After hiring some major names such as Justin Spratt and Clint Bryce to the Quirk team, Rob Stokes is clearly looking to make his agency the biggest in the country. We speak to Rob to hear about these new hires and get his thoughts on the company and where it's going as 2010 winds to a close.

Then we speak to gambling lawyer Wayne Lurie about last week's high court ruling against Piggs Peak Casino that makes gambling in South Africa illegal. This long running feud between the Gauteng Gambling Board and Piggs Peak makes for some confusing reading and Wayne explains the details and what this means ofr the average online gamer.

Finally, CEO of Primedia Online felt that she didn't have enough work running iAfrica and Primedia Online so decided that she would take over Primedia's digital agency Prezence. We chat with Nikki about the move and what this means for outgoing CEO Tim Bishop.

First up, Matthew Stone talks to us about the confusingly named concept of Net Neutrality. As Google and Verizon bring potential legislation to the American congress we try understand what this means for the Internet.

Then, Eric Hersman from Ushaidi has an informal chat with us about Ushahidi, the newly launched Crowdmap service as well as African innovation.

Finally, Andy Higgins from Bidorbuy talks about their recent purchase: Payfast. The payment company aggregates various types of payments in order to facilitate online payments. The company has recently been bought out by Bidorbuy and we find out the details.

This special 2-part show brings you some of the best bits of the conference and lots of analysis from Jarred, Saul and Kerry-Anne. We will also be offered some intimate one-on-one interviews with some of the main speakers recorded by Saul over the weekend.

This second part of the recording rounds up day 2 as well brings you the entire Clay Shirky keynote.

If you weren't there, now's your chance to catch up.

This special 2-part show brings you some of the best bits of the conference and lots of analysis from Jarred, Saul and Kerry-Anne. We will also be offered some intimate one-on-one interviews with some of the main speakers recorded by Saul over the weekend.

Among the highlights were the keynote from Clay Shirky and the workshops conducted by John Resig (the creator of jQuery), to name just two.

If you weren't there, now's your chance to catch up.

First up, Victor Borges from On-Demand talks about the newly released offer from the company and Vodacom where you can watch On-Demand TV through your cellphone. From Spongebob Squarepants to Desperate Housewives you can watch your favourite show on the move for a fixed price per month.

Then, Ben Wagner from the Digital Media and Marketing Association talks about the first round of the Creative Circle digital awards. The Creative Circle Awards reward creativity in traditional advertising and now the DMMA has joined forces with the Circle to reward digital. We find out who won.

Finally, Creative Director Clint Bryce from now Quirk joins us to talk about his move to the Quirkstation. What does this mean for Quirk and how does this place the company?

We've also got the Twit of the week and the news with Antonio Petra.

We start the show off speaking to Simon Dingle to try and understand what on earth is going on at the Department of Communications with Minister Simphiwe Nyanda firing his Director General Mamodupi Mohlala with rumours of impropriety from both camps.

Then we speak to Ishfaq and Charlene from Cell C to discover what on earth their new photocode service is and why we should use their offering.

Finally, as Tech4Africa approaches we speak to international brand ninja Alex Hunter to discuss his history of branding Virgin America and what he'll be speaking about at Tech4Africa.

We've also got our Twit of the week and the news with Kerry-Anne Gilowey and Antonio Petra.

First up, Angus Robinson of Brandsh talks to us about the work done by his company in minimising the potential fallout from the Seacom cable repeater issues. After almost three weeks of downtime there were merely a handful of complaints online. We speak to Angus and Seacom's Linda Carter to understand what happened and what they did to create a positive response.

Then, in a follow up to last weeks DMMA panel we take some questions from the audience and get some further insight into the mindset of publishers in South Africa about paid content and paywalls.

Finally, Jade McDade of 365 Digital tells us about VAST 2.0, a new standard for tracking video advertising and what this means for the South African industry.

We've also got our Twit of the week and Kerry-Anne Gilowey joins us for the news.

First up, blogger and Cape Town man about town, Seth Rotherham joins us to discuss his latest venture with ex radio DJ Richard Hardiman. The two have created an online radio station, cutting through any legislative red tape and allowing them to say, play and do what they want. We speak to the two to find out the story behind 2Oceansvibe radio.

Then we sit in on the DMMA Paid Content Panel. As publishers locally and internationally ponder how to make some real money off their content we join moderator Mike Stopforth as he guides Geoff Cohen of 24.com, Rhys Johnstone of IOL, Bridget Pringle of iAfrica, Phillip De Wet of The Daily Maverick and finally Bronwen Auret of BDFM in the paid content discussion.

Finally, as the Tech4Africa conference draws closer The Digital Edge, as the official Podcast of the event, we're featuring some of the speakers. This week we speak to Rian Van Der Merwe of Yola and previous Ebay about his user experience panel.

We've also got our Twit of the Week and news with Kerry-Anne Gilowey.

First up we're joined by Moneyweb's Hilton Tarrant and Acceleration Media's Di Charton to discuss the latest statistics on online advertising in South Africa. We speak to the two to see where that money is going, how it is being used and whether banner advertising is a worthwhile investment for online marketing.

With the World Cup finishing last night we nostalgically look back by speaking to Andrew Felbert about the research done by Neilsen's on the World Cup. The company tracked viewership throughout all touchpoints from TV, Web, Mobile and Social Media and we talk to Andrew to discuss the findings.

We'll also have our Twit of the week as well as the news with Kerry-Anne Gilowey.

First up as part of the Digital Edge's involvement with Tech4Africa we'll be hearing from some of the speakers at the conference to find out what they'll be speaking about as well as who they're looking forward to speaking to. We start off these chats with Steve Song.

