27 Geekalore.

Last night marked the 1st CPT 27 dinner. It was a geekalore, I tell you!
The 27 dinners are a truly great event, especially from a networking perspective. It was great being in a room full of like-minded and a few not-so-like-minded (The obnoxious solo). I think last night pretty much portrayed the power that the industry holds in terms of influence through social media/networking. What I like even more is that an event as successful as this was organised and conceptualised on the internet through mainly blogs and wikis. The word of mouth effect is much greater online, more like the word of blog effect.

This logo is so typically web2.0, it scares me. It’s like web2.0 to the max, sommer double size shadow. It’s like the porno of web2.0. Gotta love it

 

To Stii, Graham, Gerry, and whomever else I have forgotten. It was great meeting you guys and I hope we meet again. Why does infoactive not have a running website? Slackers.

Now, Mike and Dave, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for my loving award, I accept it with pride and joy For those of you not in the loop, last night I was awarded with the title “Cocky little shit”. I can only assume it was for the Sally Falkow comment, oh boo hoo. If this is what it takes to receive an award like this, I am pretty confident I am the soon to be Santorum of the world, hey Rob?

Anyway, thank you Stormhoek for the T-Shirt, it fits nicely and the even larger one I got afterward sleep cosily.

Check out Uno’s post about recommendations on linkedin regarding this event.

Technorati Tags: geek, internet, 27, dinner

Web PR + Conference

I have seen a couple of ‘reviews’ aimed at this conference & most of them have been warm-felt. I believe this is because people like to suck arse, or lick it. That depends on their preferences of course.
So, of course, you have me to tell you what I think of it, and as Rob relayed, bloggers are dangerous when it comes to ORM. “Risky, is the new safe”, ay?
I won’t be going into what was said at the conference because most of it, you guys already know, however, there were a few interesting case studies and clips shown. Session 2 & 4 were by far the most entertaining, where 2 was even more entertaining than 4. I think the day got a bit long and sleep deprivation became quite apparent.

Anyway, to be honest with you, I enjoyed Rob’s presentations a lot, he is an extremely good speaker. Entertaining, witty and well-informed. Sally’s presentations weren’t bad at all, however, I think that it was aimed more to the layman than to industry people, whereas Rob’s could have been interesting to both.

The ORM session (session 2) looked at Kryptonite and their stance toward Crisis Management, or lack thereof. The session gave some perspective in terms of how damaging online criticism could be, and it also indicated just how much power your average Jo now holds.

If you want to know more about the Kryptonite saga, a simple Google search should send you to all the right wrong places.

Oh and the food was amazing for a conference! Really nice! Oh and, Rob, I am looking forward to all your secrets being revealed Let me know when you guys are looking for software testers, I will be more than happy to partake.

Technorati Tags: webpr, conference, quirk

Spam.

Anyone know a Mr. Ramon Thomas (www[dot]ramonthomas[dot]com)? For some reason it seems that he felt a sudden urge to spam. I found the following in my inbox tonight.

“Dear Stefano

As a geek/blogger you spend a lot of time on the Internet and using your cellphone just like me Since November 2006 I’ve been raising awareness in the media, the public and especially among teachers and parents on the pro’s and con’s of MXit”

Nicely personalised, don’t you think. Look at this:

“So if you can help in any the following ways please contact me on the telephone numbers below:
Links from your blog www.sessa.wordpress.com to www.onlinesafety.org.za”

Seriously, c’mon!! This is blatant spam (as well as begging for links)(Charitable? perhaps, but id rather contribute linkspace to the counteracting of underage recruitment for rebellious acts of violence in Africa) and with the amount of emails that I already receive, the last thing I want is personalised spam to teach parents and people alike about the dangers of Mxit and online dating.

I’m not trying to be a tit about all this, I just think that it’s not such a hot topic in terms of charity and if you want to get sum publicity, practice what you seem to preach, and use more inventive ways to promote this charity online. E-Mail spamming is not inventive, it is invasive!

I am sure the guys over @ muti would be more than happy to punt a charitable article, which might gain the interest of some bloggers, who in turn might provide the links you need/want.

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Web PR – Vacancy.

So I had a meeting with Sarah Rice this morning, I cannot remember her surname right now. Apparently she is looking for a web PR specialist. She said she would pay better than another well-known eMarketing firm, not going to link but there aren’t that many.

Let me know if you are interested by dropping me a line.

Also, I have an interesting story to tell regarding the Sally Falkow posting on rafiq’s blog.

Technorati Tags: web pr, web2.0, marketing

Viral Q&A

Eric from Mobile Q&A is trying out this viral link building technique. Basically it is a reciprocal linking scheme. And, by the looks of things, it might work. If bloggers like me actually partake of course.
Anyway, other than that, I haven’t had time to blog lately due to work & rest.

Will post something great later on today

Google hands over Confidential Information

According to this article Google has complied with the US District Court subpoenas to handover the information of certain users who uploaded full unaired versions of “24″ the TV Series.

“In an e-mail to internetnews.com, a 20th Century Fox Television
spokesperson said that Google and Live Digital complied with
subpoenas issued by the U.S. District Court in Northern California and
disclosed to Fox the identities of two individuals who illegally
uploaded entire episodes of “24″ prior to its broadcast and DVD release.”

Yikes!!!

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Top 20 search terms today!

Ha, this is rather interesting. I just pulled this data from our account over at Wordtracker. It lists the top 20 search terms today (and in the long term)

Nos	Keyword	Count
1	pussy	212406
2	porn	202123
3	sex	195684
4	myspace	193656
5	google	188982
6	boobs	162996
7	ebay	154787
8	britney spears	153597
9	myspace.com	148307
10	hentai	140342
11	yahoo	134912
12	paris hilton	131385
13	ps 2 game cheats	124899
14	games play	111256
15	game cheats for ps2	110609
16	free porn	110311
17	milf	102790
18	89.com	102690
19	tits	97524
20	girls	92566

Just shows you, sex is the most prominent on the net. This count is for today only.

Technorati Tags: search, internet, google

Site Hack

FAARK! my portal has been hacked! I have no idea what just happened here, all the files are stll up there but nothing can be viewed.

Any ideas?

Hasselhoff, SA style.

Myspace Spam

There is a rather easy way for MySpace to avoid spammers polluting the bulletin boards, see these images.

That there is a static link, which is probably the only reason why they are spamming on myspace:

If MySpace were to insert a nofollow tag for all links, static links would be useless. Anyone have a clue why they haven’t done this yet?

Technorati Tags: MySpace, web2.0, SEM