http://www.bandwidthblog.com South African and Global internet startup news Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:21:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like there wouldn't be enough birthday reminder websites on the Internet, Facebook is trying to get their piece, too. For those using the service, it does sound like a good idea to have everything together rather than trying to find birthday alert services to do the same job. But, if you ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2008/11/17/facebook-enters-the-birthday-reminder-industry/ Afrigator Internet today announced the launch of Adgator, Africa’s first blog ad network tailored specifically for South Africa. The Adgator network is aimed at helping advertisers get in to the conversation while offering bloggers the chance to earn money from their sites. Justin Hartman, MD of Afrigator, said that “the Adgator ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2008/11/11/afrigator-announces-adgator/ Google just launched their smart translator into some of their services. Google Reader was one of the first services to receive the new 'plugin' which is able to auto-translate any website you have subscribed to. And it looks like its working really well. There is nothing  really special that you should ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2008/11/11/google-reader-now-translates-your-feeds/ Feedalizr, the local life streaming Adobe air application, has released a update with one major new feature - you can post updates to your facebook status and review the statuses of others in your social graph - MIH SWAT - We have just launched a new version of Feedalizr and what ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2008/10/28/feedalizr-update-facebook-status/ Yuppiechef is an online store that is dedicated to finding and selling kick-ass cooking gadgets - Bandwidth Blog continues our series of office photos and take you inside the YuppieChef offices. We believe that life is too short to flip an egg with just any run-of-the-mill spatula. We search the world ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2008/10/28/office-photos-yuppie-chef/ From my personal experience, the guys with the great ideas aren't usually wealthy. They come up with an invention but because they can't afford to file for a patent or to develop it, the whole thing may die or some big tycoon steals everything out. That's why there is now an ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2008/10/27/innovation-fund-to-support-technologically-novel-ideas/ MySpace is expected to launch their self serve ad platform dubbed MyAds, which will be different from Facebook's similar product. If Facebook only allows text ads, MyAds on MySpace will allow everyone to quickly create display ads (728×90 or 300×250 units) and quickly target and serve it. Apparently getting your ad ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2008/10/13/myspace-self-serve-ad-platform-myads/ Social networking, blogging and web 2.0 technologies have had a big impact on our online world, changing it the way we have it today. This is why this years annual media conference hosted by the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (for the last 10 years) will focus on technology with ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2008/10/09/cput-tenth-annual-media-conference-to-cover-technology/ MySpace and big music labels in the market, teamed up to come up with a new services dubbed MySpace Music. Rumors say that the new joint music venture, has already managed to secure advertising and that the advertisers have been briefed in, that this week they'll start the engines @ ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2008/09/23/myspace-music-screenshots-got-leaked/ Ogilvy is one of the leading advertising agencies world wide. They service more Fortune Global 500 companies than any other agency in business today. The Cape Town Ogilvy offices is an architecture and interior design master piece. Bandwidth Blog takes you inside the sought after work space in a follow up ... http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2008/09/22/office-photos-ogilvy/