Then we speak to Daniel Neville of Idea Bounty, the crowdsourcing platform, to hear about their latest bounty for the Financial Times. The FT is looking for ways to increase sales to their paid content and Dan tells us all about it.

Finally, Tamaryn McPherson from Vodacom talks to us about the new Vodacom Colour range, a youth focussed product offering that is taking shape with the help of online campaigns and social media focus.

We're also joined by Antonio Petra for the news and Jarred is back in town.

Yastic is currently pulling apart the traditional auction system with their crazy, SMS auction offering. We start the show off speaking to founder Richard about the service and the story behind it.

Then, Richard Wright of Getclosure talks to us about the service as well what recourses one has when complaining online.

Finally, we speak to Nate Elliot from Forrester Research to discuss the companies research done into social media and the processes they advise their clients to use.

We've also got the news with Kerry-Anne Gilowey and Antonio Petra of Cambrient.

First up Julie Taylor joins us to discuss Streetview South Africa. We talk on topics of privacy, wifi sniffing and Elephants.

Then Nikki Cockcroft joins us to discuss the new changes at iAfrica.com. We talk the end of the portal era, changes to their platform and advertising revenue.

Finally Jonathan Gluckman chats about Clicks2Customers, one of South Africa's most successful Internet companies. Jonathan gives us the history of the company and some overview of what search is.

We kick the show off by chatting with Justin Spratt of Internet Solutions to discuss the companies new mobile VOIP service whereby using your cellphone you can cut out mobile operators thus massively lowering costs.

Then we speak to John Smyth of the Justice Alliance of South Africa (JASA). Comic book geeks are imagining spandex clad heros but the JASA is a legal body that has recently been tasked to draft a bill by the Department of Home Affairs to prevent all pornography on Mobile and the Internet in South Africa. We speak to John to discuss the why and how this is technically possible.

Finally we speak to Wireless G CEO Carel van der Merwe about the companies new inflight wireless offering that the company will be launching within the next few months.

We've also got our Twit of the Week and special guest Rob Stokes joins us with Kerry-Anne Gilowey on the news.

First up we speak to RAMP group head and Netprophet MC Rob Gilmour for his highlights of the conference and then after that we speak to Stefan Magdalinski about his talk at the event.

Then Jason Probert of DSTV Online tells us what DSTV on Demand offers and how you can catch up on the week's shows online.

Finally Christophe Muller of Youtube talks about the newly launched Youtube SA service and what it means for local content providers.

We've also got our Twit of the week and news with Kerry-Anne Gilowey.

To kick off the show, Pete Case joins us to discuss his recent judging of the international Webby awards. These awards look at international creativity and design in digital and quite a few South African's are in the running this year.

Next up Geoff Cohen from 24.com talks to us about the success of the company over the past year and what it takes to build a site with over two million users a month.

Finally, we speak to Mike Wronksi who recently released the report on South African Twitter stats. We quiz him on the details to find out whether Twitter is a medium worth caring about or if it's just an echo chamber of geeky whingers.

We're also joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey on the news and Jarred brings us the Twit of the week.

First up we get South African web legend Jason Xenopoulos from branded entertainment company "2.0" to discuss his latest campaign, Scotland From Home. The campaign follows hapless Scot, Bruce Campbell around Scotland to discover the secret behind whiskey making.

We launch launch straight into a debate on HTML5 vs Flash. Both languages allow for a highly visual and attractive web however in light of Apple's Steve Jobs removing any chance of Flash being used on his devices, companies are rapidly jumping ship to the newer, more streamlined HTML 5 option.

We look at what the situation is, why some feel that HTML 5 is better, get a written response from Adobe and find out whether digital agencies are worried about losing their business and whether they're currently changing Flash designers skill sets to HTML5.

We also have our Twit of the week and Kerry-Anne Gilowey joins us on the news.

Large South African brands have pondered the value of building a major marketing presence online for years. For a brand like Pick n Pay, whose primary engagement with customers remains in store, digital has remained in the margins of their marketing thinking.
The last year has forced some major rethinks in boardrooms across the country. With cheap bandwidth in our midst, Internet penetration over 10% across the board, and well higher than that in the upper LSM’s, and the rise of an active mobile user base it has finally dawned on everyone that this is a medium to be taken very seriously.

To start off we speak to the head of E-Tailing at Pick n Pay, Lynsay Webster Rozon to discuss why the company decided to create their new website and why they chose Pick n Pay and Aqua Online to create the site.

Then we speak to Newton Wilshire and Adam Brandt from Aqua Online as well as Zoe Benghis, Hans Liebenberg and Di Wilson from Cambrient to discuss the features of the show and what it takes to put together a site of this size.

We're also joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey of Cape Town Daily Photo on the news and Jarred brings us the "Twit of the week"

First up, U.S. based author and podcaster, Jeffrey Powers joins us to discuss the current change in the Ning business model. For the past two years social network building service Ning has worked on a model of Freemium. In essence they gave away their basic service for free and charged extra for more premium offerings. However in recent weeks things have changed with a new paid for model emerging.

Then in an article for the Daily Maverick, our very own Jarred and online reputation management software Brandseye's MD Tim Shier created a study on the brand value of Malema and how much his mentions were worth in terms of advertising value. Tim explains how the study was put together and Jarred explains the why.

Finally, Tech4Africa founder Gareth Knight joins us to discuss the conference and the kind of speakers he'll be having. Gareth also talks about the person this conference will appeal to and if you're either a technical person or an entrepreneur, this is one to watch out for.

First up it's Matthew Buckland to give us a rundown of his new site, Memeburn. The site focusses on tech startups and news in South Africa and emerging markets. This is Matthew's first foray into self-employment after leaving 24Labs. Matthew also tells us about his other ventures and life as an entpreneur.

