http://www.nathanravens.com Information about e-Business for your business and website packages to suite your business needs. Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:24:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, I've checked out Apture and decided to use it because it's pretty cool. I'd like to see what they have to offer in the months to come. Technologies like Apture have so much potential, lets hope they can improve on what they have. So after my last post about Apture, ... http://www.nathanravens.com/e-business/zemanta The way we use the Internet has already changed… Web 2.0 is still talked about as if it’s something new… but it’s been around since just after the Web 1.0 bubble burst... perhaps even before. Web 3.0 is all about a semantic web and how we use the web to access ... http://www.nathanravens.com/e-business/semantic-web-enabling-technology Ok, so the double century is coming up. They've finally decided on a date, Saturday the 22nd November so lets hope the weather is nice. The start/finish venue will be at Swellendam Primary School and covers a distance of around 205km, so that's the Argus cycle tour plus 100km or ... http://www.nathanravens.com/cycling/double-century-training Cycling really has become an extreme sport...and I don't mean mountain biking. Other road users never see road cyclist or just don't care. Cyclists have to dodge potholes, pedestrians, parked vehicles, moving vehicles, dogs, bricks, logs, stones, glass, other cyclists, etc, etc... Every time I go out cycling, either myself ... http://www.nathanravens.com/cycling/cyclist-carnage The year was 2008, the event was the Tour de France stage 16, the team was Barloworld... The rider John-Lee Augustyn... It was his 1st Tour de France and he was the youngest this year being just 21years old but he made quite an impression going up... and evidently down ... http://www.nathanravens.com/cycling/john-lee-augustyn-crash I only read today, after trying to find them online, that they got placed into liquidation earlier this year. Wow, what a shocker! I thought they were doing so well. Actually they were for a few years. So what happened? Some say it was BEE that lead to their demise but ... http://www.nathanravens.com/e-business/what-happened-to-lightedge-technology During the dot-com bubble, around 1995 – 2001 (crash started on 10 March 2000), Internet companies saw phenomenal growth with share prices hitting extraordinary highs. But it didn’t last because all bubbles burst as some point. There were just too many IT companies that tried to get big fast with ... http://www.nathanravens.com/e-business/function-over-form It seems this past weekend was a bad one for cyclists... There were at least two incidents that involved a car and cyclists... (Extracted from a story posted on http://www.thehubsa.co.za/) Renaldo, with Fear in his voice:” Marius, you would not believe what just happened, I’m lying in the grass next to ... http://www.nathanravens.com/cycling/a-bad-weekend-for-cyclists There's been a growing concern about Cyber-Terrorism and Cybersecurity. No doubt that cybersecurity is an important issue that should be addressed. But does cyber-terrorism even exist? What would be considered a cyber-terrorist attack? And would such an attack be considered an act of terrorism? So does that mean hackers are now ... http://www.nathanravens.com/e-business/cyber-terrorism-or-cyber-paranoia So the weather is changing... no more hot sunny days, instead we have cold and wet stay indoors kinda weather... with "what's on TV" days and "I'm sleeping late" weekends... ahhhhhhh the joys of winter... Unless of course you're one of the crazy people who plan on doing the Double ... http://www.nathanravens.com/cycling/double-century-time