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Posted on January 19, 2013I spent some time today capturing the Afcon 2013 player list (23 players from each of the 16 teams) and then trying to locate their Twitter accounts. A somewhat arduous task and one that is less than accurate. None the less, it is complete and available for you to follow the players quite easily.
In all 85 players were added to the list : https://twitter.com/jjza/afcon2013 the majority of which are players, with some support accounts added. I have not added the official accounts of each of the team, although have collected some. Will consider adding when see what is coming up on the Tweet feed. (This number will increase as I find more players, and I may not update the post, so don’t be surprised to find these don’t tally over time).
The position is summarised by country below. The top three by Rank are :
- South Africa
- Ivory Coast
- Algeria & Nigeria (tied)
Full list provided below.
Please click-through to the link. Mail me on afcon (at) j-j.co.za if you find additional players I have missed, or recommend any amendments I have tried to ignore spoof accounts and fake accounts, but cannot be sure I have got it all right.
Enjoy the #Afcon2013. And best of luck to Bafana. May things improve after tonight’s rather dismal game.
Website Changed : Activated cloudflare
Posted on January 19, 2013I have read about Cloudflare for a while and it seems to provide considerable benefits. I have noticed that this site is sometimes a bit slow to load and Google certainly thinks so. A potential problem is in Ad revenue as many online complain that Cloudflare has destroyed their ad-sense revenue (drop of 80% plus). I don’t really run this site to make ad revenue and have notice a huge fall off of revenue (despite visits not changing significantly) – so am curious as to what difference this now makes. Previously I wasn’t inclined to go through the hassles of changing the DNS entries etc to make this work, however my ISP has enabled a very easy method of enabling it so I have now turned it on.
If you notice any changes (positive and negative), please share your thoughts in the comments.
Thanks
Afcon 2013 online resources
Posted on January 19, 2013The African Cup of Nations (English #Afcon2013 French #CAN2013)
The tournament is being contested between 16 countries : Mozambique, Zimbabwe, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Togo, Malawi, Uganda, Cameroon, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cape Verde, Algeria, Egypt or Central African Republic . Profiles of each of the teams can be found on LoriiPapa.com.
The tournament kicks off on 19 January 2013 and runs until the final on the 10th February.
The tournament is well represented online :
- Website : www.afcon2013online.com
- Facebook page
- The Official twitter account : @CAF_ONLINE
- iOS App
- Android App
- YouTube Channel
Various unofficial CAF 2013 twitter accounts abound include : @AFCON_SA
Nokia music : when things go wrong #fail (updated : Resolved)
Posted on January 01, 2013For a long time in SA we didn’t have any real choice if we wanted to buy music online. iTunes didn’t support us, the other stores wanted to sell DRM’ed music, the methods to download the music were painful and it really wasn’t much cheaper than getting the physical CD’s instore. Then I found Nokia Music (OVI store). They supported South African musicians, have a decent selection of artists and albums, are reasonably priced and provide further discounts for buying credit up front. Albums average between R60 and R100 each (and often it is the newer ones at R60). Songs between R6 and R10 each. Buy R500 of credit and get R600. So you could get between 6 and 10 albums for R500. Thats good value.
To download your music though you have to use the clunky Nokia Music Player. Worse than iTunes and I never use it for anything other than downloading my music. The problem with it is that it queues your songs for download but they regularly fail. Then it is a manual process of logging onto the website and getting the missing tracks individually. With the Lumia 800 things improved a little (or so I thought). You could now download the albums directly to the phone over wi-fi, no PC needed.
In the meantime iTunes started selling music in SA. I bought a Freshly Ground album for R60 but the rest of their music seemed expensive, sometimes as much as twice the price of Nokia Music (Rihanna Unapologetic Delux R60 vs over R120). I thought I would stay with Nokia music and put up with the hassles. iTunes really worked better, faster, simpler. But we all have our price.
Then it all went wrong. (Although @NokiaRSA did fix it in the end : See update at end)
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