Then Karen Dempers, Marketing Manager of the OPA joins us to discuss the fourth quarter 2009 results from the organisation and what it means for the South African Internet. We also look as to why big players such as Media24 are managing to dominate the industry and what it means that sites such as Facebook are not part of the OPA.

Finally, Florian Leppla of the Open Rights Group joins us from the United Kingdom to talk about the Digital Economy Bill. The Bill aims to make Britain a digital nation with digital TV, broadband in every home but also features unrealistic, draconian laws on piracy and the policing of piracy.

We're also joined by Cambrient's Glen Tomlinson for the news and Jarred brings us the Twit of the week at the end of the show.

We've also got our Twit of the week as well as Kerry-Anne Gilowey joining us on the show for the news.

This episiode we can't promise you an unbiased view of the iPad but we can tell you that you will want one.

First up we're joined by journalist, entrepreneur and now publisher Duncan Mcleod to discuss the situation between Google and China. We discuss why there is the rift between the company and the country and also see if issues between multinational corporations and countries is bound to continue.

Then with uncapped ADSL becoming the standard offering by South African ISP's we couldn't help but wonder whether going to a model where and ISP's costs are no longer fixed is a bad trend for the industry that will result in smaller providers closing down. We speak to the head of the Internet Service Providers Association, Ant Brooks to get his thoughts on the matter.

Finally, Pete Case from Gloo gives us a rundown of the state of digital agencies in South Africa. This recording comes from our Digital Edge live in Cape Town show.

Our first guest is FNB CEO Michael Jordaan who discusses the details of Paypal in South Africa with us. Join us as we travel to the executive floor of the FNB building to talk international finance and the effect on the country.

Then we hear from Arthur Goldstuck to discuss his latest research done in conjunction with Cisco. The 2010 Access Report looks at Internet access in South Africa and future trends as well as other industry statistics such as the amount of broadband connections in South Africa. Listen to hear the fascinating details and the exciting future the South African Internet looks forward to.

Finally Bronwen Auret joins us to interview Diane Charton of Acceleration Media to discuss the topic of paid content in the South African context from an advertisers perspective.

Finally we've got a recording of the news with Kerry-Anne Gilowey recorded at our Digital Edge Live show last Friday.

With local online retailer Kalahari.net moving into the e-book arena we spoke to CEO of the company, Gary Hadfield, speaks to use about their offering and the industry of e-books as a whole.

Then Nikki Cockroft, vice chair of the OPA gives us some information on how their changing their membership structure to accomodate more than just publishers.

Finally, Brett Haggard of Hypertext Media joins us live from SxSW in Austin Texas to tell us what the conference is about and what his highlights were.

We'll also speak to Kerry-Anne Gilowey to discuss the news and Jarred brings us an every amusing "Twit of the week".

This week is your chance to get involved in an international charity event that is set to make history as we begin the run off to 2010 World Cup in true South African style. For more information on previous Twestival events, visit http://capetown.twestival.com/ - or email us at capetwestival@uthango.org to find out how you can help.

It's also the last week for you to book tickets to The Digital Edge live in Cape Town this Friday the 26th at the BMW Pavillion. Book now for a great event: http://bit.ly/bJARUs

We're joined on the show by Clive Simpkins, a speaker and presenter to discuss the topic of Influence in South Africa. This segment was produced in conjunction with Mandy De Waal of MandyLives.

Next, with paid content being a major topic of conversation we team up with Bronwen Auret of BDFM to discuss the issue from a South African perspective with General Manager of Digital at Avusa, Elan Lohmann.

Finally with almost eight hundred thousand rand already raised, the Crowdfund is almost reaching its target. The idea comes from Eve Dmochowska, an entrepreneur hoping that the fund will provide angel investment to 50-100 startups.

Finally, don't forget to join us in Cape Town on March the 26th for The Digital Edge Live. Bookings are available here: http://bit.ly/bJARUs

Join us as we discuss new media and the business models behind the future of the Internet. A special thanks to Metro for providing us with the space to record and for a fantastic meal. We highly recommend you get to Metro.

Also don't forget to join us at The Digital Edge Live on the 26th of March in Cape Town. Book now to avoid dissapointment: http://bit.ly/bJARUs

Remember to sign up for The Digital Edge live in Cape Town on the 26th of March: http://www.thedigitaledge.co.za/cambrient2/view/cambrient2/en/page1548

We speak to Richard Sidersky, Head of the Media Buying division of Aqua Online as well as Stijn Smolders from Habari to understand their new Facebook offering and finally Nikki Cocroft of the Online Publishers Association to give us some industry perspective.

This week we're also joined by Hilton Tarrant of Moneyweb live from Barcelona to discuss the Mobile World Congress and as always, Kerry-Anne Gilowey joins us to discuss the news of the week.

Remember to sign up for The Digital Edge Conference happening on the 26th of March in Cape Town: http://www.thedigitaledge.co.za/cambrient2/view/cambrient2/en/page1548

We speak to Wesley Lynch of Realm Digital, Anton De Wet of Telamenta and Peter Flynn of White Wall Web to see how their business works, what they program in and whether the relationship with creative’s is complicated or not.

We also speak to Kerry-Anne Gilowey to get all the buzz news and Jarred brings us the Twit of the week.

Of course you can setup a Google alert to check certain keywords but this is not instant, nor does it offer any sort of look into the influence and reach of these comments online. It's also important to remember that these tools are useful not only in a crisis but to value positive mentions as well as to help see what aspects of an online campaign might be successful or not. 

