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My degree was in Graphic Information Design, so I’ve always had a passion for a good information graphic, ever since we studied the ultimate infographic, the London tube map.
So I was particularly pleased when Tanya Goodin put “Information is beautiful” on my desk last year. But ever since we seem to have all gone a [...]

Cape Town Tamarites were welcomed by a familiar face as we walked into our warm office a couple of weeks ago – Simo Sam was spending the day with us. Simo is a recipient of the Tamar school scholarship and is a proud St. Cyprians girl. This being one of my own rival schools when [...]

The Cape Town office headed for Vuyani Primary in high spirits on Tuesday, despite talk of snow on Table Mountain. We braved everything the wintery Cape Town weather had to throw at us, from bright sunshine to icy drizzle, as we set about constructing the food tent. Last year’s CSR project saw us building bookshelves [...]

It has been a while since I’ve done one of my comparison posts and with the World Cup less than a week away from kick-off, the timing seems ideal. So, the question is, which search engine will provide you with the most relevant and useful information regarding football’s biggest showpiece?
To decide which results are best, [...]

I’ve written previously about HTML 5 and the new possibilities that it offers. But how will HTML 5 affect web accessibility?
HTML 5 has so far received limited support from the most commonly used browsers, with the most HTML 5 support being offered by Safari (Webkit based browsers) and Opera (Presto based browsers), followed by Firefox (Gecko based [...]

Lastminute.com released an interesting report this week that revealed Britons spent more money on ‘in-home’ leisure than travel the last few years. Travel experts are concerned that the internet is breeding a generation of ‘no where gamers’. Instead of travel and out-of-home leisure, the younger generation could follow the suit of the [...]

A recent Q1 2010 report by UK Agency Efficient frontier has released their search engine performance report detailing a 21% rise in search spend.
Google CFO Patrick Pichette has attributed that part of the reason for the improvement for Google at least, was largely due to big-brands with deep pockets investing in online [...]

The latest tech buzz to get me excited is the news that Google is developing mobile speech-to-speech translation: a real life babelfish! The software would provide real-time, speech-to-speech translation to a smartphone, and will hopefully be ready in two years. The reason I particularly love this cross-over between  sci-fi and reality is that I spent [...]

As a recent convert to the iPhone, I’ve really enjoyed trying out some of the many apps I’ve heard people talking about for the past, what – year or so? Two of the apps I’ve heard a lot about are Gowalla and Foursquare, which both exist in the same ’space’ – the space my esteemed [...]

Facebook has announced a new scaled-down version of its site called Facebook Zero. This stripped-down, low-bandwidth version of Facebook has been designed specifically with mobile users in mind.  Facebook has said that the site “omits data intensive applications like photos”.
When you visit the URL on your mobile, you may see a notice that your carrier [...]