After Sunday nights Carte Blanche episode, my wife asked me “What is Twitter ? ”
Having been asked this question a number of times, I still haven’t really been able to explain it in non-twitterati terms. Until now. The guys from CommonCraft.com have come up with a great 2 and a half minute video, explaining what Twitter is, and how to use it. Check out below, or at CommonCraft.com/Twitter
or this You Tube Video -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
“Geotagging, sometimes referred to as Geocoding, is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as websites, RSS feeds, or images and is a form of geospatial metadata. This data usually consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, though it can also include altitude, bearing, and place names.” – Wikipedia
Search engines and geotagging enabled services are starting to localise search results, as well as localised news & information. Flickr has already started implementing geotagging on photo’s that have been uploaded to Flickr. This allows users to search for photos uploaded near a specific location.
By adding a meta geotag to your website or blog, you stand a greater chance of being included in these results. To do this, get your co-ordinates. It doesn’t have to be your exact location, but can be a general physical location. It should not be the server location, as this may be inaccurate if the server is located overseas.
To get your co-ordinates and the code needed for the meta tags, go to http://mygeoposition.com and browse to your location. Once you have location generate the meta tags, add them to the header section of your web page. You should start seeing the benefits very soon.
WOW, blogging does really work :) In the last 2 hours since my last post, I have had no less than 7 unique hits from Mweb/24.com IP addresses.
About half an hour after posting about my unfortunate experience with Kalahari.net, I received a call from the category Manager – JP Van Der Merwe, apologising personally that they messed up. Explained what happened, gave me the correct link, and then said they would refund me the money, and give me a R100 voucher. The voucher was issued almost immediately, and he gave me a call back after to confirm I had received it.
Thanks JP, you have restored some of my faith in Kalahari. Will place my order for the correct product and see how it all goes from there.
2 weeks ago, Stefanno alerted the twitterati to a Notebook backpack on Kalahari.net, for a great price of R216.95. Having been looking around for a while for a notebook backpack about it, I jumped at the offer and ordered 2, the other for a colleague.
Last week, when I went to check on my order status, I noticed that the product name and picture had been changed to a Carry case.
Obviously this is not what I wanted. So I called up their support desk, and spoke to a Funiswa, who was really unhelpful, after I explained the whole story. She said I should mail their support desk, which I did. No reply, or even acknolwdgement email. Next day, No reply. Soon after this, I receive a confirmation that the order was dispatched. I replied back to the order dispatched email, with my original email. No Reply. Knowing full well that the order was to be delivered this morning, I called them again, eventually getting through to a guy by the name of Ashley. Luckily Ashley was a lot more helpful, and I forwarded him the email. After the bags were delivered, they were indeed the wrong ones. I mailed Ashley to tell him that they were the wrong ones. He has since arranged for them to be collected and a refund to be passed. How long that takes who knows.
What grates me the most about this is that the just changed the picture and name, but the description was still the same. They could have at least offered me a similar backpack case, at a similar price. I wouldn’t even mind paying a bit more, but they simply said, we will come fetch it, and refund you.
I have used Kalahari plenty of times before, as I think they are one of the better e-tailers in South Africa, but this time, they have left a sour taste in my mouth, and highly doubt that I will be using them again in the future.
UPDATE: All’s well that ends well
Time has come for the 2008 SA Blog awards. And I’m asking for your vote. I don’t usually ask to be nominated or expect to win anything, cause I feel that the best man always wins :)
I think I have quite a good chance in Best New Blog in 2007. After my newly found inspiration after organising the 27 Dinner in Durban, I started up this blog. I know I’m not the most regular poster but hey, I think I’m doing an OK job
But if you can, take 2 minutes and click on the widget below, or in my Sidebar on the right I would greatly appreciate it :)
