My Coke Fest – SA Band Suggestions

Considering the fact that Big Concerts imho know little to nothing about South African rock bands, here’s a couple of my suggestions for the South African support acts.

Love Jones
in Joburg – they did Cape Town last year, but we love them up here.
FotoNaDans – coming off an album launch it’ll be great to watch their act mature.
The Hellphones – It’s high time for them to go with the big exposure.
New Porn – If they can open for the Stones, they can open for anyone.

And of course, Big Concerts, we expect you to pay these artists well. Very well.

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Korn, Muse at MyCokeFest 2008

Coke Fest?
Coke Fest is back. No, not the white powder up nose kind, the big red sugar water company kind.

Here’s the link to the details.

A seriously nice line up this time – Big Concerts are starting to figure this whole “big concert” thing out…
Korn
Muse
Chris Cornell
Kaiser Chiefs
Good Charlotte

The R600 burn in the back pocket for a golden circle is a bit nasty, but assuming none of the above bands bail, it is well worth it…

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Eternal Bandwidth Blues

Brotherly chat.

Sent at 12:41 PM on Tuesday
Ryan: omg insane
downloading at 1.2KB/sec \o/

Shaun: holee cow!
peeps iz in my firewallz stealin mah intarwebz too

Ryan: so its not an iburst thing?

Shaun: no its an iburst thing too
they throttle per tcp stream, especially during the day

Ryan: its balls

Shaun: they don’t have enough bandwidth to support what they have sold
they have over 200 towers and a huge amount of corporate users
they’re supposed to be an isp to individuals, not corporates…
but adsl is so damn kak

Ryan: =/

Shaun: weekends and evenings my iburst fucks off
but during the day, fahgeddaboudit
try multiple tcp streams – best way to bump up the bandwidth a bit
cos they throttle each stream

Sent at 1:21 PM on Tuesday

Fuck you very much Telkom.

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Will Google Dodgeball Jaiku?

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Jaiku logo

Hugh MacLeod over on gapingvoid just posted the news that Google has bought Jaiku.

Here’s a quick description of the Jaiku product from their site:
Jaiku is an activity stream and presence sharing service that works from the Web and mobile phones.”

And here’s a description of Dodgeball: Dodgeball is an SMS tool that lets you tell your friends when you are out doing something social so they can come join you.”

Not much difference between the two if you ask me – presence, activity and communication on mobile devices is where both services collide. It’s a relatively small step to migrate from SMS to IM or Web or vice versa, so why buy what you already have?

In April, after two years of frustration and little support from Google the founders of Dodgeball chose to leave Google.

So how does this all add up? I’ve got a ton of questions to pose at this non-sequitur:
Are Google going to sideline Jaiku too?
Did they buy Jaiku simply to keep it out of Nokia’s hands?
Have Google realised their Dodgeball mistake and want to try again?
Does Google really have a solid mobile strategy or are they grasping at straws to maintain their advertising lead?
Can they combine the two products into something new and special?
Are they simply interested in owning the companies’ user bases, and using that to form a comprehensive database of early-adopters?

It simply doesn’t quite make business sense, and makes Google look a bit desperate. Yes, it is great news for Jaiku, but does this mean that the time has arrived for the Jaiku guys to start thinking about their next startup?

In time I guess we will see.

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