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Posted on December 12, 2008 - by Justin Hartman

ReadWriteWeb does it again

ReadWriteWeb does it again

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ReadWriteWeb loves us! WOW. [...]

Posted on July 4, 2008 - by Justin Hartman

Regator.com update

Earlier today I posted this in which I argued that Regator may have stolen Afrigator’s brand.
I have to say that while Regator has certain elements that share a close resemblance to us I’m of the opinion that Scott and his team did not do this maliciously as I had initially suspected.
I was fortunate enough [...]

Posted on July 4, 2008 - by Justin Hartman

Regator.com steals our brand - coincidence?

I’m not sure how I feel about this.

Regator.com went into private beta today and I picked it up via this Techcrunch article. They’ve also got great exposure on ReadWriteWeb and even Mashable.
These guys are a blog aggregator that not only use the Afrigator crocodile, similar domain name and colour scheme and I have to feel [...]

Posted on July 2, 2008 - by Justin Hartman

Kentucky Fried Cruelty

Over the weekend I learned about how KFC suppliers overpopulate birds in their factories, drug them and boil them alive to remove their feathers. I honestly couldn’t believe what I was hearing so I did some further investigation.
It turns out that PETA, an animal rights organisation, along with PETA activist Pamela Anderson have formed the [...]

Posted on June 24, 2008 - by Justin Hartman

A scary look at the impact of inflation

Yesterday I happened to notice two Sunday Times newspapers lying next to each other. One was from 30 September 2007 while the other was the latest edition printed on Sunday 22 June 2008.

In the space of just nine short months the cost of the Sunday Times has increased considerably in each of the following countries.
South [...]

Posted on June 23, 2008 - by Justin Hartman

Snow in the City, what a joke!

Mary Fitzgerald Square will be turned into a white winter wonderland …… all in the name of fun in the inner city.
Yeah right!
Yesterday we shipped off to Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown, Johannesburg where we’d hoped to share some moments like the one below.

To our dismay though the Snow in the City event, sponsored [...]

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by Justin Hartman on June 20, 2008
SA Blook, Chapter 7: The importance of technology in SA’s global emergence
by Justin Hartman on June 2, 2008
Social Media in Plain English
by Justin Hartman on May 30, 2008
Automattic Showcases Times Multimedia
by Justin Hartman on May 29, 2008
Afrigator’s dedicated Xenophobia page
by Justin Hartman on May 22, 2008
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