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Not So Cuil

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Started by three former employees of Google, Cuil (which they want you to pronounce as “cool”) claims to be the world’s biggest search engine, indexing more pages than everybody else put together.
At least, that’s the theory.
It seems like Cuil’s primary marketing strategy is Google bashing. They are very careful to point out that they [...]

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Setcom Beats South African Paypal Restrictions

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Many of you already know that Paypal does not allow South African users to receive payments. Not even from other South Africans!
What many of you may not know is that Setcom does allow you to receive international payments, although they don’t allow you to make international payments. You should expect to lose between 3% and [...]

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24th 27 Dinner (Joburg) Feedback

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

I arrived early, a small miracle considering the traffic in Joburg, and my temporally incongruous tendencies. (”I’m not late Ma, I’m just temporally incongruous!”)
Was a bit intimidated at first, but after I picked a table to sit down at, it turned out to be really interesting. (Translation: I managed to ambush people with my theories, [...]

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Semantic Web Application (Finally) Arrives

Monday, May 12, 2008

After years of hype about the semantic web, we finally have an application.
Powerset has launched a public beta of it’s Wikipedia search engine, and it’s overflowing with semantic web technology. Get more details here.

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