This week we speak to Ingrid Rubin from Virtuosa to speak about Saidwot, Tim Shier from Quirk to talk on Brandseye and finally Gordon Geldenhuys from Acceleration Media to talk about Radian6. 

We also speak to Vanessa to hear about Breadline Africa's latest competition to raise funds as well as Kerry-Anne Gilowey to discuss the news of the week.

We also speak to Sean Riley of AD:Dynamo in our Agency of the week section and as always, Kerry-Anne Gilowey joins us in the iPad news section.

We sent intrepid reporter Jarred Cinman with recording equipment and a fair sense of cynicism to Stanford. What returned was someone almost akin to a religious convert. Jarred, the usually cynical member of Th Digital Edge came back in love with the location, people and concept of The Geek Retreat.

Follow Jarred as he explains his new found fascination with the Geek Retreat as he brings you coverage of the event.

Take a listen as we put our prediction pants on to see what we can expect for 2010 and what you can expect from marketing, technology and culture.

First up, we listen to our quiz show to hear the chaos and madness that was the quiz show. That episode we were joined by Toby Shapshak as the quiz master, Anna Vaulina, Justin Spratt, Craig Rodney and Rich Mulholland. To call them loud and raucous may be the understatement of the year.

Next we delve into the issue of why the online space in South Africa is still so dominated by white males and what can be done to solve this issue. We spoke to the Chairman of the Mail & Guardian, Trevor Ncube to get an understanding of the the issue.

Then, as the fight between pirates and copyright lawyers continues to grow, we took a look down the rabbit hold that is piracy online. We spoke to both Christian Engstrom, leader of the Pirate Party in the European Parliament and Carlo Lavizarri, a copyright lawyer for the recording industry. The debate was heated and that was just between Saul and Jarred.

Continuing the topical and controversial theme, we took a look at the growing issue of privacy online. We spoke to Lillie Coney, a director at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in the USA as well as locally, Dominic White, a security expert. Remember your tinfoil hats.

As digital continued to grow in South Africa in 2009 so to did the awards to rewards the work done. We look at The Bookmark Awards where we speak to organisers, judges and winners of awards.

Finally, a short look into a recent topic of Online Dating. We speak to David Burstein of The Dating Lab and Jane Collachio, an online dating expert. 

We're also joined by the extremely patient Kerry-Anne Gilowey and the show ends with a Twit of the week.

We're joined by Avusa's Elan Lohmann, Stuff Magazine's Toby Shapshak, Mobile Marketer Gaby Rosario, Digivox's Andrea Mitchell and finally comedian and marketing expert John Vlismas.

Next year we're joined by the same guests and more for their 2010 predictions so join us next week for a greatest hits episode and on the 11th of January 2010 for the predictions of the year.

We speak to David Burnstein of The Dating Lab to see how online dating works as well as author Jane Coloccia to give her experiences on the subject. We also speak anonymously to two users of online dating to get their perspective and stories.

We're also joined by Anne-Sophie Leens to hear about Apartment Studios and as always, Kerry-Anne Gilowey from Cape Town Daily Photo joins us for the news.

We speak to developers of online games in the form of local gamers from the "RoseZA" server as well as look internationally to speak to Oscar Garza from Eve Online, the third biggest MMORPG in the world. In order to better understand these games we also speak to players and finally Jerri Mperdempes, someone that makes his living off selling in-game merchandise online.

Finally we also speak to Hein Koen of Flickswitch in our 60-second pitch as well as being joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey from Cape Town Daily Photo in our news segment.

Our first guest on the show is Chris Yelland, a publisher of Electrical Engineering titles to give us an understanding of the situation at Eskom as well as let us in to some of the industry gossip behind the media front. We then speak to branding expert Clive Simpkins to explain why this fiasco is an example of how not to position yourself. Finally, Ingrid Rubin of Online Reputation Management Agency "SaidWot" joins us to talk about the number of mentions of Eskom online and what can be done online to protect your brand in the event of a crisis. Mandy De Waal then summarises the situation and what can be done going forward. As always, Kerry-Anne Gilowey then joins us for the news.

We speak to Ken Eklund, writer of what has been dubbed the first serious ARG, World Without Oil. We also speak to Chris Walsh from agency McKinney to talk about the ARG done for Audi USA known as "The Heist". Jonathan Cherry, a local ARG developer talks about the work done for Woolworths and Marie Lamb from ARGN.com gives us an explanation of what an ARG really is.

In our 60-second pitch we speak to Jonathan Hall of Added-Value, a branding agency. Our Top Ten looks at the ten best quotes from South Park and as always we're joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey from Cape Town Daily Photo in the news.

We speak to Angus Robinson of Brandsh, Louis Janse van Rensburg of World Wide Creative, Gino Cosme of Cosmedia and finally consultant and web strategist Eve Dmochowska to see what is happening with excessive charges as well as whether you really do need an agency.

Our top ten this week is the ten best quotes from T.V. presenter Jeremy Clarkson and our 60-second pitch features Kish Ramdial from immedia to talk about their iPhone app development. As always, Kerry-Anne Gilowey joins us for the countries best audio news.

What information is being harvested from your computer and what is being done with this information? This week on The Digital Edge we speak to privacy experts to find out.

We're joined by Dominic White of Deloitte Security, Lillie Coney of privacy rights group EPIC, Gian Visser of ISP Afrihost and Pria Chetty a technology and innovation lawyer. We also speak to Richard Mulholland of Missing Link in our "60-second pitch section and have a special chat with head of the OPA, Adrian Hewlett. As always, Kerry-Anne Gilowey joins us for a fun filled look at the news.

