Category Archives: Internet

Generation Upload

Posted on Saturday, 15. August 2009 by hmvh

Been busy sharing. Adding. Uploading. Socialising. Profile, consolidation, branding, identity, strategy, and trademarking are words very much on my mind right now. Continue reading →

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Second Anniversary

Posted on Thursday, 21. May 2009 by hmvh

What we have noticed over the past two years is an interesting shift in web browser usage. Sure, IE still rules the roost, with Firefox picking up a good quarter of the slack. Opera, Safari, and Chrome are trailing behind but it’s a pack of non-computer-based browsers that are making inroads as of late. Nokia and Symbian are two new “operating systems” looming on the horizon, and the Wii and PS3 are making up nearly a full percent of gadgetry used to browse the interwebs with. Continue reading →

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Conan the Wikipedian

Posted on Sunday, 19. April 2009 by hmvh

One could almost expect Wikipedia to have an article on just about every conceivable subject and topic by now — depending on “notability”, of course. Continue reading →

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The Conficker con

Posted on Wednesday, 1. April 2009 by hmvh

So the first of April came and is just about gone, and with it D-day of the much-feared Conficker worm. Continue reading →

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On Moshzilla, privacy, and responsibility

Posted on Tuesday, 23. September 2008 by hmvh

The article focused largely on the false sense of security and indeed the anonymity that internet users (children, specifically) think relieves them from having to assume any form of social responsibility and respect for others in the real world. Hasn’t Mom taught you not to accept candy from strangers? How much does Google know about us? Why does Google know so much about us? Consider also that Google is but one of many search engines out there. Continue reading →

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Rufus + Google + Monsters = August, part 1

Posted on Saturday, 30. August 2008 by hmvh

South Africa’s troubles and unique social peculiarities have apparently reached a regular audience far beyond the country’s borders. SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) can be quite the science! Continue reading →

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I can has cheezburger?

Posted on Sunday, 3. August 2008 by hmvh

“If you spend any time at all observing net culture, then you’ll have been unable to miss the recent explosion in popularity of lolcats. This relatively recent phenomenon is the convention of taking pictures of cute animals, most frequently cats, and overlaying absurdist captions on the images.” Continue reading →

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Spam Warrior

Posted on Thursday, 24. May 2007 by hmvh

Spam is a cancer that feasts on an otherwise healthy internet. Everyone who has an email account has no doubt received some sort of unwanted email message — be it from someone you know or someone you don’t know, or someone you’ve never heard of and wouldn’t (and shouldn’t) want to know. It arrives in bursts and always finds new methods of infiltrating even the best of filters. Continue reading →

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