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One web page at a time.
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03. Letter from the Editor
04. Byte Sized:
06. Bookmarked!
08. Smart Search
10. What is Web 2.0?
12. Seacom Cable
13. Q &A with Twitter
14. For the Fun of It
15. Getting involved
16. Links
www.InternetGuide.co.za
The Internet Guide is published by Ideabank twice a month, and is dis-
tributed ree o charge in PDF ormat, online. For editorial or advertising
queries, please see Page 15 o this magazine.
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Welcome to the rst issue o the Internet Guide.
I have wanted to publish a magazine dedicated
to the South Arican Internet or years, and am
thus thrilled to be launching this digital version
right at the start o 2009.
South Arican Internet users have had a hard
time embracing the webs potential. Our band-
width is restrictive, the costs o online access
prohibitive, and the usage prevalence is rela-
tively low. Yet, despite these challenges, those
who are active in the online space, whether as
creators or users, have done a remarkable job
o integrating the web into everyday lie. The
good news is that i everything goes accord-
ing to plan, South Arica is in or a tremendous
boost o bandwidth at almost no extra cost (see
page 12). What that means is that we are going
to push our usage o the web to the limits, and
hopeully raise the bar to international level.
This e-mag is written or everyone who wants
to become more amiliar with the online world,
both local and international. It is written or
those o you who are just getting started using
the web, as well as or veteran users who already
spend most o their time online. The web is, o
course, a vast vessel o content and no one can
ever know everything. Hopeully, the pages that
ollow will give you nuggets o inormation as
to how the web can best be used to make you
more productive and ecient, both in your pro-
essional and leisure time. And it will strongly
push to the ore some o the excellent sites that
are created by South Aricans.
The e-mag is published twice a month, on
the rst and third Tuesday. It is created in .pd
ormat, which means it can be read on virtually
any computer that has online access, can be
orwarded, saved, printed or emailed to others.
It is also ree, so please spread ar and wide!
The e-mag will also have a website (www.inter-
netguide.co.za), where I envision most o the ar-
ticles will appear in a blog ormat. This will allow
or comments and discussions, which should
prove to be a lot o un. Ill keep you posted, or
just check it out at your leisure. In the meantime,
should you have comments or suggestions or
the magazine, you can email those directly to
me at [email protected]. For other waysto get involved, see page 15.
I hope you enjoy this rst issue. Its just a sample
- I am testing the waters so to speak. Expect
more with each orthcoming issue.!
Cheers!
Eve Dmochowska
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New podcastI you are interested in learning about
the ull power o digital media, check
out a new local podcast, The Digital
Edge. In the two episodes ready or
download, you will hear interviews
with industry experts about their pre-
dictions o what will be big in the on-
line space in 2009. Listen to the pod-
cast on your iPod while commuting
to work, and put dead time to good
use!
Find a kidnapped zebra!A zebra was stolen rom the Perdeberg vineyards! The kid-
napper wants wine as ransomand will post weekly clues
that will lead to a new drop-o location. I you help solve
these clues, you will get a 10% discount o the wine, and will
also stand a chance to win a case o wine every week. There
is a new clue posted every Monday. What a clever and un
use o online tools to promote a local brand. Now go nd
that zebra!
Behave yoursel online...As the web makes it easier and easier to post opinions and
views online, the doors are opening or litigation against neg-
ative content. Two cases have come to light recently. Donn
Edwards was sued by QVC or over R460,000 or publishing a
critical blog post about their telemarketing practice o prom-
ising a prize in return or a timeshare presentation. This case
has now been settled out o court. Also, Duane Brady was
arrested or allegedly deaming his wies riend on Facebook.
Brady allegedly wrote that his wies riend was sleeping
around to buy drugs. The lesson? Make sure you have youracts straight, and respect others right to privacy. Otherwise,
you might be acing a lawsuit or even jail time.
Happy Birthday!Wikipedia, the user generated online
encyclopedia that anyone can edit,
has celebrated its eighth birthday. In
the last year, it served 700 million page
impressions, raised over $6 million
in donations,
and launched
its mobile site
http://mobile.
wikipedia.com.
