Peeled Carrots by Stephen Blake

During my morning feed reading I have again been reminded about how valuble a critical mass of users can be. Flickr have launched a camera finder section on their site, which identifies what camera is used to take a digital photo. This data is extremely useful to the camera industry, flickr users and photograpers.

The “Flickr Launches Camera Finder” post on Mashable gives a really good summary the details of what the new feature entails.

I think that it is about time for our team at Technovated to release one of our products, which we have been putting on hold for so long because of client work. Come on chaps - lets stop talking and start working!

With the onset of an extremely cold snap of weather on the 1st November, I am longing to go back home to soak up some rays from the hot African sun during Christmas time.

Instead we will be hard at work in a cold and gloomy London, which is really not as bad as it seems. One of the things we have been working on is a project which is really close to the heart and will hopefully benefit the whole of Southern Africa.

The aim of this project is to hold a “web and emerging technologies conference” in South Africa. We want to get international speakers, who are industry leaders and who would like to give some advice to Africans involved in the Web and IT industry.

I have been doing quite a lot of research over the past few months and I really believe that a conference of this nature will be beneficial to the “African technology community”

We have a site up at and running (www.technologyforafrica.org), which is still undergoing some final testing before we start to contact Southern African companies involved in the IT industry. However, if you have any comments or suggestions please contact one of us, or just post a comment to this article.

I am hoping that we will get positive feedback from the majority of people who we contact because I think the concept of “Technology for Africa” is a fantastic opportunity.