Represent Recommends: Cool Concept – Tiny URL
Occasionally I receive hyperlinks that are so long I’m not sure where they end and sometimes I am too lazy to try and copy the whole thing and paste it into my browser (although 3 quick clicks should select the whole paragraph), here’s a briliant solution – TinyURL. Tiny takes those long addresses and makes them tiny. As simple as that. We let TinyURL explain: An example – Turn this URL: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&mqmap.x=300&mqmap.y=75&mapdata=%252bKZmeiIh6N%252bIgpXRP3bylMaN0O4z8OOUkZWYe7NRH6ldDN96YFTIUmSH3Q60zE5XVqcuc5zb%252fY5wy1MZwTnT2pu%252bNMjOjsHjvNlygTRMzqazPStrN52f1YzA0oWEWLwkHdhVHeG9sG6cMrfXNJKHY6fML4o6Nb0SeQm75ET9jAjKelrmqBCNta%252bsKC9n8jslz%252fo188N4g3BvAJYuzx8J8r%252f1fPFWkPYg%252bT9Su5KoQ9YpNSj%252bmo0h0aEK%252bofj3f6vCP into this tinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/6 Which one would you rather cut and paste into your browser? That’s the power of TinyURL!...
Wssup Representers? Welcome Back!
We’re finally back from the holidays and as you can see Represent is looking as slick as ever with a brand new supafly look. We’re entering into the New Year with some serious attitude! With the new look comes a bit of a shifting of the furniture too, so there are a few changes that we’d like to share with you all. Topping the list is that our much loved Editorista and creator of Represent has appointed a new Editor to take us to the next level (that’s me). Editorista will now be the Editor-in-chief of Represent -she leaves a huge pair of shoes to fill. She’s still on the prowl in Jozi though, so watch this space… SHARPILE! Thanks also to Aquoibon, the man behind the original fabulara Represent design that has set our bar so high… he won’t be far away either. Next are the different elements that are now a part of Represent; if you look on the right of the home page you will see that our Categories are still there but some of them have different names, keep tabs of the categories because if you miss anything on the front page, you can always look for it in there. e.g: an article that had something to do with music would be found in the category “Musique”, easy ne? If you look below Links you will see a “Flickr” image – this is a link to our Flickr community where you can click on to check out the latest Represent pictures – you might just find yourself in one of those! And click on “Videos” right below that for our YouTube Represent community to have a skwizz at the funkiest, cutest, funniest, weirdest or whateverest video clips from all over the place. (we’re still uploading our vid’s – please bear with us!) The Editor’s Top 10 is on the header bar at the top of the site. It’s all about what I think are the Top Ten things of the moment – take note I’m no style guru so I’m not going to try and predict the latest or upcoming fashion fad, but nonetheless it will be interesting- the first Top Ten is all about… yep you guessed it, the New Year! Our ‘look and feel’ will be changing every now and then as we invite designers that we love to design our wallpaper… we start the year with this awesome background from Mzwandile of Pinartbutter – see the interview with him here. And many many thanks to the team who have spent the last few months reinventing Represent, especially Cape Town boy Mark who...
SA boy builds rockets to go to the moon
We’d heard rumours about a South African dude building spacecrafts to make flying to the moon as easy as booking an online flight – we finally tracked him down. His name is Elon Musk he’s about 35 years old and he is a serious INTERNET and MOON guru!! Similar to Roelof Botha, who we have recently profiled on the site, Elon is a young entrepreneur and now succesful self-made bi… llionaire with incredible vision and belief in big creative concepts and in Elon’s case, way-out visionary ideas and projects. Elon was one of the founders of PayPal – he sold it for 1.5billion bucks and now runs a company called SpaceX which is building rockets to get to the moon. The man is clearly very gifted and very ambitious – thanks for making us proud!!! Well if we made that kind of cash in a deal we’d also spend it on the craziest and most far out thing out there… gettting to the moon! See an extract of his biog from NotableBiographies – we in the meantime will try and secure our own interview with Elon. NotableBiographies: ELON MUSK 1971 ” South Africa Entrepreneur, philanthropist Elon Musk was a multi-millionaire by the time he reached the age of thirty-one thanks to his creation of the company that became PayPal, the popular money-transfer service for Web consumers. Musk has become one of a new breed of what the New York Times called “thrillionaires,” or a class of former high-tech entrepreneurs who are using their newfound wealth to help turn science-fiction dreams into reality. Musk is the founder of Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, a company based in El Segundo, California. In 2005 SpaceX was busy building the Falcon rocket, which he hoped could some day make both space tourism and a colony on the planet Mars realistic goals for humankind. Sells homemade video game Musk is a native of South Africa, born in 1971 to parents who later divorced. His father was an engineer and his motheroriginally from Canadawas a nutritionist. Musk was fascinated by science fiction and computers in his adolescent years. When he was twelve, he wrote the code for his own video game and actually sold it to a company. In his late teens, he immigrated to Canada in order to avoid the required military service for white males in South Africa. It was still the era of apartheid, the South African legal system that denied political and economic rights to the country’s majority-black native population. Musk was uninterested in serving in the army, which was engaged at the time in a battle to stamp out a...
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