Mike Stopforth

I’m pretty chuffed to announce today after nearly a year of discussions and negotiations that MIH Print Africa, a division of Naspers, has successfully acquired a stake in Afrigator.com, one of my projects. Charl broke the story minutes ago, and the details are at the Afrigator blog, as always, but the highlights you should know are that Justin and Stii are relocating to Cape Town to work in our ....

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I very seldom sleep during the day, but succumbed to an attack by the sandman while reading a recent edition of Maverick on the couch at work the other day. Chris took the opportunity to snap a pic of me, lights-out, doing my best Stephen Hawking impersonation ever… classic! ....

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Honestly, I’m convinced we hire some of the coolest and cleverest people in the country at Cerebra. Just take for example this email from Carl, subject ‘Can’t work with this poop any longer …’ which landed in my inbox this morning, had me in stitches, and which I couldn’t help but share publicly. I haven’t changed anything in the mail: So Craig and I where chatting ....

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After the rugby on Saturday I was chatting to one of our clients about the SA blogosphere when she mentioned, quite out of the blue, something about ‘all the influence and importance’ I had. I nearly choked on my beer, as I often do (but not always on beer) when people, with the best intentions, speak about this so-called ‘Weblebrity’ thing a few of us have going in ....

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This is the topical question a couple of interesting people, and myself, will be discussing in a session that forms part of the SA Business Schools Expo at the Sandton Sun this coming Wednesday evening (17h00 to 19h00). Max Kaizen (under the banner of her newest project, Epiphany) has pulled together Branko Brkic (Editor of Maverick - I’m a big fan so looking forward to meeting him), Paul Jacobson ....

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It seems Google South Africa, which until now has pretty much hovered under the radar (other than one or two events that they’ve hosted), suddenly find themselves in hot water with Cape Town-based ‘IT  and  Digital  Marketing  solutions provider’ Entelligence the Competition Commission. This intriguing press release found it’s way into my inbox today… Cape  Town  –  Entelligence  Limited  today  filed  a  formal  complaint  against  Google  South  Africa  with  ....

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Saw dust and solder - Two string fretless bass My buddy Pete built a two-string fretless bass guitar out of practically nothing - and it sounds AWESOME. Check out how he made it… (tags: bass guitar fretless two-string musical instrument peter le roux) Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system It looks like wireless electricity could be finally be on the horizon - ....

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