Have you got news youd like
to share with our readers?Email quick bytes o inorma-
tion to
Byte sized ...
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Making it bigSynthasite, the South Arican start
up ounded by Vinny Lingham has
reached a million registered users.
Synthasite allows web users to easily
set up websites using drag-and-drop
technology, and templates.
Google calendar smsI you use Google calendar to keep track o your schedule,
you should also consider using their sms service to remind
you o important appointments. Simply set up an sms alert
(www.google.com/calendar >> settings >> mobile setup),
and the time you want to be alerted, and the rest is up to
Google. The service is ree, and, surprisingly, works within
South Arica with all three main cell networks supported. Its
also great or anniversary and birthday reminders. Now you
have no excuse!
Seat inormation onlineThe www.seatguru.com site ensures that I get as ew nasty
surprises when I fy as possible. It lists the amenities o eve-
ry seat o almost any plane. Will you have power supply or
your laptop? A private screen? Floor storage? Good view o
the monitor? Or, you can simply nd out which seats have
the most legroom. Poor seats are fagged in red, and the
ones that are less than ideal are yel-
low. There is also inormation on
the amenities o the plane as a whole. All you need to know
is the model o the plane and the airline., the rest youll getrom this site. Perect or online check-ins, where you can
choose your seat in the comort o your home or oce.
Maths geniusFor those times when you need to
work out answers to complicated
math equations, or i you simply
just cant nd your calculator the
Web2.0calc should prove a lie saver. It
has all the unctions you might want,
including trig,
logs, quadratic
equations and
more.
Rise and shineTend to oversleep or nap at inappropriate times? Youll love
Kuku Klok. Its an online alarm clock that is easy and un to
use: simply set the time and choose one o our sound eects
or the alarm. The best part is that the alarm will still unction
even i you drop your Internet connection. And apparently
its Swiss made, so you can bet its reliable. Theres no snooze
button though, so no cheating.
Byte sized ...
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n24.com
The nancial site has had
a major revamp, and now
sports a clean look with easy
navigation and an excellentlayout. It oers everything you
might expect rom a website
in this genre, including
market indicators, columnists,
tools and personal nance
advice. There are various paid
premium levels, which oer
extra eatures but you can geta lot o mileage out o the ree
version too. Since the site has
an alternative revenue model,
there is not too much in-your-
ace advertising, which is a
bonus. I you are serious about
staying current with market
data, make sure you check out
their mobile version too. Its
personalised to your portolio.
ewn.co.za
This site is like having your
hourly radio news at your n-
gertips at all times. A Primedia
initiative (think 702, Highveld94.7) the news site is updated
around the clock with relevant
news inormation, and also in-
cludes links to trac, weather,
market indicators and eature
stories. You can register to get
ree sms alerts o breaking
stories, and can participate ina citizen-journalism by sub-
mitting your own stories to
the site. There is much more
content here than you will
ever hear on air, and lots o
stories come with background
inormation to put you ully in
the picture.
scoregrid.com
I you are an English Premier
or Champions League an, this
site will make you think youre
died and gone to heaven.ScoreGrid oers you a dier-
ent perspective o every game
played by giving you visual
inormation o all the action,
together with the relevant
stats. In other words, you
can track the path o the ball
throughout the whole game a technology marvel. There
are also heat maps and graphs.
As a bonus, there is a robust
community o users, so you
can comment, analyse and
predict game results. A antas-
tic site or soccer ans, devel-
oped by a South Arican team.
And just in time or 2010?
Bookmarked !
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postsecret.com
The concept o the site is
simple: people anonymously
send their innermost secrets
on a postcard, and themost captivating ones get
published on the site so
ar about 2,500 o them. The
postcards are also illustrated,
adding to the visual appeal
and enhancing the message.
Some recent secrets that
have been posted includeWhen my unemployed former
co-worker told me he used
me as a reference on a job
application, I submitted my
own resume. I start on Feb
14. (I was unemployed too).