We speak to two legitimate email marketers in the form of Josh Adler from pMailer and Mia Papanicolaou from Striata. They give us a run through of how best to create an email marketing campaign as well as giving us some advice on what not to do when it comes to database purchases. We also speak to an email database list seller to see how that industry operates.

In our 60-second pitch we speak to Robynn Burls of Encyclomedia, a highly targeted media database service. Our top ten features then ten most amusing spam email subjects’ lines and as always, we’re joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey in our news section.

Destination Marketing Organisations, traditionally part of a government tourism agency, have started a major push online. These sites can give potential visitors the ability to book hotels, tours, rentals and sightseeing all from the comfort of their bedroom.

We speak to Aslam Levy of Cape Town Tourism as well as Karin Duncker of the German Tourism Board. They give us the lowdown of what their territories are doing to promote themselves online.

In our "60-second pitch" we're joined by Marcel Oudejans and our Top Ten this week features the ten best "Sheldonisms" in honour of the character Sheldon Cooper on T.V. show "Big Bang Theory". As always, we're joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey from Cape Town Daily Photo.

We spoke to winners TBWA Hunt Lascaris on their campaign for the Zimbabwean as well as Chris Gotz from Ogilvy, Tony Koenderman and Ben Wagner from Stonewall Digital. The show also features an overview of the digital winners and a debate on whether the Loeries really gets digital.

Remember, if you didn't win at the Loeries in the digital category there's always the Bookmarks coming up. This week is the last week to register so go to www.thebookmarks.co.za now.

We're joined by Jason Probert of DSTV New Media to explain the video on demand services that DSTV offers as well as explain the launch of the new "African Film Club". We're also joined by Dagmar Heijmans of website "Sellaband", a Dutch based website that helps bands raise money to record their albums. We're again joined by last week's guests, European Parliament member Christian Engstrom and International Copyright Lawyer Carlo Lavizzari.

In our "60-second pitch" we speak to Rob Gilmour of RSAWeb and our Top Ten features the ten most popular movies on the Internet Movie Database. As always, Kerry-Anne Gilowey joins us for the news.

Legally speaking, piracy is a crime but is this an apt description for what many call a victimless crime. Is this crime actually victimless and is there a solution to the situation. With the Recording Industry Association of America going after students and single mothers for ludicrous amounts of money that they can never afford, you cannot help but wonder whether the anti-piracy crusade has not gone slightly off the original mandate of promoting copyright.

In the first of a two part series we look at the legalities and the morality behind piracy to see whether the anti-piracy SWAT team will be breaking through your doors if you download the latest episode of Lost or that new Britney Spears album. In this episode we're joined by a member of the European Parliament, the head of the Recording Industry of South Africa and finally an international copyright lawyer to find out whether you're breaking the law or just stepping around a gray area.

In our Agency of the week we speak to Mark from Tribe and as always we're joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey of Cape Town Daily Photo to give us the news

We combinined a live debate with pre-recorded news, video's and a previous Top 10 to inform the FNB team of what's happening in digital. We managed to take that recording and distill it down into twelve fantastic minutes of content. Our first guest is Gisele Wertheim Aymes, the Head of Media at FNB speaking to us about using social media inside a corporate. Then, Steven Ambrose of Internet consultancy World Wide Worx gives us a run down of the numbers of broadband subscribers in the country.

We're also joined by Marianna and Tim of charity Breadline Africa to talk to us about how they're using the Internet to market themselves and how you can get involved. Our Top 10 this week celebrates the soul of the corporate warrior by providing the ten best "David Brentism" ala David Brent of the British version of "The Office". Nausher Rahman, of Grid Worldwide gives us his final tip about online branding and as always, Kerry-Anne Gilowey of Cape Town Daily Photo joins us for the news.

In our Agency of the week segment we speak to Anton Moulder from digital design agency Urbian. We also speak to Nausher Rahman of Grid Worldwide to get his third tip on online branding and our top ten this week looks at the ten best comments from legendary racing commentator, Murray Walker. As always, regular news contributor Kerry-Anne Gilowey joins us in the news

Almost all key people in Digital businesses with the terms "Director", "Head" or "Manager" tend to be on the pale side. To say nothing of the programmers, designers and innovators that is shaping our digital future. In this week's episode of The Digital Edge we take a somewhat controversial look at this sensitive topic. Is this racism, a coincidence, a cultural issue or the continued legacy of our Apartheid past?

In this episode we speak to Mail & Guardian CEO Trevor Ncube, web enthusiast Quincy Ntuli and finally blogger, business coach and controversial article writer, Ramon Thomas. They give their opinions on what is going on in the black social media movement and explain what's going on with the lack of black social media entrepreneurs.

In our Agency of the Week segment we’re joined by Clint Bryce of SpacePatrolCar, a division of 24.com. We’re also joined by Nausher Rahman of Grid Worldwide to give us his second tip on online branding. As always Kerry-Anne Gilowey of Cape Town Daily Photo joins us to give the most important and relevant news in the country.

The quiz features a mix of questions spanning from the serious to the sublime to the complex and the show will be hosted by Toby Shapshak, the Editor of Stuff Magazine. Listen to episode 31 of The Digital Edge to hear some of the most challenging and the most amusing questions being answered.

In this episode we spend a little bit of time talking to the people of Cambrient, finding out what goes into being a digital development agency. This week we speak to various different people to understand what their role in the company is and what type of person it takes to work on one of the premier web, mobile and analytic companies in the country.

Also in this episode is the weekly news and we're joined, as always, by Kerry-Anne Gilowey of Cape Town Daily Photo.

Our local version of the Cannes Lions Awards, the Loeries, are being awarded at the end of September, a mere two months away. Before the awards though, the judging takes places to weed out the chaff from the wheat. In this episode we speak to three of the judges that spent last Thursday in a darkened room judging the entrants in the digital section. Click play to find the unique way that the entrants were judged as well as what it means to win a Loerie.

