To summarize – GeekRetreat Stanford completely exceeded my expectations and the organizers ( Heather Ford, Justin Spratt and Eve Dmochowska) deserve special recognition for their vision and approach which achieved such a superb result from such a motley crew of delegates. To expand, read the the rest of this post…

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We have really been looking forward to announcing the launch of our new online résumé/CV product called Twitsumé and it has been tough to not say too much. But at last the launch date has arrived and we can tell you all about it. First things first – it’s found at twitsume.com
In a nutshell, Twitsumé.com [...]

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Yup – it’s true. Twitter has experienced one of the longest outages in years, while Facebook has been experiencing intermittent disruptions for a number of minutes (becoming hours) already today.
The reason for Twitter’s down time is a “denial of service” (DoS) attack according to their status blog.
The reason’s for Facebook being down/disrupted are less clear, [...]

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In response to a recent stipulation enforced by SARS (South African Revenue Service), which states that effective 1 March 2009, South African tax payers will be required to properly track their travel and related expenses in order to qualify for rebates, we’ve launched a free web application that enables users to accomplish this online.
Available through [...]

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Yesterday, I (proudly) sent the following mail to the office:
“We have just officially entered PersonL (last minute) into this years TechCrunch50 Contest
We had half applied, decided it was too late, and then they mailed me yesterday and asked me to complete the entry by tomorrow…

So we got cracking and churned out a much upgraded web [...]

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