Gatorpeeps.com is a new African centric, Twitter like micro blogging service from the creators of Afrigator.Initially I was quite surprised Afrigator launched a Twitter like service, given the history of similar endeavors. That said, I’m willing to give it a shot, after all, it’s success is dependant on a relevant service (Localised tweeting, worth a [...]
Neat API to determine location the location of an IP and present it on Google maps.
“For one of my project I needed IP geolocation database. While surfing I came to realize that there is a very good database available at iplocationtools.com. This website also provides XML API for this. This API can be accessed found [...]
This is a little script I’ve been playing with. I’m using it on my pet project GoGuide.co.za, a social bookmarking site. The plan is for the site to pull a thumbnail image of a submitted URL’s page. The script scans specified sites for the first image with a width greater than 200px. [...]
Wow, I’m thrilled to be nominated as a finalist in no less than two categories of the SABlogAwards!
I launched Nobox in November last year and as such this is my first time as a nominee.
I must say it is quite an honor to be listed with some of SA’s coolest blogs, however, it would be a [...]
Yesterday was quite a day. You may notice a few articles are missing. After a long days work, large amounts of caffeine and flu medication pumping through my veins, I some how managed to delete the NoboxMedia database - don’t laugh, grunt or roll your eyes. This is the first time I have deleted an [...]
Yup, that’s right - I’m building a Social Network and so are you ! Stop laughing! Stop rolling your eyes! I have experience in building successful social networks, as I have been involved in the building of two. They have done pretty well. I now think it is time to invest my energy in producing [...]
Over the last few weeks I’ve noticed allot of sites have old tired Digg buttons. I’ve also noticed allot of sites don’t have Digg buttons at all - crazy! We find to be an extremely valuable resource at getting our articles out there and as such thought I would offer this typical web2.0 styled Digg [...]
First of all, if AJAX is new to you, an Ajax framework is a library of scripts that help you to develop web applications faster and with greater ease. Frameworks help with the processing of requests sent to the server or JavaScript. A framework helps programmers in two levels: on the client side, it offers [...]
I’ve put together a list of 66 Web2.0 sites. As far as I can tell, they pretty much the best the web have to offer. If you have any suggestions on new, up and coming sites, please drop it in the comments below.
A how to on Installing FFMPEG on Ubuntu
So you would like to set up a site that allows users to upload videos of any format, get the server to convert the video to a Macromedia Flash format and then play it through a cool customized flash video player (Much like TouTube)? Well then this is [...]