We are also joined by Elena Douvos of Tequila in our Agency of the week section and Diane Charlton gives us her final tip on buying online media. Finally we are joined by regular Kerry-Anne Gilowey and Uno De Waal in the news.

This week we speak to Melissa Attree of Geton eMarketing, Pedro van Gaalen of Hello World Agency, Sarah Rice from Sentient Communications, Melody Maker of Cerebra, Craig Rodney of Emerging Media and Gavin Moffat of Puruma Communications join us to explain the six facets of Online PR and how to use those tools and strategies to get people speaking about your brand online.

Our Agency of the week is "Wisdom Games" and we are joined by CEO Raymond De Villiers to give us an explanation of how they make games for companies. In our Top Ten we look at "adverts from the 80's". Finally, Diane Charlton joins us for her third tip on online media buying.

This week we speak to Ray Moore and Leonard Kahn from Supersport, the biggest sport website in the country with a rapidly growing international footprint. We're also joined by Ryan Cooper, head of New Media at Touchline Media, the owners of Kickoff.co.za. Kickoff is the biggest Soccer website in the country with over two million pageviews a month. Finally, Steve Morris from Scoregrid.co.za joins us to talk about Scoregrid, a unique Soccer tracking system that allows you to see where the ball is and which player is kicking that ball live.

Our agency of the week is Atplay, the digital division of Saatchi & Saatchi in Cape Town. We're joined by head Allan Kent to give us the lowdown on the topic. We're also joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey with the news and Diane Charlton from Acceleration Media gives us her second tip for online media buying in our Tips and Tricks section.

Firstly. we're joing by Diaan Mynhardt from the Atheist Nation, an online social network of Atheists online. Second, we speak to Ryan Hogarth of the Church of Scientology to discuss the latest Wikipedia/Scientology saga and how it has affected their church. Third and finally, Andrew Butterworth from the GodFirst Church provides us some insight into how he is promoting his church online to current congregants and attempts to evangelise new followers.

In our Agency of the week segment we're joined by American entrepreneur and web developer, Howard Mann to hear about his business, book and trip to South Africa. Our Top Ten this week looks at the "ten best Afrikaans sayings" and is read by Erich Viedge. Finally, this week we start a new "Tips & Tricks" section with Diane Charlton from Acceleration Media to give us tips on how to buy online media space.

In this episode we take a slightly satirical look at the Geek Retreat to see whether it was all just an excuse to drink or if this group, with their German sedans, fast Internet access and venture capital funds could solve the issues that face the man on the street?

In our agency of the week we speak to Mongezi Mtati of Netweb events to hear about his monthly offline networking events. The top 10 this week looks at the phenomenon of "Tubes" and Rob Stokes joins us to give his final tip on the topic of how to succeed at SEO.

In this episode we speak to agency heads Brent Shahim from Aqua Online, Gavin Rooke from Trigger and Pete Case from Gloo. Each of these agencies have been bought by WPP, Isobar and Kagiso respectively. We take a look at the pitfalls of acquisitions and pick apart the specifics of these deals involving both local and international media conglomerates. We're also joined by industry commentator Sandra Gordon to get her take on the local industry.

In our agency of the week we speak to Keisha Mayhew of Prezence, one of SA’s largest web and new media agencies and a part of Primedia. Our top ten this week are author Lauren Beukes, writer of the book Moxyland's, favourite opening lines from books. Finally Rob Stokes joins us for the third time to give us his tips and tricks on SEO.

Second, Brian Dunning from internationally reknown Podcast Skeptoid joins us. A few years ago, Brian began searching for interesting and unusual phenomena in Internet forums and mailing lists. More than once, he tried to open a discourse offering alternate, more reasonable explanations for the reported phenomena, as diplomatically and respectfully as he could. Thus Skeptoid was born.

Third, in our blogger episode we were joined by Seth Rotheram of the blog 2OceansVibe. Seth talks to us about his lifestyle, blogging and his penchant for the finer things in life. Fourth, head of the Pandora music service, Tim Westergren joins us all the way from the United States to tell us about the streaming service and its impact on the music industry.

Finally, Vinny Lingham of Web 2.0 DIY site design company Yola joins us to talk about Web 2.0 startups

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While deceitfully attracting customers might not be the best long term strategy the opportunities to brand online games, webisodes and create what is known as utilitainment are rife. In this episode we look at what it takes to create digital branded content and how your brand can benefit from a foray online. We speak to Mark van Diggelen of Skillpod Media, a company that makes branded games for companies. We're also joined by Lauren Beukes to talk about Alternate Reality Games, Lionel Smith of Trudon to talk about Widgets and Tristan Owen of MEDIAS to talk about Webisodes.

In our Agency of the week we speak to Grant Shippey of Amorphous, a digital communications agency based in Johannesburg. Our top ten this week is the ten top blogs according to Amatomu and Amorphous. Finally, Rob Stokes joins us with his second tip on how to improve your sites SEO ranking. We're also joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey with the news.

Listen as we take a trip down to the Mtunzini landing station for the media launch. We speak to various journalist, bloggers and other digerati that found themselves in the sweltering humidity of Durban in the winter. We also field some questions to SEACOM CEO Brian Herlihy but first we speak to Anthony Brooks from the ISPA to get his take on the SEACOM cable and how it will affect ISP's around the country.

