Eric Auchard
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/ 27 November 2007

Kalahari.net scoops e-commerce award

Local online retailer Kalahari.net, a popular stop on the web for South Africans looking to buy especially CDs, books and DVDs, has been chosen as best e-commerce store of the year, for the second year in a row. The South African e-Commerce Awards is an initiative hosted by online shopping search engine Jump Shopping.

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/ 6 June 2007

‘Amateur’ charge infuriates blogosphere

Internet culture, often portrayed as the vanguard of progress, is actually a jungle peopled by intellectual yahoos and digital thieves, according to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur-turned-dissenter. Andrew Keen, a 47-year-old Briton who founded dot-com era music start-up audiocafe.com, argues that basic notions of expertise are under assault amid a cultural shift in favour of the amateurism of blogs.

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/ 11 December 2006

Wikipedia founder remakes web-publishing economics

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday his for-profit company, Wikia, is ready to give away — for free — all the software, computing, storage and network access that website builders need to create community collaboration sites. Wikia, a commercial counterpart to the non-profit Wikipedia, will go even further to provide customers with 100% of any advertising revenue from the sites they build.