Postsecret.com is an online
phenomenon. I suggest you
visit!
dailyroutines.
typepad.com
Famous and/or successul
people also only have just 24
hours per day. This website
gives you an insight into some
o the routines that these
people have, to help them
ull the days tasks. The site
provides a gentle insight into
the lives o lmmakers, musi-
cians, mathematicians, writers
and many more. The inorma-
tion is sourced rom across all
media, and includes proles
on people long dead. Daily
Routines oers a captivating
and inspiring daily read. Visit
the site and nd out who said
A mathematician is a machine
or turning coee into theo-rems
fightaware.com
I you travel a lot, or i some-
one close to you does, then
youll soon become addicted
to this site. On the surace, ittracks the fight patterns o
airplanes, but in reality it oers
much more than that. You can
check the status o any fight
(even one in the air), weather
conditions at airports, ETA and
even predict possible delays.
Since the site tracks the actualequipment, you can check
where the plane you are about
to board has just been. Or sim-
ply use the site to check where
the plane your loved one is
on is right now. The service is
most reliable or fights within
the US, but the website is
worth a visit, even to just play
around.
Bookmarked !
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Smart Search
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Google Shortcut Finds Pages That Have...
nokia phone the words nokia and phone
sailing OR boating either the word sailing or the word boating
love me tender the exact phrase love me tender
printer -cartridge the word printer but NOT the word cartridge
Toy Story +2 movie title including the number 2
~auto looks up the word auto and synonyms
dene:serendipity denitions o the word serendipity
how now * cow the words how now cow separated by one or more words
+ addition; 978+456
- subtraction; 978-456
* multiplication; 978*456
/ division; 978/456
% o percentage; 50% o 100
^ raise to a power; 4^18 (4 to the eighteenth power)
old in new (conversion) 45 celsius in Fahrenheit (Also works or currency)
site:(search only one website) site:websearch.about.com invisible web
link:(nd linked pages) link:www.liehacker.com
You are already most likely using Google as your main search engine. But
do you really know how to search eectively , so that you nd what you
want quickly? And do you know that the Google search bar has built in
unctions to get you your answers with as lew clicks as possible? Here is a handy cheat sheet to help
you get the most out o Google.
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cache: (view cached page) cache:google.com
letype:(restrict search to specic letype) zoology letype:ppt
allintitle: (search or keywords in page title) allintitle:nike running
inurl:(restrict search to page URLs) inurl:chewbacca
site:.edu (specic domain search) site:.edu, site:.gov, site:.org, etc.
site:country code (restrict search to country) site:.br rio de Janeiro
intext:(search or keyword in body text) intext:parlor
allintext: (return pages with all words specied in body text) allintext:north pole
book(search book text) book The Lord o the Rings
phonebook:(nd a phone number) phonebook:Google CA
bphonebook: (nd business phone numbers) bphonebook:Intel OR
rphonebook:(nd residential phone numbers) rphonebook:Joe Smith Seattle WA
stocks:(get a stock quote) stocks:ncesa
#...#(search within a number range) nokia phone $200...$300
daterange:(search within specic date range) bosnia daterange:200508-200510
As a deault, Google shows you 10 search results on a page (or astest
response time), but you can change that to 30 by tweaking your preer-
ences.
And remember, Google has dierent home pages or di-
erent countries. So search results rom Google.com will be
dierent rom results rom Google.co.za, ahich will be more
skewed to South Arican content.
(Shortcuts were sourced rom About.com)
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There is no widely-accepted denition, and itreally depends who you ask.
A web developer will tell you that Web 2.0 reers
to a platorm, a phase where content that used
to sit on your hard drive now sits on someone
elses drive, or in the cloud, and is accessible to
you via any Internet connection.
A web user will tell you that Web2.0 reers to a
web that is more interactive and responsive to
his needs.
A designer will dene Web 2.0 very much by
the new,
clean look othe sites that
all into the
category.
However you
choose to
dene it, what
no one will
argue with is
the act that Web 2.0 is all about improved com-
munication between those who participate in it.
