 2008. Experimenting with creating wikis in Wetpaint. In light of the praxis (i.e. theory and practical mix) that my new media course has been based on this year, I decided to branch out of theoretical blogging and find out how to create a wiki myself. I figure that open source ideas are supposed to benefit the average someone and I am a someone. So how easy/difficult is it to contribute and share my own ideas and not just borrow from generous developers? Wikipedia seems to v...

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Open source for (the) president | Saucy Sourcing

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Open source for (the) president. August 18, 2008. Everybody loves free stuff. It’s almost embarrassing what people will do at public events to get a free t-shirt or cap, or even just one lame keyring or pen. The South African government is also a fan of free stuff. But in this case, it’s thought-provoking and potentially admirable rather than embarrassing. At the GovTech Conference. This fits in well with the government’s eGovernment. There are obviously a number of problems with the concept of eGovernan...