Archive for August, 2008
Blog Day 2008, Startup News & Rescources for Entreprenuers
Blog Day is a day in which bloggers world wide, get together and recommend blogs from other cultures or different parts of the world. It assists readers as well as other bloggers find undiscovered and new blogs.
1. Appfrica - Appfrica is a blog from from Jon Gos, based in Uganda. The blog covers technology news [...]
Payfast, South Africa’s answer to paypal launches
Payfast, out of South Africa is a paypal like service. The site bill’s itself as a payment processing system and has already integrated with bid or buy.
For merchants payfast offers several ways to recieve money:
Request Money: No coding or skills required
Pay Now Button: Basic HTML skills required
Website Payments: Using the API, Programming skills required
Payment Data [...]
Wordcamp South Africa, Round Up of all the roundups
Wordcamp South Africa, was held yesterday and it was great to meet all the people i have been communicating with after many months. After waking up way to early for the flight to cape town, i missed the morning’s presentations and Just got the end of Adi’s presentation.
I was going to write up the post, [...]
FlyingSolo Unconference Update, Johannesburg
The flyingsolo unconference for Johannesburg will now be held on the 20th of September, at the Magalies Mountain lodge between 9:30 and 17:00. The Cape Town event was a huge success an Jayz Internet Solutions have uploaded videos of the flyingsolo conference to youtube.
Here is an interesting talk on turning scarcity into abundance, i think [...]
Maxum incubator launches pre-incubation offer for young entreprenuers
The Maxum Incubator, together with University of Pretoria and IdeaBank are organising the first pre-incubation offering for young online entrepreneurs.
All successful applicants will receive:
Free plug and play shared office space for a 3 months (a R500 deposit, telephone costs and consumables will be for your own account)
Attending Izazi entrepreneur forums (opportunity to network with like-minded [...]
Upcoming Events during August 2008 in South Africa
Upcoming events for business networking, entrepreneurs, geeks, marketers and social media consultants in South Africa
Win a years free office space and mentoring with Bandwidth Barn
Forming part of their goal to encourage the creation of sustainable IT businesses in the Western Cape - the Bandwidth Barn and BSG is launching a competition where the winning IT start-up company will win a year’s free office space and mentoring programme in the Barn.
Zebrajobs, Aggregation Site for African Jobs
Zebrajobs is a job aggregation site that connects job seekers and employers to exchange job-related information in Africa. The site works with companies and search the Internet to identify and post job opportunities for skilled professionals in every African country.
The idea of the site is to bring jobs in Africa to one place. Zebrajobs.com is [...]
