MIH Internet Africa is a division of MIH Internet (part of the Naspers group). Their mandate is to build cool web and mobile products for the emerging African market. MIH Africa was in the news recently when they acquired a majority stake in Afrigator, the African blog aggregator.
At present they host Haiya, a Kenyan site delivering music/entertainment news and blogs. They have some exciting and challenging products in the pipeline targeted for the Nigerian market, which is the largest internet audience in Africa. In our series of office photos we previously featured another Naspers unit, MIH Swat.
Previous office photos:
MIH SWAT
24.com Digital
At Play interactive unit
Quirkstation
MXIT
MNET is the TV powerhouse in South Africa with a decent online portfolio as well. They recently relaunched their online presence for all their channels featuring more social networking features and fresh layout designs. Looking at the other South African TV stations with a web presence e.g. ETV and SABC they are leagues ahead with their online products.
Their offices has a homely feel to it creating a relaxed non corporate working environment. Thanks to Wezzo and Graeme for the photos.
Development wing of the house
Meeting room and waiting / relaxation area
Editors/Video Editors wing
Monitoring shows / Wii / General entertainment. Notice the Big Brother Africa message strap
More copywriters and editors
Outside shot of the M-Net New Media house. There’s a working fountain below, courtesy of Wez
More outside space and a bit of a garden
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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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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.
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
An office is the mirror of the company and what’s going on inside, the perfect way to communicate with your employees, customers and investors. Hence why so many say, your office is your face. Knowing it, we decided to make a list of the most known internet companies and see what they have to offer on the inside. Here’s a list featuring 10 internet company’s office photos -
Blip.tv, images by Scott Beale
blip.tv is a video sharing service designed for creators of user-generated content. blip.tv provides content creators with free hosting, support for a variety of video formats, distribution using technologies like RSS and an opt-in advertising program with a 50/50 revenue share. blip.tv focuses on “episodic content” or “shows,” rather than viral video. Their wiki entry
Jaiku, images by Jyri Engeström
Jaiku is a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter. Jaiku was founded in February, 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland and launched in July of that year. It was purchased by Google on October 9, 200.7. Their wiki entry
Songbird, images by Jonathan Koshi
Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.
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