Internationally, economically, the world is going through some pretty tough times. In South Africa, where WWW is internationally head-quartered, we are also experiencing some “big giants.”
Fact - South Africans know how to moan.
In my view, this can be positive. As a nation, South Africans refuse to put up with situations that are injust, unfair or even simply unpleasant. But all the negativity expressed through the efforts to bring critical issues to the fore can be, well, a bit depressing. We have heard reams about the rise in (especially violent) crime, skills shortages, Eskom “load shedding” (power cuts), our politics (Zuma vs. Mbeki), SA’s quiet diplomacy policy regarding Zimbabwe, AIDS, rising interest rate environment (prime at 15% as of yesterday), slowing housing market etc. etc. etc…
I (and many others) think it is time for a more balanced view…
Continue reading ‘Some positive sentiment out of SA - against the grain’
Having outgrown our previous Cape Town offices, we are proud to announce our much anticipated move to our new space. We are in the process of moving today (Friday 14th March) and will all be in on Monday the 17th. On Sunday the 16th we will be celebrating with a champagne breakfast at our shiny new office.
The new office boasts:
- 3 Meeting rooms (one large, one medium, one smaller) with projectors and conference call phones
- Large client waiting room with lead-on drinks area and bar (good reason to visit us - enjoy some gourmet coffee and flat screen satellite TV while you wait).
- Staff enjoyment and training areas - “chill room” (X-box room), kitchen/bar with seating for lunch times, company library with training materials
- 8 kilometers of networking cable with 120 points
- Plenty of new workstations and functional space
- Great climate control
- On-site server room for all our testing boxes
- High speed connection direct to our ISP
- VocalPulse VoIP PABX with softphones
- Walking distance from the Gardens Centre
Please feel free to come round for a coffee sometime.
For directions, see:
http://www.whitewallweb.com/contact-white-wall-web Well done to all involved and especially Steve and the rest of RAMP who have aided in making this move as painless as possible.
An improved personL promotions site is up along with a better opt-in email solution for interested parties.
see http://www.personlplace.com
PersonL is a full web based recruiter talent manager software suite. It incorporates the entire recruitment process from the creation of job specifications, advert management, registering of applicants (CV’s and personal profiles), intelligent matching algorithms, interview stages with automated regret and approval correspondence.
“This has been over a year in the making with the dedicated focus of a specialist team,” says Martin Gouws, project manager in the PersonL product development team. “We are excited about the power of the application that we have been able to produce and we feel that it will be an extremely useful tool for both job seekers and recruiters.”
Continue reading ‘PersonL in Private Beta’
WWW is proud to announce that www.photoevents.co.za is up live. The system allows event photographers to publish galleries of images and then gove password protected access to the galleries to all those who attended the event. Logged in users can then order prints of the images and pay for them online. The prints are delivered to their door.
The system was built by WWW using Ruby on Rails and has some saucy AJAX components.
See the invitation to photographers below:
Continue reading ‘Launch of PhotoEvents’
White Wall Web UK are proud to announce the launch of: http://www.ask-schwarzkopf.com/White Wall Web UK have recently launched an exciting project for Schwarzkopf, a subsidiary of Henkel.
Henkel, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, has about 52,000 employees worldwide and counts among the most internationally acclaimed German-based companies in the global marketplace. Schwarzkopf is a leading international hair product company, offering specialist ranges for professionals and for retail consumers.White Wall Web was commissioned with the responsibility to provide the web system to be used to automate the taking two years worth of Swartzkopf’s professionally developed training material licensed under Ask Academy Schwarzkopf and publish it through a new Web 2.0 environment for distribution to their practitioners worldwide. Continue reading ‘Launch of ASK Online’
Off we go! Another year of discovery, excitement, change and quite possibly some daunting challenges awaits our brave developer hearts once more. As we walk bleary-eyed to our desks again, fresh smells of coffee filling the office, it’s an excellent time to refocus – amongst other things – on our technical goals; how we’d like technology to help us grow, but more importantly, what we can do to help technology grow. Continue reading ‘4 Web Resolutions for 2008′
Have a read: Google is massively invading Privacy - IOL (today)
Strong language, and we have heard it before, but we have seen that where there is smoke there is a fire… (yes that link is ironic). I think in years to come, Google’s (and Wikipedia’s) dominance will certainly become a major issue for various reasons.
Your thoughts? Conspiracy or looming reality… Do no evil? Absolute power corrupts absolutely? (it was difficult not to reference Wikipedia for these. I confess, I did use Google.)
A bit of light relief - this blog entry makes a strong point about why corporate promotional rap videos may not produce the desired results: http://www.knowhr.com - never ever sing in videos
Enjoy 
Every year, White Wall Web has bi-annual conferences to discuss issues relevant and interesting to the WWW team.
Each end of year conference is a culmination of the year’s learnings and industry developments and takes place over two days.
This year WWW plans to do something a little different. “As we have grown in both size and knowledge, we have realized that our conference content has a lot to offer others in the industry,” says Peter Flynn, MD of White Wall Web International. This year, the conference is being opened up to invited and paid guests and the content tailored to be of interest to this new group of attendees. “In 2008 we are planning to host a full paid conference, so this year’s (2007) conference is a bit of a “hybrid” as we gear up for next year’s event.”
Continue reading ‘Web Application Super Heroes Conference 2007 - Open to All!’
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