We also speak to Walter Pike of the AAA School of Advertising's Digital Marketing Academy to see how he's training the digital agency staff of the future. Our top ten this week is ten reasons to get broadband read by David Perel and in our tips and tricks section we speak to Rob Stokes of Quirk to get his tip for search engine optimisation. Before all that we're joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey from Cape Town Daily Photo as well as Uno De Waal of 10and5 to bring us all the hipster news.

In a sense what you're about to hear is akin to a model being photographed without their makeup as we release an episode without clever post production and studio conditions. Join us as we take a listen to what it takes to put a Podcast together and look at a week in the life of The Digital Edge.

Imagine yourself watching the latest action movie featuring Brad Pitt. In the scene Pitt is involved in a high speed car chase with three pursuers, a literal life and death scenario. In the next twenty minutes of celluloid Pitt manages to evade his pursuers, rescues the girl and saves the day, all while driving his sleek and sexy BMW. What you’ve just seen is an example of branded entertainment, a new form of advertising that is proving extremely popular as people’s perceptual filters tend to block out traditional forms of advertising.

In this episode we take an in-depth look into the how branded entertainment is infiltrating the world of T.V. We speak to Jason Xenopoulos and Peter Gird from new agency, 2point0 to see what it takes to build a piece of branded entertainment, how much it costs and when it's more appropriate than a 30-second advert. We're also joined by Stanley Edwards from Platypus Productions and Heather Swarts from Zoom Advertising to see whether Branded Entertainment is going to be the death of the 30-second spot.

Our Agency of the week this episode is "HelloWorld", a recently formed agency that focuses on conversation, collaboration and interaction. Our top ten this week are ten of South Africa's most loved brands and as always, Kerry-Anne Gilowey from Cape Town Daily Photo joins us with the news. In our final segment we get a chorus of compliments from local web celebrities.

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In this week’s episode of The Digital Edge we look at the medium that pushed the Internet into the mainstream despite still being something most people will not admit to taking part in. In this episode we speak to Wendy Maltz, a sex therapist from America to get her views on online porn as well as how easy it is for people to get addicted to the medium. We then speak to Silas Howarth, the organiser of the Sexpo to give us a slightly more “pro-porn” opinion. To round off we get the opinion of various people on the street to see what they think about porn. These anonymous contributors talk on varied topics such as the economics behind porn, their distaste for the medium and how often they watch porn.

Also joining us is Joey Da Silva of Cape Town based, web and mobile application developer, Formfunction in our Agency of the week section. Antonio Petra joins us for the last time this week to give us a summary of all we’ve learnt about online measurement. Our top ten this week is ten movie names repurposed for porn movies. As always we’re also joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey with the news where this week we discuss politics.

Despite the numbers and despite the huge amount of celebrities that have flocked to using the service many are still unsure as to what Twitter is really about. Not even having Twitter featured on Oprah seems to have demystified the service and it still remains in the realm of the tech savvy or the socially challenged.

In order to cut through the clutter that surrounds Twitter we decided to look into what the service really can offer. We speak to some local Twitter users (or Tweeple as they like to be called) and get an idea of what they use Twitter for and why it's relevant to them. We'll also speak to some marketers using Twitter to see how they promote their product and what, if any, success they've had.

Our Agency of the Week in this episode is Aqua Online. We speak to MD Brent Shahim to hear more about the busienss of digital. As always we're joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey in our news section and our top 10 this week is "Ten things progammers say when something is not working". Finally, Antonio Petra of Cambrient gives us his third tip for online measurement. This week he tells us about the nefariously titled "A-B Testing".

Our first guest this week is Vincent Maher from Vodacom's "The Grid", a location based social network. Next we have Oliver Krantz from Pocit, a mobile payment service. Finally we round off the show with Stefano Sessa of 24.com as well Colin Daniels of The Times. Stefano tells us about the 24.com iPhone App while Colin talks about The Times mobile site.

We are also joined, as always, by Kerry-Anne Gilowey in our news segment. Our Agency of the week is Mango-Omc and we are joined by Catherine Luckhoff. Finally our Top 10 this week is the "ten most annoying ringtones" available to download. Finally Cambrient's very own Antonio Petra joins us with his tip for online measurement.

Our first guest is a South African now residing in Silicon Valley, Vinny Lingham. Vinny founded the startup Yola (previously Synthasite) around two years ago and recently received 20 million dollars in venture capital to grow the service. We spoke to Vinny to get an international perspective on the local market.

We also speak to Charl Norman of Blueworld communities and Justin Hartman of Afrigator. Blueworld is a unique social network that works both offline and online. Afrigator is a blog aggregator that provides an overview of the burgeoning African blogosphere. Both companies were acquired by Media24 and MIH Africa respectively, and are thus part of the Naspers group. Finally we're joined by Barbara Mallinson of startup Obami, a social network that gets parents and students involved in the happenings of their school.

For our regular feature, agency of the week, we're joined by Donna McCallum of Fairy Godmother Inc. She waves her wand and tells us about her business. Our Top 10 is the ten best South African political gaffes from the campaign trail. We're also joined as always by Kerry-Anne Gilowey of Cape Town Daily Photo with the news roundup. Finally the show features Mike Stopforth of Cerebra in his fourth and last "Tips and Tricks" on Social Media.

Our guests this week are Brendan Jack from the Brendan Jackast, Simon Dingle from the ZATechShow, Jayne Morgan of the Mail & Guardian Podcast as well as Glen Verran from the ZAShow. We roundoff our lineup with international Podcaster, Brian Dunning of Skeptoid. He brings us an international slant on the medium. Brian answers our burning question of whether we could one day gain a massive following and quit our days jobs. The answer he provides is quite surprising. Finally we speak to our very own producer, Brandon Rogoff to get an idea of what it takes to put together a Podcast. Brandon is the genius that puts together our Podcast every week and makes us sound like Brad Pitt or George Clooney.

