Justin Hartman

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Posted on March 8, 2007 - by

Twac.co.za – my new baby

Most will now know that I was employed by Ja! Productions at the beginning of February this year. What people may not know is that Ja! is the company behind Twac.co.za. I was hoping to hold off a little on blogging about Twac as we’re still working through a list of changes/bugs/feature requests but my article today on SA Rocks takes a high-level look at the new video sharing websites and Twac is now one of them.

So what is Twac? Well let me tell you what we’re not. We are not a YouTube and we have no intention of becoming or even trying to compete with the giant. All we are interested in is to be a hub for quality South African content with a really strong emphasis on user generated content within schools. While there is little UGC at the moment under the video section I am told that from next week you should start to see some of this UGC from the school kids directly.

On the converse we have Twac Couches. These couches are short 2-3 minute comedy clips produced by our team of award winning professionals. If you like a bit of sophisticated humour Twac Couches is for you.

There are still a lot of additional things to come and be fixed and because we only launched last Wednesday I’m going to ask if you just be patient while we get the site running at optimal performace. If you want to you could even give me some feedback – good or bad! In the meantime enjoy our Competition clip which is embedded in this post.

 

Posted on March 1, 2007 - by

Technology Thursday kicks off

Today sees the launch of my new weekly contribution I’ll be doing for SA Rocks. Technology Thursday, will focus on South African technology and the impact it has on the world today. As South Africans we have created a vast array of technological innovations and will continue to do so and I’m privileged to pay homage to these achievements.

In the spirit of humanity I’ve decided to kick off the column with a focus on the ever-popular desktop operating system, Ubuntu in my Linux for human beings article.

In only two short years and millions of users worldwide Ubuntu is a major player in the Linux world and Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, has been named one of the ‘Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2007′ by Linux Magazine. It was selected as one of the companies best positioned in the coming year to spur Linux and Open Source adoption, while delivering on the immediate needs of the market.