Archive for 2007

“[Google] can can extort, control, and dominate the world…”

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.)

December 5, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post

Promotional Videos – a great idea! (?)

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

November 28, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post

Web Application Super Heroes Conference 2007 – Open to All!

Web Application Super Heroes Conference 2007 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.”

November 21, 2007 | 4 comments | View Post

PayPal: Good news for South African eCommerce

South African online buyers can now receive quotes in Rands and make credit card purchases through PayPal.

“Just the other day, I found out that South Africans can now get PayPal accounts and link them to a local credit card. When you buy something, the amount is deducted from your credit card and the system even tells you much it will be in rands.

The only major snag with PayPal, for us South Africans, is that you currently cannot withdraw the funds from your account into a local bank account.” Full article: http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_page.php?iArticleId=4128440

For receiving the funds into a business, you still can not deposit into a South African bank acount, but this can be solved through offshore options.

November 15, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post

.Net ORM – object relational mapping tools

In the last two weeks my development team has made a few new discoveries in the area .Net ORM tools. The new additions are Sub Sonic (free) and Entity Spaces (paid – $80).

We are in the process of evaluating and prototyping both of these tools for a enterprise sized web-application that we are about to start building. The team discovered these after struggling to implement the much talked about NHibernate ORM framework.

November 14, 2007 | 4 comments | View Post

WWW awarded as a top young SMME

White Wall Web was awarded second runner up at the Africa SMME awards on Thursday night in the “Young Enterprise” category.

It was a prestigious award, attended by the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry and presented by the head of SABC International.

This is a great achievement because 105 companies around Africa entered and only of us 18 were awarded.

Well done – this is because of all of our combined efforts as a winning team.

October 28, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post

White Wall Web forges ahead with Express Air Services

White Wall Web have begun the second phase of a project to build software for Express Air Services (EAS), a subsidiary of BidVest.

“We are pleased to be working with such a prominent South African company and are proud of what we have already achieved,” says Peter Flynn, MD of White Wall Web International.

October 22, 2007 | 0 comments | View Post

White Wall Web UK lands a large contract in Germany

White Wall Web UK have recently landed an exciting contract with Schwarzkopf, a subsidiary of Henkel.
Henkel, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, has about 52,000 employees worldwide and counts among the most internationally aligned German-based companies in the global marketplace.
Schwarzkopf is a leading international hair product company, offering specialist ranges for professionals and for retail consumers.