ZA Tech Show: Episode 19

Posted on Monday, July 7th, 2008 at 02:49 by Simon and filed under Podcast episodes.

This week the ZA Tech Show crew is joined by Google South Africa’s country manager, Stafford Masie. We discuss:

  • Google’s mobile drive for SA.
  • Google Maps and the development of services for the local market.
  • Youtube.
  • Google Apps.
  • Local bandwidth costs and performance in terms of delivering services.
  • Social networking, its impact on business, and privacy online.
  • Google potentially surrendering Youtube logs to Viacom.
  • IS Labs incubating new web businesses in SA.
  • Local Web 2.0 development and what it needs to succeed.
  • Focused social networking ala Ning.
  • Using consumer-orientated web services for business.
  • The move from search to discovery.
  • The continuing uproar over Vodafone Live! banner injections and proxy manipulation on Vodacom’s network.
  • Nvidia’s price versus performance problems and AMD’s XGP external graphic’s solution for laptops.

And much more…

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6 Comments so far

Comment by Martin Coetzee, posted on July 7th, 2008 at 20:29

Hi Guys! Once again, great show. Why not mention the amount of downloads you’re getting per week. Would be nice to hear how many people listen to the best tech podcast in South Africa!

Comment by Smokie, posted on July 8th, 2008 at 00:26

I really enjoy your show guys. Love the fact that you get “high flyers” from the industry to participate, it makes them (and the companies they represent) much more personal.

Have you thought of maybe dropping some teasers of what we can look forward to in the next show as the week progresses?

Keep up the brilliant work!

Comment by Mitch, posted on July 8th, 2008 at 11:18

Hey guys, shot for another gr8 show!

I see Martin ( above ) beat me to the question – do you have any stats on downloads?

Also
Thanx for the pic, its good to put names to faces BUT who is who??
Can you give us a listing back to front and left to right!

Cheers
Mitch

Comment by James, posted on July 9th, 2008 at 03:53

Real guest that doesn’t fling buzzwords would be preferred…

Comment by Duncan McLeod, posted on July 9th, 2008 at 07:30

Hi Mitch,

From L-R, front row, are Stafford Masie from Google, Ben Kelly from Finweek (some finance magazine I hadn’t heard of until I met Ben) and Jon Tullett from TechTarget.

From L-R, back row, are Duncan McLeod (me) from the Financial Mail and fmtech.co.za, Brett Haggard from Hypertext and Simon Dingle from Hypertext and Talk Radio 702.

Duncan

Comment by Mitch, posted on July 9th, 2008 at 09:13

Hi Duncan

Thanx for that!

I tried guessing who was who and got Everyone wrong!
Howsthat!!

Cheers.

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