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    SouthAfricaTube - another video sharing site

    I was surfing the net this morning when I saw a Google adsense ad promoting a new South African themed video sharing site called SouthAfricaTube.com . I am not sure what scares me more about the site - the fact that it does not even host its own videos, the "designed in Front Page by my cousin Dwayne in 1996" retro look, or the fact that someone would spend money advertising something like this on Google. On further investigation I managed to find Kenyatube.com and Nigeria-tube.com , all using the...
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    Joost Invitations

    I was lucky enough to be an early beta tester of Joost , the new P2P video offering from Skype and Kazaa founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis. Each beta release gets better and better and the latest version is particularly impressive. I can see it being a huge success in Europe and the US where bandwidth is fast and cheap enough to stream the almost high definition content. South African users will be frustrated by the wait for video to download and alarmed by the bandwidth used (around 440...

Hi, I'm Jaxon Rice. By day I run a Johannesburg based web company called Soup and by night I am the frontman of the Diesel Whores. This is my personal blog. more...