Where are tourists going when not watching the football?
With soccer fans getting ready for the 10 + 10 and 20 – 10 (eeeek!) You Know What. They won’t only be watching soccer – they will also be exploring South African tourist sites. Google has released data on what key-words tourists are searching using its engine. Most globally popular (or searched for?) tourist sites in South Africa in 2010 Ranking / Tourist Site 1. Kruger National Park 2. The Garden Route 3. Wild Coast 4. Robben Island 5. Cape Peninsula 6. Blyde... Read More
Social networking secures place on the mobile web
Opera Mini, the mobile web browser, has released its monthly State of the Mobile Web report for the month of February 2010. Opera Mini had over 50.5 million users who viewed 22 billion pages in February. Here is a snapshot of the Opera Mini’s South African market: * Page-view growth since February 2009: 199.4% * Unique-user growth since February 2009: 148.7% * Page views per user: 318 * Data transferred per user (MB): 4 * Data transferred per page view (KB): 11 Top 10 sites... Read More
Samsung responds to greenwashing story
Samsung has issued a press statement responding to my story that it had been caught misrepresenting its eco credentials to South African consumers. Samsung remains committed to environment-friendly practices 26 March 2010 Samsung Electronics South Africa (Pty) Ltd has noted the recent ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA) and believes that the ASA has adopted a different interpretation to what was intended. Samsung denies attempting to mislead consumers... Read More
MK Bruce Lee preview
A sneak preview of the MK Bruce Lee issue to be launched at the Toffie pop culture festival from 26 – 28 March. This issue was edited by Francois van Coke and is the guitar tabs issue. The guitar tabs were transcribed by Richard Brokensha from the bands Isochronous and Kidofdoom. Tweet Share/Bookmark Read More
A place in the sun on one of those ‘Best and Kindest and We don’t Suck at All’ lists
BizCommunity.com just published a story of mine relating how Samsung was caught out green washing its environmental credentials. The final, slightly more colourful, unedited paragraph of the story is republished here: Going green, being sustainable, being a good corporate citizen. Today corporations attempt to present themselves as all these. A couple of grand will get you onto those “Best and Kindest and We don’t Suck at All” lists or those “Most Admired and WOW we gave... Read More
