It’s time for another update on the mobile applications we’ve been working on at 20fourLabs over the last few months.
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Following on the success of Afridoctor winning the Nokia innovations competition, the labrats have done some planning to take the application to the next level.

Below is an edited version (for we cannot reveal all :)) of a powerpoint presentation, by myself and Blueworld’s Bradley Voges, which describes our future strategy. The original idea for Afridoctor came from wizz-kid Werner Erasmus — his idea beating 12 others in an “ideas” competition we had internally in 20FourLabs.
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Dear Santa

Admittedly I have been a little naughty this year. For one, I didn’t always comb my hair or wear matching socks to work and my punctuality has been somewhat of late (excuse the pun). Also, I avoided pesky relatives where I could and threw moldy cheese at my ex-neighbor. And it’s not really my fault that I had to lie about that website which popped up just as the missus was walking in. … Continue Reading

Time and attention are both scarce commodities in this day and age, add to that the surplus of information both valuable and useless being flung at us from all directions and one may feel inclined to hide under the sheets in the morning and peep nervously at the flood of data lapping at your door … Continue Reading

It’s been on the cards for a while now, and will take a while to roll out - but we are in the process of re-launching all of our mobile publishing sites, along with adding a nifty personalization layer on top.

What this means is that once you are on the site (m.news24.com) you can, by using a simple log in, choose what content you would like to have displayed on your home page.
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Just four weeks ago 20fourlabs and Blueworld Communities decided to enter into the Nokia Calling All Innovators Africa competition, obviously confident of the talent we have in our stable. This competition calls for innovators around the world to develop an application that can be utilised on a specific range of Nokia phones. The application is to have a specific African focus and make use of key Nokia phone features (maps, location based services, etc). For more information on the competition go to: www.callingallinnovators.com/africa
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We’ve been busy at 20FourLabs. The division was created about 200 days ago to build new web applications, with a particular focus on social and mobile applications. There are around 30 major projects on the go, some of them mentioned here — of which around about 14 have been completed. Labs now consists of 34 talented web professionals, with a product manager and developer-centric focus, with key roles played by community managers.
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