Here is what you’ll need to do to win

1. COLLECT
4 cups will be posted all over the internet (maybe there is one here somewhere). Each cup corresponds to a team participating in the semi-finals (Uruguay, Germany, Spain and Netherlands). Your mission is to find the cup that represents the team you think will win the World Cup 2010.

This is what a cup looks like (This is the what the Brazilian cup would look like if they weren’t taken out)

Where you’ll find the cups:
FredRoed
Ideate
iMod
iGeek

Springleap’s Facebook Fanpage
Springleap’s Twitter stream

2. PREDICT
Follow this link and predict who you think will get to the finals along with your score prediction.

When you have the cup that represents your prediction for the big win, send it to:
marketing@springleap.com along with your final score prediction.

3. POST
In support of your team, upload the cup to your Facebook profile to show your support (this isn’t part of the competition but we do think it would be awesome to show your team some love!)

4. WIN
The very best part! The first participant to submit the winning cup as well as the closest final score prediction will win 2 Springleap T-shirts a month for the rest of the year!!! The winner will be announced on the 12th of July 2010.

So what are you waiting for, start searching for those missing cups and get your hands on some pretty decent Springleap T-Shirt.

The Community Information Challenge is looking for innovative and fresh ideas, on how local and relevant information can be accessed and shared, with the local community. The solution must be deployable in South Africa but is not restricted to this region. The winning entry will receive a one-off prize of R20,000 cash AND the opportunity to discuss deployment options with the Vodacom Innovation team. The overall winner across the three Vodacom Challenges will scoop up a further R 20,000 cash!

For more information you can visit the Betavine website.

I have been using the Hero now over the holidays and has gotten quite familiar with the OS and I’m loving it to bits. The HTC Hero is not the only phone currently available in South Africa running the Google Android OS, there is also the HTC Magic, HTC Tattoo and HTC Dream.

There is also the OpenMoko any geeks dream when it comes to phones. Why you ask? Well just because its open source and you can basically run anything on it the cpu and memory is capable of. The OpenMoko works well with Google Android and now you can win one.

Rafiq from WebAddict(s) is now running a competition where you can walk away with a OpenMoko phone capable of running Google Android. All you have to do to win this Google Android phone is to follow the steps on WebAddict(s).

Google organises the world’s information and makes it accessible to all. Information also comes in the shape of geographical data, local business listings and user generated maps, and for this reason Google would like to invite you to the Google Maps South Africa launch.

Google is now giving Capetonians the oppertunity to take part in the launch of Google Maps in South Africa, on Friday the 30th of October at UCT in Cape Town.

Speakers will include Jarda Bengl, Business Product Manager, Google.

The talk will cover Introduction to development with the Google Maps API.
They’ll show some examples of great implementations, then cover the basics of how to add a map to your site including Javascript techniques to create maps, place markers, handle clicks, geocode addresses, add driving directions and how to work with Street View.

Just note that basic knowledge of XHTML, CSS, XML and Javascript is required.

Everybody is welcome from Developers and Web Masters who are new to Google Maps API, Computer Science Students.

To ensure you place is booked for the Google Maps South Africa, Cape Town launch just leave a comment and I’ll send through the rsvp email address.

The applicant’s daily task will be to develop websites and carry out monthly updates and enhancements to client websites and or databases.

Kibo Media is a dynamic web design and development company providing a full range of web services. Tey focus on building strong lasting relationships with their clients through delivering work in a timeous, efficient manner.

If you meet the below requirements, please email a short cover letter and CV to alicep@kibomedia.co.za in order to apply.

Requirements
• experience in web programming using CSS, HTML and PHP
• experience SEO
• experience in working with and developing in Content Management Systems and understanding what they are about (wordpress, joomla etc.). You will be our expert wordpress CMS person!
• capable of contributing to team, but self sufficient and proactive enough to manage own work
• capable of carrying out work from a brief to completion
• understand web application best practices and browser compatibility
• Client Relationship: Excellent management of relationships. Prompt response to email and / or other queries
• Understanding of “design” elements in order to ensure development meets design rquirements

Advantageous
• working with MySQL 5 databases advantage
• experience working on Linux

Personal Skills/Attributes
• Candidate must be able to interact and work with a dynamic and ambitious team
• Good communicator and team player
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Can work with little supervision, pro-active and takes on responsibility for code developed
• Ability to work in a high pressure environment and meet agreed deadlines
• Entrepreneurial in terms of being able to see development opportunities
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills
• High level of attention to detail

Details

Province: Western Cape
Education level: Matric
Own transport required: Yes
City: Cape Town – Maitland
Type: Permanent
Job level: Mid / Senior

If you think you have what it takes then why not give it a go.

Many kite creations will fill the skies of Muizenberg the 10th and 11th of October at the 15th Cape Town International Kite Festival, organised by Cape Mental Health in association with Heart FM 104.9.

The Cape Town International Kite Festival is Africa’s largest kite festival drawing kiters from all over the word like USA, England and some of the best local talent. The festival will kick off on the 10th of October coincided with World Mental Health Day. The theme for this years Cape Town International Kite Festival is “The world on a string”, which will showcase the best each country has to offer.

If you are a kite enthusiast why not bring along your kite, or try your hand at building a kite at the kite-making workshops, otherwise just enjoy the spectacular display of wonderfull masterpieces flying about the sky.

The whole family is welcome to join in the fun as the Cape Town International Kite Festival has made provision for the whole family. Food stalls, giant inflateables, kiddies rides, just to mention a few is family entertainment at its best.

Entry to the Kite Festival is R10 for adults and R5 for children, with all profits going towards the work of Cape Mental Health. The Cape Town International Kite Festival will be open from 10:00 to 18:00 each day and takes place at Zandvlei, Muizenberg.

For more information visit www.capementalhealth.co.za

For those of you that did not win anything, please try again next time. You can also try G-Connect’s great offerings for realy cheap prepaid unshaped internet with data carry over.

The Winners:

Congratulations to Dade & Mikesentry you are the winners of the Vouchers, I will get in contact with you guys via email soon.

Each voucher can be used to buy 1GB worth of Internation ADSL bandwidth, this is a great way to test out G-Connect’s great offerings if you always wanted to. G-Connect not only offers ADSL connectivity but the voucher can also be used to access 3G aswell as G-Connect WiFi hotspots with your phone.

To enter simply follow the instructions on the G-Connect Giveaway post, good luck to all.

A while back I wrote  a article on G-Connect’s great pricing. G-Connect currently offers the lowest price for carry over ADSL data in South Africa at only 4.9c per Megabyte, and the best part is you can use your one account for wifi, 3G and ADSL.

The guys at G-Connect have been very kind and donated two R50 G-Connect vouchers for me to give away. To enter simply reply to this post or retweet the following on twitter “@diekloon @G_Connect Win a G-Connect Voucher with iGeek and G-Connect http://bit.ly/N01RH”

For more information regarding G-Connect’s great offerings visit their website.

So to stand a chance to win the voucher just leave a comment to this post and I will pick a winner by 5pm today.

So spread the news and you could stand a chance to win R700 worth of free google advertising.

Terms and Conditions for the voucher here.

UPDATE

Looks like I’m not the only one with this, check out http://www.webaddict.co.za/2009/08/31/try-google-adwords-free/ and your chances will be even bigger to win.