Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Business, Entrepreneurship, South Africa, Technology
Seems like Pieter de Villiers is a good name for South African success stories. There’s the rugby player, the hurdler, the business consultant, and the IT whiz. De Villiers (the whiz) is the CEO of Clickatell, the first (and leading) global high-speed service provider of bulk SMS messages. Its 8,000 customers can connect in over [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Blogging, Entrepreneurship
OK, not really. Elance posted a nice article about the way I use Elance to source service providers for different projects. I recently contracted a design house to develop a new WordPress template for me. You are viewing the end product. What do you think? Here is part of the Elance article: Meet Carel Bekker, a technology expert, [...]
Posted on April 7th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Technology
More and more I’m migrating desktop (offline) work to the Internet or the Cloud. I’m still not there, but I hope to be using only web apps in a few years. Technologies like Google Gears and Adobe’s AIR will make it possible to take your online (Internet-based) applications offline. Micro Persuasion wrote a great (but technical) article [...]