When the Internet rst became mainstream, the
bulk o the content that was seen by the web
user was created by the owner o the web-
site. So, or instance, Company ABC would put
together a number o web pages, and would
advertise the URL (address) o the site. Anyone
interested in the company would visit the site,
and read the content. I they had questions or
comments, there would most likely be an email
address on the website where they could post
their views. Thats classic Web 1.0 a one way
communication channel, where a company
would talk, and the consumer would listen.
The new era o web use, known as Web 2.0
changes that drastically. Now, it is very easy
or a web user to interact with a website. For
instance, i a newspaper posts a story on its
website, readers can now comment on that
connect. A whole new dialogue opens up,
where the original reporter can interact with his
audience.
Similarly, web users can create home videos and
post them on YouTube, can upload slide presen-
tations and share them with a wide audience on
Slideshare.com, can create their own blogs (web
journals) using ree sotware such as Wordpress,
and much, much more.
The bottom line is that with some passion or
your topic, but very little (or none) web devel-opment knowledge, you can now become a
serious contributor to web content. And others
can interact, comment, praise or dismiss that
content equally easily.
This has caused a great shake up in the ways
we communicate with each other, and the
ways companies talk to us. It has given you, the
consumer, a very loud voice which you can use
to shout out loud to be heard in the crowd. In
What is Web2.0 ?
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Web 2.0 has given you,he consumer, a veryoud voice which youan use to shout out
oud to be heard in therowd.
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uture issues, we will discuss some o the tools
available to you to do so, but as you browse
the web notice that almost every good website
has some sort o means to allow you to express
your opinion or to submit content (known as
user generated content). I you hear someone
talk about a Web 2.0 site, know that it is simplea website or an application that allows you, the
user, to interact with it. In act, I seriously doubt
whether any website that is newly launched
could successully survive without having these
capabilities. Even this online magazine will soon
have a corresponding blog where you will be
able to share your points o view.
You might also hear reerence to a Web 2.0 look.This reers to the current design trends o web-
sites, which change and evolve over time, just as
ashion does. Right now what seems to be hot
is rounded corners, shadows, refections and an
overall clean look.
There is no rocket science to this it is a simple
evolution o how people talk to each other. Ac-
tive is always better than passive.
Some tools o the Web 2.0 era:
(This is only an introduction to the tools. Each
will be covered in much more detail in uture
issues. )
Blogs: simple websites that allow users to up-
date content regularly, and make it available to
a wide audience.
Bookmarking/Tagging: allows you to save
and sort online content, or have access to the
content, so that it is accessible to you wherever
there is an Internet connection.
Content aggregation: Brings online content
to you in a single place, rather than you going
to it.
Crowdsourcing/Voting/Reviews:Means o
interacting with companies, and voicing your
opinion.
Discussion boards and orums: Once again,
an excellent platorm to interact with a com-
pany, and ellow users o products. Good place
to ask and answer questions.
Microblogging:The use o tools such as Twit-
ter to stay constantly in touch with a chosen
network o people.
Online video: Made popular by the likes o
YouTube. Allows or quick sharing o visual
content.
Photosharing: Not conned to baby albums,
photosharing sites such as Flickr add to the
webs visual content, and allow or quick distri-
bution o images
Podcasting: Audio content easily accessed by
tools such as iTunes.
Social networks: Making the Web 2.0 a bit
more about me, social networks such as Face-
book or LinkedIn help you dene your crowdand communicate with it.
What is Web2.0 ?
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Aricas Internet users account or just 3.5%o global users. That is a sad, but unsurprising,
statistic. But South Arica, as well as some east-
ern Arican countries, will see a change in June
o this year. Thats when the much anticipated
Seacom cable reaches our shore. The Seacom
cable is a 15,000 km undersea cable, connecting
India, Arica and Europe, and will deliver band-
width at speeds and costs we could only dream
about up to now. It will provide 40 times the
bandwidth we currently have available. Accord-
ing to Moneyweb, the Seacom cable will oer
70% - 80% saving on our current bandwidth
prices. Accord-
ing to Business
Day, Seacom
has pledged
to provide Uni-
versities with
50 times their
current band-
width at 2% o
the cost.
