Paul Jacobson

Tag: Companies

  • How @melrosearch can become awesome and even allow photography

    I had a couple thoughts at about 4am this morning after I put our son back down to sleep. Most of those thoughts were ways that Melrose Arch might find useful and which may just help build a little community of fans about the shopping district (in retrospect, it is a little more than just…

  • Google threatens to switch off China

    I linked to this post on the Google blog this morning from The Daily Maverick newsletter. It is a very interesting story because of what it reveals about what our world will be like in the months and years ahead. Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular…

  • Shopping malls and limitations of social media

    I recently published a post about what I regard as silly rules about not being able to take photographs in shopping malls/centres. I have been reprimanded for taking photos in Melrose Arch (a very photogenic centre/complex), Balfour Park and Killarney Mall. The response (or lack thereof) which I received to my posts/tweets has been an…

  • Up to R45 per hour for parking at O R Tambo airport

    Welcome to O R Tambo International Airport. This is the view from what must be the most expensive parking in Johannesburg, if you are not paying careful attention to what you are doing. I drove into this parking area this morning with the belief that this parking area is cheaper parking than the main parkades,…

  • Ster Kinekor's flashy but useless website

    The Ster Kinekor website is an example of where design and functionality part ways and only occasionally meet up again to bum smokes off each other. The site is practically all Flash with an excuse for an ecommerce engine somewhere in the background. It looks very pretty and makes swooshing noises when you do stuff…

  • Twitter is a catastrophic #fail waiting to happen

    The only thing Twitter has been consistent about is its failure to scale and develop a stable platform given its growth and all the hype about the service. How can Twitter not be able to handle search after 3 years in operation and $155 million in funding? Yes Twitter helps people reach out to millions,…

  • Google ChromeOS: I just don't get it

    Google Chrome OS attracted a huge amount of attention and continues to do so. As you may know it is a Linux-based operating system developed largely by Google and which will be released in about a year. It is touted as the next Next Big Thing and, like many Google products, it will apparently solve…

  • G-Connect's holiday special offer

    I received a heads up from G-Connect‘s agency, Emerging Media, about a special offer for the holidays a couple weeks ago. You may know that G-Connect is one of the broadband providers I use although mostly while I am on 3G. I use Afrihost as my main provider because its ADSL is cheap and can…