carte blanche
Carte Blanche, South Africa’s premier investigative news programme, visited our studio this morning to interview me on the success of the Verity campaign.
Verity and World Wide Creative have been working for three years with the goal of raising enough money to produce her album. The idea was to sell an album that didn’t exist Read Further
word press
I recently attended the Wordpress Cape Town Meetup #3 and had a cracking time meeting up with some of Cape Towns most talented Wordpress evangelists and blogging heroes! Read Further
eric
Last night was the latest in a long line of Heavy Chef Sessions, with Eric Edelstein (above) and Charl Norman regaling us with juicy stuff from their entrepreneurial adventures.
This particular Session was interesting because we were trying some new stuff. It’s the first of a mini-series called ‘Netrepreneurs’ with successful internet entrepreneurs talking about their journeys. Read Further
We’re talking today about the rate of change in today’s world, and the big question: ‘With all this change – How do we build a brand in a digital economy?’
I will put up slides on this blog on this forum asap. Read Further
design muti
I’m pretty stoked to have found this: Design Float. It’s a Muti.co.za / Digg style design scrapheap. It’s now top on my Google Reader. Sweeet. Read Further
Click here for Ajaxy type goodies Read Further
As many of you know there is a segment of the online “cash cow” dedicated to making money from developing and releasing Premium Themes for WordPress. A Premium Theme is basically a well developed/coded theme that you can use for your WordPress website. So in essence 1xWordPress install (FREE) + 1xPremium Theme = Rocking Website! Read Further
Saw this on TechCrunch; it’s a demo of iPhone Earth.
Interesting, especially since the iPhone is now going to be available across all our fellow developing countries*. Read Further
This just in: Facebook have released news of the new incarnation of their familiar duotone web layout.
It looks like they’re trying to dumb things down a bit, with less clutter… and therefore sightly less distraction from advertising space. Read Further
A ‘netrepreneur’ is a special breed of techie, businessman and creative. He (or she) is someone who looks at the digital economy as the Wild West of opportunities, and has ridden out on a horse to find them.
Not afraid of all the change happening around us, these important individuals have embraced the continually evolving new technology and made some seriously successful businesses out of them. People like Mark Shuttleworth, Ronnie Apteker (founder Internet Solutions), Herman Heunis (founder Mxit.co.za) and Fiona Phillips (CEO of CyberCellar.com). Read Further
Great news (although a little late!) This month’s Heavy Chef Session has been announced, with eminent speakers Eric Edelstein and Charl Norman to kick off a new series entitled ‘Netrepeneurs’. The brilliant news is that Play.24.com has agreed to sponsor the event with a film crew. Read Further
goose maverick
Remember Maverick and Goose in Top Gun? Goose was the wing man to Cruise’s Maverick. This meant that, when they’d go to a bar, Goose would be the fall guy and Maverick would score the chicks. Goose was married, so it was cool by him. He happened to be married to Meg Ryan in the movie, so he was stoked to let Maverick be the gloryboy, because that was back when Meg Ryan was really hot. (Just a little movie trivia for you on a Monday morning).
My question today is: ‘But, what if the chick went for Goose?’ Read Further
Canon
So it’s competition time over at Smashing Magazine again and this time round you can win yourself a fancy Canon DSLR.
Unleash the creative within and go out this weekend Read Further
I have finally given in.
After resisting for some time now, The Maven has convinced me to get with the program. I’ll let you know how it goes. Read Further
I find Internet stats handy for presentations (click here). Nothing goes down better than ‘2008 saw one hundred million new users go online etc.’ It’s the big figures that make people pay you the big figures, baby. Read Further
I receive a lot of gumpf about ‘making millions online’ and ‘blog your way to profit’. I’ve met people who’ve told me their world domination ideas, and the pivotal part of their strategy requires blogging. Now, I’ve been blogging for almost on 3 years now, which kind of makes me a veteran in the field – at least here on the tip of the Dark Continent – and I’ve received VERY LITTLE money in return.* Read Further
typography
It’s amazing how much detail goes into a website. Think of the functional components, programming technology, tags, site navigation and the personas. Phew! And that’s before we even touch the content.
Design is the glue that holds everything together. Read Further
So imagine we decide to take over the world through The Heavy Chef Project. We realise, hell yeah, this thing has legs, but what if someone tries to rip us off? What if someone copies us with a similar name so that if someone types in ‘HeadyChef.com’ they get our traffic? Hey! Why not let’s buy all the similar sounding domain names just to be sure. It’s not like it’s going to cost us a lot of money… Read Further
website
This week I had the privilege of speaking at the Mega Media Expo 2008 at the CTICC. I promised I would post the slide show from my web usability presentation. So feel free to download the pdf version: Website Usability and Conversion of Traffic Document (approx. 5Mb in size). Read Further
wordpress
As you all know by now, I’m the resident WordPress Geek at World Wide Creative. I love the OpenSource platform and love talking about it and making its existence known to all 
I would like to let all the WordPress lovers out there know about an event happening here in Cape Town, on 28th May ‘08, where like-minded WordPress developers can get a professional glimpse into the wonderful world of WordPress as a Blogging Platform and CMS. Read Further
MegaMedia
South Africa’s marketing community doesn’t know what’s hit them. The Mega Media Expo is on this week at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, and our venerable UK Director is one of the speakers. Considering Mike’s track record of getting people up on stage, holding props like carrots, vegetables, and beetroots… while wearing spiderman masks… it looks like it could be worthwhile. Read Further
verity
I can’t begin to tell you how many people didn’t think this would happen.
Verity, a singer/songwriter came to us 3 years ago. She was up against it. On one side, she had the choice of signing her life away to a record company; on the other she could pack it in and moonlight as a lounge singer. Verity decided to do neither. After some brainstorming, she came up with the idea of selling ‘future albums’. Read Further
Googles continued push for improving search took another step forward last week when two of its scientists presented a research paper in China. The research outlined the future of image search online.
In simple terms, images are currently indexed by the content that surrounds them, the page itself and the alt tags used to describe them. But Googles so called VisualRank (Page Rank for Product Image Search) means us humans will no longer be needed to help describe what the image is. It uses visual recognition to identify what is in an image in order to categorise it for search. Read Further
