DISQUS

A million users! Wow! Way to go Vin! springleap has a "little" catching up to do...

Thanks for the mention. Now the springleap team have a new blog to add to their list of blogs to read!

Hi Karl,,

There was a massive discussion taking place on one of the other large competition tshirts sites, as to whether the Simpsons tshirt was a rip or a parody, and the conclusion on their site was that it was a parody.

We had a huge team discussion about it, and came up with the same conclusion which is why we allowed it in the springleap competition.

We have pulled many designs in the past because they were copy's or the topic was unsuitable.

Cheers
Eric

Hi,

Thanks for the mention of springleap - we love it to!!! :)

Tell me, you say you'll have a lot of questions next time you consider exhibiting - what questions will you ask?

you were one of very few who realised springleap shutting down was an april fools joke!

i'm still replying to emails telling people that it was an april fools joke...

Just checked out all 83 slides...

Wow! Feel honoured. My EricEdelstein.com blog and springleap.com both mentioned!

Thanks so much. Next time I'm getting an earlier flight so I can hear the talk.

Great chatting today.

E

it's muti.co.za Vin, not muti.com

Mr Daniels - today is "Bloggers Peace Day"

That's a pretty big fish you've landed! :)

You're well on your way to A-List IRW (*) Status to match your blogging status!

Well done!!

* In Real World

Thanks for commenting on my blog posting I did about you making my day by proving to me how small the world is! (I know it, but it's good to get a reminder every few days!)

Within 20 minutes of reading your blog, we had connected in facebook and had moved past the icebreaker.

Now once we agree on whether all friends should be accepted or only after a non facebook related icebreaker (an IM message, an email), we can move onto sorting out world peace.

Both viewpoints have merit, but i still buy into my way of facebook "virtual contacts" accepting which is i think i should have an idea of why i have accepted someone as my facebook contact (they actually tell me a piece of information which proves they're REAL "company they work for, industry they're in, sport they're interested in" - SOMETHING).

[Yours is that as someone reads your blog they're connected to you through that, but that seems to be a 1 way connection rather than a 2 way connection, as they know you, but you don't know anything about them.]

Now about that 22 hour flight to actually have a face to face conversation...

Paul - LOVE YOUR LATEST TWITTER COMMENT:

"Paul Jacobson : ok, stirred a little on Wired Gecko, going to bath and bed - way past my bedtime about an hour ago"

Nic - *sigh* - i'm not saying, don't do it!!!

of course do it - there's money to be made in dem hills!

you'd be crazy not to...

BUT if SA is to become a super internet connected mega ....you get the point...

we need a couple stars to shine who want to create global success story's being based in SA

there's room for everyone.

unfortunately at the moment i'm only seeing the local sites / copy of international sites and not the super stars...

the majority of south african's won't innovate (or will innovate, but it won't be earth shattering) - but that's kewl as well - and hopefully they'll make mountains of cash, and have fun along the way...

Choice - 9 to 5 job or create a copy or local only site and make a ton of cash? no brainer!!!!

but to get us into silicon valley mode we need super stars.

BUT Nic - now a question for you.................
Did I say it was going to be Me who did it?

Nic - for the 169797th time...

the BIG money will only flow when the returns show MASSIVE POTENTIAL.

so if we start having global ideas, SA (and hopefully Cape Town as i'm a bit biased towards this beautiful city) will become the new Silicon Valley / Herzlia.

however, there is still plenty space for new local ideas, and competition for existing ideas, hopefully with some of them bringing something fresh to the party (imagine SA reunited or one of the other 3 or 4 that were floating along, had the vision to become the next facebook)

so create new local only sites, create more competition amongst existing concepts...

and hopefully make lots of money...

and then launch innovative global ideas which attract the big money and which propel SA into a new era.

for the record, i'm doing all of them - launching a few SA only concepts which probably won't go global, providing more competition for sites that might not go global but i believe will make money, AND am involved in a number of projects that have the POTENTIAL OF BEING GLOBAL AND MASSIVE!

but if we want an Internet EXPLOSION in our country, we have to be thinking BIG - ...at least some of the time...

until Max manages to make her way over here...

"no comment"

Max - I can't win this one whatever I say...*LOL*
so perhaps you'd be so kind as to let Paul know what happened...

The response has been incredible so far...

We'll be deciding which way to move in the next few days.

EE