Blueworld is a South African social community where you can create a customizable online presence for yourself and meet new friends. Think of it as a South African version of Facebook.
Apparently the site has a easter egg, go check it out, pretty cool. To view the easter egg do the following:
If you are a IRC junkie like I am you would know how ofthen someone says something that is realy funny or come acros funny in IRC.
If you have visited bash.org before you would know that it is a place where users can submit all these funny happenings that occurs across the IRC networks. The problem with bash.org is that it is mostly aimed towards American IRC networks and English.
Being in South Africa, we have several official languages and Afrikaans being one of the popular ones the South African webspace has signifigant grow for Afrikaans sites. This is where friend of mine, David Smit, saw the need for a afrikaans version of bash.org.
His site Pons.za.net, pons being the Afrikaans word for bash, went live last week and since then saw some interest in the site specialy from the WNet IRC network in South Africa. WNet is the IRC network for the local Wireless User Group communities of South Africa averaging about 300-400 active users at any time.
Main channels using pons.za.net currently includes #CTWUG and #PTAWUG on the WNet IRC Network where the majority of the users speak Afrikaans.
Owner of pons.za.net, David Smit, says that although he wrote pons.za.net mainly for afrikaans quotes any language is welcome aslong as the quote is South African of nature. Any quote is welcome to be submitted not just IRC quotes, users can submit msn, jabber, gtalk whatever chat protocol they use.
So head on over to pons.za.net and check out the quotes already submitted and why not submit your own funny or weird quotes.
Hey guys and gals, I just realised that I have a R700 google adword voucher that expires today and that I have no use for it.
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.
WebAfrica will be testing their very own Tier-1 ADSL network within the next 30 days and they need you to help them test it.
WebAfrica is giving away 10GB adsl account to users willing to help test their brand new Tier-1 ADSL network. The accounts are absolutely free, but are limited to the first 5000 signups.
To sign up fo this free trial please visit http://www.webafrica.co.za/trial/. Login details will then be sent to you via email or sms as soon as the trial begins. Users can keep up to date on discussions surrounding the trail and receive customer support on the WebAfrica Trial Forum, available at http://forums.webafrica.co.za/networktrial.
For more information regarding the Trial visit the WebAfrica Blog. Please not that there is only 5000 signups available and already 1,843 has signed up, so hurry to get your free 10GB trial account.
I signed up for my account on Friday already and will be giving feedback throughout the trial right here on iGeek.
Yesterday afternoon I decided to install a nifty plugin called Flagfox, this plugin displays a flag next to the url corresponding to the country the site is hosted in. So this morning while having my first cup of coffee and browsing my normal blogs like iMod and 2Oceansvibe I noticed that non of these site are actualy hosted in South Africa.
This made me think, what classifies a site as a local site? Is it simply the co.za domain? Or perhaps the fact that the author lives in South Africa? Maybe its because the content is only geared towards local people.
For me what makes a site local is a combination of almost all of the factors above. Personaly the 1st thing I look at when classifying a website as local is checking where it is hosted, and then obviously the content.
This brings me to the local blog aggregators Afrigator and Amatomu, how do they specify if a blog is South African? Do they actualy check if site is relevant to South Africa or is it up to the author of the blog to decide whetere his site is local? As previously stated for me for a site to be a local site it needs to be hosted localaly and content must be relevant to South Africa, the first can be debatable on if the content is realy relevant to South Africa. Now take Carblog as an example, I could be wrong but just a quick visit to the blog released nothing realy local to me, just posts about cars being released with price tags in pounds. Now is this a local site cause it has a co.za domain or because the author resides localy as the content is not realy relevent to South Africa and the site is hosted in USA.
Sure everybody has their own views of what makes a site local and I would like to have your views on this, as 8 out of the top ten 10 South Africa blogs on Amatomu (Afrigator was down at the time I wrote this) are not hosted localy and some of them has content not relevant to South Africa.
Please give me your views on what you think makes a site local.