As always, we have a roundup of the news with Kerry-Anne Gilowey of Cape Town Daily Photo. In our Agency of the week we're joined by Justin Spratt of IS Labs and the show ends with Mike Stopforth giving us his second of four "Tips and Tricks" of Social Media.

We speak to Nic Haralambous of SA Rocks, Seth Rotherham of 2Oceansvibe, Exmi from Expensive Mistakes Cheap Thrills, Shaun Oakes of Shaun Oakes.com, PhillyGirl of Glad To Be A Girl which was recently voted the best African blog in the Bloggies, Jason Bagley from the Incredible Connection blog and finally Se7en from Se7en.org. We round up that line up with a summary of the blogosphere by Justin Hartman, head of blog aggregator Afrigator.

We ask what they blog about, why they blog and discuss whether blogging has changed their professional lives. This probing view into the South African blogosphere will help you better understand the mindset of the often misunderstood blogger.

We also speak to Fred Roed of World Wide Creative in our Agency of the Week segment as well as get Mike Stopforth to give us his tips on Social Media. Our top ten this week is read by Dee Chetty, an SA Blog Awards finalist and focuses on ten of his favourite pick up lines. As always we are joined by Kerry-Anne Gilowey for the news roundup.

Whether you think Bloggers are anti-social reprobates or the future of media this episode will help you decide your stance.

Search Engine Optimisation is loosely defined as pushing your website up the search engine so that it comes out as the first result on a specific search term. The Digital Edge felt that this was often used to beat the system and promote dubious or incorrect content. We decided to find out.

We speak to an anonymous SEO expert to hear how he manipulates the Google search system purely for the purpose of selling products and not giving the user the most relevant search results. We also speak to Brendon Scott, a practitioner of "Negative SEO". Brendon uses the Google search algorithm to actually push websites down the search rankings rather than up as with traditional SEO. Brendon gives us some insight as to why you would want this service and a brief overview of how to take advantage of Google.

Finally we get to hear the positive side of SEO from Rob Stokes, founder of Quirk E-Marketing. Rob is joined by Christopher Mills of "SEO GURU WP" and Imod. They give us an explanation of the commercial model surrounding Search Engine Optimisation and show it's usage for promoting good content.

As always there's our regular news roundup and "Agency of the week". Kerry-Anne Gilowey joins us as always for the news and Marlon Parker is featured in the Agency. Marlon is involved with Impact Direct, a drug abuse-counselling centre that uses social media as its tool for counseling. Our Top 10 this week is read by "Phillygirl", recently crowned the Best African Blogger in the International Bloggie Awards.

Whatever your opinion on SEO is, pick a side and come listen to the debate.

We speak to Steyn Speed from the ANC and Anthony Hazell from the DA to hear their side of the story. We also get commentary from aggrieved local blogger Vincent Hofmann but first the GM of Publishing & Social Media at 24.com, Matthew Buckland, gives us an overview of the various campaigns taking place online.

Cape Town Daily Photo owner, Kerry-Anne Gilowey, joins us this week for the first time to help us present the news. We’re also joined by Kevin Lourens of Cambrient in the “Agency of the week segment” and the inimitable Heater Ford tells us about the South African Blog Awards in her segment, The Blogedge. Our Top 10 for the week attempts to give some exposure to a segment of our society that requires as much help as possible: the South African Podcasting industry.

We are joined this week all the way from the US of A by Tim Westergren, the founder of US-based music service Pandora. He talks to us about the change in consumption habits from pre-packaged content to on-demand music using services like his. Pandora’s iPhone app is now the largest downloaded in the world, and the Pandora service gets over 2 million tracks played per day.

We also speak to Jake Larsen, the head of the soon-to-be-launched (April 24th) South African Nokia Music Store. He gives us all the information on the store including what devices it can be used on and gives us a scoop on the pricing. That's right, we are the first place to provide the pricing information.

Finally, local musician Verity tells us about how she managed to turn the recording industry on its head and got her album published by selling it online before it was even created.

Regular feature, The Blogedge is about the Facebook Terms of Service issue, and Stonewall is this week’s “Agency of the week.”

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Episode 8 is entirely about the Design Indaba so come hear all about it

For Agency of the week we hear from James Barty of King James. James gives us the low down of how an integrated agency works. King James is an agency that was formed in 1998 and dabbles in traditional and digital marketing as well as eventing and PR.

Heather Ford brings us interesting information from the Blogosphere in her section the Blogedge. This week she speaks about the iHeritage project and sound smart by dropping words like "ephemera".

As always we have the Top 10 (where we speak about the soppiest love lines in movies) and a rounup of all the news.

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We also hear from Heather Ford in her regular segment, "Blogedge" and other regulars such as the news roundup and the somewhat self indulgent "Top 10" for the week.

Finally we launch a new section this week known as "Agency of the week". This episode we feature Sarah Rice from Sentient Communications talking to us about her traditional PR company's push into online PR

No animals were harmed in the making of Episode 4 of the Digital Edge.

We’re also joined this week by Heather Ford, previously of iCommons. She gives us a weekly roundup of the South African blogosphere and this week delves in the Donn Edwards/QVC smackdown

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We also give thanks to those who were nice enough to write about our Podcast and introduce some fascinating new segments coming up in the next few weeks. Our Top 10  looks at the worst examples of personal branding in our top ten segment.

Remember, listening to the Digital Edge is not only good for your job but will make you a better person.

Guests on the show are Walter Pike (AAA School & PiKE), and Andy Hadfield, the "Internet Guy" at FNB.

Join Saul and Jarred as they kickoff the show -- essential listening for marketers and digeratis alike.