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Johannesburg, 17 August, 2010 – Quirk eMarketing is pleased to welcome Terence Raft who takes up a role as Creative Director at the Johannesburg QuirkStation. Raft has been active in the creative industry since 1996 and has worked for leading South African agencies including The Jupiter Drawing Room and Aqua Online. He was recently instrumental in the repositioning of Fiat in South Africa and was responsible for the design of all the creative brand assets and the various digital properties. After...Read Full Post

The Ushahidi team have recently release a new service based on the Ushahidi core. The service, dubbed Crowdmap, is a cloud service by which anyone can literally run an Ushahidi deployment without having to download and set up their own server. The service is aimed at giving probable users an easy, straight-forward way to deploy Ushahidi with the least amount of technical hussle. Crowdmap is a service provided by Ushahidi with all the benefits of Ushahidi out of the box but with nothing to install....Read Full Post

Our favorite video and photo sharing service that is born and bred in South Africa have put together a nifty puzzle game for a coding challenge by Microsoft and A List Apart Magazine. The challenge aims to promote the adoption of the HTML 5 standard: A List Apart Magazine and Microsoft recently announced a contest inspired by the rapid growth and developing browser support for HTML 5. Contestants must code something fun, flashy or fantastic in just 10kb of code. Enter the Zoopy Puzzle Challenge...Read Full Post

NexGen, a startup that is pushing competitive gaming and e-sports in Kenya held the final leg of it’s national gaming competitions in preparation for the World Cyber Games championships to be held later this year in Los Angeles. The iHub was filled with young people gaming away to Tekken, Starcraft, FIFA and other games on large LCD screens and networked PCs as soft rock music pumped the air with excitement and buzz (Photos below). We put together a short video (below) capturing the event and...Read Full Post

Nairobi… A wave of new online travel solutions, especially relating to E-Commerce will be unveiled for the first time at the upcoming E Tourism East Africa Conference in Nairobi on the 2nd and 3rd of September this year. The conference, which is being sponsored by Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), Safaricom and the Crowne Plaza Hotel will feature leading global players such as Trip Advisor, Expedia and WAYN.com – the world’s largest travel focused social media site. The international experts will...Read Full Post

The tenth annual Brightest Young Minds summit will be held from 7 – 11 September 2010 in Stellenbosch, Western Cape. University students and recent graduates between the ages of 20 – 30 were invited to apply, and from these, 100 inspiring young individuals have been selected to attend. The Brightest Young Minds organisation aims to channel the hearts and minds of young people into initiatives that can affect societal improvement. The annual summit is their flagship activity, which 100 delegates,...Read Full Post

Transcript from U.S. Department of State, you can view a video on the site. Thank you all so much. I am thrilled to see you. I had to come back to work to recover from my daughter’s wedding. (Laughter.) And one of the reasons I came back was because I wanted the chance to welcome each and every one of you here to the State Department, and to tell you how excited we are to be hosting this Young Leaders Forum. Now, I know that later this afternoon, you will have the unique opportunity to go to the...Read Full Post

As always, great applications of technology get us all goosebumply at Afrinnovator. A Kenyan web company, Nickel Pro, has taken the ever popular blogging platform and CMS - Worpress – and built an ecommerce solution around it. More and more websites today are based on wordpress (25 million or more by some estimations). NickelPro aims to bring e-commerce to wordpress so that you can seamlessly run an online shop from your wordpress based website. DukaPress is an open source and free to use...Read Full Post

Cape Town, 2 August, 2010 – Quirk eMarketing is proud to announce two new online courses, Mobile Marketing, and the SEO course for anyone who would like to acquire practical skills to optimise a website, and who would like to learn more about how search engines can be leveraged from a marketing perspective. Quirk’s Mobile Marketing Course Analyst group, Gartner, predicts that by 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common web access device worldwide. That trend will be especially...Read Full Post

Cape Town, 2 August 2010 – Quirk eMarketing has hooked a big fish in new Chief Creative Officer, Clint Bryce, who steps into office today. Quirks founder and CEO, Rob Stokes, and leading digital “ideas man”, Clint Bryce can track each others’ progress way back to the heady nineties when the two started kicking up a fuss on the local Internet scene. Today, they join forces for the first time to take Quirk eMarketing to a new creative height. Clint Bryce, aka Cranium Jack, is...Read Full Post