Cambrient is a successful web application development company started by Jarred Cinman and Kevin Lourens. Cambrient has been around for a long time and boasts a list of heavy weight corporate clients. They were recently featured in top business magazine, Maverick, further cementing their place as a top South African web technology company. Jarred Cinman has been following our office photos features and wanted to share their sexy office space with us.
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Those guys at Mozilla Labs are really trying to make our lives easier. They’ve just announced a couple of days ago, the release of Ubiquity which is an easy way to manage the vast resources of the Web to simplify their task at hand.
And they’re right, we really need it. But what’s Ubiquity all about? How do we use it and what do we use it for?
First of all Ubiquity is all about simplifying the way we do common Web tasks everyday. It extends the browser functionality easily and the user gets to control it with language-based instructions. That means we type what we want to do instead what they want to find. Second of all Ubiquity is not a Firefox Add-on, it’s a whole new UI.
Since these are pretty hard words how about an example.
Imagine yourself searching for a hotel in the Bahamas for you and your friends. Constant emailing between you and the guys that will join, is needed. You add pictures, you add maps, you find reviews and put them all in one email. But that’s a lot of work and most of the time is not visually enough. Want to do all these from a mobile device? That’s even tougher
In short, that’s what Ubiquity is going to sort out. But go ahead and check the user tutorial or install it and learn it on the go.
There is going to be a new FriendFeed design and now that Bret Taylor posted it on the company’s blog, we know it’s going to be official.
The new look has a lot of new features most of them focusing on data organization, which will be integrated as FriendFeed get feedback from the userbase. The new design stays in Beta, until then.
Upload photos with new posts. That’s pretty neat and a lot of users asked for that feature. It allows you to select and upload multiple files to the system at once and without any other downloads.
Define friends lists. It actually means that you can organize your friends into groups. It may be the best feature of the new FriendFeed (and long awaited) because it eases up the “work” to find out what your friends have been doing lately.
Other people’s home feeds. If you’re looking to more activity on FriendFeed then you definitely need to search for more people, so that the home feeds are there to help you out by offering the latest friends’ postings.
Most of these have been long waited on FriendFeed and I believe they’ll be received quite well. What do you think? Do you like the new add-ons?
Check out previous Friendfeed api application, Feedalizr, reviews here
Mike Stopforth is one of the leading social media consultants in South Africa and his company, Cerebra, has made huge strides in bringing corporate South Africa into the social media realm. During one of my Jozi business trips I managed to sit down with the dudes at Cerebra (and Brandsh which is in the same building) to discuss Blueworld and naturally I snapped some pics to give you a sneak peek into the brand new Cerebra offices. I’m missing a few pics of their foozball table and slick boardroom – so the pics below don’t do the offices justice.
I’ve just heard of it, so I though you’d be interested to know a bit more about ArtRevision, a new startup by the dudes from World Wide Creative.
Everything started with Yolande Roed – the main person responsible for great painting skills and amazing results – as a hobby but soon developed into a way for making some extra cash. It became a business.
Their services are clear. You either give them a picture and they turn it into an exceptional oil painting, or you prefer the classics, search their gallery and they’ll hand-paint you a replica of a masterpiece. They’re not going to make you a Picasso replica because of copyright issues, but you can expect to get a great painting from the ‘public domain’, as they call it.
Other than being able to pay with a credit card or via EFT, the guys will take a photograph of the painting and mail it to you for “approval”. That’s what serving a customer is all about. And did I mention they ship FREE worldwide?
For those that see it as an opportunity to making money, then you should know that ArtRevision has a reseller program that will pay 15-percent commission on every sale you make.
I don’t know about you, but I’m sure my girlfriend would like to turn some of our vacation pictures into oil paintings and put them in the bedroom. What do you thin, will you give them a try?
Bandwidth Blog has pioneered office photos blog posts in South Africa and today we add another addition to our stable of office pics coverage. MIH Swat is the stealth startup from Naspers who builds technology for divisions within the group on a local and international level. They are also behind the Adobe air application Feedalizer which has received acknowledgement at the highest level (Techcrunch, ReadWriteWeb). MIH Swat has been in the spotlight recently with local social entrepreneur Rafiq Phillips joining their ranks from Quirk. John Kotsaftis (CIO MIH) who heads up the SWAT team was kind enough to send us some office pics and video.
John Kotsaftis desk – Apple tricked out
Video conferencing with SWAT Brazil
I popped by the AtPlay offices yesterday for a meeting with Allan Kent who heads up Saatchi & Saatchi’s interactive unit. Bandwidth blog has long had a fetish for snapping office photos and today we bring you a inside look at the open plan industrail look offices of AtPlay where some of South Africa’s top multimedia engineers work. Next up a inside look at MIH Internet’s offices.. keep checking back.
The Wii room
Allan checking out Speakerbox before it went live
