02/4/10
From 25th till the 31st january, the 3rd. edition of Campus Party Brazil took place in São Paulo. The event, that is said to be the biggest one in technologic innovation, internet and eletronic entertainment, has been held since 1997 and happens in four different countries annually: Brazil, Spain, Mexico and Colombia.
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01/27/10
Coming back from a week in India, I was left with a few lasting impressions, which could be summed up in one word: ubiquity. Of people. Of noise. The organised chaos that is Delhi traffic. And energy – something that seems to have reached a frenetic level quite shocking to a laid-back Capetonian. This energy translated into some excited and stimulating debate in the classroom, which is where I found myself with 50 other Naspers employees at 8am sharp on the first Monday of 2010. For three days, we discussed mostly Internet and technology cases under the guidance of two HBS strategy professors, Bharat Anand and Felix Oberholzer-Gee.
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01/14/10
Web services are key elements in the fields of distributed software engineering and code reuse. They also play a very important role on the Semantic Web by providing data to semantic software agents, as described by Tim Berners-Lee:
“The real power of the Semantic Web will be realized when people create many programs that collect Web content from diverse sources, process the information and exchange the results with other programs. The effectiveness of such software agents will increase exponentially as more machine-readable Web content and automated services become available. The Semantic Web promotes this synergy: even agents that were not expressly designed to work together can transfer data among themselves when the data come with semantics.”
01/12/10
January brings with it the usual proliferation of lists predicting technology trends for 2010. I’ll add to the swarm by providing a short list of events which I believe will have a significant impact on the Web As We Know It in the coming year.
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12/23/09
With TechCrunch’s Robin Wauters and Michael Arrington speculating about the future of ICQ and in so doing giving many users, who have never heard of Naspers before, some insight into our mobile and online investments. This post does not comment on their speculation but instead will focus on the various Google Android applications developed by the companies MIH has invested in. Read more
12/21/09
This year I was honored by being invited to participate as a member of the PHP Community in Microsoft’s Web Developer Summit. I used the opportunity to represent the huge PHP community in Brazil and highlight the community’s work.
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12/1/09
The development team at DStv Labs, a division of DStv Online and MIH SWAT has recently been thrown together to look at some exciting projects in the New Media space. In keeping with the latest thinking around agile development frameworks, the DStv Labs team has adopted Scrum as the framework that will be used to deliver these projects.
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11/16/09
Have you ever come across a website and saw some really interesting aspects of the user interface ? Maybe it was a site design that looks like a flash site but was not? Or maybe you came across a site that had a visually appealing menu.
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11/11/09
October 2009 saw my return to San Jose for one of the top conferences on the PHP calendar – ZendCon. Other than taking place a month later and the conference venue shifting locations slightly, much of the format of this year’s ZendCon was the same as last year’s.
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11/3/09
Would you like to work at SWAT ?
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