Tag Archives: Google
Week Long “Festival Of Mobile” Announced For Johannesburg In November
Earlier today event organizer All Amber announced plans for its third annual Mobile Web In Africa conference. The series of events, which will take place in the week of 21st November 2011, will cater to the entire range of individuals involved in the African mobile sector. The events include the end of year Mobile Monday [...]
Google Bus Travels Through Egypt Looking For The African Facebook
The New York Times reported yesterday that a bus branded with the Google logo will be traveling across 10 governorates in Egypt starting this week, including stops at universities in Cairo and Alexandria, scouting for the next generation of technology entrepreneurs with homegrown ideas on the scale of Facebook or LinkedIn. South African tech-entrepreneurs will [...]
Why Should You Care About Google Plus (video)
There’s been a LOT of buzz about Google’s new social network lately and feedback has been mixed. I’ve been checking it out specifically because of criticism over the past few years of Google not being able to compete in the social space. Terms like ‘one trick pony’ have been levelled at the search giant, and [...]
Top 5 online tools for an Entrepreneur
The best online tools are the ones that are very simple to use, have minimal “bells and whistles” and integrates with my mobile phone. Here are my Top 5 online tools for an Entrepreneur: Google Apps – my all-in-one online and mobile business tool kit: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Alerts, Mobile, Google [...]
Did someone say Video?
Did you know that Youtube is the 5th largest website visited by South Africans? That means that Youtube is bigger than Twitter! yet for some reason business people and brand managers seem to think that South Africans don’t watch video on the internet. Something about bandwidth costs apparantly (Mweb and Afrihost seem to be sorting [...]
A new platform in Facebook: Community Pages
Facebook have released a new platform call community pages. I have expanded of what community pages are on my blog if you need to catch up a little. This article however looks at something important to consider now that Facebook has created and unofficial basis for discussing brands online. You see big brands have started [...]
Google – no longer the King of the Internet?
Two weeks ago Facebook received more traffic than Google in the US. Although this is a statistic about American traffic there is cause to believe that this is a sign of the future of the internet. Americans in general use the internet more than the rest of the world and have become the internet trend [...]
Google’s Nexus One – should you care?
Google and its Taiwanese partner HTC have finally released their new Nexus One smartphone this week. This touch-screen device is Google’s next step in the evolution of its Android software. Unfortunately it looks like this little invention won’t be available in South Africa. The Nexus One is a hot topic this week all around the [...]
Has Google built the Facebook killer?
Google’s Okurt online community works like Facebook to make your social life more active and keep in touch with friends and family. It’s also designed to reach out to people you’ve never met before and build new relationships. Similar to Facebook, you can upload photos, send messages and create groups. Yolandi Janse van Rensburg writes [...]
The effect of the recession on Christmas spending
For retailers this time of year is a major source of income, often floating the business for the rest of the year. With consumer spending down, what can be done to maintain profitability? Try using Google Insights as free market research. For example, have a look at the historical searches for the phrase “homemade Christmas [...]
