June 13th, 2011
Well not really, but In the last week I finally had the opportunity to code something using HTML5 and CSS3, not that I haven’t done it before, but this would be the 1st time that someone else would get to see it.
“Why did it take so long?” you might ask, and the reason is simple.. most people that I do coding for just isn’t at the point where they think they need to drop older browsers and start doing cool things. So as you can imagine I was quite excited when this opportunity fell in my lap.
I specifically had to make a lot of use of three properties in particular: background gradients, rounded corners and drop shadows. The cool thing is that by just using those three properties you can make a rich, great looking, interface without using even a single image.
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May 22nd, 2011
So let’s face it, Facebook and Twitter killed your social life, you log on and within 3 minutes you know exactly what everyone, from old school friends to you co-workers, are up to at that very moment. The problem is that you don’t really have connection with any of these people anymore. You sit in front of your computer, they press “Like” from their cell phone and both of you think you’ve just made a connection.
Social networks like Facebook and Twitter killed the monster by feeding it too much. We are human beings and we actually need to have some real human interaction every once in a while. This is where group buying comes into the picture.
One of the few ways you can guarantee that someone is going to do something is by making him or her pay for what they’re about to do or attend. And if the price of that item or service is significantly cheaper than what it would normally cost, then you will have yourself a deal.
I was 1st introduced to group buying when I was approached by a group of friends to attend a beer tasting event. The whole event came about as a result of a very cheap offer on a group buying site and to make the offer valid, there had to be a certain number of purchases. So naturally all the people in the circle of friends were involved.
And I don’t know about you, but I will much rather have some beer with a group of friends instead of writing on someone’s “wall” on a social network. We will probably still need Facebook or some other service for tagging each other in compromising positions, but with group buying the core of this social encounter moved away from online and moved into offline or like we used to call it, into the real world.
Here are a few of South Africa’s group buying websites:
(Please let me know if you know of any more)
May 5th, 2011
I love this music video and song at the moment.. so I thought I’ll share 
February 27th, 2011
As you know, facebook is now everywhere, you can’t even go to your favorite grocery company’s website without seeing a little facebook box in the sidebar telling you that 5 gazillion people like this brand and 20 of them are your friends.
But what do these boxes really mean? Yes 50 people like this site, brand or post, but does that really mean anything if there isn’t a vote in the opposite direction?
I’m sure that if you open a site for some racist movement you can get a few hundred people who will click “like” on it. That will give a certain impression to the visitors of that site, maybe something like: “There are a lot of racist people around, maybe it’s acceptable”.
That might have been an extreme case, but that same logic can apply to every day companies that give overall bad service, there will be a percentage of its client base that would get great service, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the norm. If there was a “Don’t Like” button on said company’s page then you might see an accurate representation of that company, which would drive them to actually try and better themselves or if they don’t get their clients to go look elsewhere.
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December 6th, 2010
They always say that doctors makes the worst patients or parents of sick kids. The reason for this is that doctors are cursed with too much knowledge. They know what can go wrong and before you know it the sniffles can turn into the black plague in the mind of a doctor parent.
It’s for this exact reason that there are rules and regulations in place that prohibits doctors from treating family.
We are not that lucky when it comes to marketing.
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