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There is a new show starting on BBC entitled Superpower. If this preview is anything to go by I’d love to see it. [via Chris Rawlinson] Here’s an overview of the show.

Everyone who listens to commercial radio or watches any music channel on TV has heard the Jay-Z feat Alicia Keys track entitled Empire State of Mind. If not, here it is in all its 29million plus views glory. Now the geeks over at Grasshopper have put some effort into the parody called The New Dork – [...]

Clickatell, one of the advertisers here on Web AddiCT(s);, have just turned 10 years old. To celebrate they are giving away 10 000 SMS credits to do with as you please. All you need to do is join their facebook fan page here (currently on 662 fans). Read the terms and conditions. Here’s what you can [...]

Vodacom and RLabs have teamed up to bring you the “Community Information Challenge 2010?. Many people in local communities have mobile phones and use them for voice and text. However, the use of mobile Internet is growing fast and can be used to enhance local communities. The mobile Internet can be used to share many [...]

South Africa has a very limited “Angel Funding” network to help online start ups develop prototypes of their products. Most venture capitalists are only interested in investing large sums of money in ideas that have proven to generate revenue. The only way you are able to invest your money into an online start-up in South [...]

The web is constantly growing and expanding. That’s a good thing. It means that We have more information and more information sources at our disposal both on our computers and mobile devices. But, what’s going to happen when all this information blows up? (okay, not blow up) but what’s going to happen when it all [...]

Necessity is the mother of invention. Many times, people living and working under the most difficult and challenging conditions, with minimal tools and capacity, have come up with creative and even innovative solutions to the enormous challenges they face. Organizations and researchers around the world have been equally creative working with communities living in situations [...]

With the huge growth we’re seeing in mobile throughout the wwworld you’d be a fool not to cater for all phones that are able to browse the web. Anything from a Nokia 6110 running Opera Mini to the smarter Samsung Galaxy Spica, HTC Hero or Apple iPhone. Many good Wordpress themes are coded in such [...]

Notice how Facebook dominates the English speaking wwworld. via Huddlemind Related posts:Live Streaming Video on the Internet from your Cellphone

Don’t ask me how I came across this. It’s a sure sign that a technology has become main stream when people are writing songs about it. The technology is MXit and the song is MXit AddiCTed by some Afrikaans boys in Stellenbosch. “This is a song about a brand new addiction….” This MXit addicted video has [...]

Saturday past saw another edition of 27Dinner Cape Town. There were 2 interesting talks by Tinus le Roux from Virtual Africa and Bob Skinstad who shared his experience doing Bobsforgood. To see a 360 degree view of the night head on over here. Good seeing old faces, many news ones and making interesting connections. If you haven’t [...]

The Samsung Star Competition has come to an end. It was capped at 100 entries to give the contestants a 1% chance of winning the touch screen mobile phone each. Without further delay it is time to announce the winner. The winner of the Samsung S5223 is… Before I make the announcement did you know what [...]

Quirk are giving away 50, $50 Google Analytics Individual Qualification vouchers to whoever uses the #QuirkLovesROI hashtag and includes a Web Analytics or Conversion Optimisation tip. This info was found in the Quirk Newsletter which happens to land in your inbox every Wednesday. Thank you Quirk. Something Quirk happened to mention in their newsletter happens to [...]

Here’s another glimpse into the future of your Google Android Mobile phone brought to you by TAT running on top of TAT Home, the 3D Android interface. This silent demo of Recognizr is mind boggling. Imagine being able to recognize your contacts just by their faces and then showing you all their social networks and contact [...]

The great folks over at Samsung Blog have given me this phone to give to you. The Social Web ready Samsung S5233. All you need to do to win this phone is post a comment below answering the following question: What is the other name of the Samsung S5233? . It’s Mobile Monday so here’s a [...]

I wrote a post about FNB and Paypal earlier. It has vanished from this blog. Luckily it was indexed by Google so here it is again: It’s official First National Bank are in talks with PayPal to launch PayPal South Africa. In this screenshot taken by Charl Norman at what looks like FNB’s official site they [...]

When Google Buzz was let out into the wild it was everything but a finished product.  Firstly, they published all the folks you contacted most frequently via Google Talk and Gmail. There is a huge privacy flaw in Google’s new Twitter/Facebook competitor, Google Buzz. When you first go into Google Buzz, it automatically sets you up with [...]

Google Buzz is just becoming more and more useful especially if you are a blogger. Thanks to the awesome people who Your Web AddiCT has been interacting with on Google Buzz many awesome ideas have been sparked or built upon. Many ideas for blog post which are relevant to you have also been found from [...]

Maemo is a software platform developed by Nokia for smartphones and Internet Tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution. The platform comprises the Maemo operating system and the Maemo SDK. Maemo is mostly based on open source code, and has been developed by Maemo Devices within Nokia in collaboration with many open source [...]

In the following presentation by Justin Hartman (Afrigator/Adgator CEO) he shares some pretty intersting facts about the top12 blogs in South Africa. Justin also shares ways in which you, as a South African Blogger, can make money using affiliate, PPC and CPM advertising. There is also some important news for all of the current bloggers [...]