The bandwidth will be sold to any other net-
work operator, and the number o such resellers
could rise dramatically into the hundreds. This
will urther ensure competitive pricing.
O course, the cable will only prove to eective
i the internal communication structures that
deliver the bandwidth rom the cables dockingpoint to your computer, are in place. MTN and
Neotel are jointly investing around R2 billion to
build a 5,000 km bre-optic network connect-
ing the major centres in South Arica. The rst
completed section will join Gauteng to Kwa-
Zulu Natal.
What does this mean or you? Rather than
expecting to get a lower bill or your online
connection, expect to pay the same amount or
many times the bandwidth. That translates into
a connection that is ast, reliable and one that
will bring us on par to the speeds experienced
in other developed countries.
That will be the necessary jump start or our on-
line developers and new media agencies, who
have thus ar been stifed by the prohibitive cost
o large volumes o bandwidth. They will be-
come more innovative, and more competitive
on the global market. As the local online users
begin to interact with the web more and more,
you will nd that South Arican developers start
ocusing on developing applications targeted to
our home population.
Also, expect to drastically change the way youconsume all types o media, including TV. I
South Aricans will be allowed to legally pur-
chase shows orm iTunes, you will soon nd
yoursel no longer being at the mercy o the
TV stations or to the delayed schedules o your
avourite series. Youll be as up to date as the US
audience.
Our usage o mobile web--on-the-go will alsogrow exponentially.
Seacom Cable
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eacom has pledgedo provide Universities
with 50 times their cur-ent bandwidth at 2% the cost.
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Twitter is an online microblogging tool that is a
global phenomenon, and is slowly taking o in
South Arica.
Well have much more to say about it in uture is-
sues, but or now know that it is a means to com-
municate online with a pre-dened network o
your peers and riends rom around the world.
All communication happens via tweets which
are short messages (less than 140 characters)
sent out to your network. Anyone who is in your
network can see your message, and reply to it.
I asked my network (o just under 500 people):
What is your bestonline tool/tip/trick
or saving time
ofine?.
I check thetraffic onhighveld.mobi orthe website everyday before I leave
work.@snowgoose
Food24 for res-taurant numbers,
blip.com for music
mixes, mtv.com for
series. Off top of
head. :)@samwilson1
I rent DVDs (Push-
Play.co.za), buy
electricity (ener-
gy.co.za), and chat
to my friends when
I should be seeing them face
to face@camera-obscura
I vote hippo.co.zaand getclosure.
co.za
@eistyemale
Q&A
To start using Twitter, simply sign
up at www.twitter.com and start fol-
lowing friends (adding them to your
network). If you dont know who to
add, visit http://satwitter.pbwiki.com
and read about some of the South
Africans who use Twitter regularly.
Then add your own name to the
page.
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Bush on YouTube
Great moments in Presidential
Speeches rom the David Letterman
Show
For the fun of it
Addinctinggames.com. This site should come with a disclaimer as
to how the owners are in no way responsible or all the time spent
playing the ree games. It needs no explanation: just visit it, and start
playing the games. Youll soon nd your avourite amongst the 3,000
that are available. Have un, but dont orget about work!
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The Digital Edge: http://www.thedigitaledge.co.za
A zebra was stolen...: http://www.themissingzebra.co.za
Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.com
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Synthasite: http://www.synthasite.com
Vinny Lingham: http://www.vinnylingham
Google Calendar: http://www.google.com/calendar
Kuku Klok: http://www.kukuklok.com
Seatguru: http://www.seatguru.com
Web 2.0 Calc: http://web2.0calc.com
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About.com: http://websearch.about.com/library/cheatsheet/blgooglecheatsheet.htm
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Twitter: http://www.twitter.com
Wiki: http://satwitter.pbwiki.com
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Ive started a blog by Hugh McLeod rom The Gaping Void, http://www.gapingvoid.com
Online riends, by Jon Bishop http://www.jonin60seconds.com/blog/category/scroobl
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