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To coincide with world AIDS day last week, The Grid in partnership with the HIV-911 Program, have launched a mobile HIV help centre. 11 000 HIV-related supported services across South Africa have been mapped out on The Grid. These support services cover prevention, treatment and support...

Mark Levitt - Chesscube Mark Levitt is the CEO of Chesscube, who recently raised R10m from a local venture capital firm...

Ed's note: If you weren't lucky enough to be at the Silicon Cape Intitiative networking event fear not, we've got some clips for you to check out. Elodie Kleynhans, involved with the event, shares a bit of context for each, we'll be posting more tomorrow so don't forget to check it out...

At Quirk we tend to work really hard, with Rob standing over us, mercilessly cracking his brown leather strap as we toil away in the digital cotton fields of the eMarketing landscape...

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hrvcvideos/ The Healthcare Reform has been a controversial subject on America’s agenda for a while now. To raise awareness Obama supporters were asked to contribute their creativity and submit a video highlighting the issue. ...

A recent report by Frommers Unlimited in conjunction with Travel mole suggests that, despite the recession, organisations plan to increase spend on online marketing for 2010. Over half of the 225 Travel organisations surveyed suggested that they wanted to increase online spend by 11-50%...

As we approach the end of the year we thought we could do one of our own Site of Note's. You might have heard us mention the Hogwarts Wizarding Class recently (especially seeing as it got us a prestigious Bookmarks award for Social Media). It's one of our favourites to come out of Quirk this year...

Nic sent around an interesting link this morning. It describes Ikea's photo tagging campaign run on Facebook - one which has been extraordinarily successful and employs the kind of (to quote Nic) "innovative, joined up thinking" wich we respect...

The year is just about over friends, and we're approaching that time when you look back and look ahead. I thought it worth highlighting some of the good stuff we've had on GottaQuirk over the year - as voted for by your attention...

To promote its new line of LCD TVs, the Regsa SV, Toshiba sent a chair to the edge of space – a maximum height of 98 268 feet above earth. The chair, attached to a helium balloon and Toshiba’s IK-HR1S 1080i camera was launched in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. The entire process was filmed. The ...

The year is coming to a close. For many, 2009 has been a tumultuous year with a global recession and credit crunch affecting all areas of business. However, eMarketing is one of the few sectors to weather the storm...

Although Flash Mobs have been (over)done to death, this latest approach was fresh and pleasantly engaging. It's no wonder that the 100 dancers that broke into a beach boogie on Sydney’s Bondi Beach were met with a warm (excuse that unintentional pun) reception. ...

Ed's Note: Emma, being our Creative Director, spends a lot of time developing ideas and concepts into fully fledged digital assets. We thus thought it a good idea to get some bitesized tips out of her on her approach to digital ideas...

We love entrepreneurs. I thus thought it worth mentioning that last week was Global Entrepreneurial Week (GEW), a great initiative that will no doubt have a significant effect on some bright young minds. ...