I love muti and “most” of the community on it, but today things are out of control. Imod.co.za being down has close to 20 votes and is the most popular story? Who cares! So, instead of bitching and moaning, here are my tips on how to fix and improve muti.

• Fix the registrations. It’s way to easy to register 6 accounts and vote your story to the top.
• Allow users to see who voted for a story.
• Increase the awareness of a person’s muti profile. Allow for avatars, more info about the user etc. Increased awareness of users, thus weeding out the trolls.
• Report a post as spam, inaccurate or not useful. Enough of these “votes” and the post either goes into moderation, or gets removed.

We obviously don’t want to turn into a Digg clone, but there are some elements that we can definitely borrow to make muti a more interesting and positive social voting site.

I have to run and will probably update this list later, but what are your thoughts?

I had the privilege yesterday of meeting 3 of Manchester United’s players yesterday at Totalsports, Canal Walk. I’m no Man U supporter, but football is a universal language, and getting to meet any of the worlds top footballers is an honor.

I was slightly disappointed in the 3 players they brought to the store - Michael Carrick, Ben Foster and Lee Martin. I think they could’ve included the likes of Rooney, Ferdinand, Giggs, Scholes or the likes instead of either Foster or Martin, but from what I heard, every 20 minutes the lineup of players changed, and I have a feeling Nike didn’t really have much control over it.

That being said, the biggest highlight was seeing the Champions League and English Premier League trophies. I asked Nike’s event manager if they were replicas and she said they were the real deal. How awesome is that!

I was lucky to get in and even get a postcard signed, as you had to buy a Man U shirt that got you a VIP card. They only had 300 VIP cards, so my Fiancé pulled some strings and we both got in. It really was quite an event as there were hundreds of fans outside just wanting to get a glimpse of the players.

6 degrees of separation

So in my quest to get closer to someday watching Chelsea and meeting some of my teams players, I had to go over after the event and shake the United players hands and thank them for coming out. So I’m now effectively 1 handshake away from John Terry, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole and the likes. :-)

Check out my Flickr stream for more photos of the event!

The only constant thing in life is change, and I’m moving! I resigned on Monday from Travelogic (the tour operator software company where I have been working for the last 7 months) and am joining Younique!

I have been chatting to Tyler Reed for the past couple of months (first started on Twitter), and after working on a few small projects with him, I asked why don’t I start up Younique’s presence in Cape Town? Well that is officially happening from the 1st of August. Perfect timing as Younique also turned 1 on Thursday!

I’m really excited about some of the things Younique has in the pipeline and where we are heading. Tyler is too modest to talk about some of the things we have been working on, so expect me to break the news and “brag” about what we doing. :)

Not only am I changing where I will be working, but also the direction. I’ve been really try to get myself emerged in social media, web 2.0 and the mobile development scene, and by joining Younique, its exactly where I want to be. So enough talking the talk like I do on Twitter, its time to walk the talk.

Exciting times!

I had quite an experience this past weekend that really made me sit up and start taking more notice of crime and safety.

My Fiancé was at the hairdresser on Saturday morning while I was playing a few rounds of golf on my Wii when I received an SMS from her that said the following: “I am in an emergency. Please help me.”. I started to panic thinking the worst - hijacking, kidnapping, etc. and immediately grabbed my car keys and sped out. Just before that I tried to call the cops - who were more than useless. The guy didn’t understand that my Fiancé was in an emergency and that could he get someone to go to the hairdresser in Gordon’s Bay immediately. I hung up the phone after the guy kept on repeating “Ehh, what must I do? What emergency?”.

I then jumped in my car and called her phone - which immediately answered. I could hear her in the car, with the radio on, but couldn’t hear anything else. I assumed she had sent the SMS somehow and was answering the phone in her pocket. This made me panic even more as I had no idea where she was heading - kidnapped and all. I was in a total panic as I was driving to get to the last place she was in Gordon’s Bay. Her sisters also got the SMS and were calling me, but I had no more information than they did.

3 minutes later I spotted her car at the robot, and there she was, looking all beautiful after being at the hairdresser. I stopped in the middle of the traffic and asked her where her phone was - and she opened her bag and showed it to me. It was a false alarm. I was totally relieved to see her safe and totally oblivious to what I had just gone through in the last 5 minutes.

Samsung’s SOS function

You see, she had activated a function on her phone that sends out an SMS to 4 people she specifies and the phone then goes into SOS mode and auto answers calls from only those people that got the SMS.

To activate it, you press the volume key 4 times while the phone is locked.

Yes, the possibility of you actually being able to activate it in an emergency might be slim, but at least you have that possibility. Vodacom have a similar function called Look4Help that you can check out if you don’t own a Samsung.

Consider setting it up, it could just save your life.

I attended my first HeavyChef session last night at the uber-cool 24.com offices in Cape Town. Rui Esteves - founder of Vida e Caffe and CSG Portugal gave a talk about all things branding and how he got to where he is.

We all got given numbers when we arrived and had to ask a question if our number came up during the Q&A session. I asked Rui if he had ever failed at something. There was some hearty laughter from some of the things he tried to sell us as failures, but truth be told, I think almost everything he touches seems to have turned to gold. :-)

Thanks to Perderberg for sponsoring the wine, 24.com for the venue, Mike and Fred from WWC for hosting the event and to Rui for his talk and giving everyone a bottle of Marques.

Next up: 27dinner on Friday 27th of June!