Afrigator - Justin Hartman

Social Code goes public, finally

Almost twelve months ago I had an idea, largely from on my experience with Afrigator, to provide social media services to corporate companies looking to dive into the space. It’s almost a year later since that initial idea and we’ve only gone public with Social Code in the last two weeks.

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Social Media ROI... does it exist?

In the ever growing world of Social Media businesses are often scared to dabble in the industry. I ask the question about whether or not Social Media can deliver a ROI or not.

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My presentation at the Addynamo Blogging Workshop

If you missed it, here’s my presentation from the Addynamo Blogging Workshop that I did yesterday. There are some interesting Adgator insights which haven’t been seen before. Addynamo Blogging Workshop View more presentations from Justin Hartman.

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Our experience of sending bulk emails to users

Let me start by saying that Mailchimp is an amazing company and their bulk email service is worth every penny. They deliver a punchy service and their UI is awesome however we no longer use them as our account has now been deleted. I certainly can see the value in

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My presentation at the MIH Media Lab Entrepreneurship Workshop

This morning I delivered the following presentation to the students of Stellenbosch University’s Media Lab. My topic was on the start-up lifecycle and I think it went alright. Students are sometimes hard to gauge but I hope that this provided some insight into life running a startup. There’s

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Afrigator tried to buy Twitter, we launched Gatorpeeps instead

The news is finally out that Afrigator has officially launched Gatorpeeps. Gatorpeeps is our very own micro-blogging platform that we hope will connect our vastly growing community of users. One of the biggest problems we’ve had is that we sit with more than 12,000 users but we’ve

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My thoughts on BarCamp Nigeria

On Saturday I was fortunate enough to attend BarCamp Nigeria 2009 in Lagos. Despite various concerns about going to Nigeria (more on that in another blog post) I must say I had a fantastic time and met some amazing people along the way. Loy Okezie from Startups Nigeria has a

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Bolton Deventer lives on

When I was formulating my presentation for the 24.com Blogging Workshop on Saturday I was struggling to find a good example of how to promote your blog and market yourself online. So, I decided it was time to revive Bolton Deventer. I figured that Bolton had a massive impact

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Afrigator turns two today... somehow it feels like more!

Honestly I can’t believe it’s that time of year again. Today the team at Afrigator are celebrating our second birthday but strangely it feels like our baby is much older than it actually is. This time last year I wrote a birthday post and after reading it again

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My presentation at Nomadic Marketing

On Tuesday I was invited by Dave Duarte to give a presentation at the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) for their Nomadic Marketing course. A very daunting task to say the least but I lapped up the opportunity to engage with some of SA’s brilliant minds. My presentation

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The Digital Edge - Reprobates and bloggers

I’ve long been a fan of the new Digital Edge podcast series produced by Jarred Cinman and Saul Kropman. When it launched some 12 episodes ago Cambrient received a bit of flack for the promotion of their company but I think over time the content of The Digital Edge

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The Afrigator / 24.com Integration - what it means

So the big news today is the announcement we made via our blog about the integration between 24.com Blogs and Afrigator. For a few months we’ve been working with Alistair Fairweather and his dev team at 24.com to try and make this work and I think that

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Creating a mobile site with Yahoo! Blueprint

Yahoo! Blueprint, in theory, is an amazing and agile mobile development framework. Yahoo! describes Blueprint as… …a platform for developing and distributing rich mobile Internet services. It offers a standards-based language, an easy-to-use toolkit, innovative features, and support across multiple runtime environments—allowing developers to maximize their reach across thousands

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ReadWriteWeb does it again

ReadWriteWeb loves us! WOW. I know the last few posts of mine have been about gloating but when ReadWriteWeb features us in their Top 10 lists who can resist? This time, RRW has given Afrigator an honourable mention in the Top 10 RSS and Syndication Products of 2008 list. This

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Afrigator on ReadWriteWeb and the New York Times as a Top 10 International Product for 2008

This almost went unnoticed but on Friday Afrigator was voted one of the Top 10 International Products for 2008 by ReadWriteWeb. This is obviously a massive accolade for all of us involved in Afrigator and at times like this I’m left perplexed at how a small garage startup like

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88% of SA Bloggers make no money

Alistair, the brains behind the SA Blog Survey, sent me a very interesting slide yesterday about the revenue that bloggers earn from their blogs. As most of you will know Afrigator was proud to be associated with the 24.com SA Blog survey and according to Alistair there were over

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Adgator - Africa's First Blog Advertising Network

In December 2007 I did a presentation at 27dinner in Jo’burg where I previewed the first Beta version of Afrigator. Most people at the time thought we were going to announce an acquisition but alas it really was just geeky from start to end. One of the key points

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Thoughts on my first month in Cape Town

To be honest I have to say that I can’t believe it’s only been a month since we moved to Cape Town. So much has happened this past month that I feel like an old pro navigating my way through the Mother City and living the relaxed life.

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We're one of the 100 trendiest companies in Cape Town

According to Springleap, Afrigator has been selected as one of the 100 trendiest companies in Cape Town. What’s cool about this though is that we’re in the list with Ogilvy, Jupiter, Young & Rubicam, Vodacom and Investec to name but a few. I wonder though if Springleap have seen

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State of the Afrosphere - my presentation at 27dinner Cape Town

Here is my short presentation I gave last night at my first Cape Town 27dinner. I tried to have a look at the state of the African Blogosphere as reported by Afrigator. Disclaimer: This is not authoritative. It simply highlights the data that we have available on Afrigator and is

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Moving to the Mother City

It’s been 13 days since I shipped my entire family down to Cape Town and what an experience it has been. We’ve gone from this chaos in Johannesburg:- To this ordered chaos in our new home in Cape Town:- I have to say that moving to

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This is what happens...

…when you don’t bring cake to the office on your Birthday!

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The end of an era

Today is my last day at Avusa iLab. At the beginning of September we announced that MIH Print Africa had acquired a stake in Afrigator – a project I’ve been working on since early 2007 – and as a result I’ve been finishing up work and preparing for the big

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Luke Loves Afrigator

I tried to get a better pic of my son smiling however this was the best I could get.

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Regator.com update

Earlier today I posted this in which I argued that Regator may have stolen Afrigator‘s brand. I have to say that while Regator has certain elements that share a close resemblance to us I’m of the opinion that Scott and his team did not do this maliciously as